What are four comics you don’t only like, you draw inspiration from? #Artsky
(Calvin and Hobbes and peanuts are also givens, but like, who doesn’t say those?)
There are quite a few strips that I feel are great examples of comic strip art that sadly I just can’t get into them. Calvin and Hobbes, Bloom County, Pogo…all worth seeking out and studying, especially if one is new to comic strips.
True. Sometimes something works for you, sometimes it doesn’t. (I have the advantage of reading all of those strips but Pogo when they were still in newspapers. Pogo I got out of the library in the old book collections.)
I really didn’t get the political stuff in Bloom County as a kid. But that was some of the fun for me. I’d be like “mom, who’s Jesse Jackson?” and then I’d get to learn something.
But Pogo, being so old, can be hit and miss. Simple J. Malarkey? That still lands because I know about Joseph McCarthy. That’s still in the culture.
But like, strips with windup toys of all the candidates for the 1968 Democratic nomination? That doesn’t seem like something I need to learn about.
