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 |
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Title/Artist | Link/Activity
Status (as of September 2025) |
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! |
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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. |
Faux Pas By Robert and Margaret Carspecken |
http://www.ozfoxes.com/fauxpas.htm Active. |
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/ Status oddly unclear, since it was posted to multiple places. |
The world is just a fleshscape of demons eating
other demons to survive... plus portals to the mysterious human
world. |
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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! |
Flipside by Brion Foulke |
https://www.flipsidecomics.com/ Active. |
A fantasy-horror romance epic with
fascinating worldbuilding and an equally fascinating, absurdly
open-minded main character. Conversations and combat. |
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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. |
Slightly Damned by Chu |
https://www.sdamned.com/comic/ Active. |
Unlikely friends in the first ring of a fantasy hell escape death and become embroiled in a tragic angel-demon war. |
Origin of the jakkai species. |
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/ Seldom updated anymore! |
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! There used to be an associated video series. The early
single panel strips have an arguably better flavor. |
SOME
OF THE COMICS I USED TO READ |
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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. |
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. |
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. | The cartoonist moved on to other projects and then started Leftover Soup! |
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. |
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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? |
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. |
I also know the author from writing copy and designing levels for Popcap Games. We exchanged e-mails once. |
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. |
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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. |
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
One of the first daily webcomics ever. |
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. |
I eventually met the author, who played Twilight Sparkle for a while on the My Little Pony MUCK I helped run. |
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
By the brother of the author of Superosity. |
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. |