Web comics: search and destroy

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Well, since there's a normal paper comics search and destroy and I guess some people on here have probably heard of the internet and all... (sorry if we've already done this, I suspect we may have but I couldn't find it if so)

Cat and Girl - http://www.catandgirl.com/
Probably my favourite web comic. I was pointed at it by a friend who thought I'd probably like it because it mentioned Pavement (Cat and Girl Invent a Sincerity Machine). He was right, though not necessarily for the Pavement reference; still, being the eternal outsider wannabe of local indie scenes, I do laugh sheepishly at the Hipster Scout comics [1, 2]. Ah, look, I can't explain why I love it, but the "it's the little things that make you fall in love with comics" theory sounds good to me, and as those little things go then Death in bunny slippers is pretty darn swoon-inducing. Plus I laugh for weeks at a time every time I look at Cat and Girl are Highly Derivative or Death Visits Cat and Girl, and Girl's photo album pretty much sums up my life. (I can't find the Death-in-bunny-slippers strip but I'll have to stop looking now because I keep giggling at work...)

Achewood - http://www.achewood.com/
And I can explain this one even less. Calvin's grandpa would say it was just a bunch of xeroxed heads and it's not even funny. The publishers he sent samples to probably sighed into their target market statistics and muttered, "But you can't sell anthropomorphic bears and dimwit otters to adults and you can't talk about boning and getting drunk in a kids' strip..." Well, it doesn't often make me laugh, but I love the surrealness, the forlorn loneliness... oh, I don't know. It has cats in. I like cats. I am very much in love with Roast Beef and Philippe. Destroy the robots, though.

Exploding Dog - http://www.explodingdog.com/
You all know this one already, right? I hope so. More forlorn loneliness.

I can't decide whether Pokey the Penguin is a cult scratchy lo-tech Search or whether it just means I need help. The Jeff K of webcomics? They combine to make an attractive hax0rslang hybrid, anyway. OH NOZ!! I AM TEH LAEM0R!!!1 OMFGZ HOORAY~~~~

Destroy: User Friendly. Oh, go on. (I feel bad saying that because I have a Dust Puppy. I stole it from an ex without realising it was a UF thing because it was cute and fluffy, then I forgot about it, and I've only just remembered. I would wonder if he wants it back, since I haven't even seen it for a year, but I am now far too bitter and jealous to spend the price of a stamp and a jiffy bag on him. Grr. Oh yeah, this is supposed to be about comics and not my feeble geek private life, right? Er, yes, I have seen about two nearly funny UFs and 5000 that made me want to gouge my eyeballs out, so dud. I hope even I could reach that kind of ratio. And the drawing's about as good as mine too.)

Also I am bored with Sluggy Freelance now but I was addicted to it two years ago so don't actually destroy it (especially since I am, according to friend M, Kiki. Well, get me full of caffeine and show me shiny shiny things and I am, anyway. *poing*). Diesel Sweeties is deeply blah but I liked Indie Rock Pete, largely because it was a nice shade of blue and I'm so rockist I have to like anything with the words Indie Rock in the title, so maybe I'll be nice. Er, I'm sure there are more I'd like to destroy, but enough rage, anyway.

Rebecca (reb), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

So, er, tell me new places to waste time on the interweb! New shiny things to get all hypercaffeinated in front of and new depressive anthropomorphic java-programming cats! Or berate me for putting this under Comics and not Internet, or just talk in JK/Pokeyspeak, because it is TEH FUNNEY~~~. Maybe.

(Also this and the fact that I sound like a dribbly moron [now why would that be etc etc] on this thread reminds me of my grand Godwin-esque theory of internet overuse, but I won't clutter this thread any more, and it is - in what many here would claim was especially Godwin-esque fashion - a fairly rubbish theory anyway.)

Rebecca (reb), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

POKEY THE PENGUIN!!!!

Har har I can reduce myself to TEARS sometimes by saying

YES!!!!

in such a way that only me (and possibly RickyT can hear).

I cannot think of any other grebt comickz0r because I am inputting my cockfarming school qualifications into a cockfarming website in a very long and LABOURIOUS MANOR. Gar.

Sarah (starry), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I hear it too

HURRAH!

RickyT (RickyT), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Jason Little's Beekeeper Cartoon Amusements is worth a peek.

http://www.beecomix.com/

Alfie (Alfie), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Goats is sometimes very funny. And I still think Sluggy Freelance is funny. (Pete's doing a Harry Potter parody at the moment and it's sufficiently amusing enough for me to want to actually read the books.)

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Bomb User Friendly back to the stone age, yes please.

I'm fond of Penny Arcade, Sinfest and, er, Doonesbury.

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 23 September 2002 14:05 (twenty-three years ago)

not strictly webcomix but i like lynda barry's salon strips especially the 100 demons from last year.

buffy fans might like (or detest) demonology 101.

andy

koogs, Monday, 23 September 2002 14:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, I forgot PA, it's quite good but I don't read it often for some reason. And if you're mentioning Doonesbury then the other one I check online regularly is the Boondocks, which I suspect doesn't have a daily print run in the UK anyway.

Rebecca (reb), Monday, 23 September 2002 14:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Search:
Boxjam's Doodle - "Charlie Brown grew up and married Lucy." Don't let the drawings fool you.
The Grimbles - Kind of Addams's Family-esque in both drawings and tone. Well written.
Men in Hats - Nilihistic seems like a good word for this most of the time. Maybe "edgy," I don't know.
8-Bit Theatre - Done with Final Fantasy 1 sprites. Good characters, has the makings of good story too, though it goes pretty slow.
Return to Sender - Probably my favorite non-strip one.
Albion Fuzz - "The melancholic comic strip." Yeah, sorta, it's still pretty clever and funny too.
The Journal Comic - My favorite journal comic.

There's some good stuff at Electric Sheep too. When I am King cause a quite the ruckus last year. Good style, lame substance, if you ask me.

Destroy: I'm not a big fan of PvP or Diesel Sweeties (only partially cause I can't spell "diesel") or Sinfest, or many others but I don't know that I'd want to destroy them. That seems harsh.

Llamaskool, Monday, 23 September 2002 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Out of Fika. No link because it hasn't been up for months, but search for www.modernhair.net/fika/ on the Wayback machine.

Three Finger Salute is pretty good as PA ripoffs go. Also, Scary-go-round.

ciaran, Monday, 23 September 2002 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

D'oh. Wayback doesn't archive images. Just read the other Modernhair comics.

ciaran, Monday, 23 September 2002 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Whoa, I can't believe somebody else remembers Out of Fika. It's "the washing machine of webcomics"! Or rather, it was.

Llamaskool, Monday, 23 September 2002 19:35 (twenty-three years ago)

wahey! I've been too scared to start this thread for MONTHS!

WIGU - I've become convinced that WIGU is the grebtest thing ever! It's split into "chapter-days" - the first two days took 141 comics. I still want to name something Darth Powerhug Gregor Fett.

Penny Arcade - I haven't been a gamer for ages, but the artwork is SHINY, & occasionally they produce work of sheer genius.

Chopping Block - Fairly unique artwork for webcomics. It's a one-panel comic about yr Everyman/Serial Killer Butch.

Scary Go Round - Child of the late Bobbins. Unapologetically British, sorry (etc).

something positive - was getting into this recently - sort of in the Bobbins-esque

Sluggy Freelance - go through periods of being obsessive & periods of not caring. Some of the best parodies around yet still a bit overarching storyline . . . sorta.

diesel sweeties has very high highs & very low lows. the spin-off, indie rock pete, was amusing.

small stories - same difference is probably the best comic on the site - heartfelt & all that jazz.

Bob the Angry Flower is frequently godlike.

return to sender is good, but updated infrequently (esp for a storyline-based thing etc)

Checkerboard Nightmare can often sustain, er, meta-brilliance. It's like the This Is Hardcore of webcomix, or something.

Apocamon on e-sheep combines two great things - Pokémon & the Book of Revelation - and makes them . . . er, don't know about better, but still pretty fun.

pokey the penguin, robot stories, goats, fetus x, boy meets boy, sinfest, mac hall, 8 bit comics etc etc are pretty good as well.

(heh, since reading ilx all the time by incidental webcomic consumption has dropped sharply - there used to be forty-odd sites I'd read frequently . . .)

(& thanks to graham for the HTML checker!)

Ess Kay (esskay), Monday, 23 September 2002 20:04 (twenty-three years ago)

My sick little sense of humour likes RED MEAT - http://www.redmeat.com

Kim (Kim), Monday, 23 September 2002 23:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Bob The Angry Flower is pure gold with nutz of crap in it making it not pure gold but still priceless.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 00:53 (twenty-three years ago)

YES!!!!!!

"Pokey, are you drunk on love?"

"Yes, and also whiskey. But mostly love. And whiskey."

I'm going to change my middle name to Milquetoast one of these days. F'reals. Best. Thing. Ever.

petra jane (petra jane), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 08:02 (twenty-three years ago)

"Goodbye cruel world!!!"
"Hello sexy world!!!"
"I knew we shouldn't have kept the pillow warehouse right next to the porn factory!!!"
"Why yes, I am feeling erotic!"

(also : just been reading the journal comic - sort of like a journal, but in comic form. I wish more blogs were like this.)

Ess Kay (esskay), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 09:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha! Wigu is grebt! I wish I cd actually read any of these but ilx is deadly enough never mind adding comickz into the mixx. Arg.

Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 09:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh GOD I hate you Esskay!

Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 09:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Last Friday I realised that Weebl & Bob has a soundtrack. I preferred it when I thought it was silent and *really* slow (and often made only tangential sense).

Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 09:23 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...
I really like Diesel Sweeties, so hooray for it making the jump to print syndication.

do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Search Achewood and sometimes Dinosaur Comics and Penny Arcade, destroy Questionable Content, it's pretty weird that Diesel Sweeties of all webcomics is getting into newspapers

A B C (sparklecock), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

I've posted a few of my friend's comics up on my blog. I think he's a genius, but then that's me. <a href="http://roguemag.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/early-riser/";>Early Riser</a> <a href="http://roguemag.wordpress.com/2007/09/09/comics-introducing-phil-power/";>Who's Your Daddy</a>

the next grozart, Friday, 21 September 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

I'm a spaz.

the next grozart, Friday, 21 September 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

I love this:

Pup Ponders the Heat Death of the Universe or

Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 21 September 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

It's already been mentioned upthread, but I also really like Something Positive, along with Midnight Macabre by the same guy.

snoball, Friday, 21 September 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

I like Fart Party.

libcrypt, Saturday, 12 April 2008 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

Dinosaur Comics, Dinosaur Comics, Dinosaur Comics, Dinosaur Comics.

Dom Passantino, Saturday, 12 April 2008 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

I liked the 20 or so DCs I read. Not so much thereafter. There's only so far you can take the non-comic-schtick schtick.

libcrypt, Saturday, 12 April 2008 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

I find Savage Chickens occasionally funny but it's not consistent enough to produce maximal boner.

libcrypt, Saturday, 12 April 2008 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

Hint to people who scan their penciled comics for web fun: Please scan at size large enough to read and turn up the contrast. It's not gonna make you funny but at least I might read it.

libcrypt, Saturday, 12 April 2008 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

The girl who writes fart party is nice; I've hung out with her.

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 12 April 2008 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

Axe Cop! Literally written by a five year-old!

http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes

rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:42 (sixteen years ago)

Axe Cop is A+

breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:51 (sixteen years ago)

Some I like:

Hark! A Vagrant http://www.harkavagrant.com

Cyanide & Happiness http://www.explosm.net/comics/

Pictures for Sad Children http://picturesforsadchildren.com

Wulff & Morgenthaler http://www.wulffmorgenthaler.com

StanM, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:56 (sixteen years ago)

we even have a full topic dedicated to Axe Cop! do YOU love axe cop, too? I must return to it, I don't think I've read it since I got worried that Axe Cop was going to be imprisoned for randomly beheading all of those FBI agents.

Hippocrates or wat!! (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 22:20 (sixteen years ago)

I'm working my way through these:
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

If there's a red dot at the bottom, you can hover over it for more!

Not the real Village People, Thursday, 17 June 2010 06:36 (sixteen years ago)

Happle Tea is pretty great
http://happletea.com/

Black Arkestra, Thursday, 17 June 2010 13:24 (sixteen years ago)

Here is mine, btw. WARNING I am an old caveman cartoonist from the 90s and am not very techy at all, so this is on a humble Wordpress template and p unflashy. I post a new page each Wednesday.

http://trueswamp.wordpress.com/

Loathsome Dov (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 17 June 2010 16:24 (sixteen years ago)

Jon, I totally dig your comic! Great drawing style, pleasant color scheme, fun writing. I especially like how you draw the possums! Though I like the ones that look more Mark Trail-y, too.

breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Thursday, 17 June 2010 21:58 (sixteen years ago)

Thanks, Abbott, that really means a lot to me!

It's kind of weird with me and possums. There are a lot of characters in my comic who look like possums but are supposed to be something else. Especially Hale, who's ostensibly a marmot but looks exactly like a fucking possum.

Even though I am an animal nerd I take pleasure in getting sort of fungible with special details in my work...

Loathsome Dov (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 17 June 2010 22:32 (sixteen years ago)

I very much appreciate the animal nerdiness of it! I think that is what gave me the minor Mark Trail vibe even tho you & Jack Elrod have fairly dissimilar styles. I feel bad that I confused your marmot for a possum, but I am glad you understand why I might do that. (It would be awesome if it looked like a marmot & I confused it for a nutria.)

breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Thursday, 17 June 2010 23:54 (sixteen years ago)

http://trueswamp.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/nikolas.jpg?w=179&h=250

This guy scares me!

breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Thursday, 17 June 2010 23:54 (sixteen years ago)

Ha!

Nikolas' features have changed a little bit over the years as I've drawn him, but when I first created him he was v specifically supposed to look like Klaus Kinski (with whom I was massively obsessed at the time). He doesn't look much like Kinski to me anymore.

Loathsome Dov (Jon Lewis), Friday, 18 June 2010 01:31 (sixteen years ago)

i've been enjoying sweet bro and hella jeff for about two minutes now, see no reason not to share it with yall

http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/?cid=001.jpg

del griffith, Sunday, 20 June 2010 02:50 (sixteen years ago)

that comics desperately, desperately wants to be Pokey when it grows up

dyaon't (sic), Sunday, 20 June 2010 05:37 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

I've always kind of enjoyed "CoolCavy's Comics", but they're not actually good.

Warum habt Ihr mich totgefüttert? (Abbott), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 17:40 (fifteen years ago)

seven years pass...

http://falseknees.com/imgs/236.png

Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 17:29 (eight years ago)


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