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Recommended Comics

1. Print Comics

   These are the gold standard strips. Unfortunately, they're all defunct.
   
   
   1. Peanuts (Charles Schultz)
      
      
   2. Pogo (Walt Kelly)
      
      
   3. Calvin & Hobbes (Bill Watterson)
      
      
   4. Krazy Kat (George Herriman)
      
      
   5. Bloom County (Berke Breathed)

2. Web Comics

   1. Sluggy Freelance (daily)
      The gold standard of online comics, Sluggy Freelance has been mixing dumb puns and sight-gags with sophisticated plot and character-development for over a decade of ultra-long story arcs.
      
      
   2. Diesel Sweeties (daily)
      An absurdist reconstructivist haiku of a strip
      detailing the love triangles and misadventures of a mixed lot of robots, humans, and pop culture icons.
      
      
   3. 1/0 (archives only)
      Another reconstructivist strip, notable for mixing
      gag-a-day humor with true philosophical and theological depth, and for exploring hard questions on the nature of God and existence.
      
      
   4. A Lesson Is Learned But the Damage is Irreversible (on hiatus)
      Gorgeous, surrealist visuals and absurdist plots.
      
      
   5. Slow Wave (weekly)
      A communal dream journal
      
      
   6. The Right Number
      A surreal melodrama with a novel combination of imagery and technology by comics guru Scott McCloud.
      
      
   7. Dr. McNinja (semi-weekly)
      The name tells everything there is to know about this strip.
      
      
   8. Pirate Cove (daily)
      Dumb jokes and random, complex adventures (reminiscent of early Sluggy).
      
      
   9. The New Adventures of Bobbin (irregular) WARNING: Mild Adult Themes
      The demented adventures of a school girl from Singapore.
      
      
   10. Something Positive Archives (archives/daily)
       WARNING, ADULT THEMES and LANGUAGE
       Note: I can really only recommend the archives on these, which are bitter and twisted, but extremely funny. The more recent strips have the same sensibility, but are more of a soap opera and less of an entertainment.
       
   
   
   (Tailsteak's "1/0"...R. Stevens' "Diesel Sweeties"......)

3. Shameless Plugs

   • Guest Artist Week - I'm part of the group that produces --er, produced!-- this comic.
     
   • Herbert the Walrus - This is my sister's comic strip
     
   
   
   
   

4. Graphic Novels

   I'm no comic book expert, but I do recommend the following:
   
   
   
   
   1. Maus - Art Spiegelman
      
   2. Beanworld - Larry Marder
      
   3. Action Philosophers - Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey
      
   4. "War Council" (in Rumic World Trilogy Vol. 3) - Rumiko Takahashi
      
   5. "Dreamtoons" - Jesse Reklaw
      
   6. "Understanding Comics" - Scott McCloud
      Valuable insights for any artist, not just those working in comics.