Your favorite and least favorite comic strip cats?

[ironflange]

Favorite:

Bill
Bucky
Solange


Least favorite:

Catbert
Heathcliff
Garfield

[E_Zapata]

1. HOBBES.............all the way......

I haven't looked at another feline ever since!

[ironflange]

4. Oops, forgot all about Hobbes

He'd top my list, too.

[benburch]

5. But... But...

Is Hobbes a *real* cat? Or just a toy cat as seen in a child's imagination???

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. My favorite cartoon cats are not available in the U.S.

There's a Japanese manga series from the early 1990s called (in English) "What's Michael?"

There are two types of stories in the series. One has the cats acting out stories as human-like characters, and the best of these is a movie parody called "Planet of the Cats."

There's another set of stories in which the cats are cats interacting with their human owners. For example, there's a cartoon about bathing cats that is absolutely hilarious to anyone who has kept cats.

Whether acting as humans or as cats, the cats are drawn by somebody who obviously has observed the beasts closely.

One year during my teaching career, I learned that my eight third-year students were all cat lovers, so I used "What's Michael" cartoons as teaching materials. It was one of the most popular units of the year.

[Lizz612]

3. Boondocks!!!

I *heart* Huey!!!
I love Calvin and Hobes!
Get Fuzzy is pretty funny, and who doesn't like Doonsebury?

I don't like the ones that tell stories, Prince Valient, Mark Trail, come on, the funnies should be funny.

[ironflange]

6. Is there a cat in Doonesbury?

[dofus]

7. Hobbes is a tiger.

He's a stuffed toy one, but in Calvin's imagination he's real. That's why whenever any other humans are in the frame, Hobbes is just the toy.

Get Fuzzy is my favorite. I love how the cat thinks he's so smart and really isn't, and the dog is dumb and sweet.

[Don_G]

8. The "Old" Garfield

When a fat orange cat had a girlfriend and an "FU2" attitude.

Sadly, he's become a conservative cat with humor fit for Freepers.

[SmileyBoy]

12. Uhhhh.... Excuse me???

I haven't found any right wing-style humour in Garfield. And I've been reading it all my life.

[nuxvomica]

19. I agree. The old Garfield was better

He stopped being so edgy many years ago. But I haven't read the comics in a while so I can't judge what he's like today.

[stevedeshazer]

9. Favorite: Bill

How can you have an "unfavorite" cat?

[SmileyBoy]

10. HEY!! Don't you be messing around with Garfield!!!

I friggin' GREW UP with that cartoon!!! It's my favourite of all time!!!

BACK OFF!!!

On edit: I'm serious.

[DS1]

11. Fat Freddy's Cat

Best comic cat ever.

[corarose]

13. Fritz the Cat was my favorite until Garfield came along

I even named my Red Tabby Persian Garfield and I called him Gar for short because he was so damn cute and he like lasagna.

[SmileyBoy]

15. At least SOMEBODY likes Garfield.

:-)

[HEyHEY]

14. HOBBES!!

The most intelligent and sacrastic cat around!

[WindRavenX]

16. Bucky from Get Fuzzy

That cat has me in stitches all the time.

[BringEmOn]

17. Fritz the Cat

[Archae]

18. Nobody mentioned these!

:-(

Omaha

Fat Freddie's cat

Catrina and Katherine Felin from "Extinctioners"