If you liked Alphonse and Gaston
9 comics like Alphonse and Gaston
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Alphonse and Gaston (comedy), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Comics like Alphonse and Gaston
Also by Frederick Burr Opper1. Happy Hooligan
by Frederick Burr Opper
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life
A tramp with a tin can for a hat tries to do somebody a kindness and is arrested for it in the last panel. Every week, for thirty years, the same good intention and the same policeman.
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Parody · Comedy2. Ella Cinders
by Bill Conselman
- Comedy (shared)
- Romance
Cinderella with a stepfamily, a newspaper contest instead of a ball, and Hollywood instead of a palace — where the prize turns out to be a job nobody wants.
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Also by Frederick Burr Opper3. Frederick Burr Opper: Collected Cartoons
by Frederick Burr Opper
- Comedy (shared)
Single-panel work from the man who drew Happy Hooligan — magazine cartoons, political drawings and book illustration, from the years when the newspaper comic was still being invented around him.
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Comedy4. The Katzenjammer Kids
by Rudolph Dirks
- Comedy (shared)
Hans and Fritz torment der Captain and die Mama, get caught, and are back at it the following week. One of the first strips to use speech balloons and a recurring cast — the shape everything after it copied.
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Parody · Comedy5. Me & Roboco
by Shuhei Miyazaki
- Comedy (shared)
- Sci-Fi
Every family has an OrderMaid robot now, and Bondo finally gets one. He was hoping for a pretty android; he gets Roboco — muscular, overconfident, convinced she is gorgeous, and very kind. A gag manga in Weekly Shonen Jump that parodies Jump itself, with a surprisingly big heart.
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Comedy6. Buster Brown
by Richard F. Outcault
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life
A neatly dressed boy, his talking dog Tige, and a prank every Sunday — followed by a written resolution never to do it again, which never survives the week.
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Comedy7. Mutt and Jeff
by Bud Fisher
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life
A tall schemer and a short optimist, running a small swindle a day and losing on it. It ran daily rather than on Sundays, which almost nothing did in 1907, and every daily strip since has inherited the habit.
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Comedy8. Toonerville Folks
by Fontaine Fox
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life
A trolley that meets all the trains, a skipper with a beard, and a suburb of people who know each other far too well. The trolley became famous enough that real towns claimed to be the original.
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Parody · Comedy9. Mashle: Magic and Muscles
by Hajime Komoto
- Action
- Comedy (shared)
- Fantasy
In a world where magic decides everything, Mash Burnedead has none. He has trained his body instead, and can punch his way through any spell. To protect his quiet life he enrols at a school for mages and bluffs his way towards the top — a deadpan comedy of muscle against magic.
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