Peanuts was arse
I thinks Schultz ran out of steam in the first five years and kept plugging away for another twenty, or was it thirty.
Calvin and Hobbes - lovely stories, brilliant drawing.
Doonesbury appeals to smug liberals, he's the patron saint of Unitarians.
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 4:23, 1 reply)

Peanut's ran from
1955 till 2000. Not so surprising if some themes come round again. In fact one of the links illustrates exactly that, the same strip but with different characters 20 years apart.

I would say that Calvin is much more immediately funny a but there's a generational/permissive society thing going on too. And whilst Peanuts was definitely sharper in it's earliest years it was when the full loserdom of Charlie Brown developed that the engine of the longevity was created. And in any case Lucy and the Football or Calvin trying to be good each Christmas or the variations on the unusual snow sculptures are equally thematically repeated so what's the difference?

Essentially you like one and not the other and that's the difference. Ah well De gustibus non est disputandum as they say. And they are right, there is no dispute as I am clearly right
(unclestinky, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:07, closed)