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Being a responsible adult can put a serious dent into one's comic book budget, or in my case, completely obliterates it. So the promise of free and easily accessible comics is too good to pass up. Let me introduce you to the world of Web Comics.
The good Web Comics tend to be more intelligent and more thoughtful than the drugstore variety. There is also a much greater range of genres in Web Comics, as opposed to the spandex clad one trick pony served out by the major comic publishers.
I'll try to steer you clear of the duds and give you a basic working knowledge of Web Comics in this Lens.
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A Glossary of Web Comic and Related Terms
Doujinshi: Manga or Comic created by fans (i.e. Megaman comics). A copyright nightmare often ignored by the original creator(s) because it is flattering and usually harmless profit-wise.
Example: http://ppg.snafu-comics.com/?strip_id=1
Furry: Anthromorphic characters, think Mickey Mouse or the Thundercats. Animals as people, the genre has a fanatical fandom and gets ribbing from the other guys but a good story is a good story - fur or no fur.
Example: http://www.cyantian.net
Manga: Japanese for comic book. Manga are targeted at all age groups and cover a wide range of genres. Western comics which are typically based around superhero themes.
Manga is traditionally read back to front and right to left, it takes getting used to but becomes second nature after a bit.
Example: http://gomanga.com
L33t: Leet or Elite, based on the ascii rantings of caffeine powered online gamers. Numbers and punctuation marks are often used to replace letters. "W00t! 1 pwned u! 1M uber L33t!" Also annoying when overdone, you have my permission to smack offenders in the head.
Example: http://www.megatokyo.com/index.php?strip_id=9
Sprite: Not a fizzy drink. Sprites are blocky, low resolution pictures often associated with Nintendo and such. Sprite Comics are made by cutting and pasting these sprites into backgrounds and adding voice balloons.
Sprite Comics are often the refuge of the Art Impaired endowed with the Funny.
Example: http://chibi.pixelatedempire.net/index.php?comicID=12
Example: http://ppg.snafu-comics.com/?strip_id=1
Furry: Anthromorphic characters, think Mickey Mouse or the Thundercats. Animals as people, the genre has a fanatical fandom and gets ribbing from the other guys but a good story is a good story - fur or no fur.
Example: http://www.cyantian.net
Manga: Japanese for comic book. Manga are targeted at all age groups and cover a wide range of genres. Western comics which are typically based around superhero themes.
Manga is traditionally read back to front and right to left, it takes getting used to but becomes second nature after a bit.
Example: http://gomanga.com
L33t: Leet or Elite, based on the ascii rantings of caffeine powered online gamers. Numbers and punctuation marks are often used to replace letters. "W00t! 1 pwned u! 1M uber L33t!" Also annoying when overdone, you have my permission to smack offenders in the head.
Example: http://www.megatokyo.com/index.php?strip_id=9
Sprite: Not a fizzy drink. Sprites are blocky, low resolution pictures often associated with Nintendo and such. Sprite Comics are made by cutting and pasting these sprites into backgrounds and adding voice balloons.
Sprite Comics are often the refuge of the Art Impaired endowed with the Funny.
Example: http://chibi.pixelatedempire.net/index.php?comicID=12
FDisk Store - Buy Stuff, Feed a Web Comic Artist
- FDisk Store
- I moved all my stores to another Lens to ease the clutter. Clicky!
Glossary - Warning Words
The terms below are used to identify Adult Material and knowing them will keep you from accidentally wandering into offensive material.Hentai: A Japanese slang word meaning perverted or perversion. Hentai is pornographic material.
Yaoi: Also known as shounenai or boy's love. Yaoi manga features homosexual relationships between male characters.
Linkage
- Fosferus.com
- Various chunks of me tossed out for your derision.
- Wiki Webcomic
- Lots of dry information about a juicy topic
- Live Comics
- Web Comics that are updating regularly
- Paused Comics
- Web Comics that have either stopped updating or rarely update but have good archives.
- Finished Comics
- Done, The End, Fini - Read the Archives and avoid cliffhangers.
- Eye Candy
- These are very well drawn comics, both colored and black and white.
- Web Comic Lists
- Lots of Web Comics, with ranking set by reader votes
- Wire Theory
- The Feed Fosferus Website otherwise known as my ISP.
- Keenspot
- Keenspot is a Web Comic host. Keenspot is one of the grandaddies in the Web Comic scene, been around forever.
- Drunk Duck
- Another Web Comic host. Well established and well used.
- Comics Dot Com
- Old School comic strips, like you see in the comic section in the newspaper. I love Frazz.
Squid Pool - Other Lens that I like
- Comic Book Nook
- by Heath Row - A man so cool the Brits named an airport after him.
- Cartoons
- by Curtis Tucker - a Cartoonologist
