Things To Occupy You Over Break #4: Non-Serial Webcomics

These are non-serial webcomics, meaning each one is funny or understandable on its own. Some of them have consistent themes or jokes and you might gain something by reading beginning-to-end, but it's not necessary.

XKCD

All of you already read this, but it needs to be here anyway. The definitive webcomic on all things geeky, nerdy, or awesome. Sometimes it is also about sex.

Wondermark

David Malki! has taken old art and recontextualized it to make one of the least self-important, most hilarious things on the web. Some of them still make me laugh out loud even though I know them by heart.

Dinosaur Comics

Yes, guys, it's the same pictures over and over. You either get it or you don't.

A Softer World

The kind of thing that makes you wonder why you didn't come up with the idea, then realize you could never do exactly what they do. It's a bittersweet, bizarre, intelligent sort of thing that leaves you feeling very human and wanting to express that in a similarly beautiful way.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

If you ever need to remind yourself that you are a bad person, read this. It is so not funny, but it is hilarious. It is so wrong but it feels so right.

The Pain

Often hopeless, dirty, explicit, or all three, it's a political cartoon drawn by a guy from Baltimore who seems like he would be fun to hang out with. What can be funnier or more interesting than the cartoons themselves are his blog-like "Artist's Statements."

Citrus Soldier

Another "why didn't I think of that?" sort of idea. Norman wrote a program to pull random photos off Flickr, then he puts funny captions on them. They are awesome and funny and proof that us young people won't necessarily use the internet just to coordinate suicides or look at porn, but sometimes to find photos of other people and write silly things about them.

Surviving The World

A grad student writes things on a chalkboard, then takes photos of them. They are wise and amusing.