Mister Boffo is boffo!
I love comics, lots of comics, but right now my favorite strip is Mister Boffo by Joe Martin.
It's funny, but when I first saw it, I hated it. Martin's drawing style is intensely sloppy, loose, and almost unaesthetical. It really put me off back when I first encountered it in the early 1990's in the San Francisco Chronicle. "Mister Boffo and his amazing dog, Weederman" (known by some of my friends at the time as "the penis dog". I didn't get it.
But somewhere along the way, I figured out that he's funny as hell. Maybe it's just that my mentality finally merged with the humor of the strip. I now think it's the best out there.
I actually like several other strips in the Chronicle, including Baby Blues, The Fusco Brothers, Dilbert, Bizarro, Get Fuzzy, Pearls Before Swine, and even Sherman's Lagoon. There are others that I like quite well, or well enough. The only ones that I don't read are The Elderberries in the dailies, and a couple others that only show up on Sundays.
But I am a pretty religious comic strip reader. But I am writing this to site Mr. Boffo.
Here are some strips I like plus a link to Joe Martin's Mr. Boffo site where I've linked them from:
Enjoy! http://www.mrboffo.com/
Also someone sent me Garfield Minus Garfield, which is uber genius.
Definitely visit it!
