Online Comic Strips
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Hub Sites

Comixpedia
Web: http://comixpedia.com
Comixpedia is a project run on love of comics and cyber-duck tape which includes Comixpedia Magazine, a Comixpedia Codex of online comics and a bustling community of creators.

ComicSpace
Link: www.comicspace.com
ComicSpace is a social networking site for over 101,000 comic fans and creators (as of February 2007) . It's kind of like MySpace, but for comic enthusiasts.

Drunk Duck
Link: www.drunkduck.com
Drunk Duck is a website that provides free hosting services for webcomic creators. Founded in 2002 by Dylan Squires, it has evolved into one of the largest online webcomic communities with over 3,500 comic strips and stories. In addition to free hosting, Drunk Duck also provides free message boards and forums for its members, as well as a user rating system that allows for feedback and ranking of its webcomics.

The Chemistry Set
Link: www.chemsetcomics.com
THE CHEMISTRY SET describes itself as "a collective of comic creators, exploring what happens when they throw their talents together in the cause of fresh, new, unexpected work.
"Sometimes we get beautiful synthesis. Sometimes we get explosions. But in every case, we get new comics, delivered every day by talented up-and-coming creators, including three Xeric Award winners."

Comic Genesis
Link: www.comicgenesis.com
A free webhosting provider for webcomics. Looking for a comic? Try some of the ones listed, search for a specific one, or go straight to their complete listing. Think you can do better? Then join up and show them what you're made of!

Komikwerks
Link: www.komikwerks.com
Komikwerks is a comic publisher dedicated to publishing professional, high-quality, creator-owned, comics, distributed through traditional print means as well as more modern, technically advanced means like the web. Komikwerks came together as a conduit for a collective of professional artists and writers from many different creative fields, who wanted to publish their creations free of editorial and corporate restraint, as well as not being confined to the outdated, standard, 22 page format comic. Creators are able to dictate the length and frequency of their creations.

Modern Tales
Link: www.moderntales.com
Subscription-based site with a variety of strips, regarded as the leading source for high quality webcomics. The site now hosts several strips including Athena Voltaire, Roger Langride's brilliant comedy strip Hotel Fred and many more.
Modern Tales launched in March 2002, the product of nearly a year's worth of brainstorming between site publisher Joey Manley (former Director of freespeech.org, and former VP, Interactive of streamingmedia.com) and about 30 top web cartoonists. The goal was simple: build a small but viable business around the idea of selling webcomics directly to an audience on a subscription basis. This wasn't a big money play: Manley invested nearly $10,000 of his own money into the project, took no investors, and attempted to keep the expectations of himself and the cartoonists very low. Before the launch, Manley estimated that maybe 500 subscribers would sign up for the service. The idea was to build for the future, not necessarily to make massive amounts of money in the short term.
700 people signed up in the first two weeks.

OnlineComics.net
Link: www.OnlineComics.net
OnlineComics.net is a searchable directory of online comics, as well as a nexus for news, updates and information about your online comics. It had some 39,000 members as of February 2007.

PolyPop
Link: www.polypop.com
Run by Todd Ransell, a cartoonist in Dallas, Texas, Polypop is dedicated to promoting independent and alternative comix and popular culture. Initially focusing on comix and independent cartooning, Todd says Polypop will evently expand over time into areas of animation, visual art, video and music.

ROK Comics
Link: www.rokcomics.com
ROK Comics is an easy way for comics creators -- individual artists, writers and companies -- to create comic strips and offer eager fans worldwide a way to read those strips on their mobiles. Casual comics fans can also create strips using uploade art, photos, or simply use the online characters and scenes.

Scary Bear
Link: www.scarybear.org
Spotlighting a variety of comics talent online.

TopShelfComix TS2.0
Link: www.topshelfcomix.com
TopShelfComix.com features strips by the likes of Martin Cendreda, Gregory Benton, Farel Dalrymple, Nate Beaty, Andrew Brandou, Rob Goodin, Josue Menjivar, & Scott Malin. Edited by Brett Warnock, this section will be a rotating cornucopia of the best cartoonists working today.

Top Web Comics
Link: http://topwebcomics.com
If you're an online comics publisher, sign up for this and get your fans to vote you too the top of the poll. Great to see what's out there and gauge popularity.

Web Comics Nation
Link: www.webcomicsnation.com
Webcomics Nation is a place for comics creators to show off and share their work. Learn more or sign up now -- it's free! And it's easy, too! Even if you've never made a webcomic before. Includes a diverse range of great creator comics such as Monstar, PhatComics, Skippy and the magic Tricyle,

Individual Creators

8-Bit Theatre
Link: nuklearpower.com
Creator: Brian Clevinger

Action Datsun
Link: moviepoopshoot.com/datsun
Creators: Frank Gibson and Irwin Haya

Adventure Comics
Link: www.adventurestrips.com

Alien Loves Predator
Link: www.alienlovespredator.com
Creator: Bernie Hou
In New York, no one can hear you scream. Some adult content by the looks of it.

Amanda's Castle
Official: http://amanda.dd.com.au/stories/teddies
Creator: Amada Penrose
Totally Teddies, an online comic strip by Amanda Penrose.

AntiWang
Link: www.antiwang.com
Creator: Eric

Applegeeks
Link: www.applegeeks.com
Creator: Mohammad Haque and Ananth Panagariya

Astounding Space Thrills
Official: www.astoundingspacethrills.com
Creator: Steve Conley
Science fiction adventure at its very best, created by the talented Steve Conley. Thoroughly recommended.

ArtBomb
Official: www.artbomb.net
Co-founded by Warren Ellis, Artbomb's mission is to promote diverse and sophisticated graphic novels. Check it out... Includes online comics by d'israeli, Lauren McCubbin and "SuperIdol" written by Warren.

Beaver and Steve
Link: www.beaverandsteve.com
Creator: James Turner
This is an absolutely hilarious strip (sample above)which cartoonist James Turner's girlfriend firt drew my attention to -- I don't know if he was nervous about letting people know about it but he needn't have been. With simple but effective storytelling and excellent dialogue, just check it out! Bizarre, funny stuff.
• The first year of Beaver & Steve has been collected as a book: buy Beaver & Steve: A Shoeful of Trouble from Amazon.co.uk!

Beekeeper Cartoon Amusements
Official: www.beecomix.com
Creator: Jason Little
Jason Little was born in 1970 and raised in Binghamton, New York. He studied photography at Oberlin College, and now resides in Brooklyn with writer Myla Goldberg. He has been drawing cartoons since he was a child. In addition to the superb strip on his site, Shutterbug Follies, now available as a book (click here to order from Amazon.com) he has also written and illustrated the Xeric Award-winning Jack's Luck Runs Out, as well as a number of short works for various cartoon anthologies.
In Shutterbug Follies, Bee works as a photo-finishing technician in a one-hour lab in lower Manhattan. To amuse herself, she duplicates - for her own collection - any titillating photographs that happen to pass through her hands. When pictures of a naked corpse are left for processing, Bee's curiousity goes into high gear.

Blue Monkey Comics
Official: Go
Home of Adam Bomb. Once the top agent for the ultra secret organization, The Book, Bill Kane was made an unknowing guinea pig when he was injected with an experimental serum and then trapped in the middle of a nuclear explosion!

Book of Lists:
Link: www.bookoflists.co.uk
The book of lists is an autobiographical comic strip by Paul Rainey. Events and random thoughts which occur during his daily life are sorted into list order, drawn and then posted on-line.

Broken Saints
Link: www.brokensaints.com
Animated comic book. Also available on DVD.

Caffeine
Link: www.caffeinecomics.tk
Steven Ingram's domestic insanity, complete with crazed canine. And I thought our cats were evil.

Combustible Orange
Link: www.combustibleorange.com
Crazy but brilliantly-drawn "anti-comics" with a ton of links to other web comics, the chance to recaption old strips. These guys just zing with the kind of energy that always makes comics fun.

Counter Culture
Link: Counter Culture
Creator: Omni and Jawaboy

Creatures in My Head
Link: www.creaturesinmyhead.com
Creator: Andrew Bell

Daily Dinosaur Comics
Link: www.qwantz.com

Digi Comics
Link: digi-comic.com
Ntahan Spargo's brilliantly drawn slice o' life

Diesel Sweeties
Link: www.dieselsweeties.com
Creator: R Stevens

Dinosaur Comics
Link: www.qwantz.com
Funny dinosaurs strip

Electric Sheep
Link: www.e-sheep.com
An alternative take on the US invasion of Afghanistan. The site also includes an absolutely brilliant 'manga' adaptation of the Book of Revelation (www.e-sheep.com/apocamon). The first two episodes can be viewed for free but from then on you have to pay to view using BitPass

Emily Strange
Link: www.emilystrange.com
Emily Strange is 13 years old and wicked bad...

Eye of the Storm
Link: www.eyeofthestormcomic.moonfruit.com
A Vietnam based horror "Eye of the Storm" , with art by Azim Akberali, is available to view online. The full 10 page version will appear in Dimestore Productions Halloween anthology later in 2006.

Fish Insitution
Link: www.fishinstitution.com
Creator: Robert Goforth
The characters of this ongoing strip include a purple fish named Vinnie, who was experimented on by scientists, a yellow and brown pyjama cardinalfish named Arthur, and a green octopus named Eddie, whose origins will become clearer in time.

The Fly Chronicles
Link: theflychronicles.com
A series of panel cartoons by cartoonist Michael Blaney, who does for the fly what Gary Larson did for the cow.

The Fray
Link: www.funnybonecomics.com/thefray
Creator: Rob N.

Get Your War On
Link: www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war.html
Caustic comment on the Iraq War and George W. Bush etc. Great stuff!

Goats
Link: www.goats.com
Creator: Jon Rosenburg

The Graveyard Shift
Web Link: www.graveyardshift.co.uk
Includes The Forge - Project: Longinus by Future Publishing editor Cavan Scott and Mark Wright, with art by Bryan Coyle, which features the mysterious black-ops organisation from the Big Finish Doctor Who audio plays Project: Twilight and Project: Lazarus, stars the infamous Nimrod in an all-new tale.
Direct Link: www.webcomicsnation.com/cavscott/forge

Ink Tank/Angst Technology
Link: www.inktank.com
Creator: Barry T Smith

HugoBallz
Link: www.hugoballz.com
Hugo Ballz lives in New York with Robodude and the rest of his friends.
He likes to spend his days creating origami.

The Carrotty Kid
Link: www.thecarrottykid.co.uk
Creator: Adam Fanton
A kid-friendly,  rather silly strip about a crime-fighting carrot, which has also had the honour of being made into a pilot for TV by Cosgrove Hall films... yes the people who made DangerMouse, so Adam could be on to a real winner with this. (see the site for details.)
Adam updates the site weekly with a new comic, and says "I believe it also counts as one of your five a day portions of fruit and veg." Okaaay...

Scott McCloud
Official: www.scottmccloud.com
Besides his unique cartoon work, Scott's the author of the thought-provoking tomes Understanding Comics -- A 215-page comic book about comics that explains the inner workings of the medium and examines many aspects of visual communication along the way -- and Reinventing Comics. This controversial 242-page follow-up to Understanding Comics advocates 12 different revolutions in the way comics are created, distributed and perceived with special emphasis on the potential of Online Comics. "Reinventing Comics is the only book I've ever written that's been actually described as 'dangerous'", says the author. Scott is also writer of the excellent Making Comics, and also offers a handy visual guide offering tips and tricks to creating web comics at: www.scottmccloud.com

Johnny Public
Link: www.johnny-public.com
Many people, one head: that's the premise of Johnny Public, a comic noir story set in the modern day in a town not far from dead. William Denn, suffering from conflicting personalities, strives to find himself along the forgotten edge of urban expansion.

Heroes in Birmingham
Link: www.bestfriendsproductions.com/hibintro.htm
Created by writer Rachel Kadushin and drawn by Ruben Caldwel. There's a web preview of the first issue of this series on this site.
FlapJack, N-Ergyzer, Photonia, The Solution, and Roof Girl. 5 people who are used to solving crimes and saving people on their own in their own neighborhoods and towns. Their world suddenly gets bigger when FlapJack a.k.a. Mercutio Bishop literally explodes into The City of Birmingham, and his genuine desire to help people stretches the local law about costumed adventurers working as licensed “public performers” to its limits.

Jerk City Link: www.jerkcity.com
Creator: Rands

Ku2 Comics
Link: www.ku-2.com

Little Gamers
Link: www.little-gamers.com
Creator: Christian Fundin and Pontus Madsen

Lost in Appleton
Link: www.landecay.com/lostinappleton
Creator: Dennis Farrell

Make With the Funny
Link: www.mwtfunny.com
Creator: Rex and Zak

Malakhim
Link: www.malakh.com
Horror strip, to give it a loose categorisation, so don't say you weren't warned. The Malakhim universe is complex, with lots of characters and places, and even its own language.

Matt Madden's Exercises in Style
Award-nominated Exercises in Style was inspired by a work of the same name by the French writer Raymond Queneau. In that book, Queneau spun 99 variations out of a mundane, two-part text about two chance encounters with a mildly irritating character during the course of a day. He started by telling it in every conceivable tense, then by doing it in free verse and as a sonnet, as a telegram, in pig latin, as a series of exclamations, in an indifferent voice... you name it.
The goal of this project is to apply the same principle to comics by creating as many variations as possible on a simple one-page non-story: different points of view, different genres, different formal games, and so on.
One additional variation on the project is that a group of cartoonists have been given a brief script of the one-page piece and asked to create their own version of the comic.
While the project has been floating around as an idea for years, it was galvanized into being committed to paper by the founding in 1992 of OuBaPo, Ouvroir de la Bande Dessinée Potentielle (Workshop for Potential Comics), a comics-oriented offshoot of OuLiPo (Workshop for Potential Literature), an experimental forum co-founded by Queneau himself in 1960.

Monster Squad
Official Site: www.freewebs.com/monstersquad
Monster Squad by Ed Berridge and Paul Williams appears in every issue of British fanzine FutureQuake.

Mac Hall Comics
Link: www.machall.com
College room mates deapan away their existence.

Megatokyo
Link: www.megatokyo.com
Creator: Fred Gallagher
Exploring the themes of alienation in a foreign country and the differences between American and Japanese culture, in a 'parody manga' style

Monkey Business
Link: www.monkey-business.net
Creator: Karl Wang

Monkey Man
Link: moviepoopshoot.com/monkeyman
Creator: Brian Lynch

Night Warrior Online
Link: www.nw-comic.co.uk
Night Warrior is published by Raging Psycho Comics and Modern Life. As the first martial arts independent comic to grace the UK, Night Warrior plans to publish four action packed seasons of predominantly arc-based stories. They'll also be bringing you a wealth of extra issues and short stories in their Chronicles section.
The creators -- Phil Hobden, Ross Boyask, Alan Scott and others -- aim to expand into animation, film and eventually take their comic into print!
Night Warrior is introducing a host of fresh new talent from across the globe and their doors are always open to the best new writers and artists.

The Norm
Official: www.thenorm.com
Created by Michael Jantze, strip which The Comic Journal rightfully describes as one of the the best drawn strips in America. You can read the strip online if you subscribe to the site.
Michael very kindly published samples of The Really heavy Greatcoat in one issue of The Norm comic. (If anyone's interested I still have some for sale).

Nothing Nice to Say
Link: www.mitchclem.com/nothingnice
Described as the world's the world's first online punk comic and found after coming across Paul's House of Blog which offers, by the way, information on how to builf a particle accelerator. I'm fairly sure there is no connection between the two sites.

Nowhere Girl
Link: www.nowheregirl.com
Created by Justine Shaw, Jamie has become her own character in this gritty tale. Try also www.ciderviewproject.com if you like this.

Oneironaut
Link: www.oneironaut.net
Oneironaut, created by Joseph Talbot as his final project for the MA in Electronic Media at Oxford Brookes University, is the story of a place - the Dreamscape - and the people that inhabit it.
The Dreamscape is not a physical place, but rather a mental plane, which came into existence after the invention of the device, called Dreamscape, from which it gained its name.
Oneironaut is an experiment in online comics.  The idea of the site is to present the comic narrative and supporting material as an integrated whole.  The comic itself can be interrogated by the reader to reveal different levels of detail.
It's worth checking this site out if you're interested in putting comics strips online. The interface is well designed and has been created at a size that should work well at most screen resolutions

Opi8
Link: www.opi8.com
Dark art, comic and prose, but because the webmaster is a creative soul he's decided to make itv difficult to find your way around -- a shame since there's some great stuff here.

Orneryboy
Link: www.supercrazymayhem.com/ornery
Creator: Michael Lalonde

Penny Arcade
Link: www.penny-arcade.com
A geeky look at the world through the yes of a hardcore gamer.

Real Men Comics
Link: http://realmen.mindlube.co.uk

Red Meat
Link: www.redmeat.com
Creator: Max Cannon

Ted Rall
Official: www.tedrall.com
US political cartoonist whose work was dropped by the New York Times in early 2004 because they say don't think it's funny enough. Ted Rall claims the NY Times has caved in to right wing complaints about his work which have deluged the NY Times web site. You can read more about the whole sorry state of affairs and get an insight into just how intolerant of freedom of speech right wing America is on his site.

Robot Stories
Link: www.robotstories.com
Creator: Neil Gustavson

Thrilling Detectives
Link: www.thrillingdetective.com/comics
The web has kicked detective pulp fiction loose from the confines of alleged market demands and big-time publishing, and the same thing's happening in comics, in a very big way.
It's an exciting time, with fresh voices and new visions suddenly gaining a world-wide audience. The Thrilling Detective Web Site is proud to help kick out the jams, and present some of the best of the new breed, updated here regularly.

Treasure Hunters
Link: http://th.pensandtales.com/

Real Life Comics
Link: www.reallifecomics.com
Updated daily by Greg Dean - a funny take on 'geek' lifestyle...

ScaryGoRound
Link: www.scarygoround.com
Scary Go Round is a comic that Oldham-based John Allison has been making since 2002. It started off as a comic about barmaids Tessa and Rachel, then it became more about Shelley Winters and her bizarre escapades. In recent times it is kind of a split between the Shelley Show and Tackleford Grammar School. It's always evolving.

Sexy Losers
Link: Sexy Losers
Creator: Hard

Siren Six
Link: www.goonpatrol.com
Girl's action adventure web comic

The Really Heavy Greatcoat
Official: Go
Written by John Freeman and drawn by Nick Miller, the urban tale of a sentient greatcoat trapped in a world he never made. Appears in Comics International and on the community website Virtual-Lancaster.net.

Sinfest
Link: www.sinfest.net
Creator: Tatsuya Ishida

Spells and Whistles
Link: Spells and Whistles
Creator: Tauhid Bondia

The Tragic Death of an Animated Gif
Link: http://e-merl.com/bank1.htm
By Daniel Merlin Goodbrey

TinTin
Link: www.tintin.com
Everyone's favourite Belgian reporter has his online home here

White Ninja Comics
Link: www.whiteninjacomics.com
Creators: Scott Bevan and Kent Earle

Who Runs the Engine
Official: Go
Created by Simon Furman, Andrew Wildman and Adam Jennings. Superhero adventure across parallel Earths, shockwave site. What if the industrial revolution never downscaled and the world was at the mercy of huge machines that were inevitably destroying it?

Yenny Comics
Official: www.yennycomics.com
Yenny wants to be a model! But her feet are as big as the Titanic. Yenny wants to live in the city! But instead she lives in a beach house with her mom. Yenny wants a pet! But instead she got a fast talking iguana! Yenny wants a life.... and this is hers!!
Now you can read Yenny's daily strip through this website. If you want to check the past strips and Ye' olde Archive, you may click on "comics" and you can read all of them there. Yenny is now published by Modern Tales.