Rookies

Adrian is right, On The Playground is surprisingly good, especially when you realize creator Alan Anderson is still only 12 years old.

The archives are short and the laugh ratio is pretty good – Anderson may just have a future in, if not comics, some kind of storytelling. Definitely worth a read. Continue Reading →

There are three new to relatively new webcomics, I wanted to mention this week: Pet Professional, Please Rewind, and School Spirit. Continue Reading →

Ad Grunts is a new strip about advertising. Slickly drawn and funny (two words: Tampon Transformer) this is a promising rookie.

Also creators, J.Cheng & H.B.Flyte, have done a nice job using the blogging software, WordPress, to run the archives for their site. Continue Reading →

Only a couple of episodes in the archives so far but for a literary geek like myself, The Epilogue by Reva Sharp is a clever idea filled with boundless possibilities. Taking place in the afterlife, the comic is filled with characters based on famous writers like Mark Twain, e.e. cummings, Slyvia Plath, etc.

The art is a bit… rough at this point and not every strip has delivered actual funny, but I’m just so taken with the concept that I can overlook that for now. Be sure to check it out. Continue Reading →

Robert Cook’s Keenspace-based webcomic The Mansion of E has reached the “500 strips drawn” milestone.
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Flatwood officially turns one year old this January 1, 2005. Creator Zachary Parker has crafted a special installment for the anniversary, available at his website. Continue Reading →

Non-sequitur comic Acid Zen Wonder Paint reaches its 300th update. Continue Reading →

On Monday next week (November 8th) Requiem will hit 100 episodes. Requiem is a dark sci-fi/fantasy story about the end of the world and its aftermath and is composed entirely with 3D rendering software.

Requiem updates daily. Continue Reading →

Idiot Farm has reached its 100th comic. Idiot Farm is drawn and authored by Jeremy Wagner and Justin Van Dyke (Van Dyke is on an extended break while in Ireland and won’t be back to work on the comic until February 2005).

Idiot Farm features extremely quirky and comically cynical characters. Started in July of 2003, the comic has regularly updated for over a year. You can also keep up with the Farm at the comic’s LiveJournal feed. Continue Reading →

Spamusement has reached comic #100. If you haven’t seen the comic, it take subject lines from the headers of spam email, and as the creator puts it “[I] let their creative brilliance fuel my artistic vision, where ‘artistic vision’ is defined here as ‘crude line drawings.'”

This is a funny webcomic folks and although in some ways it feels a bit like Exploding Dog, the absurd nature of spam subject lines veers the material here in a funnier direction than the broader emotional palette of Sam Brown.

Definitely worth checking out. Continue Reading →