enjoy sequential art

My new online discovery and or mild obsession is web comics. I've already mentioned Athena Voltaire, but there are so many others out there besides that one and the variety of styles seems to be endless. For example, there is Copper, which has a Calvin and Hobbes feel to it as seen through a manga filter. That may or may not be the best way to describe the strip, but that is the best example that I can give.

Both characters in Copper make me laugh as they explore these fantastical worlds. I think that it's their down to earth reaction to what they see and do that makes them so real to me. I just wish that it came out more frequently than it does. Thankfully I can get a new weekly dose of entertainment from Acid Keg, Dicebox and Ice another personal favorite of mine.

Years ago when I was growing up, I used to read The Green Sheet in the Milwaukee Journal. It was where the local paper put all of the daily comic strips. Now that I no longer read the newspaper, I seek out my daily dose of adventure, drama and or humor online through these web comics. King Features puts most of their strips online, but there is a difference between the newsprint variety and these new web only creations. For me, these new strips have more sophistication than what appeared in the newspaper and I can truly sense the amount of devotion and effort that the creators put into these works of art.

 
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