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- 2 Cows and a Chicken
2 Cows and a Chicken
Subscribers: 9500
No one in town -- neither the real estate developer nor the relatives -- was happy when Farmer Ray left everything to his beloved farm animals. So they fled in fear, leaving a spunky young girl named Pearl to battle for their rights. Now the farm is th...
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Web Exclusive, boys, girls, pets, offbeat. - 9 to 5
9 to 5
Subscribers: 24846
Rancorous bosses, quirky workers, and an up-and-down stock market populate the world of 9 to 5. A cast of regular characters include J.B. Wells (the boss), Sims (office flunkey) and Ms. Forbes. While mainly a satire on business, the comic also pokes fu...
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single panel, work. - The Academia Waltz
The Academia Waltz
Subscribers: 9466
The Academia Waltz was Berke Breathed's first cartoon, published daily from 1978 to 1979 in The Daily Texan at The University of Texas at Austin, where he was a student. The strip focused primarily on college life, although it sometimes made refere...
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mature themes, Web Exclusive, dating, alternative, classic, ended, controversial. - Adam@Home
Adam@Home
Subscribers: 38736
Welcome to the new way to office, straight from the humor of Brian Basset. Follow this hilarious yet true-to-life work-at-home dad, Adam, as he deals with job deadlines, minivan support groups, sibling arguments and marital bliss while chasing down ove...
- Agnes
Agnes
Subscribers: 12186
Tony Cochran’s Agnes is a whimsical look at childhood through the eyes of the title character and her best friend, Trout. What sets this strip apart is the focus on that limbo just before little girls discover boys and appropriate social skills.
- Andy Capp
Andy Capp
Subscribers: 33509
Andy and his wife, Flo, live out the epitome of functional dysfunction. From the pub to the bedroom, Andy’s misadventures paint an indelible portrait of an extremely British battle of the sexes. Join Andy and Flo as they bicker their way through ...
- Animal Crackers
Animal Crackers
Subscribers: 23405
Lyle the lion, Eugene the elephant and the rest of these civilized animals deliver a glimpse of life in the Freeborn Wildlife Preserve. Animal Crackers’ brief text and clean drawings are great for kids. These adorable animals will have readers la...
- Annie
Annie
Subscribers: 18735
Loved as an American icon and respected as an adventurer, Annie’s voyages pit her against some of the comics pages’ most notorious criminals. Annie’s tireless pursuit of justice has reinvigorated this classic strip, giving it more act...
- The Argyle Sweater
The Argyle Sweater
Subscribers: 30314
The Argyle Sweater presents a surreal, hilarious (and sometimes punny) look at the world you think you know. Armed with a willingness to explore every edge of the surreal, Scott Hilburn’s creation presents his sharply unique take on history, ever...
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single panel, offbeat, alternative. - Ask Shagg
Ask Shagg
Subscribers: 16904
Need animal answers? Ask Shagg, Mouth, or Rosko. This trio of helpful household pets was created by Peter Guren to tackle questions of all kinds. The illustrations are delightful, and younger children will especially enjoy having their questions answer...
- B.C.
- Back in the Day
Back in the Day
Subscribers: 915
It was a different world back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. There were as yet no sugar substitutes, so hyper-activity was rampant. And brains were small, so I'm with stupid t-shirts were hot. It was a time of abundant flora and verbal fun-a, a roug...
- Bad Reporter
Bad Reporter
Subscribers: 23684
From Ann Coulter to aspiring Hollywood starlets, to The Da Vinci Code, to President Bush, this comic puts is own spin on current events not limited to the world of politics. Bad reporters like Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass blurring the lines between f...
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political, alternative, controversial. - Baldo
Baldo
Subscribers: 28683
Baldo is our first comic strip that features Latino characters and themes. Baldo lives with his parents and works at Auto Y Rod, Inc., selling car parts. Through his daily exploits in the world of girls, cars, and little sisters, readers will learn jus...
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Latin Appeal, family, boys, girls. - Ballard Street
Ballard Street
Subscribers: 29109
If you think your neighbors are weird, wait ’til you meet the wacky denizens of Ballard Street. Jerry Van Amerongen’s strip presents one-panel vignettes about the neighborhood. From the synchronized cell-phone users to the schemes of pets, ...
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single panel, pets, offbeat. - Barkeater Lake
Barkeater Lake
Subscribers: 20841
Barkeater Lake is the fake story of the real Delores Tanzini's move from the Metropolitan NY area to the rural tree infested town of Barkeater Lake, located in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State. Looking for peace and quiet from the loud and wa...
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Web Exclusive, women, pets, dogs. - The Barn
- Barney & Clyde
Barney & Clyde
Subscribers: 508
Barney -- J. Barnard Pillsbury -- is the billionaire founder and CEO of Pillsbury Pharmaceuticals. Barney thinks he has it all – power, wealth, a pampered existence with a statuesque trophy wife – until he meets Clyde Finster, an intelligent, entertain...
- Basic Instructions
Basic Instructions
Subscribers: 16757
Basic Instructions started out as a small side-feature Scott Meyer created to entertain people who came to his website looking to hire a comedian. It wasn't long before the comic was far more popular than anything Scott ever did as a comedian.Basic...
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Web Exclusive, alternative, men. - Bewley
Bewley
Subscribers: 1668
The strip focuses on the day-to-day lives of a family of blue birds. The hero, the husband and the father. The ever-optimistic Bewley is consistently undermined by the shenanigans of his over-protective wife and twins Bea and Tonus. Only Coco the egg l...
- Big Top
Big Top
Subscribers: 20279
Where else would you find this motley combo of characters but in the circus ring? Throw in Pete, a 10-year-old boy growing up in the circus, and you’ve got Big Top-- aka The Bestest Show on Earth!These lovable animals deal with everyday real worl...
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Web Exclusive, boys, girls, pets, ended. - Biographic
Biographic
Subscribers: 5210
Biographic provides teen readers with information that will actually interest them in a format that is completely different from the many text books and magazines they are bombarded with everyday. It combines Steve McGarry’s bold, realistic artwo...
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Web Exclusive, single panel. - Birdbrains
Birdbrains
Subscribers: 22753
This high-flying single-panel comic spotlights and savors the foibles, stupidity, and goofiness of our colorful unnatural world. It's all about attitude, as the denizens of Bluemel's realm devote themselves to surviving life's pitfalls, whe...
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Web Exclusive, single panel. - Bleeker: The Rechargeable Dog
Bleeker: The Rechargeable Dog
Subscribers: 26884
Ah, the joys of a boy and his dog. His robotic dog...Yes, Skip Smalls’ dream of a canine sidekick came true when Bleeker beeped into his life -- batteries included. For this delightful duo it’s not just about tug of war and the gnawing of b...
- Bliss
Bliss
Subscribers: 6407
Men, women, smart-aleck pets, relationships, hackers, slackers, modern life, modern strife-they're all fair targets for New Yorker cartoonist and best-selling children's book illustrator Harry Bliss. Blending equal parts sass and sophistication...
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single panel - Bloom County
Bloom County
Subscribers: 50673
Berkeley Breathed'sclassic comics, Bloom County and Outland, are right here!
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Web Exclusive, men, women, political, religious, alternative, classic, ended, controversial. - Bo Nanas
Bo Nanas
Subscribers: 24241
Meet Bo Nanas. He’s a three-foot-tall talking monkey, just trying to make his way through this crazy world. Bo has a different way of dealing with things, being a monkey and all, and his habit of being refreshingly direct can have a strange effec...
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Web Exclusive, pets, alternative, ended. - Bob the Squirrel
Bob the Squirrel
Subscribers: 26160
Welcome to the wonderful world of obsessive compulsive cartoonist Frank Page and his band of misfits. Bob the Squirrel chronicles the life and times of Bob, a squirrel and Frank, the human he's taken in as his own. Other ingredients in this comic s...
- The Boiling Point
The Boiling Point
Subscribers: 22750
Self–described “angry cartoonist” Mikhaela Reid’s multi–panel weekly strip The Boiling Point offers up her unique and steaming blend of passionate political satire, darkly whipsmart humor, moral outraged–ousness and ...
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mature themes, political, alternative, controversial. - Boomerangs
Boomerangs
Subscribers: 9116
Boomerangs is a multigenerational family strip featuring Jane Tinker, a recent divorcée and mother of two who suddenly finds herself a member of the new "Boomerang" generation when her financial situation forces her to move back into h...
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Web Exclusive, family, women, dating. - The Boondocks
The Boondocks
Subscribers: 27248
Meet Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks: Huey and Riley Freeman, Jazmine DuBois, and Huey’s best friend, Caesar. This comic strip reflects the racial diversity and complexity of our world. Combining Huey’s childish antics with contemporar...
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Web Exclusive, political, ended, controversial. - Bottomliners
Bottomliners
Subscribers: 20476
Cartoonists Eric and Bill Teitelbaum skewer the world of business and finance in Bottom Liners, a nationally syndicated business comic panel appearing six times weekly. Bottom Liners tackles subjects such as foreign takeovers, office politics, getting ...
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single panel, work. - Bound and Gagged
Bound and Gagged
Subscribers: 12278
With a keen appreciation for puns and an off-beat sense of humor, Dana Summers creates a hilarious and bizarre new world in each panel of Bound and Gagged.
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single panel - Brainwaves
Brainwaves
Subscribers: 7610
Dip your toes into BRAINWAVES and let Betsy Streeter’s stream-of-consciousness cartoon panel wash away your anxieties with its cool, clear insights and unabashed enjoyment of our irony-enhanced world. Streeter savors the absurd differences betwee...
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single panel, women, alternative. - Brenda Starr
Brenda Starr
Subscribers: 21023
June Brigman and Mary Schmich’s classic soap-opera strip was a pioneer: a comic featuring a strong female lead character. Brenda Starr’s adventures, if not a realistic portrayal of a reporter’s life, have nevertheless captured the ima...
- Brewster Rockit
Brewster Rockit
Subscribers: 27955
Brewster Rockit is an unlikely captain. He’s woefully ill-prepared to lead ... and that’s part of his charm. Orbiting the stars in the space station R.U. Sirius, Brewster and his crew of misfits encounter a constantly challenging set of int...
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men, work, alternative, robots, geeky, adventure, Superheroes, offbeat. - Broom Hilda
Broom Hilda
Subscribers: 33912
Living in an enchanted forest with surrealistic landscapes, the engaging characters of Broom Hilda happily have no connection with reality. Other comic characters are extensions or distortions of reality, but Broom Hilda deals in pure fantasy, making t...
- Café con Leche
Café con Leche
Subscribers: 518
- Calvin and Hobbes
Calvin and Hobbes
Subscribers: 90104
Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes has been a worldwide favorite since its introduction in 1985. The strip follows the richly imaginative adventures of Calvin and his trusty tiger, Hobbes. Whether a poignant look at serious family issues or a rou...
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for kids, Web Exclusive, imaginary friends, family, men, women, boys, girls, religious, classic, ended, Superheroes. - Candorville
Candorville
Subscribers: 16025
Darrin Bell’s Candorville is an insightful look at family, community and race through the eyes of Lemont Brown, a young black writer. Bell pulls no punches and delves into even the most controversial of issues. The wit and humor of the strip will...
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alternative, men.
- Cathy
Cathy
Subscribers: 28143
Newlyweds Cathy and Irving navigate the treacherous waters of couple-hood. From pampered pets to prying parents, they’ve got a lot to learn! Wedding or not, it’s still all about Cathy - she personifies the young career woman and her typical...
- C'est la Vie
C'est la Vie
Subscribers: 23665
Enjoy the existential adventures of transplanted Parisienne Mona Montrois as she chain-smokes her way to equilibrium in the City of Angels, armed only with the sage advice of confidant and adviser Monsieur Smokey, a lewd, chauvinistic stuffed bunny.
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imaginary friends, pets, alternative, women. - Chuckle Bros
Chuckle Bros
Subscribers: 5330
Humor can be found in just about every nook and cranny - down dark alleys, deep in space, far out to sea and hidden under grates. These are just a few of the myriad settings which serve as a backdrop for our zany cartoon, Chuckle Bros.From early civili...
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single panel, men, offbeat. - Citizen Dog
Citizen Dog
Subscribers: 9124
Just in time for the dog days of summer -- Mel, your everyday kind of guy, and Fergus, your not so everyday kind of dog, have returned to GoComics to replay their successful seven-year, knee-slapping comic for old fans and new.
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Web Exclusive, pets, dogs, ended. - The City
The City
Subscribers: 22335
With its tortured perspective, gritty realism, and outlandish urban humor, Derf’s The City has kept an outsider’s beat on current events, trends and out-there aspects of contemporary culture since 1990. Whether depicting the coarse insanity...
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political, alternative, controversial. - Cleats
Cleats
Subscribers: 24905
As any soccer mom or dad knows, the sport has been steadily growing in popularity in recent years, especially among young people! Kids will love a comic about one of their favorite sports, and parents will relate to the comic’s ever-supportive ba...
- Close to Home
Close to Home
Subscribers: 22457
John McPherson makes us howl at his adroit mix of everyday settings and extraordinary events. John’s offbeat, oddball characters turn up in familiar places, but their actions are always hilarious and unexpected. Interested in a Close To Home O...
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single panel, women, men. - Compu-toon
Compu-toon
Subscribers: 20804
If you’ve ever struggled to turn your cell phone off, thought cookies were just a delicious snack, and tried in vain to talk to a human customer service rep, Charles Boyce has created a strip for you. Compu-toon reminds us that technological inno...
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single panel, work, geeky. - Cornered
Cornered
Subscribers: 21502
How do you react when you're cornered? Talk your way out, prepare for battle or insist you're just fine and dandy? Mike Baldwin's Cornered characters reflect the full spectrum of these reactions - all the while doing their very best to be taken serious...
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single panel, work. - Cul de Sac
Cul de Sac
Subscribers: 30153
Richard Thompson's Cul de Sac, is a comic strip about the life of a pre-school girl named Alice Otterloop. It is a light-hearted comic strip centered around a four-year old girl and her suburban life experiences on a cul-de-sac with her friends Beni an...
- Daddy's Home
- Deep Cover
Deep Cover
Subscribers: 21846
Deep Cover’s unique style of provocative political satire has won it a loyal following. Using an unusual mini-movie storytelling format, recovering lawyer Tim Eagan punctures pompous personalities, deflates bloviators, and attempts to shine light...
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mature themes, political, alternative. - Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy
Subscribers: 22734
Chester Gould, a veteran cartoonist, began drawing his most legendary character, the dashing and daring Dick Tracy for the newspaper comics page in 1931. Modeled in the image of the innovative Sherlock Holmes, Gould was inspired to create new crime-fig...
- Dog Eat Doug
Dog Eat Doug
Subscribers: 29404
Babies and puppies are both quite cute, but underneath the soft, cuddly exteriors lie the fearsome hearts of competitors. Well, not really. When a new baby joins the household, Sophie the dog is initially irritated, but eventually comes to see the baby...
- Domestic Abuse
Domestic Abuse
Subscribers: 19752
Jeremy Lambros’ Domestic Abuse is the result of his long standing personal grudge with inanimate objects, convinced they were either conspiring against him or responsible for his every hardship. Anyone who has ever struggled to program their VCR ...
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Web Exclusive, single panel, alternative. - Doodles
Doodles
Subscribers: 5380
Doodles by Steve Sack and Craig Macintosh is a popular full-color activity feature promotes learning for children ages 5 to 8. Professor Doodles and his snuggly animal friends stimulate young minds with riddles, entertaining puzzles and fun facts.
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for kids - Doonesbury
Doonesbury
Subscribers: 41584
G.B. Trudeau’s Doonesbury is currently in its thirty-ninth year, tracking its eighth presidential administration. Trudeau maintains his studio in New York and his Web presence at www.doonesbury.com.
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political, men, controversial. - The Doozies
The Doozies
Subscribers: 6076
TV writer Tom Gammill (Seinfeld, The Simpsons) delivers a new doozie every day. His YouTube videos, Learn to Draw with Tom Gammill, will not teach you how to draw.
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Web Exclusive, family, marriage, offbeat. - The Duplex
The Duplex
Subscribers: 27480
Once upon a time there was a duplex where a young bachelor named Eno and his dog, Fang, shared an ultra-macho haven of beer snacks and male-bonding. Suddenly, their lives turned co-ed when Gina and her poodle, Mitzi, moved into the other half of their ...
- Eek!
Eek!
Subscribers: 13101
Do you like penguins, unicorns, puppies and rainbows? Then don't read EEK! EEK! has nothing to do with that junk. But if you like cadavers, mutants, chainsaws, zombies, cockroaches, telemarketers and other vermin, you've come to the right place...
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creepy fun, men, alternative, geeky, offbeat. - The Elderberries
The Elderberries
Subscribers: 22084
Phil Frank’s The Elderberries centers around Dusty, a cowboy whose middle aged daughter has decided it’s time for him to hang up his spurs and move to Elderpark, a retirement community. While there, Dusty meets the Professor, a great brain ...
- Flight Deck
Flight Deck
Subscribers: 8706
Peter Walder’s Flight Deck focuses primarily on the unintentional comedy of belonging to a family. Warning: the ideas contained in this strip will be dangerously appealing to your inner five-year-old.
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single panel, work. - Flo and Friends
Flo and Friends
Subscribers: 22973
Cartoonists John Gibel and Jenny Campbell have created a spirited and intelligent look at aging and the generation gap. This strip features a group of older women and men dealing with the perils and perks of being old, the rules of chocolate, and deali...
- The Flying McCoys
The Flying McCoys
Subscribers: 14170
Gary and Glenn McCoy’s delightfully absurd comic panel takes superheroes, office humor, huggable animals and twisted relationships, blending them in a bizarre marriage of Gary Larson, The New Yorker, Conan O’Brien and Mad Magazine. Both awa...
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single panel, men, Superheroes, offbeat. - For Better or For Worse
For Better or For Worse
Subscribers: 57072
Since its debut in 1979, For Better or For Worse has touched comic strip readers as few cartoons ever do. Cartoonist Lynn Johnston’s eye for detail and her uncanny sense of what real parents and children struggle with daily are a big part of her ...
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family, women, girls, pets, dogs, classic, marriage. - For Heaven's Sake
For Heaven's Sake
Subscribers: 17155
In September of 1991, Mike Morgan began drawing For Heaven’s Sake!, a comic strip published in the religion section of The Macon Telegraph. The weekly cartoon celebrates the faith and pokes fun at the foibles of the characters who make up the con...
- Fort Knox
Fort Knox
Subscribers: 1812
Fort Knox chronicles the life of a military family: Dad, Major Joe Knox; Mom, Jane Knox; and their two boys, Donald and Wesley. The family has picked up and moved — again — thousands of miles from family and friends to take up residence at Joe's new as...
- FoxTrot
FoxTrot
Subscribers: 52368
FoxTrot is a comic strip with attitude, wit and a big dose of reality. Bill Amend’s brilliant understanding of sibling rivalry and generational struggles comes to life in a refreshing blend of humor and truth. Readers of all ages will love this g...
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for kids, family, men, women, boys, girls, pets, geeky, marriage. - FoxTrot Classics
FoxTrot Classics
Subscribers: 39064
FoxTrot is a comic strip with attitude, wit and a big dose of reality. Bill Amend’s brilliant understanding of sibling rivalry and generational struggles comes to life in a refreshing blend of humor and truth. Readers of all ages will love this g...
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for kids, Web Exclusive, family, men, women, boys, girls, pets, ended, geeky, marriage. - Frank & Ernest
Frank & Ernest
Subscribers: 31325
Frank and Ernest, created by Bob Thaves, chronicles the antics of two "everyman" characters who are anything but ordinary! They appear in different settings, time periods - even manifest as things and creatures other than people. The variety ...
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single panel, classic, men. - Fred Basset
- Free Range
- Frog Applause
Frog Applause
Subscribers: 24331
"Frog Applause reminds one of learning to read, in the sense that each word in the captions seems 'surprising' and new. Teresa's writing takes one back to that fresh state of mind (typical of, but of course not limited to, childhood) i...
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mature themes, alternative. - The Fusco Brothers
The Fusco Brothers
Subscribers: 23748
J.C. Duffy’s hilariously unique comic strip features the four Fusco bachelors - Rolf, Lance, Al, and Lars, along with Lance’s girlfriend, Gloria, as well as Axel, the Fusco’s faithful wolverine. These wacky characters startle and deli...
- Garfield
Garfield
Subscribers: 62770
What a cat! A cat for all seasons. Sassy. Opinionated. This lasagna loving, mailman chasing, sarcastic cat is a classic that readers love. Garfield, Odie and Jon will leave you wanting a daily dose of this beloved bunch! Garfield’s crafty talent ...
- Garfield Minus Garfield
Garfield Minus Garfield
Subscribers: 12923
It's Garfield-as you've never seen him!Come savor the existential adventures of Jon Arbuckle in Garfield Minus Garfield. Based on the phenomenon ignited by Dan Walsh's hilarious and wildly popular webcomic (beloved by The New York Times and...
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Web Exclusive, pets, cats, alternative, offbeat. - Gasoline Alley
- GET A LIFE!
GET A LIFE!
Subscribers: 1354
Get a life! is a common admonition, one more easily uttered than accomplished. Tim Lachowski's cartoon panel of the same name offers telling glimpses of the process in all its awkward absurdity. Whether or not its sly dry capture of life’s rimshot mom...
- Gil Thorp
Gil Thorp
Subscribers: 18552
Createdby Neal Rubin and Rod Whigham for and about teenagers, Gil Thorp has developed an intensely loyal readership of all ages. It is a sports strip that is not just about sports, sometimes dealing with topical, teen-oriented issues.
- Ginger Meggs
Ginger Meggs
Subscribers: 21796
Ginger Meggs has been entertaining readers since 1921, making it one of the longest running comic strips in history. Australia's favourite boy is ready to take on school, homework, bullies and the world with a special blend of boyish adventure and ...
- Girls & Sports
Girls & Sports
Subscribers: 9368
In the world of Girls & Sports, best friends Bradley and Marshall explore their mutual passion -- girls -- through the lens of their mutual obsession -- sports. Justin Borus and Andrew Feinstein’s Girls & Sports is Bradley and Marshall&rs...
- Haiku Ewe
Haiku Ewe
Subscribers: 5806
A fab comic stripWritten deftly in haikuHaiku Ewe wants love
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Web Exclusive, single panel, pets, alternative, offbeat. - Heart of the City
Heart of the City
Subscribers: 28524
Follow the antics of Heart, the precocious yet endearing young star of Mark Tatulli’s Heart of the City. Growing up in Philly with her single mom, Heart encounters endless challenges such as dealing with her nanny, Mrs. Angelini, planning her fut...
- Heathcliff
Heathcliff
Subscribers: 33622
Called the "Cat of the Century" by a major cat magazine, Heathcliff has been an incredible success. The cat is loved and recognized by millions in all corners of the globe. In addition to being published in hundreds of papers, the comic has b...
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single panel, pets, cats, classic, Spanish. - Herb and Jamaal
Herb and Jamaal
Subscribers: 18055
After attending a high-school reunion and re-establishing an old friendship in 1998, Stephen was inspired to create the comic strip Herb and Jamal -- as a tribute to lasting friendships and a reflection on a life well lived. Herb and Jamaal have seen e...
- Home and Away
Home and Away
Subscribers: 8645
Sam and Sandy Szwyk, typical parents juggling careers and child care. Sam and Sandy find it hard enough to make sure Karen and Timmy are where they need to be when they need to be there (not to mention appropriately dressed); when you factor in their b...
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Web Exclusive, family, work, marriage. - Housebroken
Housebroken
Subscribers: 25533
Housebroken exposes what happens when two sides of the black community -- the hip-hop and the suburban -- clash under one roof. Watkins’ characters are endearing and cool. Housebroken comes with attitude and a sense of humor that appeals to young...
- Hubert and Abby
Hubert and Abby
Subscribers: 20058
Heads-up comics fans, the hamster’s in the house. Or is Hubert a guinea pig? Even he’s not sure. But the house belongs to Abby, the bemusedly good-natured nurse he lives with, amuses, and annoys. When Hubert’s not browning marshmallow...
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pets, alternative. - Imagine This
Imagine This
Subscribers: 3348
Some adults wistfully wonder what became of the imaginary friends of their childhood. Not Darin. His are sitting on the couch, too-constant companions sharing every strange moment of his cheerfully frustrated life. There’s Dewey the Dinosaur, wit...
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Web Exclusive, imaginary friends, offbeat. - In the Bleachers
In the Bleachers
Subscribers: 15963
Whatever your athletic interest, golf, baseball, running, or basketball and whether you haven’t picked up a ball since high school or you’re a serious sports fanatic, everyone can see the humor and irony highlighted by In the Bleachers. Ste...
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single panel, sports, men. - In the Sticks
In the Sticks
Subscribers: 2266
In the Sticks is silly, absurd, smart and LOL funny. It's an affable strip about an ex-golf professional who's inherited a nearly bankrupt golf club populated by three very odd animals who (usually) try to help him make it work.
- Ink Pen
Ink Pen
Subscribers: 20052
Ink Pen: the insider’s look at the seedy underbelly of cartoon character employment. Find out what happened to loveable Bixby the Rat! Witness the struggles of Ham Hock, the talking pig, as he tries to break into a business that sees him as nothi...
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pets, work, Superheroes, geeky, offbeat. - It's All About You
It's All About You
Subscribers: 17379
Michael and his girlfriend, Gina, frequent a local café where the barista, Chris, is the coffee counter therapist for all his self-involved customers. Chris listens (or pretends to listen) to patrons like Gina’s friend Maggie, who is addic...
- Joe Vanilla
Joe Vanilla
Subscribers: 3763
Joe Vanilla is your average, ordinary, regular guy -- working in today’s corporate setting, dealing with life’s little hardships and inconveniences and celebrating its achievements. He faces silly office politics, administrivia, confusing t...
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single panel, men, women, work. - La Cucaracha
La Cucaracha
Subscribers: 21893
La Cucaracha is a unique strip that provides a view of the world through the sharp, satiric lens of its young Latino characters and the fertile mind of acclaimed creator Lalo Alcaraz. Growing up on the U.S./Mexico border gave Lalo a dual outlook on lif...
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Latin Appeal, political, work, dating, controversial. - Last Kiss
Last Kiss
Subscribers: 7814
Pairing vintage comic art with hilarious, new dialog by Disney veteran writer John Lustig, Last Kiss revels in the absurdities of love, lust and 'life with lip.' The series originated when Lustig bought the publishing rights to a romance comic ...
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single panel, men, women, offbeat, alternative. - Legend of Bill
Legend of Bill
Subscribers: 3486
Legend of Bill is about wannabe barbarian Bill and his best pal Frank the blue dragon, who, unsatisfied with their mundane lives as file clerk interns in the local castle accounting department, decide to set off for adventure in the free-as-a-bird life...
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Web Exclusive, boys, girls, work, adventure. - Liberty Meadows
Liberty Meadows
Subscribers: 22203
Liberty Meadows is the very popular strip by Frank Cho. Featuring talking animals and dimwitted humans, Liberty Meadows is hilarious. While the humans worry about the development of the various animals, no one is having more fun than the animals themse...
- Lio
Lio
Subscribers: 38849
The world of Lio is filled with the extraordinary - monsters under the bed, wild reptile pets, robot inventions, weird science - but it's all commonplace for this most uncommon first-grader. Mark Tatulli renders thispantomime strip in pen-and-ink s...
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creepy fun, family, boys, girls, pets, pantomime, geeky, Spanish. - Little Dog Lost
Little Dog Lost
Subscribers: 18372
A lost little dog’s picture hangs on a telephone pole, a note begging for his return, reward offered, no questions asked. But the picture was taken some time ago, the poster now faded and curled from sun and rain. The Little Dog is a long way fro...
- Little Otto
Little Otto
Subscribers: 5756
Little Otto is a typical 5-year-old boy. (Be afraid. Be very afraid.) His friends include Karen (the superior female), Clyde (not the sharpest crayon in the box), Madison (the Uber Nerd), and Raggs (the Wonder Dog). Together they share all the wonder a...
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Web Exclusive, family. - Loose Parts
Loose Parts
Subscribers: 10832
A wacky one-panel for the more erudite reader, Loose Parts combines literary references with bad puns and brings together everything from nursery rhymes to '60s elevator music.
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single panel, alternative. - Love Is...
- Maintaining
Maintaining
Subscribers: 21418
Nate Creekmore'sMaintaining looks at the oddities of life through the eyes of an interracial teenager. The cast includes Marcus, the hero of the strip, and a biracial high school student who is not quite sure of himself or the world. Marcus is tryi...
- Mal and Chad
Mal and Chad
Subscribers: 22481
Meet Malcom, a child prodigy who keeps his genius a secret from his mom, his teacher, and his classmates because he wants a regular childhood. Though he could be attending college, Mal chooses to stay in his fourth grade class for the sake of his great...
- The Meaning of Lila
- The Middletons
The Middletons
Subscribers: 25695
Ralph Dunagin and Dana Summers’ The Middletons pokes gentle fun at the realities of middle-class America. The cast of characters features Morris and Midge Middleton, the archetypical suburban family and their next-door neighbors, The Wades. Ernes...
- Momma
- Mutt & Jeff
Mutt & Jeff
Subscribers: 23346
One of the classics, having started in the San Francisco Chronicle almost 100 years ago. Mutt and Jeffhas became part of our cultural vocabulary and the strip continues to attract audiences around the world who appreciate clean, straightforward humor t...
- Mythtickle
Mythtickle
Subscribers: 11757
Welcome to the MythTickle realm, where eclectically charming deities and legendary creatures try to get along, and hopefully bring some comfort to the world. There's good ol' Boody, the last dragon, the ultimate upbeat innocent — and Dudl...
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Web Exclusive, boys, girls, serials, adventure. - Nest Heads
Nest Heads
Subscribers: 23453
Baby-boomers Charlie and Jeannie could enjoy the peacefulness and quietude that belongs to empty nesters - if their children would actually leave them alone. Three generations of the Stevens family provide a readers with a poignant and hysterical depic...
- NEUROTICA
NEUROTICA
Subscribers: 18598
NEUROTICA aptly (and inventively) names the state of mind of the heroine of this charmingly high-stress strip. Set in San Francisco, it charts the lively times of Petunia, a young woman on the edge of fashion and of a nervous breakdown. By day she cope...
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women, girls, dating, alternative. - New Adventures of Queen Victoria
New Adventures of Queen Victoria
Subscribers: 13935
Join HRH Queen Victoria as she daily levels her regal gaze upon the fools and tomfoolery of our time. Along with her classically-rendered co-characters Prince Albert, Anne Boleyn, George III (aka “Grandpa”), Mrs. Clipart and Maurice, Queen ...
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Web Exclusive, alternative, offbeat. - Non Sequitur
Non Sequitur
Subscribers: 62928
Non Sequitur is Wiley Miller's wry look at the absurdities of everyday life. A hit with fans of all ages, the strip is syndicated in more than 700 newspapers. Non Sequitur has received four National Cartoonists Society divisional awards, the most prest...
- The Norm
The Norm
Subscribers: 20555
Michael Jantze’s The Norm is the comic strip for the everyman -- that is, if that everyman is a little bit geeky, constantly confused by the opposite sex, and willing to be a little strange just to shake things up! The clever dialogue and bold ar...
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Web Exclusive, men, work, dating, ended. - On A Claire Day
On A Claire Day
Subscribers: 11113
The step into adulthood is a scary one. So much is new, unfamiliar, frightening, incomprehensible. Claire has just taken this step. She’s moved from her parents’ to her own apartment, to start life as an "adult". Armed with a good...
- One Big Happy
- The Other Coast
The Other Coast
Subscribers: 11573
Born 1957 in Dunedin, New Zealand, Adrian Raeside got his start in cartooning by drawing on washroom walls as a kid. After being expelled from his first (and last) art class at the age of 15, he moved with his parents to England, then on to Canada, whe...
- Out of the Gene Pool Re-Runs
Out of the Gene Pool Re-Runs
Subscribers: 27524
Can’t we all just get along? It’s not the easiest question these days. With all of our differences, it’s amazing the Earth still rotates in one direction. Out of the Gene Pool is a comic strip with characters you might recognize from ...
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Web Exclusive, family, men, women, work, dating, ended. - Overboard
Overboard
Subscribers: 31282
Don’t miss the daily misadventures of cartoonist Chip Dunham’s clever crew of shipboard malcontents, incompetents and laggards. Overboard stands out with a pointed wit that has dagger-sharp timing and effect. Louie, the ship’s faithfu...
- Pibgorn
Pibgorn
Subscribers: 26641
A fantastic saga of adventure both high and low, of forbidden passion and iambic pentameter, of fays, fools, organists, demons, accordions, heaven, hell and Shakespeare,Pibgorn follows the whims and flights of its eponymous fairy heroine as she plies h...
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mature themes, Web Exclusive, men, women, alternative, serials, controversial, adventure. - Pibgorn Sketches
Pibgorn Sketches
Subscribers: 6227
A fantastic saga of adventure both high and low, of forbidden passion and iambic pentameter, of fays, fools, organists, demons, accordions, heaven, hell and Shakespeare,Pibgorn follows the whims and flights of its eponymous fairy heroine as she plies h...
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mature themes, Web Exclusive, men, women, alternative, serials, controversial, adventure. - Pickles
Pickles
Subscribers: 43466
Pickles, syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group for more than 15 years, tells the story of Earl and Opal Pickles as they enjoy their golden years surrounded by friends and family. A perennial favorite with readers of all ages, Pickles has topp...
- Pinkerton
Pinkerton
Subscribers: 25022
Need a change of scenery? Welcome to Pinkerton National Park. Meet Buckley, a happy-go-lucky fox, lover of walks in the forest and hedgehog fajitas. And Tucker Rabbit, a brash, sarcastic divorced sourpuss – with 42 offspring he craves, unsurprisi...
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Web Exclusive, men, women, boys, girls, pets, alternative. - Pluggers
Pluggers
Subscribers: 27111
America’s first interactive, reader-participation comic -- Pluggers chronicles the hardworking people the world depends on. They represent the 80 percent of humanity who unceremoniously keep plugging along -- balancing work, play and family life.
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single panel, family, men, women, religious. - Pooch Cafe
Pooch Cafe
Subscribers: 27653
Pooch Café is the story of a cheese-loving, squirrel-fearing, kibble-desiring, break-dancing, toilet-drinking mutt named Poncho. Dogs, like certain barflies, want to go where everybody knows their name (other than the vet’s office.) So the...
- PreTeena
PreTeena
Subscribers: 24025
Remember those transitional years between childhood and adolescence -- the days when you were playing on the swing set one minute, and daydreaming about the fifth-grade love of your life the next? This is the life of Teena Keene -- almost 11 years old,...
- The Quigmans
The Quigmans
Subscribers: 17654
Conjured up from the depths of the very unusual imagination of Buddy Hickerson, The Quigmans is a satirical reflection of the absurdities of life through the offbeat exploits and predicaments of several characters, combining shocking views of commonpla...
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single panel, alternative, offbeat. - Rabbits Against Magic
Rabbits Against Magic
Subscribers: 8388
Behold, two rabbits: Eightball, an ever-upbeat offbeat optimist, and Weenus, sarcastic and small, one-eyed, bitter. The latter is possessed by an Ignatizian longing for the unobtainable Trixie -- bohemian, reader of existential philosophy, master of th...
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Web Exclusive, boys, girls, offbeat, Superheroes, pets. - Real Life Adventures
Real Life Adventures
Subscribers: 31114
Dogs, bosses, garden slugs, who sits next to who at Thanksgiving, cheating at golf, fretting the night away, carping couples on long trips, eating over the sink, toenail clippings, cosmic order, hairballs, flop sweat, coughing into one’s elbow, clogged...
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single panel, family, work, marriage, men, women. - Red and Rover
Red and Rover
Subscribers: 31654
Follow the adventures of 10-year-old Red, a boy who dreams of going to space and loves baseball, and his dog Rover, a loyal friend and chaser of squirrels. Whether flying through space, bouncing on the moon, fishing, waiting for Popsicle Pete, or deliv...
- Red Meat
Red Meat
Subscribers: 21951
Begun in 1989, Max Cannon’s Red Meat is one of the most popular independent comic strips today, currently appearing in over 75 alt weeklies and college papers in the U.S. and abroad. Usually bizarre, sometimes tasteless, always delightfully twist...
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mature themes, alternative, women, men, controversial. - Reynolds Unwrapped
Reynolds Unwrapped
Subscribers: 9982
Millions of people across the country are getting into Reynolds Unwrapped, from Reader’s Digest and Esquire magazine (just to name a few), to greeting cards, nationally published books, and much more. ’ Come on in, leave your shoes on (beca...
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single panel, offbeat. - Ronaldinho Gaucho
Ronaldinho Gaucho
Subscribers: 5804
A comic strip about the world’s best soccer player? You bet. In this sweet and positive comic strip, Brazilian comics master Mauricio de Sousa has collaborated with the great Ronaldinho to project in fanciful details the life of Ronaldinho Gaucho...
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for kids, Latin Appeal, sports. - Rubes
Rubes
Subscribers: 14252
Talking cows, less-than-bright kids and multiple varieties of flora and fauna make their appearance in the witty offbeat cartoon panel, Rubes by Leigh Rubin. Rubin’s hilarious cast of characters and absurd view of the world have made Rubes a favo...
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single panel, women, men. - Scary Gary
Scary Gary
Subscribers: 7590
Mark Buford's Scary Gary presents an all-too-common problem: vampires in the suburbs. Butthis vampireisn't out for blood;Gary hasturned over a new leaf. Hanging up his cape for good, Gary takes up residence in a quiet community, dragging his le...
- Shoe
- Shoecabbage
Shoecabbage
Subscribers: 13082
A "shoecabbage" is a word in another language with the same sound as a word in English but with a different meaning. For example, in English a "shoe" is a covering for a foot, while in French "shoe" [spelled: chou] means &...
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single panel, alternative. - Skin Horse
Skin Horse
Subscribers: 5443
Somewhere in this great nation is a top-secret government agency in charge of providing aid to America's nonhuman citizenry. Perpetually overworked and underpaid, these dedicated civil servants soldier on with a dedication exceeded only by their re...
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Web Exclusive, boys, girls, pets, alternative, serials, adventure. - Slowpoke
Slowpoke
Subscribers: 23126
Since its 1998 debut, Jen Sorensen’s Slowpoke has offered readers a weekly slice of keen cultural commentary with an absurdist twist. Ruthlessly probing both kitsch and controversies of the fledgling millennium, Slowpoke features regular characte...
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mature themes, alternative, political, controversial. - Speed Bump
Speed Bump
Subscribers: 17576
Dave Coverly admits there is no overriding theme, no tidy little philosophy that precisely describes what Speed Bump is about. "Basically," he says, "if life were a movie, these would be the outtakes."
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single panel, women, men. - State of the Union
State of the Union
Subscribers: 22668
State of the Union is the result of a self-professed "fallen liberal’s" journey from radical socialism to conversative cartooning. Combining startling caricatures with a sly sense of humor and a sharp eye for satire, this innovative new...
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political, controversial. - Stone Soup
Stone Soup
Subscribers: 39734
Jan Eliot's funny and irreverent Stone Soup follows the saga of an extended, blended family, starring two working-mom sisters living just across the fence from each other. Val and Joan share life with their opinionated mother, a middle-school diva ...
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family, women, boys, girls, work, dating, marriage. - Strange Brew
Strange Brew
Subscribers: 15839
John Deering has started drawing cartoon panels, and the comic pages of our newspapers may never be the same. With Strange Brew, Deering -- famous for his biting humor and political savvy as chief editorial cartoonist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ...
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single panel, women, men, offbeat. - Sylvia
Sylvia
Subscribers: 27873
Cat lovers adore this strip! Nicole Hollander uses her strong cast of characters -- a fairy godmother, the Woman Who Does Everything More Beautifully Than You, demon dogs and malicious cats -- to discuss social issues. Sylvia provides advice on everyth...
- Tank McNamara
Tank McNamara
Subscribers: 19958
Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds have a knack for finding the absurdity in big-time athletics and using it to turn sports fans into devoted readers - especially with the ever-popular "Sports Jerk of the Year" contest. Sports is Tank McNamara’...
- Thin Lines
Thin Lines
Subscribers: 709
- Tiny Sepuku
Tiny Sepuku
Subscribers: 17072
"Dear Tiny..." So begins each episode of Tiny Sepuku, the world’s number one advice cartoon. Begun in 1997 as a parody of Hello Kitty, by 1999 it had evolved into a full-fledged alt-paper syndicated feature. Creator Ken Cursue credits t...
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mature themes, alternative, women, men, dating. - TOBY
TOBY
Subscribers: 16629
TOBY, Robot Satan is the story of Morris Gumboot and his befriending of the insane robot called TOBY. At a meager 4'8 tall, Morris lives a depressing life as a bartender at McGullwack's Pub in New York City. TOBY spends his days wearing a Viking helmet...
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Web Exclusive, men, work, robots. - Tom the Dancing Bug
Tom the Dancing Bug
Subscribers: 25548
Tom the Dancing Bug is the weekly comic strip by Ruben Bolling, appearing in fine newspapers and websites around the world. People love the strip because of its insightful and hilarious social and political satire. Search engines love the strip because...
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mature themes, alternative, political, women, men, controversial. - Too Much Coffee Man
Too Much Coffee Man
Subscribers: 8479
Applauded by both the Washington Post and Wired magazine, Too Much Coffee Man is just the twitchy, existential Superhero-everyman for these high-octane times. The pre-eminent icon of caffeine culture, TMCM gives us wild flights of fancy and dazzling mo...
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men, women, alternative, serials, offbeat. - W.T. Duck
- Watch Your Head
Watch Your Head
Subscribers: 9731
Watch Your Head chronicles the lives of six students attending Oliver Otis University. The strip is told largely through the eyes of Cory, a freshman who’s academically brilliant and socially awkward, especially with girls. His first friend at Ot...
- Wee Pals
Wee Pals
Subscribers: 19275
In 1965, Morrie Turner created the Wee Pals comic strip. It was Morrie’s intention to portray a world without prejudice, a world in which people’s differences -- race, religion, gender, and physical and mental ability -- are cherished, not ...
- Wizard of Id
Wizard of Id
Subscribers: 45172
The Wizard of Id has been enchanting audiences since 1964, but the real wizards behind this comic classic were artist Brant Parker and writer Johnny Hart. The pair began paving the path to the Kingdom of Id in 1950, when Parker, a staff artist for the ...
- Working It Out
Working It Out
Subscribers: 21836
In 1999, Charlos Gary began working for the Chicago Tribune as a graphic artist. His cartooning talent didn’t go unnoticed in the newsroom, and within two years, he created a single-panel strip called Working It Out, which ran weekly in the Tribu...
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single panel, work, women, men. - Yenny
Yenny
Subscribers: 26082
Come to Villa Los Kubos beach, where 22-year-old would-be model Yenny, her iguana Zacha, and the tiny sea turtle Buke bask in the Puerto Rican sun and inspire mischief and confusion on a daily basis.
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mature themes, Latin Appeal, men, women, boys, girls, pets, dating, alternative. - Zack Hill
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