Sandra and Woo | Webcomic Online Comic Strip

Webcomics

Comedy

Ongoing:

++++ Bear Nuts (one update a week) is a very pretty mixture of Happy Tree Friends and Care Bears. It’s about the misadventures of a nutty Ursus moronis group at the local zoo. The adult-oriented humor of Bear Nuts does not rely on punchlines but on the interaction of the distinct personalities of the protagonists and their silly facial expressions.
++++ Calamities of Nature (three updates a week) is a comedy comic strip which heavily relies on social commentary as a source of humor. Unfortunately, it sometimes suffers from the “talking heads” syndrome, which makes the quality of the strips very dependent on the funniness of the punchline.
++++ Daisy Owl (updates randomly) features the girl Daisy, her little brother Cooper, their adoptive father Benjamin Owl (an owl) and Mr. Owl’s friend Steve Brown (a bear). There are several real gems in the archive, but many strips are very weird, which often results in them being either a hit or a miss.
++++ Count your Sheep (several updates a week) is a cute comic strip about a small girl, her mother and their best friend, the imaginary sheep Ship.
++++ Edmund Finney’s Quest to Find the Meaning of Life (two updates a week) is currently the best comic strip on the web! On his trip around the world, the adventurer Edmund makes extremely funny encounters with quirky travellers and natives.
++++ Life Ain’t no Pony Farm (two updates a week) is a journal-style comic strip by the German artist Sarah Burrini, featuring herself and a bunch of talking animals as her roommates.
++++ Luke Surl (three updates a week): Cartoons in the tradition of The Far Side with intelligent jokes outside the box, but the artwork needs improving…
++++ NOTFUNNY Cartoons (updates randomly): Very funny, very bizarre cartoons
++++ Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (five updates a week): A cynical look at the human psyche, may contain scientists.
++++ Sinfest (seven updates a week): Tatsuya Ishida’s unique comic about religion, politics, cute dogs, devil girls in love and Slick’s eternal struggle to get a date with Monique.
++++ XKCD (three updates a week): The oh-so popular webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Some of the jokes are extremely funny, but the stickfigure artwork is rarely fun to look at.

Completed / On hiatus:

++++ Alice! is a newspaper-style comic strip which very much feels like Calvin and Hobbes (though never reaching its quality). Alice! follows the wacky adventures of the teenage girl Alice, who shares Calvin’s vivid imagination, and her friend Dot, who plays the role of the “straight girl”.
++++ Bob-Rz’s DeviantArt gallery features several very clever cartoons dealing with the bitter aspects of love, seen from a male perspective. There are also lots of other cartoons which are just plain silly, many of them with rather suggestive gags.
++++ Duxter is certainly among the most hilarious comic strips ever written by a teenager. The titular character Duxter is a duck with a slightly severely skewed moral compass who’s living together with two equally strange roommates.
++++ Gill: The main character Gill of this very well-drawn comic strip is an eight year old boy who has preserved his optimism despite living in less than ideal circumstances. Often funny, but sometimes also sad.
++++ Ozy and Millie: Long-running comic strip in the style of Calvin and Hobbes featuring the serene young fox Ozy and his hyperactive best friend Millie
++++ The Perry Bible Fellowship: Cynical cartoons with a nice surrealistic touch
++++ Truck Bearing Kibble: Well drawn and funny cartoons very similar to The Perry Bible Fellowship
++++ Whubble is a funny, but short-lived workplace comic strip (only 52 strips in total) under the following premise: What if the characters are cats (except for one dog and one pig) and behave even more bizarre than the Dilbert crew?

Story

Ongoing:

++++ Commander Kitty (one update a week) tells the humorous story of a feline space ranger and his crew on a dangerous mission. A lot of thought went into the world and character design and the comic manages to be exciting and still deliver a joke on nearly every page.
++++ Digger (two updates a week): The adventures of the brave Wombat Digger in a strange land, presented in unique black and white artwork.
Evil Diva (three updates a week): Powree’s favorite active webcomic
++++ Gunnerkrigg Court (three updates a week) is a fantasy comic with sci-fi elements subdivided into more or less self-contained chapters. They tell the mysterious story of the young girl Antimony “Annie” Carver and her best friend Katerina “Kat” Donlan who attend the eponymous school as they get involved in the political intrigues between Gunnerkrigg Court and the mythical creatures of Gillitie Wood, a forest near the school.
Lackadaisy (+) (sporadic updates)
++++ One Swoop Fell (sporadic updates): The adventures of the friendly bear Topo and his new friend, the aviatically challenged bird Swoop. The cast of this marvellously drawn comic also includes the cutest squirrel girl ever put on paper a computer screen.
++++ Questionable Content (five updates a week) …
Slightly Damned (one update a week): Our editor Sarah is very involved in the community of this webcomic, so you might want to check it out, too.
The Abominable Charles Christopher (+) (one update a week) is a very well drawn story about the adventures of a Bigfoot-like creature and various woodland animals. The plot is sorta incomprehensible, though.
Union of Heroes (+) (three updates a week) is a slice-of-life photonovel which takes place in the Ruhr Area of Germany in an alternative universe in which superheroes are common. Despite this description, the comic does not suck but is an interesting read.

Rating scale

++++: This comic may have its flaws, but is generally enjoyable, especially if you like its genre.

++++: This comic is quite good and there may be some real gems in the archive.

++++: This comic is very good and you should check it out even if you’re not fond of its genre.

++++: This comic is among the best of the best, just one step below Calvin and Hobbes. Everybody should read it.

Community sites / Blogs

Blambot: The best available fonts for comics, including some helpful tutorials, for example about comic lettering
The Comics Curmudgeon: Josh’s blog with cynical comments about the most recent instalments of popular newspaper comic strips is cult.
The Daily Cartoonist: Comic blog maintained and visited by professional cartoonists
The Webcomic Builder is a new blog containing articles with tips for webcomic creators
The Webcomic List is an extensive webcomic catalog, including a well-frequented forum for webcomic creators

Newspaper strips

Calvin and Hobbes: Official site with a new strip every day at Gogomics
Calvin and Hobbes: Magic on Paper: Fansite with extensive information about Calvin and Hobbes and its creator Bill Watterson
F Minus
FoxTrot
Liberty Meadows: One of Powree’s favorite comic strips
Lio
My Cage
Zits

Raccoons

Wikipedia: Raccoon: The “featured” Wikipedia article about raccoons contains the most important facts and the results of the latest research about the species.
Videos of Molly at YouTube: Very interesting footage of the pet raccoon Molly.
Raccoon Tracks: Solid website with general information about raccoons.

Burma

Democratic Voice of Burma: Non-profit media organization providing news and information about Burma.
The Irrawaddy: News magazine with a primary focus on Burma which is closely associated with the pro-democracy movement.

Animals

Cheetah Conservation Fund
Snow Leopard Trust
The Fox Website: The definitive source of information about foxes; maintained by the Mammal Research Unit at the University of Bristol found by fox expert Stephen Harris.

Art

Misti’s deviantArt gallery: Misti Hope Wudtke is a very talented artist and a good friend of mine. I am the proud owner of several of her best watercolor paintings.
Digital Webbing Forums: The ideal place to look for artists, for example if you want to write a webcomic but your drawing skills are rather poor.