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12 comics like Toonerville Folks
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Toonerville Folks (slice of life, comedy), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Comics like Toonerville Folks
Slice of Life · Comedy1. Buster Brown
by Richard F. Outcault
- Comedy (shared)
- 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 Life · Comedy2. Happy Hooligan
by Frederick Burr Opper
- Comedy (shared)
- 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 · Comedy3. Mutt and Jeff
by Bud Fisher
- Comedy (shared)
- 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 Life · Comedy4. Barakamon
by Satsuki Yoshino
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
After losing his temper, young calligrapher Seishuu Handa retreats to a remote island to rethink his work. Finding peace proves difficult when energetic Naru and the other islanders make themselves part of his daily life. Their interruptions gradually offer him something his carefully controlled practice never could: a different way to see the world.
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Slice of Life · Comedy5. Yotsuba&!
by Kiyohiko Azuma
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
For Yotsuba, moving to a new neighbourhood means discovering a world full of surprises. Shopping trips, changing weather and visits with the family next door become adventures through her curious eyes. A gentle everyday comedy about a little girl, her father and the people drawn into her boundless enthusiasm.
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Slice of Life · Comedy6. Krazy Kat
by George Herriman
- Comedy (shared)
- 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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Slice of Life · Comedy7. The Yellow Kid
by Richard F. Outcault
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
A bald child in a yellow nightshirt, standing in a tenement alley with words printed across the shirt instead of a speech balloon. Histories of the newspaper comic usually start here, and the colour of that shirt is where the phrase yellow journalism came from.
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Slice of Life · Comedy8. Ally Sloper
by Charles H. Ross
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
A red-nosed London schemer who slopes up the alley when the rent is due. The first comic character to carry his own magazine and to be sold as merchandise — he was on mugs before anybody had thought that through.
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Slice of Life · Comedy9. Bringing Up Father
by George McManus
- Comedy (shared)
- 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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Comedy10. 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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Slice of Life · Comedy11. Saint Young Men
by Hikaru Nakamura
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Jesus and Buddha, after finishing their work on Earth, decide to take a holiday — sharing a cheap apartment in suburban Tokyo. They go to the bathhouse, blog, and try very hard not to work miracles in public: a gentle, much-loved comedy.
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Slice of Life12. The Gumps
by Sidney Smith
- Drama
- Slice of Life (shared)
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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