Webcomics: S/D

i wish they were going to more webcomics like this one, but hey, stick figures make people happy, so who am i to argue
http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic+index

webcomics make it v hard for me to be cool

Life is so much gentler and richer w/the hatin' coming on in dave cool levels of apoplexy. I appreciate the rastraint.

don't know what dave cool has against When I Am King and Pup but would enjoy engaging with his restrained analysis

yall lost me

I'm not too surprised by the Order of the Stick thing - people who remember D&D fondly are probably a pretty good demographic at this point, and it's managed to write a pretty epic storyline with jokes in every one of 600=-odd strips. They have an enormous and devoted forum/community - but then who doesn't?

never saw pokey the penguin raise $1 million on kickstarter. just sayin

three word phrase is hit/miss but sometimes really great: http://threewordphrase.com/gregor.htm

so good: http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=338

she's the best

agreed

set forth the demon horde

I love Kate Beaton

the conversations she links to at the bottom of that post are amazing too. here's one: http://twitpic.com/9lvz6c

"to hell with her then" http://harkavagrant.com/mothersdaycomic.png

just crushing: http://harkavagrant.com/loss.png

she's pretty great

Yeah, hooray for Kate Beaton.

Have you guys seen her give a reading? It's totally inimitable, she has this amazing tossed-off rapid fire Hepburn delivery.

It's comfort-food -- not quite junk food but definitely not haute -- but Bad Machinery really hits the spot for me. Love those kids. Allison is a pretty tight plotter.

Bad Machinery is really good. I love the dialogue.

Yeah, Allison's stuff is great. Amazing how far he's come along, not that Bobbins was bad by any means, but his "kid's" material is so beyond it now.

http://beatonna.tumblr.com/post/26661311030/teen-consolidation-all-the-teens-in-one-place-i

i should really just start a thread for her

http://www.harkavagrant.com/nonsense/ponyghost.png

I really like the Hark! A Vagrants I've seen posted here. I'd never heard of Kate Beaton before.

her comics are available on the web and most people probably know of her from the web but i dunno if it's really a webcomic other than by those two criteria.

i thought all of her comics originate on the web? what else would the definition be?

i kno lolwiki but the first line of her wiki page is "Kate Beaton (born September 8, 1983) is a Canadian webcomic artist."

well at some point garfield will also fit those criteria, too, so there needs to be something else.

Godddddd I love Mystery Solving Teens.

http://www.harkavagrant.com/nonsense/teenssm.png

No matter how many times I read this, it fucking slays.

Teen exhaling smoke with his head back while his friend flicks a cigarette

The baker! I knew it!

or perhaps a doobage

xp

well at some point garfield will also fit those criteria, too, so there needs to be something else.

http://www.4thletter.net/wp-content/plugins/smilies-themer/SAEmoticons/emot-colbert.png

yeah...

i have an easier time thinking of garfield as a webcomic than hark a vagrant to be honest.

The baker! I knew it!

I love Kate's reading of this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlDCSDdYg1k

All of her comics created for the web seems kind of a crucial distinction from Garfield.

I mean, as webcomics go.

why is there no hark rss feed whhhyyyyyyyyyyy

rss link here http://beatonna.tumblr.com/

i was looking for examples of really good webcomics a few years before, and really couldn't find any. I thought perry bible fellowship and hark a vagrant would fit the bill, but it turned out both comics had been published in print before putting stuff on the web, and it seemed like the web being the primary delivery vehicle for the comics is just an economic decision rather than an aesthetic one.

I'm not sure it's ever an aesthetic decision - has anyone claimed that they would turn down an offer of being printed in newspapers because their art is ill-suited to the medium?

the dude who made leisure town said he thought his stuff would look terrible in print.

hark a vagrant was published before its livejournal days? PBF was "published" but i think in a student newspaper or something

every time this thread comes up i have to force myself from turning it into an obnoxious personal blog

I think it's more that Kate Beaton was doing her stuff for her student newspaper with her art style and presumably catering to her interests, so it wasn't called that, but (I guess, I've never seen it?) none of it would look out of place in hark a vagrant.

yeah i think hark was either in a newspaper or a zine. i'm not very hopeful for webcomics anymore, and i feel like being crappy is sort of a prerequisite for being one, but i do feel like it's a distinct thing from regular comics (not just in being crappy), and hark a vagrant doesn't feel like one (not just because it's not crappy) while garfield does (not just because it's crappy). i'm not sure what's the litmus test, though.

You have completely lost me on Garfield, that is the definition of a newspaper comic (and not just because it's crappy)