I might have to update this list as I remember some I had previously forgotten.

Garfield always still makes me laugh. So do Nemi, Foxtrot and Mutts, and I collect these.

I used to read superhero comics, but it all got too confusing with the allegories to racism and intolerance and the political messages and the new wold-destroying threat every month in every issue and all the new characters and the new insane powers and the fluctuating pwoers and the newborns with the ability to destroy the universe with a thought and the absurd themes and how the stories vary between writes and how some artists make excellent drawings but then the next issue is by some guy who must've had a unfulfilled urge to make abstract art, and so forth...

So now I just read CONAN, uh... yeah, that's about it really. Well, and I collect Nemi and read the occational humorous comic.

Garfield is funnier if you remove Garfield from every strip. It's kinda creepy.

My shortlist in no particular order would be

G.I. Joe and The Transformers
The league of extraoedinary genttlmen
Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash
V for vendetta
The second Captain Canuck
The watchmen

guys... Y: the last man. Its incredible. If youre into that kind of thing...

I never read many comics when I was younger (I lived in the middle of nowhere, so I never really came across places that sold them). I did, however, read Tintin - Tintin was the first thing I ever borrowed from a library, back in 1997 (I feel so young). After that I mostly read Enid Blyton books.

Tintin is great. I've probably read every single Tintin comic.

I was highly intrigued by Tintin as a child. Every single Tintin comic that I never read that I'd come across would be signed out by me at the library from the time I was maybe six years old until nine. It would have been during the early to mid-90's when I had a fixation with Tintin.

I'm quite sure I'd still enjoy Tintin at the age I am now.

Anyway, I also liked Archie comics quite a bit as a kid. They are mainly the only comics I'd read other than Tintin.

I've always really like Footrot Flats ^^ And I've read Beetle Bailey ever since I started to read.

As far as american comics/graphic novels go, I just read "Blankets" by Craig Thompson and it was excellent. It has a wonderful charcoal-looking art style and an heartfelt autobiographical story.
Also Ghost World, and a few of the other Drawn and Quarterly books are good.

I'm not really into the whole superhero thing, which is why I mainly read manga and independent american comics.

Also, it seems you might just be asking about favorite comics strips, in which case, I only really like Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes.

I absolutely adore Calvin and Hobbes. Along with being cutesy it perfectly captures the imagination of a child. Bill Watterson is my god!

When it comes to my favorite graphic novel I'm going to have to say it's a tie between Y: The Last Man and Ex-Machina. Both really thrilling reads.

From the ones i can remember right now (and that i highly recommend): Corto Maltese (By Hugo Pratt) El Eternauta (Hector German Oesterheld), Mort Cinder (Hector German Oesterheld and Alberto Breccia), Perramus (Alberto Breccia and Juan Sasturain), V for Vendetta, Watchmen, The Sandman (required reading, probably the greatest graphic novel ever made), The Spirit (Will Eisner).

Plus others i can't remember right now, should read more comics.

Berserk

I like Dilbert

Loading Artist looks promising.
Also Realfield:


Or Garfield minus Garfield

http://garfieldminusgarfield.net

everthing that guy did

Calvin and Hobbes
Problem Sleuth and Homestuck
Spinnerette
Unsounded
El Goonish Shive
Gunnerkrigg Court
Penny Arcade
Goblins


There weren't arranged in any order.

comic : calvin & hobbes
manga : onani master kurosawa