Most read comic strips

To wrap it up, we've rounded up the top-performing comics across the site. Let's give them one last round of applause before launching into the new year. A delight for both children and adults, it's no wonder that the first-ever strip tops the list in There are many fine comics out there, but there will never be another Calvin and Hobbes, so let's have a wistful laugh and a sentimental sigh in honor of our first-place strip. In the GoComics blog , Pierce jokes about how the star of the strip has actually grown shorter and a bit stubbier over time. Schulz If ever there is an iconic comic strip, it's this one.

Updated October 21, From those that have been running for decades to new favorites, these comics are often the first place many look when they open the Sunday morning newspaper. Check out these famous comic strips that also happen to be great! Newspaper comic strips have been published since the late 19th century and have since become a standard feature in print newspapers, magazines and even on the Internet.

Comments The only criterion for this list is that the entries must all have been syndicated in newspapers, and they must be great. Herriman set it in his native Coconino County, Arizona, where there is a lot of sagebrush desert, but also a lot of beautiful green scenery with mountains and lakes. The standard comedy of the strip is good old fashioned slapstick, but it has an air of surrealism about it that lends a timeless quality.

Single panels usually, but not always, are not broken up and lack continuity. The daily Peanuts is a strip, and the daily Dennis the Menace is a single panel. Jimmy Hatlo 's They'll Do It Every Time was often displayed in a two-panel format with the first panel showing some deceptive, pretentious, unwitting or scheming human behavior and the second panel revealing the truth of the situation.