The internet is a vast and stormy sea.  Here are some friendly ports: 

 

Portable City

On top of being an excellent artist, Rachel’s also a code-smashing, page-making, show-boating HTML rockstar.  You see how this site is all dapper and works properly?  That’s Rachel hiding backstage, pulling on strings and pushing kids into the spotlight when it’s time for them to say their lines.

 

 

 

Cheddarplex

When the clock strikes midnight, something terrible happens to Chad and he becomes the Cheddarplex.  I don’t know which one draws these awesome pictures, but I’m glad one or both of them does. 

 

 

 

 

Danny Zabbal

Danny can draw better than me, drink more coffee and smoke more cigarettes.  You know what it’s like when you meet someone who’s better than you at everything you’re good at? It sucks. 

If you’re tired of screwing around with Dan Lite, Zabbal is the real deal.  . 

 

  

 

Bev Calder

Bev is what Mr.  Hyde would be if he never turned back into Dr. Jekyll, if he had never been a doctor at all in the first place, if he was just born wicked and terrifying and destroying things as instinctually as breathing in and out.  Bev is the darkness. 

 

  

 

  

I’m Crazy

Adam is a good friend of mine, and honey, he ain’t kidding.  I think I make a quick cameo in Adam’s comic as one of his non-troubled, sorted-out, doing-okay friends.  This is either him being kind or extremely liberal with his creative licenses.

 

  

 

 

Dara Gold

Dara can draw anything.  One time she drew one of the old-time bikes tricked out with a shotgun, a grappling hook and some x-ray specs. 

Think about that. 

 

 

   

The Abominable Charles Christopher

A retarded yeti who is destined to save nature from the clumsy, plundering hands of mankind.  Funny, touching and always adorable.  This is the comic that I recommend to people who aren’t into comics.

 

 

 

 

Kate Beaton

I took one Canadian history course when I was in high school and it was in French and I was out of the country for three of the semester’s five months and when I was there, the teacher devoted entire classes to making title pages for the chapter units we were working on and I did not learn a damn thing.

Kate’s comics are filling me in on what I missed. 

  

 

Kukuburi

I don’t know what it is about this comic that makes me like it so much, but I like it so much. The art is top notch and the story is weird and inventive and it’s got a wicked flying bee who may or may not be able to beat up every other character in the story, he really hasn’t been tested yet.

 

 

  

Ojingogo

This is a really different kind of comic. If you let yourself get into the world that Matt Forsythe creates, you start to feel kind of crazy.  

 

 

 

 

Stevie Might be a Bear, Maybe

I played in a band once and everyone was always telling me to shut up, stop playing while we are figuring out the set list or you can go wait in the car. There is nothing about this comic that I can’t relate to.

 

 

 

 

Kenneth Lavallee

This is some crazy guy from the Canadian prairies, a world of genius refracted through a lens of madness where everybody is smoking and throwing up. 

 

 

 

 

Dinosaur Comics

 What a truly ridiculous premise for a daily comic.  I don’t know what’s harder to believe; that Ryan North is still  using the same 6 clip-art panels for this comic or that I’m still laughing when I read the new ones. 

A triumph or Man’s take-things-too-far spirit.

 

 

  

Rice Boy

I feel like this comic isn’t as appreciated as it should be, or maybe just that it suffers for having an ongoing story instead of daily gags.  Either way, you should must a bit of time and what little attention the tv and the internet haven’t drained from you and read this comic. 

 

 

 

  

Nedroid

The adventures of Reginald and Beartato, presumably some sort of half-bear/half-potato super hybrid.

 

 

 

 

 

Anders Loves Maria

I don’t usually read dramatic strips because, hey let’s face it, I read comics to get away from all that garbage.  But I like Anders Loves Maria because he probably doesn’t love her at all.  That is, if his boozing, bickering, skirt-chasing escapades are any indication. 

But who am I to judge, maybe he’s nuts about her. 

 

 

 

A Lesson Is Learned but the Damage is Irreversible

I dream in black and white, like a dog, but if my dreams were in colour then this is what they would look like.  The guys who make this stopped but I wish they’d start again. 

 

 

 

 

Gone With the Blastwave

Maybe the only thing funnier than the strip itself is how much Kimmo seems to despise his audience.  No artist has ever hated their creation this much. 

 

 

 

 

The Beguiling

This is where I buy my comic books.  They are usually pretty nice to me.

 

 

 

 

 

The Victory Cafe

Sometimes they let me display my drawings there, like I was a real artist. 

 

 

 

 

 

The Reel Addict

When I don’t know what movie to watch I go here and then I know. 

 

 

 

 

 

Knock Knock Ginger

If I was a character in a movie, this is the music that would play in the background every time something good happened to me.  If an icecream truck lost control on the hill by my house and went careening this way and that, missing trees and telephone poles and bystanders and finally flipping onto its side, throwing off sparks and spraying icecream sandwiches all over my front lawn, Knock Knock Ginger would be shouting “and-a-one-and-a-two!” as eskimo pies and rocket pops slid towards my feet.  If the drawings on their site look familiar, that ain’t a coincidence. 

 

 

Drawn!

When I get tired of telling people what comics to check out I tell them to check out drawn and that gets them out of my hair forever.