Plug Week Day 5 — Comics Galore!

One of the main differences between syndicated comics and webcomics is the dough. Syndicated comics (those that appear in multiple magazines and newspapers) have it. Online comics, for the most part, don’t. There is another big difference: community. Webcomics create communities. People get to meet the author, talk to him/her (from now on referred to him, for simplicity and ‘cause I’m a chauvinist pig), perhaps even, time and place allowing, buy him a beer/dinner. You may be a fanboy and want to let the author know that he’s the stuff your wet dreams start with, or you may hate and be insulted by the inane drivel said author releases into the world. Any way, you have a voice. There are usually forums that allow you to leave your impressions, you can email and expect prompt reply, or get together with a bunch of other people and discuss the suckiness/brilliance of the latest strip and how past strips were so much better/worse.

Here are more of my linked comics for your entertainment. All of them are quality read. I’m saving Weirdism for tomorrow, since I have something special prepared with it. Enjoy!

It’s All Been Done - By Erik McCurdy and Will Lloyd This is one of the many webcomics out there that are the result of the collaboration between two people. While initially Erik (writer) worked with Jon (artist) on the strip, there came a moment when Jon had to move on and attend to other Real Life obligations, thereby placing IABD on a tight spot. This came as quite a shock to IABD’s readers. Erik posted a thread in the TWC forum and we all started commenting on the situation. Shortly thereafter, Will, from Dunnboyz fame, had offered to take on artist duties for IADB (how he manages to keep two webcomics afloat, and with the quality of art that he delivers is beyond me. Really).

IABD provides some insight into the comic development process. You can click on the little blue ball on top of most of the comics and it’ll show you an animated gif with different stages on that particular strip’s creation. A truly remarkable idea and one I may blatantly steal from them in the future.

Erik posts regularly in the TWC forum as Reflection Jimmy and Will does too, as Dunnboyz.

64 Demons - By Big_Evil

64 Demons is not so much a webcomic per se. It’s more of an online comic book. It’s got Demons, over-the-top violence, a lot of cursing and amazing art. The author goes by the name of Big_Evil at TWC and, contrary to Mack (the main character of 64 Demons), is an insightful, compassionate, thoughful person. A nice guy all around (he’ll be sooo pissed off to be described that way).

Briworld - By Brian Carroll

This comic is quite autobiographical. Starring Brian himself and his friends, it has amazing, clean art and very nice writing. Brian spends an inordinate amount of time at the movies, so quite a few of his comics are about movies recently released, and his take on them. Plus, Brian pulled off the best April fool’s joke of the TWC comics. Worth checking out, really.

Brian posts as classicbri at the TWC forum from time to time. He is quite level headed.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - by Zach This one is something of a rarity: One of the very few one-panel gag webcomics I have seen. Think Gary Larson on stimulants. Most of the jokes he posts make me laugh pretty hard.

Zach is known as Wiztoast over at the TWC forum, where he’s a regular.

— sergio on April 11, 2003