Webcomics I like or have liked

I love reading webcomics.  Here's a list of webcomics I've enjoyed, past and current.  I used to list 0 - 10 ratings in six different traits for each comic along with an overall score, but... I decided that was a little too geeky and that it was presumptuous to assume anyone would care that assiduously.  The older comics have older descriptions from me.


COMICS I CURRENTLY READ
Title/Artist Link/Activity Status (as of July 2021)
20-word synopsis
Comments
The Order of the Stick
By Rich Burlew
https://www.giantitp.com/
Active.
Originally a loving stick-figure spoof of Dungeons & Dragons, it's grown into a smart, emotionally moving, masterfully crafted epic.
Served as the original host for Erfworld.
Carry On
By Kathy Garrison
http://www.hirezfox.com/km/
Active.
An American journalist turns out to be heiress to a celebrated African hyena dukedom at the heart of machiavellian conflict!
It started as a rather shallow gag strip, but suddenly got good when the cartoonist moved the action to East Africa!
Freefall
By Mark Stanley
http://freefall.purrsia.com/
Active.
An alien starship captain notorious for artful shenanigans, an AI wolf engineer, a future of lovable robots... science and silliness!
You can learn a lot from this slow-paced comic.  The creator is friends with creators of several other comics, including Carry On.
Nancy
By Olivia Jaimes
https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/
Active.
Nancy knows she's destined for greatness, but how can she achieve it without working?  Hypocrisy, metahumor and sight gags galore.
Not actually a webcomic, but I read it there! A century-old legacy comic noted for experiencing a renaissance under a new, female cartoonist.
Uh Oh it's a Dinosaur
By andrwblz
http://itsadinosaur.com/comic/pk1-00/
Active.
A cartoonist is sent a mysterious talking lizard thing that wants to explore the world.  Fascinating wacky casts of characters!
Starts in black and white, reboots later in color, and gets a bit less wacky.  The titular dinosaur is, possibly, the cutest thing ever imagined.
Gaia
By Powree and Oliver Knörzer
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/gaia/
Complete.
I never grasped the plot of this strip, but it has detailed magic, thieves, artifacts, heists, traps, adventure, dragons and love!

Projection Edge
By Thomas K. Dye
http://newshounds.keenspot.com/
Active.
In a world where pets are basically second-class people, dogs have a spiritual ability to visit an astral realm...
From the creator of Newshounds, and set in what appears to be the same world.
False Knees
By Joshua
https://falseknees.com/
Sporadic.
Fascinating things to look at given quirky personalities and ennui.  Lots of birds trying to wrap their heads around existence.
Pretty darn Canadian!  Maybe even... French Canadian?
Faux Pas
By Robert and Margaret Carspecken

Active; posted MWF.
Genuine, high-quality cuteness--not the fakey saccharine stuff!  Stars foxes on a ranch for animals used in the movies. I used to buy prints and cards from the creators and was on their Christmas list for a while.  They're sweet.
Angels with Broken Hearts
By M. B. Saunders
http://angelswithscalywings.com/comics/
Active.
Slice of life, romance, friendship, scientific rivalry, small town dragons, post-apocalyptic struggle, politics, police procedure, science fiction prequel story.
A crowdfunded continuation of the visual novel Angels With Scaly Wings, this crowdfunded strip features three arcs drawn by different artists.
Demon Eater
by JillyFoo
http://demoneater.thecomicseries.com/comics/
On apparent hiatus.
The world is just a fleshscape of demons eating other demons to survive... plus portals to the mysterious human world.

The Out-of-Placers
By Valsalia
https://www.valsalia.com/
Active.
In a fantasy city-state, a man is transformed into a silly rat-kobold thing with unsettling (but thematic) results.
Valsalia is the reason I joined Patreon... and the inventor of yinglets, which are a thing on the internet!
Learn to Live
by Umbrascythe
https://www.deviantart.com/umbrascythe/art/Learn-To-Live-1-670169839
Active.
Inspired by The Out-of-Placers, a yinglet raised by humans seeks life among his own kind (and forgotten memories).
A fan comic hosted on DeviantArt that's lovingly rendered, even if it doesn't have the comedy of the original.
bimshwellian comicoid
by bimshwel
http://bimshwel.com/ope/wud/
Occasionally updated.
Colorful schlemiels and schlemazels navigating an exquisitely alien cartoon world.  Psychedelic slapsticky creature fiction in which nothing ever goes right.
Or maybe it's called Repugnance Pagoda, or chard parthenon.  Or just Bimshwel.  The author seems to very artfully hate himself but I'm sure the truth is far more nuanced.
Forward
By Tailsteak
http://www.forwardcomic.com/
Active.
Thoughtfully crafted 22nd-century fiction exploring how one goes about living in a utopia.  Ennui, awkwardness, and artificial intelligence abound.
The strip has comments every day that are often more insightful or entertaining than the strip itself.  Bonus!
Superosity
By Chris Crosby
http://superosity.keenspot.com/
Active.
Surreal comic packed with gratuitous absurdities, unique humor, bizarre characters, pop culture references, disgustingly funny art and dialogue.  Keenspot's first. One of the oldest continuously updated webcomics out there.
Homestuck
By Andrew Hussie
https://www.homestuck.com/
Ran from 2009 to 2016.
Four children play a computer game that turns out to encompass the world.  Partly audience-driven.  Bizarre, epic, beautiful, hilarious.
My pick for the most intricate story ever told.  Its fandom is extensive and games about this webcomic are still coming out.
Prequel or Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure
By Kazerad
https://www.prequeladventure.com/
Very sporadic.
Reader-influenced story of a naive adventurer, patterned on Homestuck and set in the Elder Scrolls world.  Intelligent and droll.
With Ch'marr and various others assisting with assets.
Wondermark
By David Malki
http://wondermark.com/
Finished?
Thoughtful, conversational, creatively illustrated comics about ideas and odd people created with a big dump of Edwardian/Victorian clip art.
Also check out his novels and other work.
xkcd
By Randall Munroe
https://xkcd.com/
Active.
Insightful variety strip about science, society, math, metahumor, stick figures, and geeky stuff.  Occasional epics and creative pictographs.  Very intelligent! Perhaps the world's most influential webcomic?
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
By Zach Weinersmith

https://www.smbc-comics.com/
Active.
Lessons about life, philosophy, human frailty, God's foibles, robots, aliens, obsessive people, dysfunctional relationships, bizarre schemes, science, and professional failures.
Comparable to xkcd, but more depressing.  The creator has written books and produced events!  The early single panel strips have an arguably better flavor.
SOME OF THE COMICS I USED TO READ
Erfworld
By Rob Balder
https://archives.erfworld.com/
Defunct.
An intricate epic set in the world of a cutesy fictional fantasy wargame.  Life is war!  Great characters and philosophy.
Before its tragic collapse, this was perhaps the biggest overall project of any webcomic-centered endeavor in the world.
1/0
By Tailsteak
oneoverzero.keenspace.com
Ended after 1000 strips.
Talking molecules, earthworm, grassman, eyeball, living on a dead bear.  A brilliant thought experiment examining relations between creator and created.
Zebra Girl
By Joe England
http://zebragirl.thecomicseries.com/
Complete, with occasional new material.
A young woman is accidentally turned into a demon, sending her family on journeys through the beautiful, terrifying supernatural world.
It starts a bit loosey-goosy and gets much tighter, both in terms of art and story.  By the end, oh my gosh the gravity of things.
General Protection Fault
By Jeffrey Darlington
www.gpf-comics.com
Active; posted daily.
Story of a small software firm.  Interesting characters, high drama, whimsical storylines.  Includes romance, espionage, geek humor, parodies, the works.
Schlock Mercenary
By Howard Tayler
www.schlockmercenary.com
Ended several years ago.
A space mercenary company's complicated, perilous and lucrative exploits in a future filled with AIs, aliens, intrigue and government incompetence.

Bob the Angry Flower
By Stephen Notley
www.angryflower.com
Active; posted weekly.
A vainglorious orgy of ideas.  Storytelling without bounds (or stories).  Title character does everything.  Used to be better and funnier.

Leftover Soup
By Tailsteak
http://www.leftoversoup.com/first.php
Ended in 2019.
A web of interesting characters living life.  Awkward roommates and situations, polyamory, roleplaying, cooking, ambiguous romance, a little crime drama.

Triangle and Robert
by Patrick Shaunnessey
http://home.attbi.com/~pshaughn/tandr.html
Active; posted daily.
The ultimate in self-reference.  Polygons grapple with cartoonist for meaning.  Wacky quests, cuisine magic, geeky references, overarching plotlines, philosophy.

Bruno
By Chris Baldwin
www.brunostrip.com/bruno.html
Active; posted MTWTh.
The life and times of a wandering Gen-Xer.  Deeply moving, unabashedly liberal, philsophical, acerbic, internally consistent. Cast of dozens.

Vainglorious
By Kelly
https://www.vaingloriouscomic.com/
Active.
An impudent dragon challenges his queen and finds himself exiled in human form, in need of help from hapless bystanders.

Absurd Notions
By Kevin Pease
www.absurdnotions.org
Highly irregular.  The creator updates either the strip or his journal strip, Why The Long Face, every week or so.
Adult roomates with varying personalities.  Sys-admin, goofy artist, simpleton, programmer.  Social satire, speculative humor, the occasional role-playing sequence.

21st Century Fox
By Scott Kellogg
techfox.keenspace.com
Active; posted 3-4 times weekly.
Wide-eyed science fiction in an anthropomorphic world.  Marvels of engineering, artifical intelligence, space colonization, fast vehicles!  Colorful and fun.

Kevin and Kell
By Bill Holbrook
www.herdthinners.com
Active; posted daily.
Combines computer humor with animal jokes.  Celebrates diversity.  A large cast developed over years.  Getting tired, but was awesome once.

Ozy and Millie
By D.C. Simpson
www.ozyandmillie.org
Active; posted daily.
Two small town fox children, one contemplative, one hyperimaginative, find solace as fellow misfits.  Could be profound, but squanders it.

Goats
By Jon Rosenberg
www.goats.com
Active; posted MWFSu.
A bizarre bar and the adventures of the crazies who call it home.  Highly surreal humor, melodramatic plotlines, ridiculous characters.

Sabrina Online
www.sabrina-online.com
Slow but active; 3-5 strips monthly.
A reclusive web designer who works for a porn company and her quiet social dramas.  And her living Transformers.  Anthropomorphic.

Untitled.gif http://untitledgif.org
Irregular.
An incredibly brilliant, incredibly insane tapestry of satire, economics, politics, surrealism, and broken lingo.  The humor works perfectly for me.

Bohemials
www.albionfuzz.com
Discontinued.  Archive available for download.
A gloomy look at the poverty-level artistic intelligentsia of England.  Emotionally potent.  Changed names, venues a couple times.  Anthropomorhic.

Suburban Jungle
By
www.suburbanjungle.com
Active but somewhat unreliable.  Posted MWFSu.
A low-octane soap opera about a model, her friends and career.  Anthropomorphic and very much character-driven.  Rather popular.

Bruno the Bandit
By Ian McDonald
www.brunothebandit.com
Complete.
A high-quality ongoing fantasy satire.  A boorish bandit and microdragon undergo humorous quests that reflect the silliness of humanity.

Living in Greytown
By Dave Kelly
http://www.livingingreytown.com/
Complete.
A brash, unconstrained, elemental drama of a wacky town that none can escape.  Unpredictable, filled with love, lust, and hatred.
Lizard
By Dave Kelly
www.lizardcomics.com
Complete.
The sequel to Living in Greytown, it follows the most lovable family into American life.  Cuter and sweeter than LiG.

Megatokyo
By Fred Gallagher

www.megatokyo.com
Still active apparently.
Two young Americans stranded in Japan make a life amid embarrassing romances, untapped superstardom, cute androids and diminuitive guardian angels.

Pupkin
By Bobby Crosby
www.bobbycrosby.com
No longer active.
A fat puppy tumbles from owner to owner, seeking love in an incomprehensible world.  Anything can happen in this strip.

Wigu
By Jeffrey Rowland
http://www.overcompensating.com/adventures/
Completd.
A crazy romp through reality and beyond.  One motley family's adventures, aided by trascendant interdimensional video game stars.  Good fun.
Sore Thumbs
By Chris Crosby and Owen Gieni
http://www.sorethumbsonline.com/
Complete.
A raving conservative, liberal extremist, irresponsible bubblehead and castrated country veteran run a video game store.  Culture-savvy and atypical.

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