Possibly the greatest comic strip of all time.
As far as his more tasteless strips go, my all time favourite (though I think it was just included in a collection and not published as part of the regular strip) was when some people see a corpse slumped over a piano. 'Don't disturb him,' one observes, 'he's decomposing.'*
*Line taken from memory; it's something to that effect anyway.
I like one of the other ones he never used: A group of aliens shaped like fire hydrants, and one of them has 'something' dripping off him. There is a large dog nearby. One of the aliens is very upset: "'Take me to your leader,' I said...and then the most hideous thing happened!"
Some of my favorites that did get used:
- Two aliens are trying to talk to people. One of them is sheepishly clutching an English/Alien dictionary. The other one, very angry, says "'Take me to your stove'? You idiot! Give me that book back!"
- Interplanetary luggage mixups. A human is pulling an unidentifiable piece of alien clothing out of a bag and saying "What the heck is this?" The alien has the human's clothes and is thinking "øod nqx fpxh ga?"
- In God's kitchen: God has a box of "EARTHQUIK" on the kitchen counter. He pulls the Earth out of the oven and thinks 'Something tells me this thing's only half baked.'
- An Indian tribe is gathered on the top of a cliff. There is a train going by, in the valley below. The chief looks at the rest of his men and says "Pardon me, boys...is that the Chattanooga Iron Horse?"
- A caveman has just been squashed flat by something very large. Caption: "Gak Eisenberg invents the first and last silent mammoth whistle."
- More cavemen. One of them has produced a slide of something with a large spiked tail. "Now this end is called the thagomizer...after the late Thag Simmons."
