Exploring the artistic medium of comics with the kid-gloves long gone.
Atypical of the standard webcomics format, Anders Loves Maria is a self-contained story that recently completed its three year run. Slice-of-life style story of a quarter-life couple and their decision to have a baby.
(One of the added joys of reading a long-running webcomic is seeing how the art style evolves. This is a nice example of that.)
Hundreds of manga series are available to read online for free over at Tokyopop and Viz.
A lot of manga have a dozen or more volumes, and getting started on one can be quite an investment. Tokyopop and Viz are two of the biggest publishers of manga in North America, and each has a good selection of titles that you can preview before you buy, or just read the whole thing right there (as nice as the free internet is, there are still comics shops that need support!)
There are also a few places online where you can find countless free manga scans, although legality begins to get tricky.
Very clever idea that takes a well-known – yet stale – newspaper strip and injects new life into it. Simply by removing the sarcastic cat from Jim Davis’ Garfield strip, Dan Walsh creates an even funnier, if at times creepy or sad, experience. Sometimes the results are downright profound.
