Xkcd.com is a super-geeky and very funny stick-man comic by Randall Munroe. To give you a taste, here's the warning at the bottom of the page:Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics(which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).
Some of the jokes contain somewhat obscure math and programming references, but most are easily understood. The very witty and simple xkcd is updated three times a week.
Dinosaur Comics is great online comic that also appears in a number of newspapers. Although the panels never change, the dialog between the different dinosaurs, who tend to talk about anything, are updated almost daily. The topics are scattered, one day they're dealing with a moral conundrum, the next day they're talking about skateboard treadmills. The creator, Ryan North, has won a number of awards for this comic. For a full history and character break-down, check out the comic's wiki page.
This is easily my favorite comic/blog in this list. Overcompensating often deals with current events, such as the recently released study of anti-depressants - which, to no surprise, are proven to be largely ineffective. The characters are great, especially Weedmaster P.
3 comments:
Have you read PHD Comics? Looking for Group? Bleedman also drew a pretty awesome powerpuff girls comic. :)
I haven't seen those yet, I hope to add more to this article. There's so many great comics online.
I've read some of the PhD comics, and as a undergraduate student I had a lot of fun doing one for the student newspaper -- a very nice change of pace from (at the time) studying literature (so many words).
I hope someone decides to do a comic for the open media project! wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
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