It was only natural, given that the strip has been running for over 70 years and needed some new characters. Still, it remains a perfect comic for anyone looking for more Calvin and Hobbes.

Amusingly, though, even after Davis centered on a comic strip about a cat, he wasn't QUITE to Garfield, as you'll see later on this list. Contrary to popular belief, the strip did NOT end with ...

He's actually much more considerate than I am in my day-to-day life." Three panels at a time, "Don" comes across a moral quandary, makes the right decision and basks in healthy self-satisfaction.

This is the second comic strip for Basset, originally a political cartoonist. "Adam @ Home," a strip based on a stay-at-home dad, is already in about 200 newspapers.

Mort Walker, the artist and creator of the decades-long running comic strip "Beetle Bailey" about the antics of a work-shirking Army private, died at his home Saturday, his family said.