(This page most recently updated 29 May 2012)

Comics

These links are in a rough order with the most frequently clicked links near the top and the least frequently clicked near the bottom.  Since the list is long, newly added links first appear nearer the middle to give them a chance to attract notice.

xkcd, stick figures who enjoy math

DailyKos comics section, including Tom Tomorrow, Slowpoke, Matt Wuerker, Matt Bors, and others who express frustration with the US political scene

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, the world of some grumpy grad student

Black Cat and Star Pilot, interesting comics that look like they are from the American southwest

Indexed, Jessica Hagy uses charts and graphs to analyze some really important relationships

The K Chronicles, cartoonist Keith Knight (who also does The Knight Life)

Cul de Sac, a strip following in the tradition of Peanuts, by imagining children as less-inhibited adults

Bug Comics, “random nonsense five days a week”

Spiked Math, complex reasoning, simple hilarity

Retail, which shows that a serial strip can be drawn in the style of a gag-a-day strip and still work

Doghouse Diaries, no dogs in sight

Sarah E. Laing’s “Let Me Be Frank,” and her “Forty Four Ways of Looking at an Apple“

Wondermark, looks like 1896, reads like 1996

Imagine This, quietly brilliant gag-a-day strip

Tom the Dancing Bug, Ruben Bolling expresses his frustration with the US political scene

Coffee with Jesus, which is hip and funny if you’re a liberal Protestant, blasphemous if you’re a more authority-minded Christian, and just sort of pointless if you aren’t a Christian at all

Bad Reporter, what the front page of the newspaper might as well look like

Lucy Knisly on LiveJournal and her new Stop Paying Attention strips (the old ones are archived here)

Bizarro Comics, showing that you don’t have to mention politics to be radical, since whimsy itself can be a deadly threat to the bad guys

Deflocked, the view from inside “a secret animal preserve for displaced and disenchanted pets”

Partially Clips, “web comic for adults”

Ferd’nand, wordless strip that is in some way associated with Western Europe

The City, John Backderf (aka “Derf”) expresses his frustration with the US political scene

Unshelved, a strip by librarians, about librarians, for librarians.  If you’re a non-librarian and you read it, you’re a voyeur.

Mutts,  Patrick McDonnell reimagines Krazy Kat and Ignatz in a gentler light, with Ignatz transformed from mouse to dog

Comics.com, aggregates daily strips from the US newspaper syndicates

Garfield Minus Garfield, which makes us wonder how they keep “Garfield” from being funny; the Square Root of Minus Garfield tries a little too hard

“Too Much Coffee Man,” a.k.a. How to Be Happy, by Shannon Wheeler

Zippy, which Acilius has now spent decades feeling bad about not liking

Tony Millionaire’s Maakies, which picks up where the Katzenjammer Kids may someday leave off

Unwinder’s Tall Comics, a web comic about people who try to entertain themselves without using the web

Andertoons, one panel gag-a-day; amiable, but clever

Girls With Slingshots, Danielle Corsetto tells of “Two Girls, A Bar, and a Talking Cactus”

Tiny Sepuku, advice for people who are too far gone to take advice

Weird Green Cat, by Brian Donnelly, who describes it as “hard to describe”

Pickles, which the cool kids don’t like

Six Chix, who are Isabella Bannerman, Margaret Shulock, Rina Piccolo,  Anne Gibbons, Benita Epstein, and Stephanie Piro

“Hark! A Vagrant!”  Canadian Kate Beaton’s “comic about failure”

Pooch Café, a “dog’s eye view of life” strip

Toothpaste for Dinner- you know how there are newspaper comics like Crankshaft that are funny only once in a long while, but that always seem like they should be funny?  Well, this is a webcomic with the same property.

Monty doesn’t really stand out as a black-and-white strip in a daily newspaper, but look at it in color and you’ll be a fan

Scary Gary, monstrous people lead ordinary lives

Dinosaur Comics, T. Rex ‘n’ friends have a series of bull sessions

The New Adventures of Queen Victoria, mainly for people over the age of forty who are nostalgic for the animated parts of Monty Python, though it may also appeal to people over the age of 140 who are nostalgic for Queen Victoria’s reign

Request Comics, which somebody must have asked for

News and Comment

An alphabetical list

Comic Strip of the Day, by someone who claims to read 120 strips daily (I hope for his sake that he’s lying)

Comics Curmudgeon, Josh Fruhlinger reads the funny papers

Comics Reporter

Fleen, “home of the webcomics Action News Team”

Language Log’s “Linguistics in the Comics” section

Team Cul-de-Sac

Archives and Graphic Novels

An alphabetical list

Angriest Dog in the World, which was hilarious when it was new, which was about 30 years ago

Captain Confederacy, which imagines what the world might be like if the Confederacy had won the US Civil War, and superheroes were real, and the ruling elite of the Confederacy manipulated those superheroes into perpetuating white supremacy.  You know, the obvious questions everyone asks when they study the history of the 1860s.  It’s kind of like its contemporary The Watchmen, only with a focus on mass media as a regressive force in race relations.

Carol Lay’s “Story Minute” archives

The Comic Torah, Aaron Freeman and Sharon Rosenzweig reimagine “the (very!) Good Book”

Comics With Problems, comics that address themselves to social problems, but which themselves represent other social problems

DAR: A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary, by Erika Moen

David Rees’Get Your War On, My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable, My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable, Adventures of Confessions of Saint Augustine Bear, and “Relationshapes,” strips which were apparently well-liked among the people who read this blog, although Acilius suspects some of them of sucking.

Dykes to Watch Out For archive, selections from Alison Bechdel’s great strip

Lucy Knisly’s Stop Paying Attention archive

Thinkin’ Lincoln, heads of famous historical figures are associated with improbable remarks

Troubletown, Lloyd Dangle expressed his frustration with the US political scene

“White Boy,” later known as “The Adventures of White Boy in Skull Valley,” later still as “Skull Valley,” was a newspaper strip that artist Garrett Price drew for a few years in the 1930s.  This site has scans of a couple of strips, along with a biographical note about Price; this site has a larger selection of strips;  a 2004 special issue of Comics Journal featuring the first 32 “White Boy” strips is no longer available, unfortunately.

Working at the Death Star, what all those guys in the background probably did on days when R2D2 and his friends weren’t around