Far Side or Calvin and Hobbes?

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RockyBalboa

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Personally, I'd go with Calvin, but tonight I was flipping through an old Far Side book and had tears I was laughing so hard. One of my favorites:

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nope, can't pick a better one. they both go together at the top of the list.

perfectly cooked steak or 30 yr old scotch??

having both Calvin and far side is what makes this world great
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Far Side by a mile. At least two or three times a year I see someone push on a door that says "pull" and laugh as I think about the school for the gifted.
 
Bill Waterson's takes on realism combined with his high-minded philosophy kicks Larson in the ding-ding.

Don't get me wrong: The Far Side was punny, witty, and all that. But, Calvin and Hobbes was cartoons set at eleven.
 
How can I choose between:

"Don't mock my smock or I'll clean your clock" (C&H)

and

"I cuss. You cuss. We all cuss for asparagus." (FS)
 
I think Calvin and Hobbes is better as a set. Sure the far side is good for a quick piece here and there tacked to an office door, but C&H works best when sitting down and reading through the books strip after strip on a Sunday afternoon. There's just so much going on with that comic from elementary slapstick to deep thoughts all from a child's wide-eyed perspective. I enjoyed Calvin and Hobbes as a child because I identified with Calvin. I think I'll identify with the comic just as much when I have kids of my own, but on a whole different level. The Far Side is good (really, really, really good), but as a whole Calvin and Hobbes is untouchable in the comic realm.
 
This is a "Which Charlie's Angel is prettiest?" question.

The thread has made me realize the difference in genre-- Getting all in one frame versus using a series of frames. I remember that there used to be a drug store on the Drag where I stood like a giggling, guffawing idiot for about ten minutes reading every Far Side greeting card on the spinning rack.

I came to Calvin and Hobbes within a year of the strip coming to an end. I couldn't believe I'd been ignoring something so clever for so long.

At least we have Sally Forth in their place.
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Always have been a far side dude, but C&H holds very special memories for me from my childhood.
 
Perhaps someone can find and post for me my favorites from each strip. And I can't pick a favorite.

The Far Side

Two spiders have spun a web across the bottom of a playground slide. One spider says to the other, "If we pull this one off, we'll eat like kings for weeks!"

Calvin and Hobbes

The math atheist cartoon.

These days, I'm a Get Fuzzy kind of gal. It's the only dailly strip I read.
 
Larson wins.
I will find the pic:

(fishing with caveman as bait for giant evil fish)

"Throw Grog, throw! Throw!!!!"
 
The last Far Side strip ran January 1, 1995 and the last Calvin & Hobbes ran on December 31, 1995. Both Larson and Watterson must have had mountains of cash offered to them over the past 13 years to continue, but they've shown that money's not at the top of their lists as far as priorities go, particularly Watterson. Now that's artistic integrity.
 
One of my favorite far sides...
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You can't post a Far Side without featuring cows...
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And if anyone can find the one with the rhino in the fortune teller tent, that may be my favorite.
 
I loved both of them dearly. That said, I find my self digging out "The Pre-History of the Far Side" more often than any of my Calvin and Hobbes collections.

Ultimately, I'd put mid-80s Bloom County of either of them.
 
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