Webcomic post
Aug. 3rd, 2007 08:52 amThis post is as much for my benefit as yours - by having all these links posted in one place, I can check up on all my comics from any computer, without having to wrack my brain remembering how to get there.
Digger by Ursula Vernon (Tuesday and Thursday)
Some of you may be familiar with my mad fangirling of Ursula Vernon. She's a fabulous artist (check out her website, Metal and Magic), who has a true love of the ugly and unusual sides of nature. Digger is a comic that centers on the adventures of a wandering Wombat who has found herself lost in a strange place with even stranger company. She's brave, good hearted, and incredibly pragmatic. Along with the usual Vernon crazyiness (oracular slugs), there's a lot of well-read, terribly interesting detail in here, about everything from the social structure of hyena packs to the odder and more beautiful aspects of mythology from all over the world. Vernon has also published the early portions of the comic in trade book format. And here is something of hers that
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will like.
Girl Genius (Online) by Phil and Kaja Foglio (Monday Wednesday and Friday)
The art in this series will BLOW YOUR MIND. The first book's worth is in black and white, but after that, the whole thing is full color, and incredibly detailed and beautiful. The story is "gaslamp fantasy," which is to say there are Airship Armadas and giant, steam-powered robots and tiny clockwork lab assistants. It reads like an adventure novel. Agatha Clay is a student at Transylvania Polytechnic University who just can't get anything right - until the day her Professor is blown to bits and someone steals the locket her Uncle Barry gave her just before he disappeared.
Order of the Stick and Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob
These are not by the same person, but they are posted to the same website, Giant in the Playground Games. OotS is a stick figure RPG comic, and it is very funny. Erfworld is about a tabletop gamer who is summoned into a world of turn-based warfare, to be the ultimate warlord. It is also very funny.
XKCD by Randall Munroe
Hard to describe this one. It's a stick figure comic about math and science and life.
Dr. McNinja by Chris Hastings and Kent Archer
Dr. McNinja is both a doctor and a ninja. He kind of wants to be Batman, though. He even gets a kid sidekick part way through, who is a tiny bandito with facial hair who rides a velociraptor. Dr. McNinja's mentor is a medically resurrected clone of Ben Franklin. I am making none of this up.
The Holy Bibble by Cannan and Lucas
A very ambitious project - the entire bible as a humorous webcomic. This is at the bottom because it is not too frequent in it's updates. Which is a shame, because it is AWESOME.
Then there is Boy Meets Boy, which isn't updated anymore, but was brilliant for several years.
And I can't talk about webcomics without mentioning Scott Mccloud, who predicted the webcomic boom in his book Reinventing Comics. That book, and the "prequel" Understanding Comics, actually changed the way I think about art and storytelling so completely that it is mindboggling to me. The best part? His books about comics? Are all comics.
Digger by Ursula Vernon (Tuesday and Thursday)
Some of you may be familiar with my mad fangirling of Ursula Vernon. She's a fabulous artist (check out her website, Metal and Magic), who has a true love of the ugly and unusual sides of nature. Digger is a comic that centers on the adventures of a wandering Wombat who has found herself lost in a strange place with even stranger company. She's brave, good hearted, and incredibly pragmatic. Along with the usual Vernon crazyiness (oracular slugs), there's a lot of well-read, terribly interesting detail in here, about everything from the social structure of hyena packs to the odder and more beautiful aspects of mythology from all over the world. Vernon has also published the early portions of the comic in trade book format. And here is something of hers that
kasra_cwill like.
Girl Genius (Online) by Phil and Kaja Foglio (Monday Wednesday and Friday)
The art in this series will BLOW YOUR MIND. The first book's worth is in black and white, but after that, the whole thing is full color, and incredibly detailed and beautiful. The story is "gaslamp fantasy," which is to say there are Airship Armadas and giant, steam-powered robots and tiny clockwork lab assistants. It reads like an adventure novel. Agatha Clay is a student at Transylvania Polytechnic University who just can't get anything right - until the day her Professor is blown to bits and someone steals the locket her Uncle Barry gave her just before he disappeared.
Order of the Stick and Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob
These are not by the same person, but they are posted to the same website, Giant in the Playground Games. OotS is a stick figure RPG comic, and it is very funny. Erfworld is about a tabletop gamer who is summoned into a world of turn-based warfare, to be the ultimate warlord. It is also very funny.
XKCD by Randall Munroe
Hard to describe this one. It's a stick figure comic about math and science and life.
Dr. McNinja by Chris Hastings and Kent Archer
Dr. McNinja is both a doctor and a ninja. He kind of wants to be Batman, though. He even gets a kid sidekick part way through, who is a tiny bandito with facial hair who rides a velociraptor. Dr. McNinja's mentor is a medically resurrected clone of Ben Franklin. I am making none of this up.
The Holy Bibble by Cannan and Lucas
A very ambitious project - the entire bible as a humorous webcomic. This is at the bottom because it is not too frequent in it's updates. Which is a shame, because it is AWESOME.
Then there is Boy Meets Boy, which isn't updated anymore, but was brilliant for several years.
And I can't talk about webcomics without mentioning Scott Mccloud, who predicted the webcomic boom in his book Reinventing Comics. That book, and the "prequel" Understanding Comics, actually changed the way I think about art and storytelling so completely that it is mindboggling to me. The best part? His books about comics? Are all comics.
