If you liked The Gumps
12 comics like The Gumps
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with The Gumps (slice of life, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Comics like The Gumps
Family Life · Slice of Life1. Bringing Up Father
by George McManus
- Comedy
- Slice of Life (shared)
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 · Slice of Life2. Gasoline Alley
by Frank King
- Slice of Life (shared)
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 Life · Slice of Life3. Winnie Winkle
by Martin Branner
- Slice of Life (shared)
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 Life4. Foxy Grandpa
by Charles E. Schultze
- Comedy
Two boys plan a prank on the old man; the old man saw it coming and turns it round on them. The joke never varies, which was the point — readers came back to watch the grandfather win again.
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Family Life · Slice of Life5. Spy × Family
by Tatsuya Endo
- Action
- Comedy
- Slice of Life (shared)
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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Slice of Life6. Mutt and Jeff
by Bud Fisher
- Comedy
- Slice of Life (shared)
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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Slice of Life7. Toonerville Folks
by Fontaine Fox
- Comedy
- Slice of Life (shared)
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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Slice of Life8. Buster Brown
by Richard F. Outcault
- Comedy
- Slice of Life (shared)
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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Slice of Life9. Krazy Kat
by George Herriman
- Comedy
- Slice of Life (shared)
- Supernatural
A cat loves a mouse, the mouse throws a brick, and the cat reads the brick as a token of love. Thirty years of the same joke, told in a shifting desert landscape that changes between panels.
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Family Life10. La Famille Fenouillard
by Christophe
- Adventure
- Comedy
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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Slice of Life11. Happy Hooligan
by Frederick Burr Opper
- Comedy
- Slice of Life (shared)
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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Slice of Life · Drama12. Tokyo These Days
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
A veteran manga editor leaves his job but finds that walking away from the medium is harder than expected. An idea for a new project draws him back toward artists at different stages of their lives. Their encounters explore creative work, disappointment and the wish to make something worth keeping.
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