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| Wednesday Oct 11, 2006 | Slow-moving, can't-beleive-it's-still-being-publsihed
comic strip
Mary Worth still has its
fans,
some of whom are so dedicated (or
demented) that they
acted
out a month's worth of the strip from 1998 using camera angles
based on the actual drawings. to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Jul 29, 2006 | Some of the funniest schwag I got second-hand from the famed San Diego Comic Con was Shana Manion's super-sarcastic "Ask Miss Anthropy" (available from Sugar Free Comics on its own, and anthologized here), which was created as part of 24 Hour Comics, an experimental project created and edited by the one and onlyScott McCloud. to Comics by pyrrhuloxia |
| Tuesday May 23, 2006 | Oddball Comics
gives you
detailed descriptions and analyses of
bad comics that
probably don't
deserve
such meticulous treatment. to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Apr 25, 2006 | The Perry Bible Fellowship comics come in a variety of different styles. to Comics by fool |
| Wednesday Apr 12, 2006 | Stupid Comics
rounds up dozens of
badly written,
drawn and
conceived comics
from yesteryear. Even Superman
(that
notorious asshole) makes an
appearance.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Monday Mar 13, 2006 | Since one good
origin
story deserves another,
here is a list of
the religious
affiliations of more than a hundred comic-book superheros.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Feb 23, 2006 | After lord knows how many trips to comic conventions,
Walt Parrish,
a.k.a. "The Cliff Guy", has amassed an amazing collection of
over 400 sketches of comic book characters
standing on cliffs. to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Feb 2, 2006 | Weeks ago, Scott Adams
started a
search for a new artist for Mike Belkin's (who is quite possibly Scott Adams himself)
poorly-drawn syndicated strip
Unfit. The search is now over
and
all eighty entries are online.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jan 26, 2006 | Always remember... Wildcat loves you. However, other comic book characters have their own personal affirmations. to Comics by fatherdan |
| Tuesday Jan 17, 2006 | Garfield
is more than just a
crass, commercial exercise in
comic-strip mediocrity.
When
appropriately randomized,
it is also filled with zen-like wisdom. to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Friday Nov 18, 2005 | What if Dinosaur Comics and
Wigu,
Buttercup Fesitval,
Pokey the Penguin,
Penny Arcade
or Dead Funny
had puppies? to Comics by roo |
| Saturday Oct 15, 2005 | America's best known cartoon mascot was also once
suicidally
depressed.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Sep 29, 2005 | Scans of
every MAD magazine
cover, all for free. CHEAP!
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Aug 2, 2005 | In 1977 Archie Goodwin and Jim Mooney launched a female Spider-Man named Spider-Woman. Marv Wolfman added his signature huge superheroine hair and christened her Jessica Drew, namesake of Nancy Drew and his daughter Jessica. Her striking, fetish-worthy spandex costume and tendency to get tied up a lot drew accolades from photo-manipulation artists, cosplayers, transvestites and a skit on Saturday Night Live. She peaked with her own cartoon TV show, but then faded from the Marvel Universe as she lost some abilities in 1984 and the rest in 1999. Happily creator Brian Michael Bendis has resurrected her for his New Avengers. Celebrate with a Jessica Drew Quake mod, icons, Underoos, complete list of appearances, yahoo group, MiniMate, aptly-named bust, and new Heroclix figure. Best of all, she is captivatingly captured in paint by Michael Dashow, Greg Horn Judge, and Andrea Di Vito (B&W). to Comics by cricket |
| Wednesday Jul 6, 2005 | Like a cuter, more bizarre version of Exploding Dog,
Huffing It Up brings cartoon joy to your
life every day.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Apr 26, 2005 | Dah-da-dah-da-dah-da-dah-da-dah-da-dah-da-dah-da-dah-da! The Batmobile! to Comics by fatherdan |
| Thursday Mar 10, 2005 | Holy jerkables, Leisuretown is back!
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 2, 2005 | "Monkey Joe,
Squirrel
Girl's faithful sidekick, led a charge of squirrels onto Doctor
Doom's craft and the wee beasties chewed through the wiring and saved
the day."
What the hell?
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Feb 26, 2005 | Thanks to the magic of the Internet, every Calvin and Hobbes strip ever made is available for your perusal. to Comics by isosceles |
| Tuesday Feb 22, 2005 | Superman may be a dick, but Jimmy Olsen is still his best gal, Uh, I mean pal. Okay, I meant gal pal. to Comics by fatherdan |
| Tuesday Feb 15, 2005 |
Superman may be a dick, but at least he wasn't as
psychotically bloodthirsty
as
Hong Kong
comic book heroes from the 60's.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Feb 8, 2005 | Superman is a dick.
to Comics by scromp |
| Wednesday Jan 26, 2005 | Before the
Simpsons
were selling Butterfingers,
Matt Groening's
"Life in
Hell" characters were
selling
Macintoshes.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| For cartoon rabbits considering suicide, there
are
many possibilities.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Dec 16, 2004 | Abe and Preston are a match made in Manhattan. to Comics by yoyology |
| Thursday Sep 23, 2004 | Willy Wonka meets Francis Ford Coppola in
Chocolypse Now.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Monday Aug 30, 2004 | Gord, the world's best/worst video game store owner, has
his own comic (kind of).
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Aug 1, 2004 | More bad comics based on computer games can be found within
Atari Age's archive of
Atari Force,
Swordquest, and Yar's Revenge comic books.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Jul 31, 2004 | Doom: Great game,
horrible
comic book. to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jun 25, 2004 |
John Byrne, legendary comics author and artist
is writing
a
fun, retro webtoon.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| India gets its first web-swinging superhero. to Comics by roo |
| Friday Jun 4, 2004 | A good idea with a brain-peelingly poor execution:
ASSASSIN'S NIGHT: A DEEPER DARKNESS takes
web comics to a newer,
stupider dimension with the addition of
roll-over animations,
repetitive metal guitar riffs,
and the
worst
animated blowjob I've ever seen.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jun 3, 2004 | Baka Jesus-san! It's
Christian anime!
(Now with 33% less tentacle rape).
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Friday May 7, 2004 | If Charlie Brown grew up playing D&D and got a soul-sucking job, Sally and Lucy teamed up to torture him on a regular basis, Linus was gay, and Charles Schultz drank a lot, Peanuts might have turned into Something Positive. That would make Monette Peppermint Patty, Jason Schroeder, Mike Pigpen, Choo-Choo Snoopy, and Pepito Woodstock. to Comics by yoyology |
| Monday Apr 19, 2004 | Superman vs. Batman, Aliens vs. predator,
Stalin vs. Hitler? to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Apr 7, 2004 | Open-source comics Are not limited to Penny Arcade's "bench" project. Schoolkids who are learning english have done it too, with
interesting (and sometimes absurd) results. to Comics by caspian |
| Friday Mar 26, 2004 | Buying a copy of
Action
Comics #1 (the first appearance of Superman)
will run you about
$75,000,
but you can
read it online for free.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Friday Feb 20, 2004 | Is Achewood's
Todd T.
Squirrel the long lost brother of Stoopidpigeon's
Strappy the
squirrel?
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Monday Feb 16, 2004 | Jerk yourself silly.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jan 21, 2004 | Enjoy the
Law And Order coloring book,
but stay inside the lines
or you're
heading to the slammer, punk.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jan 19, 2004 | There are lots of bad web comics out there. What makes StarVerse "unique" is its spelling, grammar, and of course, an order page.
to Comics by 7layerburrito |
| Wednesday Dec 31, 2003 | Kazu Kibuishi's
Copper
is a series of beautifully drawn, single page comics that
is
a bit like
a modern version of
Little Nemo
in Slumberland.
Also, check out his fourteen-part series,
Clive
and Cabbage.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| At Slow Wave,
Jesse Reklaw draws 4-panel comic strips retelling
other people's
dreams. to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Friday Dec 19, 2003 | A duck, a rabbit and an angry puppet:
Cigarro & Cerveja! to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Monday Dec 1, 2003 | How often does
Cathy
sweat?
Aaack!
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Monday Nov 10, 2003 | Biff! Socko!
Wank!
The
Unh! Project
collects and documents
guttural moans in comics.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Aug 7, 2003 | Would you like to be a member of a top-secret organization? Would you be willing to protect the nation-state leaders and their families using the ancient technique of shadowboxing? Could YOU be a keeper?
to Comics by leptirica |
| Wednesday Jul 9, 2003 | The challenge: take Yahoo's top three Most Emailed Photos and use them to construct an amusing comic strip. Every day. to Comics by scromp |
| Sunday Jun 1, 2003 | Fantagraphics books, publisher of the best and most challenging work in the comics field, is in dire financial straits. If you want to do yourself and humanity a service, check out their web site and consider picking up a title or two. These guys publish the work of such luminaries as Dan Clowes, Robert Crumb, Bill Griffith, Los Bros Hernandez, Tony Millionaire and Chris Ware, all heroes of mine. In particular, Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Library and Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid On Earth represent just about the highest pinnacle of the art form that I know of. His stuff is gorgeous (though sometimes depressing in large doses) and even if Fantagraphics wasn't in such a crisis, I'd recommend everyone out there pick up a copy. to Comics by pyrrhuloxia |
| Thursday May 22, 2003 | "Amanda is a motherly professional photographer who is convinced the intelligence of the world is dropping but still remains optimistic. Monica is the diminutive yet busty museum curator [she once released the Aztec god of alcohol] that has yet to realize how cute she is . Jaquline, Shelly, and Owen are the members of the punk band Fermented Banana and good friends of Monica and Amanda." Don't forget Darin the bartender and Dietzel the strangely intelligent dog. This is Wapsi Square. to Comics by yoyology |
| Saturday Mar 22, 2003 | Just because American comic books used to be saddled with the
puritanical
comics code,
didn't mean that artists couldn't put some pretty racy
fetish art on the covers.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 12, 2003 | Too much free time on your hands? Waste it all (and then some)
with the help of
OnlineComics.net,
a searchable directory of over 2000 online comic strips.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Feb 20, 2003 | Tired of pixels? Diesel
Sweeties is running two weeks of guest comics while the normal
artist takes a break. Punk rocker Mitch Clem, 6" veggie sub
lover Chris Onstad,
pant-wetting Jeff Rowland,
street-fighting Hugo
Rodriguez, beer-guzzling Jon Rosenberg and misery-loving Michael Lalonde are part of a
cast of more than 30 webcomics artists you may or may not already
know about.
to Comics by buttercup |
| Friday Feb 14, 2003 | Professional animator and illustrator Eric Wight is about to be published in print for the first time, but he has an interesting resume of work for television, including characters for Batman Beyond and concepts for possible animated Buffy and Austin Powers series. to Comics by yoyology |
| Tuesday Jan 21, 2003 | For 40 years the X-Men have protected a world that hates and fears them, sought peace between homo sapiens sapiens and homo sapiens superior, only to have their own publisher sell out their humanity for lower tariff rates. to Comics by lampbane |
| Wednesday Jan 15, 2003 | Don't we all just love tasteless elves and their magical ability to start all kinds of trouble? to Comics by cyberpyro |
| Friday Jan 10, 2003 | Lost in Appleton is the latest in a series of web comics about mythical Appleton and its many colorful denizens. to Comics by isosceles |
| Thursday Jan 9, 2003 | Apparently, the popularity of the Dragonball franchise is dwindling. Luckily, there are still good laughs to be had at its expense!
to Comics by 7layerburrito |
| Tuesday Nov 26, 2002 | Whatever happened to comic books? In the 1940s millions of Americans read comics not only for Superhero stories, but Romance, Cowboys, War, History, Literary Adaptations and more. Readers were lured away whenever another medium provided their "fix" cheaper, easier or better, beginning with television in the '50s. By the early '80s the only genre still dominated by comics was Superheroes, and 1989's hugely profitable Batman signaled the beginning of the superheroic exodus from comics to film. Since then comicbook sales have plummeted, from $850 million in 1993 to $275 million in 2000 and still falling fast. Leading publishers Marvel and DC Comics both now treat comics solely as Research and Development: they lose millions printing the comics, but earn far more selling licenses for movies, cartoons and toys. Comics' core audience, traditionally pre-teens, is now 18-30 and getting older every year. Is this the death of comics? Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics, plays Gandalf to an unofficial fellowship out to save comics by migrating to the Internet! Join the revolution with Justine Shaw's Nowhere Girl, Patrick Farley's Electric Sheep, Tristan Farnon's Leisure Town, Derek Kirk's Small Stories, Jenn Manley Lee's Dicebox, Cat Garza's Magic Inkwell and more!
to Comics by cricket |
| Wednesday Nov 13, 2002 | Drew's Toothpaste : it's what's for dinner.
to Comics by fringlehunter |
| Monday Nov 11, 2002 | Sacre bleu! There are so many cool French comics! Do you remember pipe-smoking superhero Mister X? Or the flamboyant motorcycling crimefighter Motoman? Or the bizarre antihero Satanik, who only robbed and killed other criminals? And who could forget reading Otomox: Master of Robots while eating camembert and sipping chardonnay before school, mes amis? Despite all this, are you prepared for the ultimate team-up of Batman and... Tintin!?! (BTW: Other Tintin parodies abound.) to Comics by fatherdan |
| Friday Oct 18, 2002 | "Achewood": surreal daily strip about a group of stuffed bears, and the wormwood-like active ingredient in the production of "achewater," a long- since outmoded and outlawed Southern beverage. Drinkers of achewater experienced hallucinations and euphoria, but the after-effects of the liquor produced a deep and lasting melancholy. to Comics by monkfish |
| Thursday Oct 17, 2002 | Marc Weidenbaum wants you to read comics in public.
to Comics by crikey |
| Tuesday Aug 27, 2002 | Topato-madness is sweeping the nation. Topato, a fictional character who stars in a show watched by other fictional characters who star in a comic strip, is showing up in all sort of interesting places. Topato is made of poison. Spring into action with Topato! to Comics by jon |
| Wednesday Aug 14, 2002 | Reminiscent of
"My Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable",
Seanbaby has a
collection appropriately entitled
"Kick to the
Groin" comics.
Juvenile humor is the bestest.
to Comics by fool |
| Thursday Jul 11, 2002 | Bizarre mistranslation or just remarkably Dada? Strangely compelling, either way.
to Comics by joshua |
| Sunday Jun 23, 2002 | Drawn in a graceful, illustrative style and filled with
wry social
commentary,
art and
literary theory, and
madcap
tomfoolery,
it's
Cat And Girl! to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jun 20, 2002 | The gulf between good and bad uses of animated GIFs is ginormous.
to Comics by fool |
| Wednesday Jun 19, 2002 | More than 1200 people are paying to read webcomics at Modern Tales. Are they
stupid, on drugs or just hard up? Or maybe they're onto something important? to Comics by jon |
| Saturday Jun 15, 2002 | Beautiful art,
engaging stories and
heartfelt emotions. Sit down
and read
Small Stories right away.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday May 1, 2002 | K-R-A-F-T is suing Chicago cartoonist King
VelVeeda for trademark
infringement and sullying the good name of Velveeta
processed cheese spread. to Comics by fatherdan |
| Monday Apr 8, 2002 | Planet Named Desire features the dreamy, southwestern, calaveras-inspired art and comics of Mr. Joe Marshall of Tucson, AZ. to Comics by fatherdan |
| Tuesday Mar 26, 2002 | Great Teacher Onizuka is the touching story of a 22 year old virginal street hoodlum who decides to become a high school teacher... so he can sleep with all the pretty Japanese schoolgirls. Immoral? Sure. Unethical? Certainly. Illegal? Not exactly. to Comics by lampbane |
| Saturday Feb 23, 2002 | For a limited time, The Comics Journal is presenting MP3 excerpts from an interview with Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz. to Comics by tregoweth |
| Wednesday Feb 6, 2002 | Want to buy comics and still appear literate? Artbomb reviews many of the best graphic novels around. Pick one and get reading. to Comics by jcs |
| Saturday Jan 26, 2002 | Animation nerds
everywhere should bug their eyeballs out in surprise at Richard
Llewellyn's (no relation to
Lloyd)
immense chart of the
history
of animation.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jan 22, 2002 | These days, there's lots of comic books to choose from... The puzzle is knowing which ones are Comics Worth Reading.
to Comics by jcs |
| Thursday Dec 27, 2001 | Leisuretown, has replenished their supply of concentrated disaffected bitterness. Now it's got enough panels to keep you from going crazy during your irksome work day. to Comics by fool |
| Friday Nov 16, 2001 | Tales
of Mere Existence.
Monochrome, bitter, and filmed from
underneath.
(Requires quicktime.)
to Comics by belford |
| Monday Nov 12, 2001 | Niem is a diligent young man with a beautifully designed Web site devoted to, among other subjects, Mr. Chris Ware's lovely Acme Novelty Library Toys, and his own art. Above all, you have to respect him for having the guts to dress and act like this in public on Halloween.
to Comics by fatherdan |
| Thursday Nov 8, 2001 | Scott Adams presents Plop, "an engineered comic strip
devoid of any artistic integrity whatsoever."
to Comics by tregoweth |
| Wednesday Oct 17, 2001 | Online comics come of age with Justine Shaw's Nowhere Girl, a poignant, unflinching and hauntingly beautiful story of alienation. The lushly painted artwork is stunning, something like Love and Rockets crossed with The Breakfast Club, with a soundtrack by Morrissey, The Smiths and Elastica (and titled after the B-Movie single). NG has already scored props from big-time comix pundit Scott McCloud. When's the last time a comicbook made you cry? to Comics by cricket |
| Monday Oct 8, 2001 | Old comics, if they're lucky, get reborn as something completely different. John Lustig bought the rights to the entire 50-year-old First Kiss series, and is ever-so-slightly altering it. to Comics by jcs |
| Monday Oct 1, 2001 | If today's comics links have you wanting to
book a superhero for a special event,
Marvel
can help you out.
to Comics by tregoweth |
| Strangely, one of the best comics news sites around is from a geek in Canada. to Comics by jcs |
| Kevin Smith wrote a comic for the New York Times' Style Section about how he met his wife. It is very much in the style you would expect from him, and it, umm, includes new fall fashion. to Comics by keith |
| Tuesday Sep 18, 2001 | The comics communities have responded in various ways to the September 11th attacks, with a variety of editorial cartoons, tributes to the dead, and frightening stories of near-misses. to Comics by crikey |
| Friday Sep 7, 2001 | Once upon a time, cartoonist Ted Rall wrote a scathing attack on Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman. Enraged, cartoonist and illustrator Danny Hellman pulled a stupid email prank against the first cartoonist, leading Ted to instigate legal proceedings (costing both sides tens of thousands of dollars). The litigated-upon prankster has gathered public sympathy and published a benefit book to help defray his legal costs, while the pranked-upon litigator metamorphoses into more and more of a discussion board kook with every passing day. to Comics by crikey |
| Thursday Sep 6, 2001 | Scott McCloud has a new online comic that is updated daily. to Comics by klint |
| Friday Aug 31, 2001 | The best sci-fi story you'll ever read isn't a book, but a comic called Finder. Conveniently, you can read several issues online. to Comics by jcs |
| Tuesday Aug 28, 2001 | In 1978,
DC comics
cancelled 31 comic titles (while adding only 8
more). This dramatic reduction in the number (and page count) of
DC comics became known as the
"DC Implosion"
(in reference to DC's own
"DC Explosion" ad campaign of a few years earlier). Several of these
cancelled comics hadn't even been published yet, so to preserve their
copyright, DC put out a collection called the
Cancelled
Comic Cavalcade.
Thankfully, information, plot summaries and artwork from this
ultra-rare publication has been collected by
Mike Grabois.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Aug 26, 2001 | What the Drugs Taught Me is an autobiographical comic that ran in The Stranger about one man's experiences with drugs. What did he learn? That smoking pot makes you cool. to Comics by klint |
| Thursday Aug 23, 2001 | Girl Genius is a wonderful comic by
Studio Foglio. It's got Giant steam-powered robots, fantastic airships, bizarre creatures, and a really cute steampunk heroine named Agatha. They've also created a strategy card game called The Works which contains themes from the game. to Comics by laurel |
| Wednesday Aug 22, 2001 | Schlock Mercenary is probably one of the few science-fiction comic strips out there that actually tries to be scientifically consistent. Not that you'll notice; you'll be too busy laughing at the humor.
to Comics by onigame |
| Friday Aug 17, 2001 | It's time to let your taste in comics grow up a little, Junior. Fer instance,
check out the superlative work of Chris
Ware , Daniel
Clowes,
David
Collier,
Seth,
Joe
Sacco,
Ivan Brunetti,
Patrick Welch and Carrie Golus,
Jason
Lutes,
Archer
Prewitt, and Ben
Katchor.
Americans! Reclaim and appreciate your comics heritage. Check out the level
of respect shown to our
own comic artists
in Europe and be SHAMED.
to Comics by fatherdan |
| Sunday Aug 12, 2001 | What's up, Doc?
Classic cartoons have been steadily gutted of their content or hidden from public view because of their portrayal of sex, violence, stereotypes, and other such subjects offensive to sensitive modern palates, that's what.
to Comics by fatherdan |
| Wednesday Aug 8, 2001 | Before creating Little Nemo in Slumberland (perhaps the only license to spawn both a 1908 broadway musical and a 1990 Nintendo Game), cartoonist Winsor McKay was famous for an adult-oriented comic called Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend. While Nemo's dreams were fantastic and child-like, Rarebit-induced nightmares usually revolved around more mature concerns. to Comics by fuzzeli |
| Little Gamers: recommended to anyone who likes PvP, Angst Technology, South Park or the word 'wench'. to Comics by kilinrax |
| Wednesday Aug 1, 2001 | Stormwatch begat the Authority which begat the Monarchy. And let's not forget Planetary. Oh, and coming soon: the Establishment.
to Comics by lampbane |
| Tuesday Jul 31, 2001 | "Who is Rogue?
Rogue
is a 28 year old straight male from the Seattle
area who enjoys making and wearing
female
superheroine
costumes."
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jul 27, 2001 | " I Am Jack's Younger Self":
The Secret Connections between "Fight Club" and "Calvin and Hobbes" REVEALED! to Comics by george |
| Thursday Jul 19, 2001 | Where have all the dead gods gone? There's some recent explanations from comics authors in drawn and prose form. Others consider the gods (yes, all of them) very alive. to Comics by jcs |
| Monday Jul 16, 2001 | You Damn Kid painfully examines all those childhood memories you were hoping to forget.
to Comics by joshua |
| Friday Jul 13, 2001 | Some of my favorite printed comics are from Slave Labor Graphics. I love Evan Dorkin's Milk & Cheese, dairy products gone bad (Play the board game), and Jhonen Vasquez's indescribable Johnny the Homicidal Maniac.
to Comics by aimz |
| Friday Jun 29, 2001 | Poor Scott McCloud. Everyone keeps picking on him. Good for them. to Comics by lampbane |
| Wednesday Jun 27, 2001 | Whither Krypto,
Superman's
superdog? to Comics by fatherdan |
| Tuesday Jun 26, 2001 | The U.S. comics business has shrunk drastically over the last decade. The bonus for readers? Comics, especially small press, will have to be very good to survive.
to Comics by jcs |
| Tuesday Jun 19, 2001 | Bulletin boards are on most every comic book site. They range from mainstream to independent. There's different company-specific boards too. Of course, public discussion is often filled with catankerous or berserk, conversation, but occasionally you find perfectly wonderful, helpful sites.
to Comics by jcs |
| Wednesday Jun 13, 2001 | Do violent video games cause violence in the real world? Maybe not, but they're definitely responsible for some violent cartoons. to Comics by kilinrax |
| Thursday Jun 7, 2001 | Sock Monkey
is a kinder but still violent
(and purchaseable)
version of
Maakies.
See the comic
or even a movie.
to Comics by jcs |
| Bummed about Buffy
moving to UPN? No affiliate in your area?
You could read the Buffy comic book.
Also, Joss Whedon, Buffy's creator, is writing a new comic book that is essentially
Buffy in the Future. to Comics by jcs |
| I never really liked the word zine, aside from a select few articles the whole thing just sorta bored me. Nontheless there was one feature that kept me coming back every Tuesday - the comics! Actually, just one of them, Maakies. The adventures of Drinky Crow & pals live on!
to Comics by wheezer |
| Thursday May 17, 2001 | USS Catastrophe sure is one plum dandy of a site. Run by cartoonists Ted May and Warren Craghead, it contains lots of stuff you just don't see anywhere else, including the branching jam Inkpile, reprints of John Porcellino's amazingly beautiful comics, and a great archive of comics, reviews of comics, and other stuff comic-ish. to Comics by crikey |
| Wednesday May 16, 2001 | Today Marvel Comics announced they are dropping the 50-year old dinosaur known as the Comics Code in favor of in-house guidelines. The villagers rejoiced. to Comics by lampbane |
| Thursday May 3, 2001 | Dave Sim,
award-winning author and artist of the 300-issue series
Cerebus, has penned
another screed
against women, homosexuals, feminism, communism and masturbation.
Read the (copyright-free)
essay
at The Comics Journal,
and join in the
surprisingly
restrained discussion
on their message boards.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday May 1, 2001 | Reverend Fun
tries to be Doctor Fun
and fails miserably.
to Comics by voidptr |
| Tuesday Apr 24, 2001 | Wanna send some motherfuckers to the hospital? Then behold the magnificence of my unstoppable fighting and filing techniques. You dare to laugh? Then I will have to engage you in another round of good old-fashioned ass-kicking. Or filing alphabetically. to Comics by lampbane |
| Tuesday Apr 10, 2001 | Good comics are hard to find.
Bad comics,
alas, are much easier to locate.
However, they're also much more fun to
ridicule.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 27, 2001 | At Cheesygraphics, you won't just
find comix artist King Velveeda's sexxxy art, you can behold his (in)famous and
always amazing King Velveeda Picture of the Day. to Comics by fatherdan |
| Tuesday Mar 6, 2001 | Dork Tower is a wonderful
comic drawn by John Kovalic. It's a humourous
story about the
trials and
tribulations
of a bunch of gamers. Unlike other comics about gaming,
you don't need
to read a news page to get the punchline.
If you don't have time to go through the online archive or
buy the
graphic novel
it's at least worth checking out the t-shirts
John has designed, as well as his
editorial cartoons. to Comics by laurel |
| Sunday Mar 4, 2001 | When I am King is a reproduction
of strange ancient hieroglyphics in which a king wakes up from a dream
which will change his life forever, if only he can find it in the waking world.
to Comics by joshua |
| Friday Feb 9, 2001 | Hardcore comic geeks "best ever" lists nearly always include Watchmen, Love and Rockets, Eightball, Nausicaa and Kyle Baker's Why I Hate Saturn. Conspicuous in its absence is Platinum Grit, the best comic you've never heard of. PG has almost never been distributed outside of Australia, yet has managed to inspire fan sites, a fan forum and rabid worldwide readership. Rumor has it they're negotiating with an American publisher - in the meantime check out swanky, free shockwave versions of Issue 8 and Issue 11.
to Comics by cricket |
| Wednesday Jan 24, 2001 | She has no mouth, but is better than Prozac. She's sporting a brand new community site and fans must read the FAQ. Her fans aren't quite so sick and twisted. to Comics by gen |
| Monday Jan 22, 2001 | If you like Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World as a syndicated comic strip, then you'll love it as an animated series! to Comics by roo |
| User
is a new comic by Devin Grayson.
It's about a girl who realizes the line between fantasy and reality is quite thin. As Grayson puts
it: "As ... two worlds collide, the story winds through issues of gender identity, post-modern
isolation, spiritual malady and the abiding human desire for belonging and connection." to Comics by laurel |
| Neil Gaiman has released a new graphic novel called
The Last Temptation that he co-wrote with Alice Cooper, based on his
album with the same title.
It's drawn by Michael Zulli, also of DC Vertigo
fame. to Comics by laurel |
| Wednesday Jan 10, 2001 | I think Diary of a Crazed Mimbanite looks like Star Wars meets Mad. to Comics by krisjohn |
| Monday Jan 8, 2001 | Scott McCloud, author of Reinventing Comics, has a new edition of "I Can't Stop Thinking!" which discusses the future of online comics but also serves as an interesting commentary on the future of content online. to Comics by gen |
| Sunday Jan 7, 2001 | The recent Penny Arcade/Jerkcity interplay fits surprisingly well in the standard plot structure of exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and denoument. Ahulgahlahg. to Comics by george |
| Thursday Dec 14, 2000 | angry little asian girl is what you get when you repress your childhood anger. to Comics by gen |
| Tuesday Nov 28, 2000 | Speak l33t?
Live a sim life?
Megatokyo - a totally comic perspective
of otaku and gaming.
to Comics by gen |
| Monday Nov 20, 2000 | Chopping Block: because serial killers are people too. to Comics by joshua |
| Thursday Nov 9, 2000 | She's an ex-porn star. He's a robot. They're dating. to Comics by joshua |
| Thursday Nov 2, 2000 | Meat Wars: Star Wars meets Red Meat via the Red Meat Construction Set. to Comics by kapital |
| Sunday Oct 29, 2000 | Hotendotey --
kind of
like
"Red Meat" but
much
more
offensive.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Oct 26, 2000 | Fans of funny web comics should read my favorite sexual, anime-influenced web comic, The Thin H-Line. Well, unless they think that things like suicide, necrophilia, masturbation, tentacle monster rape, or incest are just plain wrong. to Comics by keith |
| Tuesday Oct 24, 2000 | While you're at Comic Book Resources, reading Zot! Online, remember to stop on in and check out the round-up of Oddball Comics. Today's features the origin of the word "foo". Some of my favorites include Baseball Comics, Uncle Milty, Woody Woodpecker in Chevrolet Wonderland, Space Western Comics, and Crest Cavity Fighting Team Activity Book. to Comics by keith |
| Tuesday Sep 26, 2000 | Tired of those geek paper dolls? Try Dame Darcy's Flash-enabled Paper Doll Fun. What could be more fun than dressing up siamese twins, Igpay the pig, and a shrimp named Scampi (who actually has no possessions and can do nothing but rattle and insult you)? I'm sure I can think of
something.
to Comics by enigma |
| Friday Sep 8, 2000 | I see Stan Lee has sold out to capitalism and mainstream pop culture. to Comics by kade |
| Wednesday Sep 6, 2000 | Rhymes With Orange is a cute little off-beat comic which is actually carried in my local paper. to Comics by keith |
| Thursday Aug 17, 2000 | I'm happy to know I'm not the only person who hates User Friendly, yet I'm careful not to fall into a Cliff Yablonski hate spiral. to Comics by skallas |
| Tuesday Jul 18, 2000 | Using his own source material and the material submitted by others, someone has compiled Ka-BOOM! A Dictionary of Comicbook Words on Historical Principles, i.e.: onomatopoeias with references. SCHLIKT, for example, is "the extruding sound of Wolverine's claws" (an easy one for X-Men fans). GAAAH however, is a "cry of pain" in Mantra, and a "cry of fear" in Archie. to Comics by mrradon |
| Thursday Jul 13, 2000 | So, most everyone was expecting the release of Scott Mccloud's new Reinventing Comics, the sort-of-sequel to his wildly cool Understanding Comics. But, who expected him to immediately dive back into the series that made him famous in the first place -- Zot! New online episodes continuing the Zot! saga are now
appearing weekly at www.comicbookresources.com. to Comics by crikey |
| Friday Jun 30, 2000 | Everyone is familiar with Dr. Seuss' children's books, but not many know that during the early 40's he worked as a political cartoonist, focusing mainly on the Second World War. His cartoons from 1941 attacked America's isolationism and indecision about entering the war, while many of the later ones were the usual pleas to join the military, conserve resources, and buy war bonds. Mixed in with these are some interesting cartoons attacking American racism and discrimination, juxtaposed with the standard WWII portrayals of slant-eyed, bespectacled, buck-toothed Japs.
to Comics by kapital |
| Terry Moore, creator
of the popular comic Strangers In Paradise,
has put some of his non-mainstream
strips on the web. While they're not quite ready for syndication, they are fun to read. to Comics by laurel |
| Thursday Jun 22, 2000 | It hasn't been updated any time recently, but the existing adventures of everyone's favorite inept compulsive suicide attempter, Suicide Boy, are enjoyable. to Comics by keith |
| Tuesday Jun 20, 2000 | Æon Flux, originally a segment of MTV's creative animation shorts show Liquid Television is now being rebroadcast online, so don't miss the eponymous dominatrix, spy, and foot fetish model's adventures. Be sure to check out the episode guide and FAQ and other resources beforehand.
to Comics by joshua |
| Wednesday Jun 14, 2000 | If you claim to read comics and you don't already know who James Kochalka is, you've been living under a rock. But, hey, did you know that
you can download his tunes from MP3.com? to Comics by crikey |
| Monday May 29, 2000 | The Houston Chronicle has an
archive
of all the syndicated strips that gave tribute to
Charles Shultz. Snoopy.com also has a
number of more
personal tributes. to Comics by laurel |
| It used to be that you'd have to draw your own comic strip, or come up with an original idea, but cartoonist Terrence Marks has put those archaic notions to rest. He even has rabid fans. to Comics by jon |
| Sunday May 21, 2000 | Syndicated comics strips are generally so awful I'd begun to despair. Turns out it's the syndication system, not the medium, that's poisoned. People are publishing online in droves, including some of the best comics the world has ever seen. For instance, Christopher Baldwin's Bruno is a joyful, beautifully-drawn and skillfully executed labor of love... basically the embodiment of why I liked comics in the first place (also art in general. and life itself, really). Plus, it gets beaucoup bonus points for being copublished in French. Treat yourself and fulfill your hazy ambitions to make lifekind a teensy bit better at the same time: bolster the quotient of good mojo in the world by ordering Bruno stuff. Magnifique!! to Comics by cricket |
| Saturday May 20, 2000 | A photo comic named "Tards". Featuring Gordon, Floyd, and Nudist Ned, it's both entertaining and frightening! to Comics by succa |
| Monday May 15, 2000 | The weekly comic strip The Parking Lot is Full is as funny as it is psychotic. to Comics by joshua |
| Sunday May 14, 2000 | Alan Moore wrote Watchmen and Swamp Thing and is generally considered the most bitchin' writer in Western comics. Stephen Camper has created the definitive Alan Moore fan site. And in case you'd become disenchanted with Moore for more-or-less openly milking the Image phenomenon to get rich as quickly as possible before the comics industry collapses completely, check out the finally-released From Hell compilation or the recent League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, both utter gems.
to Comics by cricket |
| Thursday May 11, 2000 | Last Cereal is
a bleak cartoon strip by Andrea
B. Previtera. to Comics by braino |
| Wednesday May 3, 2000 | Note to self: remember to add SinFest to daily list of on-line comics to be read. It's sort of vaguely like God, the Devil, and Bob except it's funny. to Comics by keith |
| Thursday Apr 27, 2000 | My new favorite web comic is Catatonic Comix! Especially what I, inveterate 1970's comic book reader, think of as the Hostess Fruit Pies strip. to Comics by peterb |
| Monday Apr 24, 2000 | Unlike the rest of the Americian Comic Book industry, Cerebus is a consistent, compelling
story that spans 300 issues, begun in 1977 and ending in 2004.
Dave
Sim has been writing, drawing characters, and independently
producing it the entire time, and has served as inspiration to the likes
of Neil Gaiman. Put down that
copy of Wolverine and pick up a real comic book.
to Comics by laurel |
| Monday Apr 17, 2000 | Zounds! Super Marketing: Ads from the Comic Books has a large archive of all the scary, disturbing, and classic ads from misspent youths. to Comics by nyarl |
| Monday Apr 10, 2000 | Warren Ellis, the coolest, smartest,
bitterest (is that a word?), and most vocal writer in comics today, currently
has a weekly column
at comicbookresources.com, but more
importantly, has just started a serialized online comic (illustrated by Jason Alexander), entitled
Bad Places.
Check it out at Reactor! to Comics by riffraff |
| Tuesday Apr 4, 2000 | Slow Wave is a collective dream diary authored by different people from around the world, and drawn as a comic strip. to Comics by joshua |
| Thursday Mar 16, 2000 | Stan Lee presents A.J.! Nick! Kevin! Brian! Howie! Fighting evil with their strange new powers! Excelsior! to Comics by tregoweth |
| Friday Mar 10, 2000 | As a memepool reader, you are doubtless aware of those old Hostess comic
book ads. What you may not know is that you can now write your own! The AntiWesley brings us
the Do
It YOURSELF Hostess Ads page - with the extra added attraction of O.
J. Simpson's ad for Dingo Boots! to Comics by dha |
| Sunday Feb 20, 2000 | The New Yorker finally launched its website. However, the New Yorker Cartoon Bank is what I was really looking for. I was particularly excited to find Glen Baxter cartoons to Comics by borges |
| Tuesday Feb 15, 2000 | I love academic jargon. Here it is applied to the classic newspaper comic strip, Krazy Kat: "Krazy exposes the false consciousness of his companions through ignorance of their habits and conventions; his naive misrecognitions of their kynical misrecognitions deny their denial, pointing out the pretensions and misrecognitions necessary for the maintenance of everyday life." Whatever. to Comics by peterb |
| Monday Feb 7, 2000 | I'm not sure if these y2k survivalist cartoons are humor compliant. to Comics by mpc |
| Friday Feb 4, 2000 | It's all about Macross! Who can forget the infamous
love triangle. So when do I get to fly a Valkyrie?
to Comics by gen |
| Tuesday Jan 25, 2000 | All the Sandman annotations you could want. And more! to Comics by stimpy |
| Tuesday Jan 18, 2000 | He's a cute little whiteboy, he's got freckles, and he's a pimp--Lil' Pimp, to be exact!
to Comics by enigma |
| Wednesday Jan 12, 2000 | If you don't know the origin of the expression
"a Rube Goldberg device," check out the
(inevitable) official
web site of this legendary cartoonist. to Comics by tregoweth |
| Friday Jan 7, 2000 | For a quick dose of
angst and
bitter laughs,
check out Fried Society which, sadly,
is no longer being drawn. to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Friday Dec 31, 1999 | Like many adults who once dismissed graphic novels as glorified comic books, I was drawn back into the medium through Alan Moore's grim and brilliant Watchmen. Memepool readers who liked Watchmen as much as I did should definitely check out Ralf Hildebrandt's
Annotated Watchmen for a detailed panel-by-panel analysis of plot, cultural references and symbolism within the story. to Comics by pjammer |
| Sunday Dec 19, 1999 | In the category of geeky web-based comics, there's
User Friendly, where you can follow the
occasionally coherent life of Columbia Internet.
They hide the daily dose over
here.
to Comics by tjs |
| Friday Dec 17, 1999 | Fluble, a comic strip explaining precisely why the Amish are evil. to Comics by mpc |
| Wednesday Dec 8, 1999 | Kyle Baker, one of the most brilliant
comic-book authors/writers alive, may be best known for
Why I Hate Saturn, a
graphic novel laced with some of the most a savagely funny writing in print -
Why do vegetarians spend so much time trying to make vegetables taste like meat? Do
monks buy a lot of inflatable sex dolls?
to Comics by pjammer |
| Monday Dec 6, 1999 | Hound's Home is good. Very good. And it has a monkey in it. God, I love monkeys. to Comics by jon |
| Friday Dec 3, 1999 | Edward Gorey meets the Far Side at
Daze of Our Lives.
to Comics by peterb |
| Saturday Nov 20, 1999 | I have always wanted to be a superhero--even a cheezy one like "The Boisterous Silent Hillbilly." to Comics by enigma |
| Monday Nov 15, 1999 | Fleen
1. (Fleen) n. pl. Obs. pl. of Flea. Chaucer.
2. A site with gratuitous links to online comics.
to Comics by jon |
| Thursday Nov 11, 1999 | Oh. My. God. The geniuses at goats, one
of the web's best comic strips, have just unleashed
brains4zombies.com. And
just in time for Christmas, too! to Comics by peterb |
| Thursday Oct 28, 1999 | Contrary to accusations, I do think
Sarah Dyer is a cartoonist.
In fact, I have every issue of
"Action Girl"
ever published, and am a big fan of
her writing
for
Space Ghost: Coast
to Coast to boot.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| I was a little skeptical about a list of
The 100 Greatest Comic Books of 20th Century (a work in progress),
but the author thereof has good, well reasoned explanations of each selection. And although most of the comic books are chosen more for significance than raw quality, he includes Watchmen, Maus,
Cerebus, and Sandman, so I can't complain too much.
to Comics by keith |
| Wednesday Oct 27, 1999 | Although several of my favorite cartoonists
(Dan
Clowes
and
Adrian Tomine
to name two)
have no web presence, others do.
Check out
Jim Woodring's website,
which just doesn't do justice to his
creepy dreamlike art, or
Evan Dorkin and
Sarah Dyer's
House of Fun.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Monday Oct 25, 1999 | If you (like myself) still haven't recovered from the end of Bloom County, you'll be happy to hear that the animated Christmas special A Wish For Wings That Work is coming to video on November 9. If you don't feel like plunking down the ten bucks, tho, clips are available online. to Comics by jon |
| You think your favorite on-line comic has an archive?
Doonesbury has an
on-line archive which goes back to October 26, 1970. It's a great way to learn the past three decades of American political and social history. to Comics by keith |
| Friday Oct 22, 1999 | For those of you just can't get enough Pokey the Penguin, it's time to rejoice -- introducing Dada Pokey, a computer-generated version of the classic. to Comics by jon |
| Bob
Burden is perhaps the only surrealist
cartoonist. His Mystermen
comics inspired the
Ben Stiller movie, but
he is best known in the comics world for his Flaming
Carrot Comics.
The Flaming Carrot
is a Zen-idiot superhero, lover of life, and he frequently says, "Ut!"
He even has his own action
figure.
to Comics by earmouse |
| Monday Oct 18, 1999 | Jerk City reads like the bastard
child of an online comic and the ramblings of a febrile
four year old.
But this is not a bad thing. In fact, it's the
insanity
that makes it
so
damn
funny.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Oct 14, 1999 |
Frankentoons: Humor mets
civil disobedience or unfunny parodies expressly designed to irritate the syndicates and play into their creator's messiah complex? You decide. to Comics by keith |
| When I Grow Up is the best new online comic strip where people get attacked by angry, carnivorous pigs. They do other things too, though. to Comics by jon |
| Tuesday Oct 12, 1999 | PvP is the slickest-looking online strip out there. The fact that it's hilarious doesn't hurt, either. to Comics by jon |
| Monday Oct 11, 1999 | Bobbins is one of my favorite comic strips, online or off, not just for its excellent wit, execution and anglophile appeal, but also for the hot chicks that populate it. to Comics by jon |
| Tuesday Sep 28, 1999 | Judd Winick, best known for his stint on The Real World, produced the excellent (and defunct) Frumpy the Clown. to Comics by machita |
| Monday Sep 27, 1999 | With the retirement of comic giants like Bill Watterson, Burke Breathed and Gary Larson,
the only mainstream-distribution comic strip of consistent brilliance is Bill Amend's delightfully wry
Foxtrot. to Comics by pjammer |
| Sunday Sep 26, 1999 | The coolest trend in comics these days appears to be "science comics,"
which either retell famous events from the history of science or teach
some science, like Jim Ottaviani's
Two-Fisted Science,
his Dignifying
Science, or Jay Hosler's Clan Apis, about the
life of a honey bee.
to Comics by crikey |
| Thursday Sep 23, 1999 | From 1915 until 1944, comic strip genius George Herriman created Krazy Kat, one of the most influential strips ever. Often imitated and never equalled, Herriman's inimitable graphical style and sensitivity to language still delight us today.
to Comics by fringehead |
| Sunday Sep 19, 1999 | SpinnWebe, host to The Dysfunctional Family
Circus for nigh upon forever, has
been bitchslapped by Bil Keane's syndicate. The "cease and desist" must
be complied by today (20-Sep-1999), so check out this piece of 'web
history before it's gone.
to Comics by braino |
| Indy magazine only
publishes online these days, and doesn't update
as much as I'd want it to, but jeez, what fantastic
interviews and reviews! In particular, check out the recent
in-depth interview with Eightball's
Dan Clowes. to Comics by crikey |
| Thursday Sep 9, 1999 | Velvet: The Unusual Superheroine isn't about mindless sex and senseless violence; it's about comprehensive writing. You can tell because it says so right there on the web page. Still, I do have to wonder how the author can "portray Velvet in a very respectable manner" in such a skimpy costume. to Comics by keith |
| Transmetropolitan is, in my ever-so-humble opinion, hands down the best comic book still being published regularly. I would urge everyone to go buy it, even if you don't usually read comic books. Also, its writer, Warren Ellis has his own web site, which is pretty mod. to Comics by keith |
| Wednesday Sep 8, 1999 | It's amazing all the comic strips that are available online now. You
can catch up on Alison Bechdel's Dykes to Watch
Out For, previously only seen in bound collections and
"alternative" papers. Barbara Branson is for some reason, categorized
as an "editorial cartoonist" for her incredible strip, Where I'm
Coming From. On the other hand, there's nothing like the
perverse, often hideously offensive, usually ironic cartoons of John Callahan. Make sure you
read his hate mail. And
for a truly weird time, you may not be able to read Jim's Journal
online anymore but you can still play with the Jim's Journal Strip
Generator. "I wrote a language parser and it was OK."
to Comics by moose |
| Monday Aug 9, 1999 | For memepool-reading perverts (but I repeat myself) who drooled over Brandy/Cavewoman, you should probably go check out Danger Girl, which, while not by penned by Frank Cho, nonetheless stars improbably-proportioned female leads who resemble Brandy/Cavewoman - except that they wear skintight jumpsuits/bikinis and kill international terrorists.
to Comics by pjammer |
| Oh, and for those of you who do like
Liberty Meadows,
you should probably check out
The Liberty Meadows Comic Book.
And if you just like drooling over
Brandy,
you should probably go read
Cavewoman SPX '98,
which is also by Frank Cho and has a main character who resembles
Brandy except that she wears a leopard print bikini and kills dinosaurs. to Comics by keith |
| Saturday Aug 7, 1999 | The newly-minted Liberty Meadows is a delightful comic starring a neurotically insecure protagonist and his persistently bungled attempts to connect with an out-of-his-league attractive female love interest - along with an eccentric cast of deranged talking animals.
And if you've ever wondered, as I did, how comic book artists get their ideas, Frank Cho offers his disquieting confession here.
to Comics by pjammer |
| Friday Aug 6, 1999 | I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time" So I ordered French toast during the Renaissance. ...a great list of Steven Wright quotes. You can scroll up or down to see a bunch of additional one liners. to Comics by jack |
| Tuesday Aug 3, 1999 | If I could be a super-hero from any era, I'd be: A Special Collector's Edition Zinc-Inlaid Embossed Cover Age Hero, since I'm a greed head without one iota of integrity. to Comics by pjammer |
| Monday Jul 26, 1999 | I'm real bacon! Ssss. to Comics by eclipse |
| Thursday Jul 8, 1999 | Great Galaxies! Behold! KIRBY!. Thrill to
disturbingly overwrought analyses.
MARVEL at cosmic
domestic stories! SEE football of the future!
SMILE at drawings for his granddaughter's 7th grade report!
to Comics by mpc |
| Hypercool doesn't even begin to describe Matt Madden's comic-strip experiment Exercise in Style. I especially liked this one. to Comics by peterb |
| Saturday Jun 26, 1999 | Scott McCloud, creator of Zot! has a fabulous online comics page, including the add-a-panel adventures of Carl.
This is just incredible.
to Comics by peterb |
| Friday Jun 18, 1999 | Even goofier than the old Atari Force comics, it's Norton's Sarcman vs. the Virus Vixens promotional campaign. Sadly, a half-hour of dawdling at work was unable to turn up any web pages on the old early 80's comic books with toothpaste superheroes battling villains and promoting dental care, though I did find a few very special issues of Spiderman in people's listings. Wasn't there some sort of "Crest Force" team as well, or am I just overflowing with false memories? to Comics by nyarl |
| Thursday Jun 17, 1999 | Comics 1 - Fine Arts 0: The Site is an amazing journey comparing fine art with comic art. Not for the shy, this site questions the value society places upon fine art vs. comics in a very persuasive manner. Reserve at least 20 mins to experience it in full. to Comics by gen |
| Tuesday Jun 8, 1999 | David McGuire writes a comic strip for the University of Houston's
Daily Cougar called
Citrusville, which I find amusing. He also has some other
comics and art on his site, which he calls
"The Monkey House"
for reasons which are never made clear.
to Comics by keith |
| Sunday Jun 6, 1999 | If you're tired of having to wait until Sunday for
color comic strips, you'll enjoy
Ctoons which
provides daily color versions of a number of syndicated
cartoons. You can even set up
your own little daily
page of color cartoons.
to Comics by keith |
| Scott McCloud is the writer of such comic books as
Zot and The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln.
He now has a web site.
In his book Understanding Comics, he introduced to us the example of the story of Carl.
Now you can see the story of Carl told in
two panels,
fifty-two panels, or
any
number
in
between.
Also, fans of chess will probably dig
My Obsession With Chess
And rabid Sandman groupies won't want to miss the panel of
Choose Your Own Carl
written by Neil Gaiman.
to Comics by keith |
| Saturday Jun 5, 1999 | Prefer your visual humor free of meat? Check out the
Vegetarian Cartoons page.
Be sure to check out the huge listing of vegetarian cartoon characters too.
Well, okay, so it's really just
Shaggy,
Lisa Simpson,
and Count Duckula.
to Comics by keith |
| Thursday Jun 3, 1999 | Along with the other fine syndicated comics at UExpress
there's this strange yet appealing
comic about a boy and his stuffed tiger.
Each strip is being rerun 11 years after it was originally published.
I like this one especially. to Comics by keith |
| Aagh! Boff! Crunch! What could be better than
an A-to-Z of comic book sound effects?
to Comics by keith |
| The other web comic featuring
a Japanese Beetle to Comics by mpc |
| Tuesday Jun 1, 1999 | Actually, I pretty much grew up watching all sorts of
racist cartoons. to Comics by peterb |
| Saturday May 29, 1999 | The
Museum of Black
Superheros commemorates exactly what you'd expect, and
does it extremely well. Insightful criticism and
interesting
historical essays round out the site.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday May 25, 1999 | Bright with promises of more to come,
this page
offers a look into the mind of Bill Watterson, author of Calvin and Hobbes. Experience
his hate and
his uncanny resemblance
to Groucho Marx. to Comics by jacquez |
| Monday May 10, 1999 | Although the author's graphic interpretation of Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of the Unknown Kadath uses a stylized stick-figure to represent Randolph Carter, the effect, combined with the noirishly beautiful artwork, carries the story remarkably well. to Comics by pjammer |
| Saturday May 8, 1999 | Patrick Farley shows off his powerful storytelling and artistic talent in Electric Sheep. to Comics by joshua |
| Friday Apr 23, 1999 | Tom Tomorrow (the pen name for Dan Perkins), is the author of the hilarious left-wing comic This Modern World. While you're there, ask yourself: How many angry letters from pissed-off Catholics do you think he got for his piece on Mother Theresa?
to Comics by pjammer |
| Friday Apr 16, 1999 | ifthen, a modernized fairy tale in which the heartaches and nightmares are retained and the wonderment and joy are left out.
to Comics by pjammer |
| Wednesday Apr 14, 1999 | Japanese Beetle:
Comic Strip from College Paper Hits the Web.
Film at 11.
to Comics by tjs |
| Friday Apr 9, 1999 | Matt Howarth writes draws underground comic books frequently known for their excessive violence and warped humer, but also has most excellent taste in music. I wanna be just like the Post Brothers. to Comics by nyarl |
| Matt Feazell
is the undisputed king of the minicomic format, with
such fantastic titles as Cynicalman, The Death of
Antisocialman, Cute Girl, and Not Available Comics. Someday
all comics will be Not Available! to Comics by crikey |
| Friday Mar 26, 1999 | Leisure Town is a source of concentrated disaffected bitterness. to Comics by joshua |
| Saturday Mar 13, 1999 |
Perhaps you've wondered what kind of person
creates online comic strips about computer geeks.
Now you can find out. Make sure you don't miss his
poetry, either. to Comics by peterb |
| Thursday Mar 11, 1999 | The Dysfunctional Family Circus
can be funny some of the time. That is, if you like jokes about incest, drug abuse, and
bad art, made at the expense of Bil Keane.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Monday Feb 15, 1999 | I used to think my favorite comic strip was Alison
Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For.
But then I discovered Diane DiMassa's Hothead
Paisan,
and now I know better. to Comics by arkuat |
| Tuesday Feb 9, 1999 | BabySue ain't right in the head, but she's got some helpful tips. to Comics by eclipse |
| Thursday Feb 4, 1999 | The only thing in the world worse than
Pittsburgh beer is Israeli political humor.
Or maybe it's the other way around. to Comics by jacquez |
| Licked rats. The free market. Extraterrestial napping.
Tom the Dancing Bug. Because everyone needs a licking machine and a golf-playing cat. to Comics by jacquez |
| Tuesday Feb 2, 1999 | Web design! Tips and tricks! And a bizarre, Simpsons-esque
Star Trek parody.
What more can an Australian website offer?
to Comics by jacquez |
| Friday Jan 29, 1999 | 'Armed with little more than irony and a transient caffeine buzz the "hero for our times" strides forth once again to battle cynicism, hypocracy, and indifference.' to Comics by obvious |
| Thursday Jan 28, 1999 | Study the
Comic Book Periodic Table, which lists every comic book that involves any element. And don't forget about the History of Chemistry in Comics. You will be tested later.
to Comics by joshua |
| Wednesday Jan 27, 1999 | Which nationally syndicated comic strip offers a
credit card and
web-based email?
Well, it ain't Dilbert... to Comics by tregoweth |
| Wednesday Jan 20, 1999 | Faster than a speeding bullet - able to leap over tall buildings in a single bound - and compatible with all 4.0 browsers! It's InternetMan! to Comics by raia |
| Thursday Jan 7, 1999 |
Bedtime stories!
to Comics by bruce |
| Sunday Jan 3, 1999 | Scott Adams is Dogbert! to Comics by tregoweth |
| Friday Oct 30, 1998 | Red Meat is a very strange comic strip
featuring people who make dysfunctional a
way of life.
to Comics by tjs |
| Thursday Oct 1, 1998 | Possibly the most insane ex-college comic strip
ever seen:
Joe the Circle. to Comics by jacquez |
| Monday Sep 21, 1998 | Human beings have been cultivating flowers for
thousands of years. Our progressively greater
skill in genetic manipulation has produced the
pinnacle of flower society:
Bob the Angry Flower to Comics by jacquez |
| Space Moose is probably one of the most offensive, poorly drawn, repulsive comics on the web. I love it. to Comics by nyarl |
| Sunday Sep 20, 1998 | Goats
is a comic about a couple computer geeks,
their goat, their chicken, their bar,
and their lousy luck with women. In other words,
it's about the kind of people who do things like
read web comics and collective bookmark sites,
except for the talking animals part.
to Comics by tjs |
| Argon Zark!
is probably one of the best-drawn comics on the
web. It is also one of the least frequently
updated.
to Comics by tjs |
| Friday Sep 18, 1998 | Sluggy
Freelance could be the most important comic
in history, but it's not.
It is nifty, though.
to Comics by tjs |
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