Overcompensating
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With five years of regularly updated, high-quality strips, Overcompensating has one of the deepest wells of quality content online, webcomic or otherwise. And with a blend of plot-based jokes, some scruffy lead characters and some crude humor, it becomes easy to draw comparisons to Overcompensating and the popular TV comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Penny Arcade
Penny Arcade
Perry Bible Fellowship
Perry Bible Fellowship
Perry Bible Fellowship is hard to describe. Imagine a more twisted version of Gary Larson's classic "The Far Side" meets the humor of The Family Guy, and you're almost there. The award-winning strip by Nicholas Gurewitch is drawn in beautiful, hand-colored images closer to a children's book than anything you'd find in the Sunday Funnies.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is comprised of single panel gag strips—think New Yorker cartoons, if they were drawn by someone in their early 20s who was raised on the Internet rather than highbrow culture. The one-panel strip is brilliantly crafted by the twisted cartoonist Zach Weiner.
Super Poop
Superpoop isn't really a webcomic at all, but rather a collection of captioned photos, though Drew refers to the work at Superpoop as "photo comics." The photos are fairly random but feature political figures and depictions of current events more often than not. The humor is, however, entirely random and completely hilarious.
Thinkin' Lincoln
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Thinkin' Lincoln is a weekly webcomic starring the head of former president Abraham Lincoln, former president George Washington, the queen of England and various other characters. It's the brainchild of cartoonist Miles Grover, who's a web designer and college student when he's not coming up with bizarre and absurd things for Lincoln to say.
Toothpaste for Dinner
photo courtesy of Toothpaste for Dinner
Imagine Gary Larson, the cartoonist behind the classic newspaper strip The Far Side, had a mental breakdown and lost his ability to draw. That's more or less what Toothpaste for Dinner is like -- off kilter, shakily drawn but retaining pure wit at its core.
White Ninja Comics
White Ninja Comics
White Ninja Comics stars yet another ninja (the titular hero, White Ninja). But unlike Dr. McNinja, the protagonist of Scott Bevan and Kent Earle's strip doesn't really do much in the ninja department. Much of the strip's understated but classic humor comes from placing a ninja in completely mundane situations, such as going shopping and eating dinner. And it’s in these seemingly boring scenarios where the strip's humor thrives.
Wondermark
photo courtesy of Wondermark
Wondermark is a regularly updated webcomic by David Malki that's comprised of scans of 19th Century woodcuts and engravings composed into a traditional comic-strip format. Think the animation segments from Monty Python's Flying Circus, in webcomic form.
xkcd
xkcd
When a physicist who's worked as a NASA contractor starts drawing a comic strip, you'd expect the jokes to be smart. But who knew they'd be this funny too? Randall Munroe's strip consists of some stick figures, some sharp jokes steeped in intelligent and original thought and little else. Which means it's one of the more perfect comic strips, on the Web or otherwise.
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