Favorite Online Comics

Well, I guess I never mentioned this before - and I'm currently gathering strength for a lengthy 'bad drivers' rant - so this is a list of the comics I like to read online. I start my morning with them, and they give me a lift most times:

9 Chickweed Lane - OK, so the artist, Brooke McEldowney, is totally obsessed with the female form. But dang, he is good at it. Funny, upbeat, and very, very, well-drawn. I sometimes wonder where the stories are heading, but so far he hasn't got to ethereal on me.

Get Fuzzy - Yes, there is a smart-ass cat and a dumb dog. But Garfield this ain't. Mostly silliness, some occasional sidetrips into reality. Flirts with a left-wing point of view, but the artist lets the characters be slapped around a bit by decent right-wing characters who have some substance to them - very well done.

Pibgorn - also by Brooke McEldowney. Sometimes not updated as often as I'd like. Bold artwork - 'edgy' although I usually hate to use that word. Breaks barriers of what a comic is supposed to be - this is not typical 'Family Circus' stuff. Fantasy/Science Fiction sort of comic. Brooke has a thing for the female form - did I mention that? Good job he does it so well. The story lines sometimes wander and I begin to lose interest - long stories that take awhile to develop, and at the end of it, you wonder what the hell that was all about. Still one of the best comics going.

Day by Day - artist is Chris Muir, who recently had family issues that required him to put aside the comic for awhile. He was very missed, and now he's back. Done from a right-wing point of view (sometimes a bit more than even *I* can take) and mostly commentary on political blogs of note and newsworthy political topics. I'm beginning to notice a certain monotony - same characters in the same poses saying the same basic thing - only about today's left-wing gaffe instead of yesterday's. OK, Chris - glad you're back, but let's liven it up some, ok? Oh, and I also get some GREAT links to blogs and so forth from this comic. Very cool for that - Chris is totally plugged in to what's going on in the blogamundo.

Crankshaft - I used to read this a lot. I'm thinking of getting back into it. I'm told that the artist is taking on Alzeimer's. We'll see if it's worth reading again.

And that's about it for me and online comics. Oh sure, sometimes I check out "Rose is Rose" or "Drabble" or "Doonesbury" or "Bizarro." I like anything by Jerry Van Amerongen, of course. "Pearls Before Swine" and "Sheldon" are both pretty good, but I don't read them regularly, for some reason.

And that's about it for now. Back later with a rant.

Comic Book Kisses,

Wiggy