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(Updated 15 March 2004) Added Death to the Extremist.
(Updated 19 January 2004) Added Daily Dinosaur Comics.
(Updated 17 December 2003) Added girly.

Comics I read pretty much every day.

• Achewood by Chris Onstad
  Very funny. Very impressive fan art collection.

• WIGU by Jeff Rowland
  It's not WIGU, it's WIGU. Takes place in the same town, but with different characters (one of whom is named Wigu).

• Scary-Go-Round by John Allison
  A Bobbins spinoff!

• Scare-O-Deleria by Shelley Winters
  Slicin' life with a spoon.

• Diesel Sweeties by Richard Stevens
  Exploding Dog linked to DS one day, and I followed it. It was amazing to watch its quick rise to the top. Not that it doesn't deserve its popularity; very original style, good gag-a-day writing, Indie Rock Pete.

• Goats by Jon Rosenberg
  It's Goats. Jon got bored and made up a strip loosely based on him and his roommate Phillip, and it's been going for over five years now.

• A Chipmunk and a Lizard by Jon Thayer and Howard August
  Woodland creatures half-heartedly insult each other.

• Boy on a Stick and Slither by Steven Cloud
  Reminds me of George and Abe.

• White Ninja Comics by The Creators
  Fills the otherwise empty niche between Buttercup Festival and Chopping Block.

• Daily Dinosaur Comics by Ryan North
  A fatalism vs. free will CAGE MATCH.

• Death to the Extremist by M. Zole
  Atomic comedy.

• Cat and Girl by Dorothy Gambrell
  Cat and Girl have cartoon adventures fighting evil, boredom, and Joseph Beuys.

• Buttercup Festival by Elliott Garbauskas
  Looks like death.

• Ozy and Millie by David C. Simpson
  Timulty is one of my favorite webcomic characters, especially when he's played against his hyper-popularity-conscious big brother Avery. Not to belittle the comic's title characters, who along with their parents deliver the (sorry to say it, David) Calvin and Hobbes humor we've all been missing.

• Bob the Angry Flower by Stephen Notley
  Another of the first comics I started following. It's great.

• Cigarro and Cerveja by Tony Esteves
  Awesome character humor. I love the art, and Galão's recent promotion to main character status makes for an even more interesting dynamic.

• Commander Kitty by Scotty Arsenault
  This guy should totally have an animated series.

• Creatures in my Head by Andrew Bell
  ...I never even met the guy.

• Sam and Fuzzy by Sam Logan
  Seems to be pretty funny, tho' a little too visually busy.

• girly by Josh Lesnick
  A very special Cute Wendy sequel.

• Penny Arcade by Gabe & Tycho
  It's Penny Arcade. Another of the first few strips I started reading.

• Exploding Dog by Sam Brown
  Sam draws pictures about titles that people send to him.

• The Grimbles by Burke
  Pseudo-Victorian gag-a-day humor.

• Not Gonna Take It by Meredith Gran (aka Kiwi)
  Cute.

• Post-Modern Muse by Cedric Henry
  Lobst from JFC moves in with some other genetic experiments.

• Adventurers by Mark Shallow
  I tend to avoid video game-related strips, but I'm an RPG junkie and Adventurers goes beyond the easy jabs at video game Engrish. I also dig its (albeit simple) drawing style.

• StarSomething by Ian J. and Mark Shallow
  Their powers combine into the form of a sorta StarTrek parody.

• RPG World by Ian J.
  Um, ditto on the RPG thing. "*Sigh*. Times are tough."

• IanComix by Ian J.
  The life and times of Ian J.

• College Roomies From Hell!!! by Maritza Campos
  While the art isn't anything special, the characters grew on me after reading the archives. It's really risen to the top of the saturated college-students-living-together genre.

• Lizard by Dave Kelly
  The Lizard family from LiG in their own spin-off strip.

• Purple Pussy by Dave Kelly [MA]
  Cats and stuff.

• Smut by Dave Kelly [NC-17]
  People and animals with no pants, possibly doing possibly illegal things to each other. It's Dave Kelly, and I read Dave Kelly comics.

• ? by Aric McKeown
  Professor Ashfield stands and smokes.

• Men In Hats by Aaron Farber
  Pentasmal's Aaron Farber's new strip, involving men wearing hats.

• BoxJam's Doodle by BoxJam
  I read the archives and was afraid it was going to be another Jim's Journal (which I like, btw), but it acquired a style of its own after a while. BoxJam is so normal and so convinced by his family that he's useless.

• Chopping Block by Lee Adam Herold
  I'm still kinda undecided on this one, though it may just be the one-panel thing getting to me. It's a very original drawing style, kinda looks like he does pencil shading on paper cutouts then assembles the pieces afterwards.

• Owlie! by Mike Leffel
  OWLIE NEED SLEEPIES!!!
  An owl-related strip by the Fat Jesus guy.

• Dragon Tails by Tim Dawson
  It's still a mystery to me what method Tim uses to draw the strips. I'm convinced he has some 3D modeller that outputs the sorta cell-shaded panels in the final result.

• It's Walky! by David Willis
  What can I say? It's Walky is like a force of nature. It's very story-driven, and most of the characters will still have dark pasts to dig up when all other web comics have crumbled to dust. I like the drawing style, especially that big fat line. And the writing is so well-controlled that some weeks every day is a cliffhanger; you can't wait to see what'll happen tomorrow. However, sometimes it feels like a gag-a-day style is being forced onto the story; even if it's a somber moment, there'll still be a joke in the last panel.

• Funny Farm by Ryan Smith
  FF is one of the comics that I take for granted; I'm going to be reading it every day until something happens to either me or Ryan. I love the characters and their quirks, and I never get bored with them.

• Elf Life by Carson Fire
  I gave up on EL once in the past, thinking it was far too slow. Then I revisited it about a year later, realizing that I needed to read it with more of a comic book (v. strip) mindset. Now I read it every day, focusing on the overall story rather than the day-to-day payoff.

• Sluggy Freelance by Pete Abrams
  I've noticed that Sluggy was a lot of people's first web comic; it was the same with me. A good, solid comic I've been reading ever since.

• Superosity by Chris Crosby
  Superosity really is in a class by itself. Super Chris's bottomless innocence/ignorance played against Boardy's near-omniscience and Super Bobby's "adorable" absolute evilness creates a unique dynamic you won't find anywhere else. Nor will you find anything like Superosity's drawing style, with its insanely sharp smiles and wrinkled old men.

• Pokey the Penguin by The Authors
  HORRAY

• Electric Sheep by Patrick Farley
  Not updated very often, but when it is you get a lot.

• American Elf by James Kochalka
  James Kochalka's daily sketchbook diary, now on the web! He's been doing it since October 1999, and it's been published in two volumes so far.

  I met James at APE 2002. Lookie!

• Hutch Owen: Public Relations by Tom Hart
  Hutch Owen is one of my favorite characters, and his being on MT is the main reason I subscribed (at first anyway); you should definitely buy The Collected Hutch Owen.

  Lucky me, I met Tom at APE 2002. Check it out!

• Fancy Froglin by James Kochalka, Superstar
  Seems like kind of an afterthought, but it's funny in the right places.

• American Born Chinese by Gene Yang
  I just bought A Journey to the West, the classic Chinese novel upon which this comic is based.

• Fleep by Jason Shiga
  I've actually read a good chunk of this series before, but it's being re-released on MT. It has asphyxiation, urine-drinking, and math.

• Patent Pending by Jon Rosenberg
  Yeah, the Goats guy. His story Pizza Delivery Boy as Hero in Modern Literature is finally realized, in comic form.

• The Weird Worlds of Pewfell Porfingles by Chuck Whelon
  I've barely started on the archives (partly because of MT's poor archive system) but it looks great. I love the inking, if nothing else.

• Sketchbook by Jeff Crowther
  I love the big, fat, grafitti-style art!

• The New Adventures of Death by Dorothy Gambrell
  Cat and Girl's neighbor Death and some potatoes.

• Hound's Home by Ryan Duchane
  I love Sandy. Eh-oh uh-oh!

• Pope Alien Comics by Them As Who Draws Pope Alien Comics
  Everybody's an alien, everybody's a Pope.

• Skidrow by Sputnik, OtakuOhki & Zeddy
  Cause Ryan Smith said so.

• Kid Clango by rstevens
  Diesel Sweeties's rstevens's bi-weekly comic about DS's Clango as a kid robot.

• Life on Forbez by Clarence D. Cuasay (aka CDC)
  I've always seen people talking about LoF, but I had never actually read it. It's great! Plus CDC has some of his pencilled pages up as well, which I think is hella rad.

• Mystic For Hire by Jeff Zugale and Chris Wichtendahl
  A pretty rad Illustrator/Flash comic-book-style strip.

• It's Gravy by Matt Gardner
  It's It's Gravy. Check out Matt's Gravy Train, too.

• milestown usa by James Point du Jour
  I'm branching out.

• Fluble by Chris Mastrangeto
  Rhymes with BUBBLE!

• Nothing Nice to Say by Mitch Clem
  Online Punk Comic Strip

• Unicorn Jelly by Jennifer Diane Reitz
  An incredible comic series. Beanworld-scale world building from the atomic to the cosmic level, with an epic story to back it up.

• Jeremy by Jon Morris
  "Thanks lady! but if you gave us raisins, I'mo come back and spider-rampage!"

• Pentasmal by Aaron Farber
  YOU WILL GET NOTHING.
  As good as it was before, the strip improved dramatically once Aaron brought back Blue and Pink and started drawing the strips by hand. They're fairly simple characters (artistically and personality-wise), but that's part of what makes it good.
  Aaron's working on Men In Hats now.

• Bobbins by John Allison
  The hair! You'll never find a better comic-hair-artist than my man John Allison. And it's just plain funny, both because of the writing and because Americans think everything British is funny. Funny in a cultured, cross-dressing way. (You can blame John Cleese for that)

• Cute Wendy by Josh Lesnick [MA]
  Wai! The original Wacom anime strip! (I don't know what "wai" means, but it always shows up in anime strips). But only the art is J-related; the rest is good old-fashioned American funny.

• Big Ones by Dave Kelly [MA]
  Big Ones aka Otaku Feh aka Shmorky.org has been taken over by some other guy now that Dave has had enough of it. If the archives are still there, it's well worth browsing through... there's some great stuff hidden there.

• Irritability by Mike Woodson
  This is one of the few well-drawn strips that could survive on its humor alone. The writing really reminds me of Michael Kupperman (of Snake'N'Bacon fame).

• JFC by Cedric Henry
  Lobst has moved to Aesop's Decision.

  I dunno, it's oddly compelling. The writing is actually really good, regardless of the subject matter. And I like the cockiness of the web page.

• Living in Greytown by Dave Kelly [MA]
  Who'd have though we'd see the day; Dave Kelly has ended his amazing LiG.

  He obviously spent a lot of time on each LiG strip, seeing how they're colored-penciled-up and all. And while it lost the "every day's a funny day" quality it had at first, it gained a sentimental aspect that isn't too common.

• When I Grow Up by Jeff Rowland
  WIGU (not WIGU) "ended" once before, in September 2000. This time it looks for real. Luckily Jeff hasn't left the comix business; check out his daily WIGU.

  I had only read a couple of When I Grow Up strips before its original demise in September 2000, but when it came back I was hooked. I love the interaction between the characters, especially between Roger and everyone else.

• Sheldon by Dave Kellett
  Actually, it got syndicated and I'm just too indie to read it at United Media.

• Eagle-DNA by Bob Scott
  ** Jampe! Jampe! Jampe! **
  Inspiration for the Owlie! comics, by the co-creator of Fat Jesus.

• Have a Nice Life by Scott Hilton
  Stick figure comic.

• Space Losers by Daniel Willingham
  Yet another BoxJam-suggested strip. A good example of how drawing a regular strip improves your skills.

  The little "about the species" blurbs show how much Daniel has put into the behind-the-scenes story, giving the main story a lot more depth.

• Fat Jesus by Mike Leffel
  I definitely like Mike's Owlie! better.

• Exploitation Now by Poe
  Hm.

• Earth by David McGuire
  It's the guy who used to do Citrusville, which I used to read. I like his art a lot, but his writing, pacing, character development need work.

• Krazy Larry by Paul Southworth
  I really don't know why, but I can't stay interested in this strip.

• The Mr. Chuck Show by J. Myers
  I like Ned, but he's not compelling enough to get me to read it every day. I did buy a t-shirt, though.

• The Japanese Beetle by Dave "The Knave" White
  I don't remember why, but I just sort of stopped reading this at some point.

• Sinfest by Tatsuya Ishida
  I don't have a problem with his work visually; it looks great. But I get the feeling that Tatsuya has three ideas and alternates between them in a far-too-rapid fashion. Plus he's way too quick to jump on other artists for plagiarism, especially when their intent is satire.

• PvP by Scott Kurtz
  For all I know he's a great guy in person, but I don't like the Scott Kurtz I've gathered from his strips and rants. PvP drips with his (apparently) enormous ego, untempered by self-criticism, doubt, or shame.

• User Friendly by Illiad
  I went to the site for the first time in years to check the author's name, and anger swept over me in a bitter wave. Although I like free stuff, I strongly dislike the Open Source movement and its attitude, which is the driving force behind this strip. The worst blow, however, is how the art hasn't improved (or even changed!) since the strip started all those years ago. Ick! Poo! It was crappy then, and it's just as crappy now.