New Online Comics for Fall 2001
© Stu Rees
Fewer people seem to be lauching online comic strips these days. Whereas in 1999 there were as many as 30 new ones each month, now there are 5-10. And many of the existing comic strips are ceasing publication.The
Bear Minimum by Liam Collins and John Davis.
A
weekly strip centered around two bears and their friends.
Banana Cream Pie
Comics by John Berry.
Offbeat panel.
Committed
For Life by Scott A. Jenkins.
The
lives of Jenks, Lulu, their family and friends as they explore marriage,
relationships and life.
The
Elves and the Sportbike by T. A. Coons.
Weekly
cartoon for motorcyclists with grown children (the elves are a metaphor for
children).
Jawtoons by Jeff A. Wall.
JAWTOONS
are an assortment of single-panel cartoons and comic strips.
Small World by Tom Briscoe.
A weekly comic strip on the strange twists of life online and off.
The hero, Tad, is both philosopher and victim of everyday life.
Angus and Phil by Annie Taylor-Lebel.
A
fresh and funny view of life through the eyes of two offbeat family dogs.
Clinging To Life by David Wehunt.
Slackerish Joe and his bitter younger brother Billy struggle to maintain
the status quo.
The
Commuter by Paul Adam.
The
skewed view of college life as only a commuting student
Corn Valley by Eric Bezdek.
An orgasmic load of independent editorial comic strips somewhere from the
left of the left. Corn Valley has appeared in about a dozen newspapers and
magazines nationwide.
Marty Cubic by Joe Caramagna.
Marty Cubic is your very average, yet very lovable, paranoid neurotic who
lives above his parents' garage in Oakwood Ridge, NJ. His psychoanalyst, a
strict Freudian named Dr. Vanderhoof, is a foreign scientist who is
classified as "mad" by some.
Room For One
More by Brittany Greatbear.
Three furry college-age girls live and work in a house that's much too
I guess the initial burst of enthusiasm has waned in tandem with the prospect of actually making any money. Most of the new online comics are never meant to make money from advertising, but rather to create an audience and perhaps stimulate interest by print publishers.
Some of the comics are rather pre-professional. However, there are some gems with voices that do not make it to the conservative comics pages of your local newspaper.
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