What indy comic strip do you read?

bokmeow

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The American method of monthly issue distribution is too gh3y for me... the Japanese mode of distribution in the form of anthology comics of several series under one publishing house seems much smarter. You'd think that in America, the untethered free market of the world, would have converged on the similar anthology volumes, weeklies no less, but it appears we haven't evolved to that point yet.

So in the meantime, I enjoy the indy comic strips on the internet, there's not too many I read religiously, but I'm rediscovering Too Much Coffee Man (www.tmcm.com)... used to be published by Dark Horse, but Shannon Wheeler went totally independent to I guess exercise more artistic creativity, and he now has a quarterly publication of Too Much Coffee Man magazine.

Oh and I also read Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World (www.thismodernworld.com). Sometimes he can be a bit blunt with his knack for the obvious, but I appreciate the subtle humor he sometimes injects into his strips as he goes for outrageous extrapolation.
 
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evil wasabi

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Get Your War On and Space Moose

I used to read Red Meat. The early stuff was awesome, but I visited recently and was like... ugh.
 

Hot Chocolate

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I use to read red meat, some other stuff I forget the name of, and Strangers In Paradise( which I first discovered when Image published it ).
 

johnroche

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PBF
GYWO
This Modern World
Occasionally I read "My New Fighting/Filing Technique is Unstoppable" (the other David Rees stuff)
Sutton Impact (formerly Schlock 'n' Roll)
Life in Hell
Ted Rall
The Pain--When Will It End?!
 

dragonwillow

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Red Meat is good =D
Perry Bible Fellowship is great, too.

Also uh... Sexy Losers. Hehe.
 

bokmeow

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Wow, most of the strips mentioned in this thread I found in this book Attitudes I checked out from the public library. Ted Rall is the interviewer in the book, I highly recommend it, a great primer for the uninitiated into the alternative and the sometimes subversive comic strips.

I'll have to check out Disassociated when I'm on a faster connection. It eats my 56K dialup for lunch.
 

bokmeow

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Holy crap, Get Your War On is really really exhilirating. Who knew Clip Art + Straight tell-it-like-it-is social and political commentary could be so motherf***ing funny?

Thanks wasabi and John Roche.

And keep those suggestions coming.
 

bokmeow

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Attitude 2, edited by Ted Rall, introduced me to 2 other great artists, one is Emily Flake, she draws Lulu Eightball for the Baltimore City Paper... fecking awesome artist with an adorable 'Nemo in Slumberland' style artwork, but with adult situations and anxieties:

Emily Flake's Lulu Eightball

And Alison Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For is a compelling soap opera chronicle about, well, dykes and the neighbors and friends they keep and the families they bring up. Very good artwork and a very compelling story-driven strip that's apparently widely read in many papers.

Alison Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For
 
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