Hi everyone! Iām a big fan of clever and witty comic strips. While I enjoy classics like Calvin and Hobbes and Pearls Before Swine, Iād love to explore some lesser-known gems.
Do you have any favorite comic stripsādigital or printāthat deserve more attention? Bonus points for sharp humor or unique art styles!
Retail is a person favorite, though I dont know how popular it is.
Something Positive is a comic Iāve followed for close to two decades. Itās a slice of Life comic that follows a misanthrope named Davan and his (mis)adventures with a lot of dry and relatively poignant humor.
Shade the changing girl is kind of an out there comic. Iām also a big fan of Tomboy. American virgin is neat, same with The molting.
Arsenic Lullaby is one of my all-time favorites.
Thereās a man who was cursed by a witch doctor and has to get revenge to appease the magic or whatever, but he ran out of people to get revenge on so now he gets revenge on behalf of other people.
Thereās a couple of census agents whose job it is to maintain the accuracy of the census by making sure the birth rate matches the death rate.
I wonāt spoil any more, but itās all very sick and hilarious.
I highly recommend The Perry Bible Fellowship
Iām a big fan of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a webcomic.
Not lesser known but my favorite: Gary Larsonās The far side always gave me a chuckle.
I think youāre going to have to dig into the wayback machine (because I donāt think theyāre actively hosted anywhere anymore?), but Nothing Nice To Say by Mitch Clem was a great punk rock web comic from the 2000s.
Well, if youāre looking for unrelatable and occasionally disgusting comics, check out mine. š
Poorly Drawn Lines.
I loved āThe adventures of Oscar Zahnā great read. Alternatively if you have never read Garfield there is a bot who posts all the strip in chronological order over at Garfield@lemmy.world
Also before āThe odd ones outā made his weird and abstract comics, he did actually make a funny little series similar to the peanuts
Falseknees makes gorgeous comics about birds. Each strip feels like art
Work chronicles makes funny corporate related strips but has inconsistent posting
Rustledjimmies made some great comics in the past but I havenāt heard of him in a long time
Newspaper style comics specifically? Maybe Fraz. Revolves around a janitor working at an elementary school. I havenāt kept up with it but the creator cites Calvin and Hobbes as an inspiration and I love what Iāve read so far.