Complex sentence: Historians of the comic strip rate it as one of the great strips, but people still remember the much older strip "Terry and the Pirates" while "Lance" is forgotten except by a few die-hard fans.
Split into simpler sentences: Historians of the comic strip rate "Lance" as one of the great strips. However, while people still remember the much older "Terry and the Pirates", "Lance" is forgotten except by a few die-hard fans.