Sunday, March 18, 2012

I love Webcomics.....sigh....

I just wanted to do a little shout out to some of my favorite Web Comic Illustrators. These folks are seriously skilled storytellers. I obsessively check for updates daily.

These are my top Six.... I have about 25 bookmarked, but that'd be rather tedious to list them all....


1. Cucumber Quest by Gigi DG
    Amazing! Adorable and a fun story. The humor is light and silly, which I love. But the color kills me!!!!! So good. She doesn't use any line either, just like Samurai Jack.
http://cucumber.gigidigi.com/


2. Friends with Boys by Faith Erin Hicks
    It's about a young lady who was previously home-schooled going to high school for the first time with her three older brothers and her adventure. Its all black and white, but the line is RIDICULOUS!!! I love the style of her characters. They actually look like teenagers!
http://www.friendswithboys.com/


3. Scary Go Round and Bad Machinery by John Allison
     I'm not sure on the age of the characters, I think they're young teens and british. So they say funny things and wear uniforms. Anywho, these kids solve mysteries and are funny in the process. I love the way he draws these funky kids. The sharp angles and flat shapes are so engaging. sigh.... awesomeness.
http://scarygoround.com/


4. Cleopatra in Spaaaaaace by Mike Maihack
     I stumbled across this one because I read through his Cow & Buffalo Series (I highly recommend as well!). Cleopatra has been cloned in the future and she fights bad aliens while attending high school. So...  ya know... totally awesome!
http://www.cowshell.com/cleopatra/


5. Johnny Wander by Ananth Panagariya & Yuko Ota
     It seems like mostly a comic journal for the writer and illustrator, but they through in short stories every once and a while, but they always make me smile.
http://www.johnnywander.com/

6. Sarah and the Seed by Ryan Andrews
    While this webcomic is finished, I still look at to remember how much I have to strive towards (aka remember how much I suck!lol). Its a black and white, but crazy elegant. Such an unusual story that just kept glued to my chair until I finished it. So Good!
http://www.ryan-a.com/comics/sarahandtheseed01.htm



So that list should keep you busy for a while. Seriously. Check these people out. None of them know I exist, so I'm not getting some sort of kickback for this promotion...though that'd be cool! I just know I love looking at these images and I can't wait for the next page in the story.

5 comments:

adam taylor said...

Thanks for sharing Cassie! That last comic is really amazing!

Cassie said...

No problemo! I loOOoooove Webcomics. I'd like to do one someday.... sigh. In the meantime I feast on these!

Mike Grace said...

You are awesome! Thanks for sharing your favorites!

Shara Mills said...

One that I love is called Lackadaisy. It's basically cats + prohibition. You should check it out.

Cassie said...

Shara, I like it too, but that one doesn't update as often as I wish it did. The art on Lackadaisy is awesome thought. Another that I like is called "Today Nothing Happened." Its a journal comic that's pretty fun.

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