Webcomics I read

Here's a quick and dirty post that I've meant http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifto do for a while.

I read comics. I like 'em. Pre-K, the music jukebox had a program called dailystrips that screen-scraped web pages for comics images. (This is back in the dark days before RSS was as popular as it is now.)

Right now, here's what I've got in my RSS reader, to the best of my recollection. (Mom, some of these use naughty words. You might not want to click.) I need to add this to my sidebar.

• Ctrl-Alt-Del
• Diesel Sweeties
• For Better or For Worse
• Lucid TV
• Octopus Pie
• Order of the Stick
• Penny Arcade
• Perry Bible Fellowship
• Questionable Content
• Shortpacked
• Wondermark
• XKCD

Can anyone suggest some comics I should be reading?

Making Comics

Last Sunday, comics guru Scott McCloud came to local comic shop Austin Books as part of a whirlwind fifty-state tour to promo his new book, Making Comics. I haven't finished reading it yet, but his earlier book, Understanding Comics, is well worth reading if you've ever had a passing interest in comics. It's truly a literary treatment of What Is Comics and Why. Cat had it in an Art History class as a textbook.

I assure you that any blurriness in the photo is due to my own motion, not any sort of elaborate photo trickery.

I own all three of these. Start with the first, if you haven't already.


Photo credit: Lea Hernandez.