Always strive to learn something useful. --Sophocles

Eleven comic collections available for $20, and you can designate a 10% charity donation to Girls Write Now. Titles include: Gastrophobia, Vattu, Weird Nothing, Umbagog, Wanderlust, The God Machine, and Supercell.

All volumes are PDF or epub, and the collection is up for the next three weeks.

https://storybundle.com/comics

It's quite a show, and they're so much fun!

https://foxtrot.com/from-the-archives-halloween-comics/

Featured on BBC News site yesterday, it's written by a woman who works at an unnamed bookshop in Perth, Australia. There are times she'd like to be able to eviscerate certain customers, so she started drawing little comics with herself as a wolf and her customers as ducks and rabbits and moose and such and brought her little fantasies to life.

While the archive goes back many years, she doesn't post daily so it's not a very deep dive, so it doesn't take long to plow through, plus there's no real continuity to worry about. Lots of fun! And one of my breakfast web comics recently completed its run, so I have a space I can slot in!

Completely non-adult and SFW. Cartoony violence as long as you don't mind seeing things like a wolf with a moose leg or a bunny in its mouth.

http://customerservicewolf.com/

It's been an interesting couple of days with the passing of both Harper Lee and Umberto Eco, but I wanted to share this, which is something that a lot of people don't know about:

Harper Lee was instrumental in nudging Berk Breathed in resurrecting Bloom County.

She sent him a note pleading with him to continue producing Outland, and though it took a while, eventually he brought it back.

Berk posted this on his Facebook page today:

Five graphic novels have been added from XKCD, Penny Arcade, and Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. The bundle is only available for another week.

http://www.humblebundle.com/

Shaenon Garrity's web comic Narbonic, a great collection of mad science, is finally being collected in a single volume! Now's your chance to support it, not that it really needs it: it's doubled its funding goal.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/250007708/narbonic-the-perfect-collection

The comic, though complete, still runs daily at http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic_plus/series.php

Pibgorn is about a fairy, Pibgorn, who has a crush on a church organist, who in turn has a jealous girlfriend. Said girlfriend happens to be a succubus. Problems ensue, get resolved, more problems ensue including vampires, poltergeists, time-traveling possession, dimensional rifts, super genius geeks, etc. I'm quite enjoying it. The creator, Brooke McEldowney, really knows his stuff musically, and he's been doing this strip since 2002! Absolutely HUGE archive, I've been working through it for several days and I'm only up to 2005, but I've really been enjoying it.

http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn


Our second new (to me) web comic, Jesus and Mo, portrays conversations between two apparent roommates, Jesus and Mo. It's not Mohammad, that would be profane, it's a body double. This strip is no where near as frequent updating as Pibgorn, but few are. Still, it goes back to 2005, but conveniently, the archive can be accessed as a month at a time, so it will be quicker to go through.

If you might be offended by inconsistencies being pointed out in Christianity or Islam, or quirks about unwavering belief, this might not be for you.

Here's the first page of the archive: http://www.jesusandmo.net/2005/11/


Enjoy! At least if you so desire.

It's been a while since I made a new YAWC post, and for anyone who has forgotten, YAWC stands for Yet Another Web Comic. I have a submenu button bar thing labeled Breakfast in Firefox and it opens 43(!) web comics every morning for me, along with Wired, Slashdot, and Angry Zen Master for news fixes.

I read Unshelved every day, and today's Sunday strip was by another webcomic artist, Chris Eliopoulos, a rare event. Chris has been nominated for Eisner and Harvery awards and actually makes a living as a freelance illustrator and has several mainline comicbooks for Marvel and DC to his credit.

His comic, Misery Loves Sherman is a pretty decent strip about a kid who's always getting beaten up by his little sister and happens to have two aliens living in his room. Christ started it on the last day of 2007 and has broken the 300 mark! Has a bit of a Calvin & Hobbs feel (IMO) along with some good contemporary criticism.

Check it out, you might like it. I've just started on the archive, hopefully I can stretch it out for a few days.

Warren Ellis is doing a free, weekly web comic! It's a post-apocalyptic human interest story with the following blurb: 23 years ago, twelve children strange children were born in England at the exact same time. 5 years ago, the world ended. This is the story of what happens next."

Warren's done some very cool work over the years, including Transmetropolitan, The Authority, and Planetary.

The link takes you to the first page. It's been running since February 15, so not too difficult to get current on the series.

http://www.freakangels.com/?paged=17

I have, in the past, posted what web comics that I read. It's been rather a while, and I needed to do some other bookmark maintenance, so here it is. Not all of them update daily, and a few are more adult-oriented, like Cyanide & Happiness and Least I Could Do.

Dilbert

Kevin & Kell (anthropomorphic)

Sluggy Freelance (weird science, just all-around weird)

User Friendly (ISP/geek humor)

Mega Tokyo (anime-based strip)

Bruno the Bandit (gaming-based)

Order of the Stick (gaming-based)

Ozy & Millie (anthropomorphic)

Two Lumps (talking cats, not anthropomorphic)

Dork Tower (gaming)

Turn Signals on a Land Raider (gaming)

Cyanide and Happiness (VERY weird and more than a little sick)

Fear the Boot (gaming)

Larry Leadhead (gaming)

Over the Hedge

Freefall (scifi, anthro)

Dark Legacy (gaming)

Unspeakable Vault of Doom (gaming, Cthulhu)

XKCD (fun strange)

Angry Zen Master (former web comic, now media news & stuff)

Angels 2200 (scifi, VERY slow updating, nearing end of run)

Least I Could Do (adult)

Looking For Group (gaming)

Bunny (I wouldn't call it anthro, very strange and funny)

Applegeeks (computer geeks)

Questionable Content (adult, lots of fun)

Narbonic (mad science, ended run but being re-run daily)

Project Skinhorse (mad science, same author as Narbonic)

What's New with Phil & Dixie (old gaming)

Buck Godot, Zapgun For Hire (old scifi)

Girl Genius (mad science)

Partially Clips (clipart web comic)

Wondermark (also clipart web comic)

Foxtrot

Opus

Doonesbury