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What Single-panel Cartoon Is Rated Highest On The Internet?

By: Alexa Ferotina
 

Asking oneself who is the best at their profession is similar to asking which galaxy offers the most oxygen. One can only guess it is ours, but that could be our ego talking. The Internet offers analytical sites that measure certain websites, however. Unlike movie and tv stars, cartoonists are not a talkative or egotistical bunch, for the most part, so one has to research. I found some interesting information.

In the last quarter of the 20th Century, i would have to say my two favorites were Gary Trudeau (Doonesbury) and Scott Adams (Dilbert). Adams is still going strong with Dilbert. He happens to have an economics degree, worked many years in corporate America, so probably has a lot of stories to tell, and does so well in his strip. Even as late as 2000, the late great Charles Schulz was drawing Peanuts (he retired that year). Many say his later work was some of his best. I tend to agree, but he took some risky chances during the Viet Nam War and ruffled some feathers. In the early 1970's his strip debated sensitive issues such as religion, war, and politics. He was never one to make excuses or take prisoners.

Scott Adams had a reputation for rendering funny pictures of his bosses and getting caught. But more importantly, he revealed to us the "new corporate America" which was pitiful at best, at least from the point of comfort and ambiance, due to the fact we were all packed in cubicles, which he, as most workers, hated. Gary Larson (The Far Side, Rick London (Londons Times Cartoons), and Dave Coverly (Speed Bump) are all three brilliant in my book. This is only my opinion and I have heard others think differently. I prefer this genre of cartoojns because of its "extreme editing". These creators tell us a full-page news story in one small panel. I understand why the Pulitzer Commitee gives awards out to cartoonists. How could they not? It is the best journalism available. It takes more than genius to do what they do. Mensa, eat your heart out.

Speaking of Mensa, it is based on IQ, high IQ at that, and the old analytical IQ. Since Mensa was founded, best-selling author and PHD psychologist Robert Goleman, who was considered autistic growing up, discovered Emotional IQ which, though requires high intelligence, it is a very different type of intelligence than is what is what is required to pass a Mensa test.

Cartoonists, artists, writers, etc are known to have higher EQ's than IQ's. This is not the type members Mensa is looking for, but I doubt these creators care. They are in the business to make people laugh and feel good, and they do a very good job.

The main outlet was newspaper syndication when Larson's Far Side and later Coverly's Speed Bump were launched. I am so much reminded, when I see a Londons Times Cartoon a good bit of The Far Side but a little more sophisticated as are Coverly's panels. I love them equally, but to me, it is hard to beat Rick London's monumental web site of thousands of cartoons, each, to me a masterpiece (okay a few duds, but mostly ingenius). Maybe they are not that much beter but done in such brilliant color, and purposely not created for newspapers but for magazines and the Internet. I love viewing them there. I can go back and look at the website again and again and see something different every time. That so much reminds me of going back and reading Far Side books repeadedly when I had the blues. The blues magicallyi lifted.

Like Yves St. Laurent in the fashion world, who was not a very good artist, and hired others, Rick London had a similar obstacle. He too had to form a "team of creative illustrators to render his thoughts and ideas." But it worked and he surprised a lot of people, as he started with nothing, not even training or education, and ended up being the top cartoonists with the highest-ranking independent site on the Internet.

Though all these creators are great in my book, in their own way, it is impossible not to vote Rick London as the top in his field. He started with nothing and now owns the highest-ranked offbeat cartoon site. He has launched 9 niche web stores of cartoon merchaandise from aprons to clocks and they sell very well I am told. How can one not recognize this talent who only had a high school education in the Mississippi public school systems. It is almost like an Elvis story.

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The Web offers thousands of funny cartoons. The most critically-acclaimed among them worldwide is Alexa Rankings: Top Cartoon On The Intenet, Rick London's Londons Times Cartoons

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