In design school, I accidentally told a teacher I was wasting too much time reading comics and he was like “that’s ok, comics are cool!” And I was like shit. and he’s like "which ones??” And I could see that geek hype building, that “one of us one of us…” spark, and he’s standing there all in black, one of my favorite graphic design teachers with his giant rings and his motorbikes, and I knew he meant Sandman, etc… and the fact that that is the only one I can name meant I was not reading Sandman, and I was stuck. It was too late to back out, and I just had to face his inevitable disappointment. So I was like “Calvin and Hobbes, Garfield, Get Fuzzy, stuff with pets…” and he’s like “oh. Cool…” and he's looking at me like I'd just handed in my homework in crayon, an assignment on how much I love my dog. And then we both just sort of slunk away…
ANYWAY, my favorite animal comic strips (in no order) - Calvin and Hobbes, Garfield, Get Fuzzy, Opus, Sherman’s Lagoon, Life in Hell, Snake, and Mutts.
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