| Slipshine
Definitely NOT safe for work, but wholesome in its way, Slipshine features scores of funny, upbeat, erotic comics. Note: This will be the last "Featured Comic" until further notice, as this version of the site is going into hibernation. |
| Lifestrips
Cast adrift in Berlin, a disaffected time-waster seeks to become the opposite of himself. |
| Bellen
Box Brown and Ellen ponder the life they have together... a good life, for the most part, one filled with love, sweetness and meaning. |
| The Flowfield Unity
Crack the code-- if you can! |
| The Rack
The first moment of realization is always the worst. |
| Sinfest
Hey, remember that "Goth" thing? |
| Scary Go Round
IN PRE-MEMORIAM. |
| John & John
But not like this. |
| HijiNKS ENSUE
I, personally, would pay money to see even a censored version of "the topless comic shop." |
| Slackerz
Why the Cylons haven't finished us off already. |
| Octopus Pie
"Our Brooklynian Life" begins with the quintessential Octopus Pie strip (seen above) and features guerrilla veterinarianism, a drug dealer's tips for modern living and the secret to the hipster code. |
| Kate Beaton
Kate Beaton takes requests. See what she does with this one. |
| Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Even more pathetic than Pathetic Geek Stories is the endless parade of humiliations that is the life of Greg Heffley. (Due to a mix-up, this Featured Comic will run for two days; new material will be up April 15.) |
| Doubtsourcing
Ever wonder what the Indian outsource-ees who do jobs for other nations think of this world? Expand your awareness. |
| Pathetic Geek Stories
Little moments that you hope to empathize with... but not too much. |
| teddy
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Unless you're this guy. |
| Chocolypse Now
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory meets Apocalypse Now, played almost completely straight. |
| tiny ghosts
The haunting two-sentence tales are over quickly. But the vistas they open for your imagination will stay with you. |
| Courting Disaster
Don't ask unless you really, REALLY want to know. |
| pictures for sad children
Remixing Garfield is nothing all that unusual these days, but this April Fool's experiment still has an interesting kick to it. It preserves the words from a recent Garfield Sunday strip, replacing the images with John Campbell's distinct designs. |
| Shortpacked
So close to the life of stand-up comic turned toy retail clerk Ethan Siegal, and yet, so very, very, very far. |
| What Birds Know
A most unexpected conclusion. |
| The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
This wry little bit of self-parody from an already parodic comic was one of the best of comics' April Fool's jokes this year. More to come all weekend. |
| Heroes Happen Here
A fondly remembered moment from a heroic IT pro's earlier life, illustrated by the great Dick Giordano. |
| The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
In "Spooky Stuff," Ben Franklin may be back from the dead, but some stranger things (yes, stranger than a living Ben Franklin) have come back with him... |
| Nothing Better
Longtime skeptic Katt finally glimpses the face of God... and He's not happy. |
| Buttersafe
As it says. |
| My Name Is Might Have Been
In the ruins of civilization, one rocker stands ready to unite the world with his music... if he is to be found worthy. |
| Buck Godot
Buck Godot, Zap Gun for Hire, begins his greatest adventure with a start. It's T.N. Day, and whatever that means, it means he really can't hang around to chat. |
| Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life
Two lonely, once-joined souls reunite on their travels for a brief, bittersweet interlude. |
| Anders Loves Maria
How Maria used to tell the story, pre-breakup, and how she tells it now. |
| Hollow Fields
Lucy Snow finds herself in the wrong elementary school-- and you don't know how "wrong" a school can be until you learn why you really don't want to get detention. |
| Ugly Hill
Sleep? Ha, sleep is for the weak! You know, the "sane." |
| Thinkin' Lincoln
He's not what you'd call a deep thinker. |
| Left-Handed Toons
If you're into unusual artistic challenges, then you might enjoy these cartoons drawn with the cartoonists' "bad hands," and muse about how such an activity might free the creative spirit. If you're like the rest of us, you may just find them funny. |
| Crimson Dark
Snarky but believable dialogue, atmospheric CG artwork and unusual objectives distinguish this starship thriller, now in its sixth chapter and as rife with intrigue as ever. |
| Starslip Crisis
The future is under siege by the farther future, whose vastly superior weaponry and encyclopedic tactical knowledge are sure going to do a lot of damage, as soon as they figure out how to attack their own past without destroying their present. The first battle calls for unusual resourcefulness from Memnon Vanderbeam, and leaves him with a realization that will change his life forever. |
| Scary Go Round
When Amy's shop burns, it's an occasion for hijinks, heroics and some particularly choice John Allison dialogue. |
| The Dreamland Chronicles
The world of Alexander's childhood dreams needs his help now, even as he's passed his adolescence. His allies are growing closer... as are his enemies. |
| The Princess Planet
Spelleton's revenge doesn't go quite as smoothly as he would have hoped. |
| A.D. After the Deluge
The true story of Hurricane Katrina. |
| Kawaii Not
"Cute gone bad." |
| Dinosaur Comics
You know, T-Rex never seems to have problems like losing his car keys or failing a job interview. It's always some incredibly thought-provoking dilemma. He's like Moriarty to "Dear Abby's" Sherlock Holmes. |
| Sheldon
Pretty much all you need to know about Facebook. |
| Simply Sarah
Though the early strips are crude, this teenage coming-out story runs deep with honesty and an ever-present, gnawing uncertainty. |
| My Stupid Life
Joss Whedon complicates another relationship. |
| Garfield Minus Garfield
I can't really improve upon the original introduction to this feature: "Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness in a quiet American suburb." |
| Sam and Fuzzy
If you intend to fire a charismatic corporate ninja, you need to be very, very careful how you go about it. |
| Thorn
Rosie drinks your milkshake. |
| Darths and Droids
What if the story for Star Wars: Episode I had been created in a role-playing session? David Morgan-Mar has spun this concept into a wry tale of random encounters and contentious players, in which the thinking behind Jar Jar Binks actually makes sense. |
| Ctrl+Alt+Del
It's an old trick to give the wacky comic relief a flash of self-awareness, but it keeps popping up because when it works, it works beautifully. The single best installment of the strip to date. |
| A Girl And Her Fed
The full implications of the Girl and her Fed's forays into science fiction and fantasy are finally becoming clear, and the stakes may be higher than their new love can handle.But don't count them out yet. The Fed has made that mistake twice-- once by underestimating the Girl, and now by underestimating himself. |
| Nobody Scores!
And you thought the worst Wiccans could do was curse people. Because you are UNENLIGHTENED. |
| Girly
Josh Lesnick's whimsical duo, Winter and Otra, have a lot of treasured memories of ADVENTURES between them. They just can't remember what their latest ADVENTURE is supposed to be about. |
| La Muse
Chapter 11 of the ongoing story is complete, and for activist ex-goddess Susan La Muse, things are going downhill and picking up speed. The loyalty between sisters is heartening, the recovery of Susan's old enemies is surprisingly hilarious, and the end of the chapter is positively bone-chilling. |
| Basic Instructions
Scott Meyer has some good advice, even if he doesn't always follow it, or follow it correctly. |
| The Non-Adventures of Wonderella
It isn't. |
| Planet Karen
Karen recently cut her hair, wonders if she might be depressed, sometimes takes improper offense, and admires certain races from science-fiction programs. Life on Planet Karen is quieter and more introspective, but otherwise a lot like life on Earth. |
| FreakAngels
"23 years ago, twelve strange children were born in England at exactly the same moment. 6 years ago, the world ended. This is the story of what happened next." |
| The Phoenix Requiem
Nurse Katsukova cares for two charges-- one a male sleeping beauty, the other the victim of a mysterious wasting disease-- who threaten her in very different ways. |
| Don't Forget To Validate Your Parking
Wry observations about "the business" from Mike Le, one of Hollywood's eighteen billion screenwriter/producers. COMING SOON: Dakota Fanning IS Mike Le in... NATIONAL TREASURE 3: DON'T FORGET TO VALIDATE YOUR PARKING. |
| Real Life
An attempt to assassinate the most powerful lawmaker of our time. Especially enjoyable is the target's greeting to his would-be killers. |
| The Flowfield Unity
More interesting observations from one of the most original "one or more panels about anything" cartoonists working today. |
| Sheldon
The Internet community is abuzz about Microsoft's bid to buy Yahoo-- and, sadly, that's more buzz than Yahoo has generated in about seven years. But there are other interested bidders out there... |
| Jared
A romantic rivalry like no other. (Hat tip: Tim Tylor.) |
| Questionable Content
Hannelore's special day turns into an even more special night for Faye. After getting to the turning point in this story, cartoonist Jeph Jacques wrote, "Have a nice weekend. I plan to spend mine hiding from my inbox." |
| The Devil's Panties
Jennie Breeden's wry adventure in autobiography continues. |
| Girl Genius
"Revenge of the Weasel Queen, Part 2." Phil and Kaja Foglio's lovable, madcap series alternates between a lengthy ongoing story and odd little diversions, like this accessible tale. It's about a band of adventurers, and a town terrorized by a creature with needs that it can't satisfy. |
|
I Can Has Cheezburger?
Even cat-haters (and LOL-haters) might find their hearts warmed by this very special installment of the series, which puts two people (and a cat) into an elite class of comics creators, a class shared by Eric Burns, Penny Arcade's Mike Krahulik, and very few others. |
| Elsie Hooper
A desperate brother, a "gifted" child and a haggard policeman band together in a town beset by monsters. The atmosphere is apocalyptic, but these three aren't out to save the world. Their goals are to survive... and to rescue Elsie Hooper. |
| The Process
Webcomicgeek calls Joe Infurnari the best webcomics artist of 2007. His comic is a celebration of the creative process like no other, bursting and swarming with arresting visions. |
| The Broken Mirror
JJ Naas and Elanor Cooper's story of wounded souls takes a turn for the science-fictional as the characters begin to explore Domino, a virtual world that's more of a second life than Second Life. |
| Twilight Lady
"The Disappeared." Paranormal investigators try to save a channeler who is hunted, and haunted, in more ways than one. |
| Out There
How adults handle crushes on other people's boyfriends. |
| Order of the Stick
A vicious halfling and a lone archer lead a resistance movement in a town occupied by goblins, the undead and a trashy necrophiliac. |
| Twenty History Comics
TESLA!! TESLA! TESLA!!! |
| Estancia
A handful of lost souls board a train that will take them through a gauntlet of horrors to Estancia, the end of the world as they know it. Why? Because "they say everything is forgiven in Estancia." |
| Lackadaisy
Desperate times, desperate people. |
| Evil, Inc.
A comics-convention business proposal so diabolical that it leaves even a professional supervillain speechless. |
| Mighty God King
Christopher Bird presents a wry remix of "Brand New Day," the second of the two Spider-Man stories that everyone's talking about right now. (It's the one without the deal with the devil in it.) |
| SuperTron
In a post-human world, dysfunctional robots attempt to bully one another with explosive results. |
| xkcd
TRUE FACT: This strip was true when posted, but its readers promptly made it untrue. |
| Sinfest
Slick and Monique share one of their increasingly frequent moments of tenderness... but love must overcome bad feelings to survive, and in today's world, the paranoia dial goes to 11. |
| Shortpacked
So far, the primary entertainment value derived from Spider-Man's "One More Day" storyline seems to come from spoofs like this. |
| Super Stupor
A supervillain reads Identity Crisis, gets what he thinks is a good idea, and learns a lesson he will never forget. |
| Phables
"Do you mind if I move the pan and the cast-iron skillet?" |
| Thorn
"What's sex?" |
| The Secret Knots
"The Truth Fairy." A beautiful five-part storyline. |
| Questionable Content
"Man, and Oedipus thought he had problems." A visit to your girlfriend's parents can contain a surprise or two. |
| Multiplex
The ending of No Country For Old Men: Masterstroke or cop-out? DISCUSS. |
| Least I Could Do
The guy-humor strip takes a (slightly) serious turn in an arc that begins with damaged pillowcases and a car crash. After thirteen strips with punchlines, the arc's final strip ends with three words that may change the course of two lives. |
| La Muse
Susan La Muse has had a pretty sweet life, what with her fame, her charity work and her godlike powers. But there's one problem she's overlooked. |
| Sore Thumbs
The Heroes season finale is all this guy's fault, apparently. |
| VG Cats
In this animated installment, Scott Ramsoomair gives a face (of sorts) to GLaDOS from the video game Portal. This is an A.I. even more evil and passive-aggressive than HAL. |
| Starslip Crisis
Lord Katarakis has a soul-enslaving art exhibition mounted on the side of his planet-sized ship, and he's heading to Earth to educate us all into submission. It's like "The Best of Both Worlds" with a sense of humor and references to Yeats and popular music. (Note: color strips in the archives are part of a different storyline.) |
| Nobody Scores!
"Gestures." |
| God Mode
A video game fan and his girlfriend explore his obsession together in a most disturbing way. |
| NOT SAFE FOR WORK: Doctor Voluptua
Josh Lesnick, the master of joyous pornography, at his best. "You gotta help me, Doctor! I have a problem! A sex problem!" |
| DAR
What can stop a cop on a Segway? |
| Penny Arcade
Questions that gay-rights activists have yet to grapple with. |
| Marry Me
Can a multi-millionaire pop star be unlucky? |
| Traced: Evolution
"There isn't a gene for meanness, although it's an easily acquired characteristic." |
| Fred The Clown
"That may very well be true, Madam..." |
| Cat and Girl
Pop art, by the numbers. |
| Life, Death and Animal Crossing
A touching story of love and loss through the lens of a simple virtual video game. Possibly the best "gamer strip" of the year. |
| Achewood
The art of leaving, or "leavery." "Damned if a leave like this ain't keep you a certain kind of company as well." |
| the triangle sky
Bless your tea! Blow your mind! |
| Big Fat Whale
Television without writers. |
| The Pain - When Will It End?
Reasons to look forward to the next terrorist attack. Part one, part two. |
| Out There
Saying "it's all about inhibitions in male vs. female friendships" makes this ongoing sequence sound a lot less funny than it is. |
| Gunnerkrigg Court
An ex-fairy's haircut threatens to go horribly wrong. |
| Sinfest
The way the world ends. Sort of. (Is God actually worse than Satan?) |
| College Roomies From Hell
The "Roomies" have tried to put their issues on hold in order to unite against ultimate evil. Today, their effort reaches its inevitable conclusion. |
| The Flowfield Unity
Dear readers, do not skip the blog post under this cartoon. (Does it look like I am trying to write a letter?) |
| Achewood
A "birds and the bees" moment leads to the unlikeliest superhero movie pitch ever. |
| Dresden Codak
Now updated weekly and more fun than ever. How to do Marvels right. |
| Least I Could Do
Aqua's reuniting? Really? |
| Dead in the Now
Some kids play cops and robbers, or soldier. Braz plays general of a growing zombie army. Except he's not playing. |
| Melonpool 2007?
Today's comic is a winking in-joke-- and yet, also, unending torment-- for readers of Steve Troop's Melonpool, one of the first sci-fi comedies on the Web. Has it really returned? "Don't tell me... my heart can't take it." |
