This list isn’t necessarily meant to reflect my ten absolute favorite comic strips of all time, but rather gives me a chance to highlight just a few more strips you really should visit in our archives. I would hate to see these get lost in the shuffle. We’ve covered a lot of great features over the past few days and many of the strips below could easily have been placed on previous lists. So here are ten more titles: some are weird, some are zany, some are fantastic, all are worth getting to know if you haven’t met them already. I hope you’ve enjoyed going through these lists with us; look for Holmes! to close out the celebration this afternoon with his final picks.

Buddy Tucker
Buster Brown is one of my absolute favorite strips of all time, but, as you know, it’s been covered. If you too share great affection for Buster, be sure to check out R. F. Outcault’s spin-off series, Buddy Tucker. Buddy as a character is certainly cut from the same cloth as Buster, but the reading experience as a whole is a bit more surreal with all of Buddy’s talking animal friends and his adventures with such human pals as Alice in Wonderland.

Bungleton Green
A number of artists worked on Bungleton Green over the years, with the look and tone changing drastically with each iteration. Currently we have samples from the creator of the strip, Leslie Rogers. The full Sunday-style pages we have on display feature some beautiful cartooning. Bungleton really deserves a wider following.

Diary of Snubs, Our Dog
I don’t know if it was Paul R. Carmack’s intention to ratchet the cute factor of this strip to near impossible heights, but that’s what he accomplished. If you’ve ever wanted to sneak a peek at the private thoughts of the sweetest darn puppy in the whole world, this is your chance!

The Explorigator
It didn’t run for any great length of time, but Harry Grant Dart’s The Explorigator left an indelible impression on its readers. This one is simply gorgeous and packed to the gills with imagination; when people complain about the current state of the comics page, it must bring them to tears knowing something like this once existed.

Lucy and Sophie Say Good Bye
I have a real soft spot for this strip: it’s repetitive and I can think of at least a hundred that are better drawn, but that does nothing to change my love for Lucy and Sophie. What must newspaper readers of 1905 have thought of this? I’m sure our modern take is a little different…but still, the passionate lip-locks those two engage in, oblivious to the danger and chaos surrounding them, is enough to make any innocent bystander blush.

Madge the Magician’s Daughter
I have really grown to appreciate the work of W. O. Wilson and I would say Madge best displays his strengths. Madge is a beautifully illustrated Sunday page, full of wonder and magic. One of the best in the realm of children’s fantasy strips.

Minute Movies
Ed Wheelan provides us a cast of actors who act out episodic movie serials on paper. It’s a fun idea and Wheelan gets a lot of mileage out of it. It still astounds that he is able to shoehorn in so many panels per strip, can you imagine trying to do this on today’s comics page?

Mager’s Monks
Gus Mager’s Monks are a riot. Sherlocko may be the best known, but you’ll want to check out the antics of Groucho, Coldfeeto, Henpecko and the rest. I’d say the fact that the Marx brothers borrowed this shtick for their names is testament to this strip’s greatness.

Poor Little Income
This one was left off the Odd comics list and I’m scratching my head now as to why, it most certainly is a weird little strip. Income and Expense portrayed as children: an obvious concept, right? I love Maurice Ketten’s scratchy figures which only serve to heighten the abstractness of the affair.

Private Conscience
Foster M. Follett’s Private Conscience is visually a child’s toy soldier brought to life as the personification of one’s own, well, private conscience. You can be sure that those he attempts to aid do not necessarily heed, or even appreciate, his advice. Beautifully illustrated, this strip is representative of the sort of treasures we hope to restore to public consciousness; something this good shouldn’t be lost to the sands of time.