Category Archives: Web Comics

A Watterson Rebuttal

Zen Pencils is great, and easily one of the best webcomics currently around. The way Gavin Aung Than selects the quotes and then adapts them in a style that is never even slightly off the mark, is incomparible. And when … Continue reading

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Thatcher by Simmonds

Over in the Guardian newspaper, Posy Simmonds created a Margaret Thatcher fairy tale that is not only very funny and (to put it mildly) only slightly skewed; it also manages to invoke a type of satire that seems to be … Continue reading

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Secret identities revealed!

Twaggies is a series of comics illustrating interesting, funny or plainly weird tweets. It originated at twaggies.com, but has also been syndicated for a while now. Originally illustrated by David Israel, it has now a whole slew of contributors. This … Continue reading

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So Superman comes home from work…

  Sometimes 9Gag actually is pretty funny.  Anybody know anything about this cartoonist? (click the image to read the rest)

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Google+ gives cartoonists room to roam

Leave it to Ubergeek Scott McCloud to discover a novel way to create comics, using the scrapbook on your Google+ profile page.  This allows you to upload five images, which in turn is just the incentive sequential artists need to … Continue reading

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Moments

In his new webcomic Moments, Cartoonist Tommie Kelly tries his hand at a classic constraint, to represent, or at least suggest, as much of a narrative in only one panel (the one above is called, “Fuck you, Robot”).  There’s only … Continue reading

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It’s Ziggy !

Now this must be the very last classic strip character I’d ever expect to guest star in the überhip Hopeless Old Men On Skateboards ! (strip © MC)

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Are we that bad ?

In Our Valued Customers, a cartoonist who calls himself Mr. Tim faithfully records the insanity, stupidity or plain dumbness he has to confront daily as a clerk in a comic book store.  It has to be a US thing.  I … Continue reading

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Like a true Metropolis girl

Here’s (part of) how a real Lois Lane would handle that pesky Superman.  From Kate Beaton’s mega-splendid Hark, A Vagrant.  Read that !

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Another Fan !

Remember this ?  Here’s another one, this time by mister_jangojim. (as featured on Drawn)

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