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I'd like to point out that a considerable number of on-line graphic stories (and sometimes they are also very comical) have been published by their authors as dead-tree editions. Therefore those stories, at least, can be enjoyed either way. Some of them have been getting produced for enough years that multiple volumes are available, while the complete archive is usually also accessible on-line.
Since personal tastes differ, I'm not going to especially recommend particular comics. However, here are a few that I personally have enjoyed (in no particular order):
SchlockMercenary
Questionable Content
Sluggy Freelance (you might want to turn off Javascript for this archive)
A Girl And Her Fed
Girl Genius (has won multiple Hugo awards)
Freefall
Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic
The Monster Under The Bed
Grrl Power
General Protection Fault
Be warned, some are not particularly safe for work, and some have archives large enough to keep you busy reading for months.

Maybe some of you are familiar with another webcomic: General Protection Fault

Some time ago they ran a story where a customer hires GPF Software to develop a multi-platform (i.e. iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, and WebOS) mobile application for their customer portal. Each developer in the staff is assigned a platform according to his/her knowledge. Developing the apps runs smoothly, till they are ready to launch them on the respective apps markets...

Hilarity ensues.

(Sorry, I can not browse the comic right now, you will have to look for the episode in the archive by yourselves.)

To think. After all these years, Fred Physarum is finally getting the recognition he deserves.

Ah, I program at home in my spare time. http://www.gpf-comics.com/archive.php?d=19990201

Wow, the first thing I thought of was that it would be the most useful degree you could choose nowadays, and that even an undergraduate degree would immediately pay for itself in corporate America.

Did anyone else think of this?

Whether (Bush|CIA|Mossad agents|FBI|NSA|UGA) did wtc or not, the neocons are VERY HAPPY with the power they got from that...

Any decent USian should now get up on his obese legs and walk to Washington to impeach the bastards and reclaim his freedoms.

BTW: I'm fed up with such "conspiracies"... It's as virtual as Al Qaeda... Get in the streets, switch tvs off: it's all lies.

I'd imagine there are computers inside Microsoft running Windows Vista Internal Edition well. Windows Vista IE is like normal Vista, with one small change.

I go to a school that uses computers heavily,* and has censorware, so I can relate. Also, the initial reason is that some idiot got looking at porn on a school computer four years ago. Overreacting, much?

Wikipedia is not censored, but sites such as Google Video, (adult) Doomworld, (violence) and even GPF! (porn) Nobody likes the censor, anyway.

Also, is the issue of non-educational sites and games. While it is a school rule, I find that games can be great stress relievers. The point of the rule is supposedly that people would use all their computer time for games rather than homework, but I feel that using games as I have described is valid. (If I'm grumpy- a frequent occurrence, I won't be doing any work anyways.) It seems people are enforcing the rule for the rule's sake alone. There are always exceptions to any rule. *The school is Alameda Community Learning Center, by the way.

You, my friend, fail.

You just reminded me of this comic strip.

I didn't think of an iMac girl with I thought of the sig, I just thought of a dream girl with the perfect combination of beauty (Aqua) and brains (Unix). You know; what many geeks want.

The Ctrl+Alt+Del comic is mostly just Mac-bashing. I think that one or two of their comics might be funny, but I'm not sure. The only webcomic I read regularly is GPF

Any relation to this plan?(read through, you may not get it all without reading GPF from the beginning, but it's about a plot to get rid of geeks from supermodels, and the comic itself is awesome)

So was it Fred or Persephone?

I know a slime mold that has a PhD in literature.

general protection fault has an intelligent slime mould, is that the one?
http://www.gpf-comics.com/

snake

http://www.somethingpositive.net/index.html http://www.schlockmercenary.com/ http://www.gpf-comics.com/ http://www.reallifecomics.com/index.php http://www.crfh.net/ http://www.nuklearpower.com/ Random shameless plugs. Read them and enjoy.

So Microsoft keeping vulnerabilities quiet is a good thing too? Or is it only good when Mozilla does it?

I'll get modded down for this (I'm thinking -1 Troll), but this is pathetic. As long as a company isn't Microsoft it can do no wrong according to you people. You're a zealot.

A couple reasons:

Penny Arcade is one of the most polished webcomics out there. It may not be stunningly deep or anything, but (a) it's generally at least decently funny, which is harder than it sounds, and (b) the art is really pretty.

There are also a couple of other decent geek webcomics, like GPF and UserFriendly.

Of PA, GPL, UF, and Sluggy, PA consistently has better art -- they always produce a large, colored strip. PA has a written component, and even the comics act as a humorous news source -- it actually informs you about the game industry. It has a good deal of reasonably balanced commentary -- they don't hash on anyone's game system.

PA is very approachable for new readers. It's very easy to drop in and figure out what's going on and start enjoying it. Even if you aren't familiar with the game industry, it's pretty easy to see from a comic or two that EA Is Evil, Blizzard Is The Center Of the Universe, and so forth. The longest story arcs (and these are exceedingly rare) are maybe ten comics long. Most comics are stand-alone. There is an exceedingly small number of characters that must be learned to appreciate the comic, and each strip pretty much makes clear the role of any characters in it, so that you don't have to read back -- there are The Two Hardcore Videogamers that make up almost all the comics, Their Women, The Mac Guy, and so forth. You need never refer back to understand a comic.

UF has long story arcs that require understanding the nature of some pretty bizarre characters introduced over a long stretch of comics (like the giant hallucinatory Coca-Cola bottle that Mike sees), or why a given comic is taking place in a nuclear missile silo. Story arcs are longer and harder for a new reader to get into, and some jokes are more esoteric. The panels are not drawn as well and are mostly not in color. Most of the humor derives from the text -- the *expressions* alone in PA provide much of the humor, whereas UF is mostly some necessary drawings provided to support the text. There are some references (to pop culture or what-have-you) that are not immediately accessable to the audience that PA tightly focusses on -- the hardcore gamer crowd.

GPF is small, mostly black-and-white, and has some esoteric characters. Story arcs are long and require reading back to appreciate what's going on.

Sluggy has *extremely* long story arcs with references back to ancient comics, and essentially requires an investiture of reading about five years * three hundred some comics a year == fifteen hundred comics to understand the current comic. It has extremely unusual characters that can be difficult to figure out (a new reader is going to be bemused by Sluggy standbys like the Dimension of Pain and so forth). The art has improved since the beginning, but is not as flashy as the PA art and is not in color. The real killer is that Sluggy has an absolutely massive cast of characters with a very complex web of relationships -- it's quite difficult to follow all of them, even for a hard-core reader. Pete keeps bringing back characters that "died", and occasionally introduces more. There are probably at least twenty major characters in the cast, which is staggering for a new reader. Those that love following vast, wide-stretching plots may love this, but it makes it hard to pull in new readers. Sluggy not infrequently does pun-based jokes, which is a truly bad form of humor, and often has punch lines fall flat. It is not as consistently funny as PA. It often relies on specialized knowledge to appreciate (for example, the current arc requires having read Harry Potter), whereas PA is generally accessable to anyone with some gaming experience.

Now, I enjoy all the above comics, but PA definitely has the most widespread appeal.

To quote Nick Wellington: In a group that needs legitimacy, nobody likes a zealot.

To quote Nick Wellington: In a group that needs legitimacy, nobody likes a zealot.

If everybody knows him that well, it's okay ;)

Angels 2200
Wandering Ones
Something Positive
The Devil's Panties
General Protection Fault
Irregular Web Comic
Alien Dice
Wapsi Square
Bruno
Clan of the Cats

There's plenty more at my web comic page.

nah thats what your TV remote is for
http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010828.html

I don't know but I read that there'd be a remake of soem tv serie : Doctor Who.
Here's the closest clue of what Dr Who is I have.

And here's a Java port of the game Daleks which I used to practice on my Atari ST.

So I guess it's about robots and retro-sci-fi.

You might find this to be an appropriate web comic. Although when you think about it, it's all about whether a device is "designer" or not. Laptops can do everything a PDA, MP3, etc. can do. So why have smaller devices? Because sometimes they meet a real need. In the case of the iPod, it was a good mix of a sound player with high capacity storage. It hit the very edge of that "sweet spot" in which pocket devices are allowed to live. I think Microsoft's problem here is that these devices go beyond that "sweet spot" and start competing directly with Laptop type devices.

For a full updated list of sites pulling april fools jokes see here

Some of the latest enteries:
livejournal.com - on userinfo pages, "Friend"/"Friend Of" -> "Stalking"/"Stalked By"
www.gpf-comics.com - Comic mirrored.
smh.com.au - Yum-cha trolleys with "L" plates
www.clutchfans.com - Patrick Ewing returning to NBA
www.freeciv.org - Freeciv ANSI client
www.rav4world.com - Closed? Should have announced that TOMORROW!
www.retrocrush.com - Nude pics of Jaclyn Smith
westcoaster.net - Roller coaster site turned into teen girl site
www.meowpawjects.com - Sock people forced webmaster to take website down.
miceage.com - Disney merges with Walmart
www.badgerbadgerbadger.com - Badgers replaces with zombies
skepdic.com - Skeptic's Dictionary closing
fool.com - Buffett buys Krispy Cream
launch.com - Britney Spears & Jason Alexander To Renew Wedding Vows
MetaFilter.com - Turned in to a Wiki for the day
www.ddrkc.com - owner sold site to a user that is unpopular
brownpau.com - March for Web Standards
www.beyondunreal.com - ut2k4 production suspended
globetechnology.com - Microsoft Solitaire
www.modernwiccan.com - Randomized Color Scheme
bbs.fuckedcompany.com - Site shutting down
www.diary-x.com - looks like diaryland!
theprp.com - Music site to "Previously Ridden Ponies"
mpx200.org - Pocket PC with 2Gb system memory/Smart Drunk Pocket PC application
www.macosxhints.com - triple G5 Powermacs
www.slyfx.com - AOL buys slyfx
palminfocenter.com - Palms for toddlers.
www.carniola.org - fake news story
eikenes.alvestrand.no - Considering porn spam to be in a separate dialect to everything else
defunctgames.com - Pimps At Sea fox xbox

For a full updated list of sites pulling april fools jokes see here

Some highlites:
livejournal.com - on userinfo pages, "Friend"/"Friend Of" -> "Stalking"/"Stalked By"
www.gpf-comics.com - Comic mirrored.
smh.com.au - Yum-cha trolleys with "L" plates
www.clutchfans.com - Patrick Ewing returning to NBA
www.freeciv.org - Freeciv ANSI client
www.rav4world.com - Closed? Should have announced that TOMORROW!
www.retrocrush.com - Nude pics of Jaclyn Smith
westcoaster.net - Roller coaster site turned into teen girl site
www.meowpawjects.com - Sock people forced webmaster to take website down.
miceage.com - Disney merges with Walmart
www.badgerbadgerbadger.com - Badgers replaces with zombies
skepdic.com - Skeptic's Dictionary closing
fool.com - Buffett buys Krispy Cream
launch.com - Britney Spears & Jason Alexander To Renew Wedding Vows
MetaFilter.com - Turned in to a Wiki for the day
www.ddrkc.com - owner sold site to a user that is unpopular
brownpau.com - March for Web Standards
www.beyondunreal.com - ut2k4 production suspended
globetechnology.com - Microsoft Solitaire
www.modernwiccan.com - Randomized Color Scheme
bbs.fuckedcompany.com - Site shutting down
www.diary-x.com - looks like diaryland!
theprp.com - Music site to "Previously Ridden Ponies"
mpx200.org - Pocket PC with 2Gb system memory/Smart Drunk Pocket PC application
www.macosxhints.com - triple G5 Powermacs
www.slyfx.com - AOL buys slyfx
palminfocenter.com - Palms for toddlers.
www.carniola.org - fake news story
eikenes.alvestrand.no - Considering porn spam to be in a separate dialect to everything else
defunctgames.com - Pimps At Sea fox xbox

Readers of the web-comic G.P.F. will remember a "Mr. Intertia" who was featured in one chapter.

(Warning! Homepage not completely office-safe in a large browser window as of 2004/02/16, due to surreal dream of one of the characters.)

Readers of the web-comic G.P.F. will remember a "Mr. Intertia" who was featured in one chapter.

(Warning! Homepage not completely office-safe in a large browser window as of 2004/02/16, due to surreal dream of one of the characters.)

> "the leaked source files ... do not compile into a usable form of Windows."

"I don't think any code can claim this, no matter M$ says"

Maybe they really do have a non-buggy OS. ;)

remember what happened to fooker?

General Protection Fault is (C) Copyright 1998-2004, Jeffrey T. Darlington. All rights reserved. No portion of this web site, in whole or in part--including text, images, and software--may be reproduced or redistributed in any form without express written permission from Jeffrey T. Darlington, unless otherwise specified. The intentional or unintentional use of the GPF comic strip on the Internet without the direct and explicit written permission of the author can be viewed as a violation of United States and international copyright law. This includes display on any publicly-accessable Web site or distribution via electronic mail (e-mail). We have lawyers; don't make us use 'em. For more information on copyrights and valid uses of the GPF comic, please read the copyright-related sections of our FAQ.

I have a list of about 15 web comics that I read. I enjoy them all, to varying degrees.

One thing that sort of bothers me, though, is that the comics I read tend to produced by people who aren't doing them as a business but do them because they enjoy it. They'll also use it as a way to promote other work that they do (Graphics Artists, for example).

But, frankly, this can also mean that the work is flaky, late, etc. I've seen artists decide to take three month sabbaticals because they've decided that they're burned out. Sometimes they get too busy with other tasks--they don't make a living off the comic, so if something more important comes along, they do that.

I don't complain. After all, it's free and they do it out of the kindness of their heart. One of my favorites, InkTank (he has two comics, "Angst Technology" and "Weak-end Warriors") is currently on an extended hiatus. Now, that's fine and dandy, but I'd be a little annoyed if I paid money and he suddenly decided to take a break. Where's my refund? Of course, do I want to read "corporate" comics--someone who does it to put food on his table? Like CDs, do I have to pay for two weeks of crap just for the one entertaining idea?

Actually, I like the Merchandising angle. I have a couple of Ozy and Millie T-Shirts. I try to buy stuff from my favorite sites in order to support their art.

Anyway, here's my obligatory list of some favorites:

Doctor Fun
General Protection Fault
Something Positive
You Damn Kid

I love to read comics on the net and my favorite is the well known General Protection Fault (GPF). I would really like to support the page but buying the books is not my top priority, because I already have the content on my HDD. I'd like to subscribe, but that is only possible for $4.95 a month (ok, a little cheaper if you subscribe for longer but still)... I know that this includes premium access to a lot of other comics too but I don't really want to read them, I want to read GPF. If I'd had to pay a buck a month or maybe even less, that's what I would conside a micropayment - and that is what the internet is still waaay lacking.
Btw, if anyone wants to start reading it but is new, read it from the beginning. It's worth it and otherwise you won't really understand all of what's going on.

~Squisher

set_bugs = 0;

I guess Penny Arcade could even provide exclusive comic strips since they tend to have an aversion to continuity, but a story-based web comic really shouldn't offer story-related strips on a subscriber-only basis if they offer free strips as well. Either make it all subscriber-only, or don't do any of the story exclusively to subscribers.

Beware of supermodels, though.

Several years ago, some online comic artists banded together and formed Keenspot (and its sibling network Keenspace). Hosting, forums, artist control of whether pop-up ads (vs. only banner ads) appear for any given comic, optional subscriptions for ad-free reading; good stuff.

Among my favorites there: General Protection Fault, Help Desk, It's Walky (formerly Roomies), Lost and Found, Real Life, and Schlock Mercenary.

set_bugs = 0;

When I told her to put another box in the living room, she wanted a Mac. Now come on, is that reason to break up or what?

http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010402.html
http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010403.html
http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010404.html
http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010405.html

And then continue reading at
http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010611.html

When I told her to put another box in the living room, she wanted a Mac. Now come on, is that reason to break up or what?

http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010402.html
http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010403.html
http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010404.html
http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010405.html

And then continue reading at
http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010611.html

When I told her to put another box in the living room, she wanted a Mac. Now come on, is that reason to break up or what?

http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010402.html
http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010403.html
http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010404.html
http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010405.html

And then continue reading at
http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010611.html

When I told her to put another box in the living room, she wanted a Mac. Now come on, is that reason to break up or what?

http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010402.html
http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010403.html
http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010404.html
http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010405.html

And then continue reading at
http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010611.html

When I told her to put another box in the living room, she wanted a Mac. Now come on, is that reason to break up or what?

http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010402.html
http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010403.html
http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010404.html
http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010405.html

And then continue reading at
http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010611.html

(Disclaimer, I've been clean for about a year or two now)

UF used to be part of my daily Webcomic reading habit, I remember spending close to an entire day reading the archives when I first read it. Then, about a year or two ago, it just stopped being funny. The storylines really just started getting into childish "Windows Sucks! Ha!". Honestly, I don't see how people can still read it.

I have the first book, because there are some good storylines from the first few years, but after that it really started to go downhill. Now I read Sluggy Freelance and I feel much cleaner.

For those who like Computer Comics I recomend Angst Technology and (whenever Jeff gets out of his "I want to be a /real/ artist and have a story arc" phase and begins to produce teh funny again) GPF Comics

I personally prefer the GFP-Comics... :-)

I loved MT for ages, but recently it all went to hell IMHO when the "storyline" got too drawn out and some comics (those things between the "Dead Piro Days") weren't even funny, just part of a (boring) storyline which is the main storyline in any "respected" soap series on TV, namely; "Does she love me/Will I be able to bone her eventually?". It gets old and tiring up to the point where even Largo isn't funny anymore. He's been ranting about zombies for month now in-comic and really, isn't it time for a change and go back to the small stories that actually oozed wit and humour?

Sadly, I have seen this happening to other comics as well. Anyone remember GPF? (The comic, that is. Put down that Windows developer right now before you break something!) It used to be funny, I read it all the way from the start to the end and then religious started following it because it too had loads of simple jokes. Look at it right now, it's nothing but pure and utter online filth that ended up in a overdrawn B-moviesque storyline. And I'm not even going to mention the total irrelevance of MT to Slashdot or question why it ended up on the front page.

And this is a call to comic artists: Notice the ARTIST bit. It means you can draw better then most of us, it doesn't mean that you can also think up of a decent storyline. Don't get illusions of grandeur, fooling yourself that you're capable of writing a novel in comic form. Thank you.

Steps of his soapbox...

Secondly, I thought I could add to the list of worthwhile webcomics to read:
Penny Arcade (above)
Res Life
Mac Hall
Angst Technology
Zeek V2.0
I'll avoid the urge to shamelessly promote my own new comic :)

I have proof! Just click this link for some hard evidence!