What The Illust reads

As someone who counts reading the internet as one of my favorite books, people sometimes ask me what sites I frequent a lot. Usually this comes up in the form of "Where do you FIND this stuff?", and the answer would be....a lot of places. At last count I've got 144 subscriptions in my Google RSS reader, that's a lot of daily information. Course with school and whatnot, I barely have a chance to get to it all within one day, but that's why these posts are so long, there's a lot of cool stuff out there, some related to art and design, and I like sharing.

Anyway, besides the blogs over there on the right, those are great blogs with good content always, I read teh webcomics. Some of them are web only, some are print based. but they're all funny stuff, and some of them are downright awesome to look at (some of them not so much, but that's part of their charm.

There's a lot of lists of the best webcomics out there, and that got me looking at a bunch of new comics, but also inspired me to make this post as well. So here we go:

Married to the Sea

All clip art with new scripts, good times.

Get Your War On/My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable

Speaking of clip art, this guy started as a temp worker using clip of karate people to create weird strips in his spare time, moved onto strips about office life, and the started criticzing the Afghanistan/Iraq war from the get-go. Now he's in Rolling Stone and some alternative papers. Certified gold.

Achewood

weird and unsettling=success!

Alien Loves Predator

Mostly retired now, but the archives are great, Alien and Predator share a apartment in NYC, sometimes with Jesus, hilarity ensues.

Dr. McNinja

Grand story arcs, a well computer drawn, mostly daily comic about a doctor who is also a ninja. hyah!

Explosm!

The first (in alphabetical order) in a couple of webcomics by someone who can't (or won't) draw. That doesn't make it not funny, or not irreverant, or not awesome.

Get Fuzzy

A print comic, but one that doesn't get a huge amount of love, except by people who really like animals. Personally I love Conley's visual style, and believe it's one of the better executed strip comics out there (not that kind of "strip" sicko).

Hobotopia (aka Laugh Out Loud Cats)

We all love I can has cheezburger?, and while it's almost over as an internet meme, this guy is prolific. Great old-school style, ink, rapid-fire (at least a couple comics a day), and cats, where do you go wrong?

Lio

Some say it's the heir to Calvin and Hobbes, it's got it's moments, especially when it lampoons other comics, but it's not C&H yet. But for being entirely dialogueless, and simple yet detailed comic that goes a hell of a long way.

Maakies

Maakies is like the Cerebus of strip comics. Still underground after tons of years, impeccably drawn, hard to comprehend, adored by people who know about it.

Thingpart!

Kind of a visual style reminiscent of when Perry Bible Fellowship (see below) goes low-brow, with a similar humor. I'm not saying it's a copycat in anyway, it's kind of like how Nirvana and Pearl Jam were very similar yet completely different.

XKCD

XKCD is sort of the pioneer and the most notorious of strictly web comics. Drawn by an engineer, and it looks like it, and the themes are mostly techy, but this guy is smart and it shows, which makes it worthwhile.

Perry Bible Fellowship

One of the best. The ability to draw in any style, irreverant themes (see a pattern?), offbeat humor, one to watch and hold on to.

that's it. there's other fun stuff that I watch, but that's all for now.