Most popular comic worldwide?

[Daffy Dork]

I have a question here,what is the most popular comic worldwide? I'm talking sales,syndication,merchandise,overall sales and things like that.
I have a feeling Peanuts is the most popular,I mean seriously,snoopy is on everything and its been around for 55 years,and its in nearly every single newspaper,but i'm not sure,so I'm asking here.

[Juu-kuchi]

It's probably between Peanuts and Garfield.

[Fan of Sponge]

I think Garfield surpassed Peanuts after the comic ended in 2000. There's still a lot of papers that carry the strip from the old vintage strips from the 1970s and on back. Zits, Get Fuzzy, Baby Blues, Boondocks, and Baldo are becoming quite popular. I enjoyed Calvin & Hobbes before that ended almost ten years ago.:(

[Anthonynotes]

I think Garfield surpassed Peanuts after the comic ended in 2000. There's still a lot of papers that carry the strip from the old vintage strips from the 1970s and on back. Zits, Get Fussy, Baby Blues, Broonknocks, and Baldo are becoming quite popular. I enjoyed Calvin & Hobbes before that ended almost ten years ago.:(

That'd be "Get Fuzzy" and "The Boondocks". :-)

[HannaBarberaFan]

I think Garfield surpassed Peanuts after the comic ended in 2000. There's still a lot of papers that carry the strip from the old vintage strips from the 1970s and on back. Zits, Get Fuzzy, Baby Blues, Boondocks, and Baldo are becoming quite popular. I enjoyed Calvin & Hobbes before that ended almost ten years ago.:(I, for one, am glad that UNITED EATURES SYNDICATE made the **UNPRECEDENTED** move of re-printing the classic PEANUTS strips just to keep the characters around & not **totally** lapse into non-existence.

I cannot imagine opening up any of the dailies & NOT seeing CHARLIE BROWN , SNOOPY, LINUS, & all the rest anymore...

[Ed Liu]

Howdy,

If it's not Peanuts, I'd lay odds that the most popular comic worldwide is Disney comics. They don't draw as much notice in America, but they are absolutely HUGE nearly anywhere else. I think there was a news item a while ago that mentioned how some government official of a Scandinavian country made a reference to a Donald Duck story during the state of the union.

This site covers the Disney comics worldwide (http://www.wolfstad.com/dcw/), claiming that they've got 987 titles published in 93 countries. Issues sell in the millions in Europe.

-- Ed/Ace

[DR.MID-NITE]

It still freaks me out that the exact day the last original Peanuts strip ran...Charles Schultz died. :eek:

[HannaBarberaFan]

It still freaks me out that the exact day the last original Peanuts strip ran...Charles Schultz died. :eek:It's almost like he went out in Total Grand Diva Style..

The quote from the ANTHOLOGY says it all: "As soon as he ceased to be a cartoonist, he ceased to be.":(