Category: Webcomics

Electric Sheep Comix is a blanket title for a site featuring several webcomics by Patrick Farley. (“Electric Sheep” comes from the title of the Phillip K. Dick novel, Do androids Dream of Electric Sheep, from which the movie Blade Runner was adapted.) Electric Sheep Comix includes three main comics and several older ones. Some of…

You’ll notice that this post is about a specific online comic, not Scott McCloud in general. (That’s a post for another day.) If you’re interested in comics and you’re not familiar with Scott McCloud (presumably because you’ve been living in a yurt somewhere on the Mongolian steppes), start with Understanding Comics and then go to…

They’re back! If you’re familiar with Sam & Max, Steve Purcell’s delightfully demented pair of vaguely animal-like things, you’ll be thrilled to your cynical little toes that there is a new Sam & Max interactive webcomic on the Telltale Games site. There’s only one page up at the moment, but get in on the ground…

Shutterbug Follies is Jason Little’s nicely done comic about a photo-finishing technician in NYC who is nosy about the titillating photos that happen to pass through her hands, particularly when one of them seems to show evidence of a murder. You can read the first 13 episodes online. The entire story is available from Random…

A subtle, emotional web comic about a young woman coming to grips with her situation, choices and sexuality. Solid drawing, subtle colors and good storytelling make this an effective slice-of-life comic story. Author/artist Justine Shaw has an eye for real-world details that give her drawings a tactile realism and sense of atmosphere. Her compositions are…