webcomics

If I'm counting correctly, this is the tenth Best Webcomics Ever (This Week) column, which means there are at least fifty exceptional webcomics that have been highlighted in only a few weeks time. I find it to be pretty impressive that there are so many free titles to read online that update on a regular basis...

Whenever I hear about someone making a living as a webcomics creator or freelance cartoonist, I wonder, "What exactly do they mean by 'making a living?'" Fortunately, Cat and Girl creator Dorothy Gambrell and Aki Alliance creator Ryan Estrada have decided to humor the fiscally curious among us by explaining how they made their living in 2011, with the aid of some lovely charts... Read M

As Wikipedia and the popular aggregate site Reddit blacked out today to protest SOPA/PIPA, numerous webcomic creators joined them, replacing their usual LOLs with information and resources about the controversial legislation that Harvard Constitutional Law professor Lawrence Tribe called "The end of the Internet as we know it...

When I was a teenager, I thought my boarding school was pretty ominous. It was just a few miles from a famous UFO sighting. We had special evacuation procedures in case the local nuclear power plant had a meltdown. My freshman year, the school was plagued by flood, fire and pestilence (the pestilence was a particularly virulent strain of flu, but after the flood and fire, I was searching the skies

If you've done any reading on quantum theory -- particularly the double-slit experiment and entanglement -- you've probably realized the same thing as Albert "Spooky" Einstein: That sh*t is craaazy. And if you've invested your psychological security in the notion that the universe is a fundamentally orderly place where math and science will always provide neat, comprehensible answers, i

The Non-Adventures of Wonderella, v.1 and 2 Available From: NonAdventures.com Price: $17 each. If you're like me, then you've often thought that Wonder Woman would be a much more entertaining character if she was a cynical, amoral alcoholic who solved all of her problems by a) ignoring them, b) blowing them up, or c) ignoring them until they blew up...

When I first heard that there was a webcomic called It's a Good Life drawn in the style of Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes, I immediately assumed that it was a retelling of the Twilight Zone episode with Calvin in the role of Anthony Fremont...

Let me start this week's column off by apologizing to Darths & Droids and The Trenches, both comics are not my particular brand, but I'm happy that there are supportive fans out there that enjoy both. As well, both comics clearly have dedicated creators who work hard to publish the material, and I wish them the best. Th...

As we move into the second installment of our weekly webcomic round-ups, I want to thank everyone for their suggestions, and to keep things as transparent as possible, mention a few things about how comics are included in each week's list...

Amateur problem child techniques are beneath Max Fogherty, star of Caanan Grall's Eisner-nominated webcomic Max Overacts. After all, why pass notes to your crush when you can get up in front of the class and recite an ode to her charms? Why flick your sister's ear when your ventriloquist's dummy can accuse her of sexual harassment...