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12 comics like Foxy Grandpa
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Foxy Grandpa (comedy), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Comics like Foxy Grandpa
Family Life · Comedy1. Bringing Up Father
by George McManus
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life
Jiggs came into money and would rather be eating corned beef with his old friends; Maggie intends them to be respectable and throws crockery about it. Drawn in a clean deco line that still looks modern beside the strips printed around it.
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Family Life · Comedy2. La Famille Fenouillard
by Christophe
- Adventure
- Comedy (shared)
A provincial shopkeeper takes his wife and daughters on a day out and they end up circling the globe, still complaining about the food. The first long-running French comic family, drawn by a botanist under a pen name.
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Family Life3. The Gumps
by Sidney Smith
- Drama
- Slice of Life
An ordinary family with money troubles, told as a continuing story rather than a daily joke — the strip that first made readers buy tomorrow's paper to find out what happened. Everything serialised owes it something.
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Family Life4. Gasoline Alley
by Frank King
- Slice of Life
A baby was left on a bachelor's doorstep in 1921 and then did something no comic character had done before: he grew up, at the speed everybody else does. The strip has aged in real time ever since.
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Family Life5. Winnie Winkle
by Martin Branner
- Slice of Life
A young woman goes out to work and keeps her family fed on the wages. It arrived the year American women got the vote, and it was the first strip to treat a working woman as the ordinary centre of a story.
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Family Life · Comedy6. Spy × Family
by Tatsuya Endo
- Action
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life
The master spy Twilight has one mission: get close to a dangerous politician through his son's elite school. For that he needs a family, fast. He adopts Anya, who can secretly read minds, and marries Yor, who is secretly an assassin. None of them knows the others' secrets — except Anya, who knows everybody's. A warm, very funny family comedy with spy thriller trimmings.
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Comedy7. 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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Comedy8. 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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Comedy9. 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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Comedy10. 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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Comedy11. 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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Comedy12. 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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