Some of my favorite comic strips

Achewood – Chris Onstad

• Achewood

• Surreal, character-driven comic about depressed stuffed animals, tech bros, and weird neighbors; starts rough but becomes a darkly funny, emotionally sharp epic.

A Softer World – Joey Comeau & Emily Horne

• A Softer World (archived mirror)

• Photo-based three-panel comics with poetic captions; mixes deadpan humor, melancholy, and sudden, often very dark twists.

Bone – Jeff Smith

• Boneville (official site)

• Long-form fantasy adventure that starts Looney Tunes–goofy and slowly becomes an epic with real stakes, warmth, and gorgeous black-and-white art.

Calvin and Hobbes – Bill Watterson

• Calvin and Hobbes at GoComics

• Classic strip about an imaginative boy and his maybe-imaginary tiger; blends slapstick, philosophy, social satire, and pure childhood joy.

Cul de Sac – Richard Thompson

• Cul de Sac at GoComics

• Kid-centered strip with wildly expressive art and sharp, gentle humor about family, anxiety, and growing up in suburbia.

Cyanide & Happiness – Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick & others

• Cyanide & Happiness

• Simple stick-figure art with aggressively dark, absurd, and often very offensive jokes; loves shock and subverting wholesome setups.

Dinosaur Comics – Ryan North

• Dinosaur Comics

• Same art every day; changing dialogue of wordy, philosophical T-Rex monologues about ethics, time travel, God, and nonsense.

Dresden Codak – Aaron Diaz

• Dresden Codak

• Dense, beautifully drawn sci-fi comic about transhumanism, philosophy, and weird technology; mixes big ideas with dry, nerdy humor.

FoxTrot – Bill Amend

• FoxTrot at GoComics

• Family strip with a strong geek streak: math jokes, gaming, pop culture references, and sibling warfare.

Goblins – Tarol “Thunt” Hunt

• Goblins

• Follows low-level goblin NPCs in a D&D-like world; combines gamer humor with surprisingly dark, serious story arcs.

Hark! A Vagrant – Kate Beaton

• Hark! A Vagrant

• History and literature jokes with expressive, loose art; skewers canonical figures, tropes, and weird old book covers.

Invisible Bread – Justin Boyd

• Invisible Bread

• Simple, clean art with gentle surrealism and everyday awkwardness; often adds extra punchlines in hover text.

Kill Six Billion Demons – Tom Parkinson-Morgan

• Kill Six Billion Demons

• Over-the-top cosmic fantasy about angels, demons, and a reluctant chosen one; heavy-metal theology with bursts of sharp, weird humor.

Killed By Porn – Stjepan Šejić

• Stjepan Šejić / Shiniez (Patreon hub)

• Adult/NSFW shorts that blend porn, workplace comedy, and meta-jokes about the adult industry and tropes (often lumped under his “Shiniez” erotica work).

Nimona – ND Stevenson

• Nimona (HarperCollins page)

• Completed comic about a shapeshifting sidekick and a supervillain; funny, queer, and subversive take on classic hero/villain stories.

Octopus Pie – Meredith Gran

• Octopus Pie

• Follows Brooklyn 20-somethings through relationships, jobs, and existential dread; starts gag-heavy, ends up as a deeply character-driven dramedy.

Oh Joy, Sex Toy – Erika Moen & Matthew Nolan