The other day I discovered a couple new webcomics, Crap I Drew on my Lunch Break and Asylum on 5th Street. I sent the links to Allison and she came across this one, and then asked me if I was selling webcomic artists our life story. The artist of Crap and Asylum is named Jin wicked, just about the coolest name ever, besides Wes Molebash of You’ll Have That. You put Bash in a name and it just gives it some zing.
Insert Oliver or Duncan here
And speaking of web comics. I have been updating the list with different comics that I have found in my adventures online. Please check out their websites. Some use course language from time to time so be warned. I’ll have to put up some sort of legend about which ones are family friendly, PG-13 and truck driver mouth. For the most part the daily cartoon is pretty accessible to all audiences. Some of these comics have huge archives and major backstory about the characters.
PVP – Player Vs. Player. I love this comic because the characters are so much fun and Scott Kurtz really knows how to set up a joke as well as the use of the hook, where a joke is set up in a prior strip and then recalled at a later date, sometimes years later.
Artist – Scott Kurtz
Archive – Very Large, since 1998
Updated – 7 days a week.
Audience – Family Friendly, Sci-Fi geeks, Children of the 80’s, Gamers
Art – Very clean, often black and white with color on Sundays.
Plot – Office full of employees of a fictious gaming magazine. Lots of Pop culture references.
Affiliation – Independent, Image comics
You’ll Have That – One of my most favorite comics. So very true to life, at least to the life that Allison and I have. Wes Molebash can create great humor from life situations. And Wes is a great guy too.
Artist – Wes Molebash
Archive – Fairly small, very new comic. Since December 2004.
Updated – M,W,F with blog entries and a very friendly forum.
Audience – Family Friendly, Couples.
Plot – The life of Andy and Katie, a recently married couple, parallels the life of the artist.
Affiliation: Viper Comics
Real Life Comics – Greg Dean has some great characters and a large archive of strips. I love how he breaks the fourth wall, or rather the roof (when his characters talk to the artist.) The website itself is so very well constructed. The most visually appealing of the bunch.
Artist – Greg Dean
Archive – Very Large, since November 15, 1999
Updated – M-F, And occasional blog entrys.
Audience – Family Friendly, some strips for couples, gamers, Sci-Fi geeks.
Plot – Paralleling the Real life of Greg Dean and his friends. When Greg gets a friend in real life that person becomes part of the strip. When he breaks up with a girlfriend, she leaves the strip.
Affiliation – Independent
Legostar Galactica – Not drawn, done entirely with LEGO.
Artist – D. M. Jeftinija
Archive – Fairly large, since August, 25 2002
Updated – M-F
Audience – Sci-Fi Geeks and fans of Lego.
Plot – Set on a fictional spaceship this comic, done entirely with LEGO pokes fun at the science fiction genre.
Affiliation – Independent
It’s Walky – Character driven and has a huge archive.
Artist – David Willis
Archive – Huge. Since 1997
Updated – Once a week now.
Audience – Transformers fans, Sci-Fi Geeks, Can be PG-13 at times.
Plot – Actually the archive is so huge that a plot synopsis is just not possible. Involves Aliens, college, secret government organizations, giant robot monkeys (I mean apes)
Affiliation: – Blank Label Comics
Martin’s Misdirection – Good art, needs to be updated more often.
Artist – James Burks
Archive – Small, Burk compiled the first set of strips into a book to sell and took the first 55 strips off the website.
Updated – very haphazardly
Audience – Family Friendly
Plot – About a struggling magician and his scheming rabbit.
The Mows – Comic done with Flash Animation.
Artist – Jay Dyke
Archives – About 4 years worth however not all on the website, slowly being released each day. Updated – M-F
Audience – Cat lovers, Family Friendly
Plot – Life from the perspective of Jay’s three cats, Nonie, Indy and Tigey.
Affiliation: Independent
Lost and Found – Great cartoon style
Artist – Matt Milligan
Archive – Fairly large Since 2000
Updated – Haphazardly
Audience – Family Friendly
Plot – Private Investigator and his talking dog are on the case.
Affiliation – Keenspot
College Roomies from Hell – The art has developed over the years.
Artist – Martiza Campos
Archive – Hug
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Updated – M-F
Audience – College students, PG-13
Plot – Three college guys, Three college girls, wackiness ensues. Oh and mutations.
Affiliation – Keenspot
Dr. Devious Vs. Lincoln High School – Comic Book Art.
Artist – Cliff Hicks and Kris Durrschmidt
Archive – Small, fairly new comic, February 2004
Updated – Haphazardly but more often recently.
Audience – James Bond Fans, Austin Powers Fans, So far family friendly to PG-13
Plot – What if the greatest evil genius ever and his henchmen were captured and forced to teach high school. And what if your arch nemesis was the gym teacher and the man who captured you. Affiliation – Independent, site design was by Greg Dean.
Spamusement – Don’t you just hate spam.
Artist – Steven Frank
Archive – Small from 2004
Updated – M,W,F
Audience – The subject lines are suggestive but the cartoons are very funny.
Plot – Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines!
Affiliation – Independent
Wapsi Square – Some of my favorite art. And some very complex and deep storylines.
Artist – Paul Taylor
Archive – Large from 2001
Updated – M-F
Audience – 20-30 somethings, PG-13
Plot – Centers around Monica and her friends. The friends include many people as well as her dog Dietzel and Tepoztecal the god of alcohol.
Affiliation – Blank Label Comics
Questionable Content – Although I am not into indie music I can still appreciate this story. The art is great and the characters are fun. And the art has improved so much.
Artist – Jeph Jacques – He’s in Massachusetts!
Archive – Good size. 379 strips. Since 2003
Updated – M-F
Audience – PG-13, some conversations are not for young ears.
Plot – About Marten, a young single guy and his roommate, Faye, whom Marten is infatuated with and their friends. They talk about indie music alot, but not all the time, pretty accessible even if you are not in that scene.
Affiliation – Independent
Shortpacked – Now in color.
Artist – David Willis, from It’s Walky
Archive – Small, I can’t find the older stuff, not sure what happened to it.
Updated – M,W,F
Audience – Toy Collectors, PG-13
Plot – About a toy collector who works at a toy store. Lots of Transformers references. Also David keeps a blog.
Affiliation – Blank Label Comics
Girls with Slingshots – Cute, nice art.
Artist – Danielle Corsetto
Archive – Small, new comic only 58 strips
Updated – M,W,F more or less.
Audience – Single Women, PG-13
Plot – Young woman and her struggles and friends and her job as a newspaper writer.
Affiliations – Independent
The Devils Panties – An interesting style
Artist – Jennie Breeden
Archive – Since October 2001
Updated – M-F, S & S sketches.
Audience – Single Women, Larpers, Sci-Fi geeks, Gamers, Anyone struggling to grow up and make their place in the world. PG-13
Plot – About a young woman who enjoys LARPing (Live Action Role Playing) and has many real life adventures. The comic involves a large cast of characters including family and friends.
Affiliations – Keenspace, a service of Keenspot, There is no Keenspot advertising So I think she is Independent.
Cigarro and Cerveja – A smoking Hare and a drinking, simpleminded Goose
Artist – Tony Esteves
Archive – Small
Updated – Not sure
Audience – No real genre here, PG-13.
Plot – A Hare and a Goose are friends. Also there is a turtle that hates the goose because he loves the Hare. Kinda weird.
Affiliation – Independent
Crap I Drew on My Lunch Break – Great Art.
Artist – Jin Wicked
Archive – Small, since July 2003,
Updated – T & T
Audience – R for occasional language. Political, Liberal
Plot – Liberal young woman and her life as and artist and worker in retail.
Affiliation – Independent
Asylum on 5th Street – Great Art. I like the storyline and hope this continues, wish it updated more often.
Artist – Jin Wicked
Archive – Small, since October 2003,
Updated – Wednesdays
Audience – PG-13
Plot – An artist is the landlord of a crazy apartment building
Affiliation – Independent
Vigilante Ho! – Fantastic art. I like the westerns.
Artist – Meaghan “Doc Vacation” Quinn
Writer – John “Calamity Sane” Troutman & Meaghan “Doc Vacation” Quinn
Archive – Very small.
Updated – Not in a while.
Audience – Could get PG
Plot – A mysterious cowboy wanders into town to right wrongs.
Affiliation – Keenspot