What's the worst online comic strip?

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/CTRL_ALT_Delete#CADbortion_Comic_Shops

that page is crazy

"Also, in case you didn't know, because they almost never talk about it, she had a miscarriage.
...
It's highly likely that Fuckley simply did not know how to draw a human child, even with a CADface, and gave up on it."

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/7/75/YIPYIPYIP.jpg
http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/f/fe/CAD_miscarriage_stare.jpg

http://i32.tinypic.com/2jeo40g.jpg

And I forgot how much I heart Cyanide and Happiness:

http://elitepicturehost.com/up_imgs/img_e26e2940b804d3faf06d562174e29a2a.png

(the final panel is a direct quote from the CAD guy)

It must suck to have 10,000 nerds gang up on you.

http://johnnyr.com/images/ncp2008-11-17.gif

http://johnnyr.com/images/ncp2008-10-06.gif

http://johnnyr.com/images/ncp2008-07-21.gif

is that John Fardell

I think you meant to place the Johnny Ryans in the "best online comic strip" thread

dave borg is roflicious

^^^ comics up there just now = AWESOME not dud.

yeah, johnny ryan is awesome.

now to blog about about important issues facing the rat jizz puddle community

FWIW, Johnny is a real deal comic book dude published by Fantagraphics, not some dude photoshopping video game names into word bubbles.

http://johnnyr.com/images/ncp2008-09-01.gif

true, but that "new character parade" series is just stuck up on his site every week, so it is technically a web comic.

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Yeah, I like these comics. All that other nerd crap on here sucks shit

http://i34.tinypic.com/1z72zww.jpg

personal fave:

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/thumb/3/36/ABORT-origional.jpg/474px-ABORT-origional.jpg

ethan

Why doesn't ILX have a page on Encyclopedia Dramatica?

not funny, entertaining or interesting enough

BCO, now we're talking

u guys dont get it

our trolls don't rate

http://cp-journalcomic.livejournal.com/

I honestly can't find a single joke in these.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v180/christopherpphoto/comics/aaaaastickbutt.jpg

o rly

Guys, I've been making my own strips lately, but every time I read this thread, it makes me go back and reconsider.

It's better to take a chance on making a bad strip and risk a critical pounding than not to do anything at all. I mean, at the end of the day, you can at least say you did this thing even if it's not brilliant, whereas critics don't have anything to point to. Also, seeing tons of bad strips will help you not to fall into common traps, so if yr strip sucks, at least it will suck in the knowledge of suckitude.

I like the one that tells you how to find the centre of a circle, I didn't know that! The explanation seems pretty clear tbh?

I think the main trap that so many of these online guys, as well as Lynn Johnston of For Better or For Worse, fall into is thinking that something haha in real life is going to be haha on the drawing board once they get all the borders connected.

In Dom's link above, there's one of the guy's baby going "dada" at some old man. Yeah, that happens and it's funny at the time, but it doesn't translate in any fashion to being funny as a comic strip.

I mean, unless that guy's drawing strips just for his family members and they all know him and his kid.

It's better to take a chance on making a bad strip and risk a critical pounding than not to do anything at all.

there is no way this is OTM

Like its ALWAYS cool to have a shitty comic strip or a shitty band for fun. Dut don't start pushing them on friends and family and the internet like they are good and deserve attention.

Also, livejournal comic tubby guy has some pretty epic threads on BCO dedicated to his shitty comic.

Oh, critical beatdowns aren't stopping me from drawing anything. I guess that I'm saying it's just as important to spend time looking at really bad comics as it is learning from really good cartoonists.

It's like making fun of some shitty cover band and then spending the next day just playing the bass riff to "Godzilla" over and over.

I think the main rules from these cartoons are:

1) Try to have actual proper jokes
2) If you're going to bother with characterisation, bother with characterisation. Don't just give one of your guys cancer FOR DEPTH
3) Don't write yourself
4) Don't write a sockpuppet black/female/gay character to give some "insight" to your views
5) Don't mention sci-fi. At all.

Or do all those things and prepare for message board snark.

I once wrote a letter to Peter Bagge saying I live in Minneapolis though I know you don't like it, and he wrote back politely saying, uh, it was my character who didn't like Minneapolis.

It's OK not to have jokes, but you've got to have something else to become the content.

Yeah I was about to say, is it really neccesary for comics to be funny all the time? What are we, twelve?

Comics, no. Three panel web cartoons that have no artist values on the drawing at all so they live and die by the zingy text, yes.

Fair point.

also, if you can't draw and just do photoshop and clip art shit fuck you

any artist that photoshops from old strips and doesn't draw each panel individually can simply get fucked.

Even Aaron MacGruder wouldn't do that with his "Grampa watches TV" strips.

Is it OK to use Illustrator then?

http://i36.tinypic.com/24zypfr.jpg

that might be the worst

Thank goodness he didn't use the word "nigger". Otherwise, that caricature of the cross-eyed b-boy who doesn't know what Green Day is would have been racist.

two ppl had to collaborate on that