by Heather Bellingham

Created on: April 27, 2010   Last Updated: April 28, 2010

Humor is, of course, entirely subjective. However, there are many excellent comic strips out there, many found on-line, which are highly amusing and worth checking out.

10. VG Cats, by Scott Ramsoomair

Video Game Cats is a series of one-off comics about, obviously, games and gaming. It stars a pair of anthropomorphic cats named Aeris and Leo starring in parodies of popular video games like Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy, World of Warcraft, Super Mario and more.

9. Garfield Minus Garfield, by Dan Walsh

This comic is also pretty much exactly what it states. Garfield is removed from the usual Jim Davis Garfield strip via photo manipulation. The strip predominantly features Jon Arbuckle, and the result of removing Garfield is that Jon appears insane ninety percent of the time.

8. Pictures for Sad Children, by John Campbell

The information on the site for Pictures for Sad Children says it is “about a bad feeling you get when you are feeling good, or a good feeling you get when you are feeling bad.” The comic features Paul (who is a ghost) and Gary, amongst many other characters.

7. Cyanide and Happiness, by Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, Matt Melvin and Dave McElfatrick

Cyanide and Happiness is not for the easily offended. A very dark sense of humor is needed to appreciate these comics, but for those who possess such humor this comic is well worth it.

6. Penny Arcade, by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins

The granddaddy of gaming webcomics, Penny Arcade is another comic focused on video games and gamers. The comics are typically one-offs about the latest news in video games or various in-jokes.

5. Sinfest, by Tatsuya Ishida

A comic featuring Slick, a self-proclaimed pimp, Crimny, a nerd, Squigley, an anthropomorphic pot-head pig and Monique, a spoken-word poet, the strip usually features some sort of commentary on humanity, whether it be religion, politics, etc.  The strip frequently features god, the devil, or a cat and dog pair.

4. xkcd, by Randall Munroe

Drawn in stick-figures, xkcd’s tag-line is “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language”.  The topics on xkcd can range from math and science in-jokes to relationships to pop culture.  While some are capable of going over your head (the math and science comics, particularly) the relationship and pop culture ones are well worth viewing.

3. Axe Cop, by Malachi Nicolle and Ethan Nicolle

Axe Cop is written by a six-year-old boy and drawn by his older brother, a comic-book artist. This little boy is a typical imaginative child, and the results of having these ideas drawn out is hilarious, inconsistent fun.

2. Hark! A Vagrant, by Kate Beaton

Hark! A Vagrant features one-off comics about various historic and literary figures, written in modern speech. They are often silly, and intelligent as well, because the joke is actually much funnier if you know its context (however, they are still  funny even without it).

1. Platinum Grit, by Trudy Cooper, Danny Murphy, and Doug Bayne

This Australian comic is published on-line when each issue comes out, as well as having print versions. The story of Nilson, Kate and Jeremy has complex narratives and numerous pop culture references and parodies.  It can also be quite surreal as well, with one of the secondary characters being a talking cupboard (with a Jamaican accent, naturally).  

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