Here’s a list of great comics on the web. They’re broken into three categories: Comic Strips, like the ones you’d find in the news paper (Peanuts, Foxtrot, Dilbert and more); Web Comics, like comic books that are usually posted one page at a time (as the creators make them!); and Comics on the Web, where you can find whole issues of comics online for FREE!
Comic Strips
Foxtrot Comic (http://www.foxtrot.com/)
Click here to read Foxtrot online.
Comics.com
All of your favorite comics together on one site, including Lola, B.C., Dilbert, Get Fuzzy, and more! Register to save your favorite comics to one page.
GoComics (http://www.gocomics.com/)
Another site that has all your favorite comics, including Calvin and Hobbs, Foxtrot, Non Sequitur, Ziggy and more.
Nedroid (nedroid.com)
It’s a bear that looks like a potato… It’s Beartato!
Precocious (precociouscomic.com)
Cute, evil geniuses. Unlike most kids, however, these are furry
Unshelved (http://www.unshelved.com/)
Full of library and book humor. You wouldn’t like it. Plus, every Friday they review a book in comic form.
Web Comics
Atomic Robo (http://www.nuklearpower.com/atomic-robo/)
Nothing beats watching robot secret agents blow stuff up, am I right?!
Axe Cop (axecop.com)
Dreamed up by a 5-year-old and drawn by his 29-year-old brother, this comic is crazy, in a man-turns-into-dinosaur-who-turns-into-an-avocado way.
Gunnerkrigg Court (http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/)
Antimony Carver is a starting her first year of school at gloomy Gunnerkrigg Court, a very British boarding school that has robots running around along side body-snatching demons, forest gods, and the odd mythical creature. You can find this comic in our library in print form, or read it all online for free!
Girl Genius (www.girlgeniusonline.com/)
Adventure! Romance! Mad Science! This comic is based in a Steampunk world where mad scientists run a muck (and run the world). If you prefer to read it in book format, you can request the volumes from Kirkwood Public Library through our library catalog!
Spare Keys For Strange Doors (sparekeyscomic.com)
A man who can speak to everything and a practicing witch are in the business of helping you out with your problems…and cleaning up your magical messes.
Comics on the Web
Dark Horse Presents–Hosted on MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/darkhorsepresents)
Dark Horse Comics is a major comic publisher (publishing Hellboy and Sin City), and here they give you the chance to preview some of their most anticipated comics! You don’t need to log into MySpace to view, so enjoy!
