When you were a kid, what was your favorite section of the Sunday newspaper?

When you were a teenager, what was the first section of the Sunday newspaper that you read, or fought for?

How about into your adult years? Golden years?

If your answer is “the comics page” or what we called “the funny papers” then you are going to understand and appreciate what this article is all about. Today is National Cartoonist Day, and I thought it would be fun do a little celebrating by making a list of the greatest comic strip cartoons and cartoonists of all time, specifically, my lifetime.

Think about it. Easily you can probably name your top ten favorite movies, right? In addition, you can undoubtedly name the starring actors in all ten of your faves. Easy Peasy. But now think about your top ten favorite newspaper comic strips. Can you name the cartoonists who drew each of them? Do you know anything at all about these talented artists that day in and day out came up with doodles that made us all giggle daily and then, to top it off, produced a longer version on Sundays, in COLOR! I’m here to tell you, my friends, being a cartoonist is no easy feat. Cartoonists are artistic and literary (yes, I meant literary) geniuses that get far too little attention, sez moi.

If you are like me, you don’t receive a daily/weekly newspaper but rather get your news from online. Did you know that you can still follow all your favorite comic strips weekly and daily at Comics Kingdom? Check it out. https://comicskingdom.com/

So have you come up with your favorite newspaper comic strips of your lifetime? See how your list lines up with mine.