Here is a useful list of webcomic blogs.
People often start blogs and quit them. Unfortunately, links to them don't disappear, so they keep turning up in search results. This makes it hard for people to find functioning blogs, especially webcomic blogs, where the search engines confuse us with the many blogs about print comics.
Webcomic Blogs:
Also consider:
The Daily Cartoonist - hard news; webcomics coverage is occasional at best
Talk About Comics - mostly announcements from ComicSpace co-owner Joey Manley and associates
Some of these webcomic blogs update multiple times a week and some can go weeks without updating. However, they all focus on webcomics, and they have been around for a while and have something to offer.
This site updates at minimum monthly, unless there is nothing to change.
Recent changes: Digital Comic News merged with Indy Comic News, which we don't cover because it has slim webcomic content. Red Right Hand has not published in about three months, and has been dropped.
ArtPatient - Reviews that are among the best and most sensitive, occasional commentary. Smaller titles stand a better chance here. Widely anticipated Friday round-up of web news of interest to webcomics.
Art in Sequence - New, worth seeing
Blog-it Llama - Blog of the Rocket Llama comic often strays from pure webcomics but carries material of interest.
Comixtalk - magazine-style blog with stories, interviews and difficult navigation. Some conflict of interest questions raised by decision of journalist/owner to participate as comics contest judge and subsequently, to assemble a "Top 100 Webcomics" indulgence in vanity.
Blog-it Llama - Blog of the Rocket Llama comic often strays from pure webcomics but carries material of interest.
Comixtalk - magazine-style blog with stories, interviews and difficult navigation. Some conflict of interest questions raised by decision of journalist/owner to participate as comics contest judge and subsequently, to assemble a "Top 100 Webcomics" indulgence in vanity.
Damn Good Comics - reviews and commentary, sporadic
Digital Strips - groups written, new, reviews and commentary. One of the better quick-read blogs, but arguably a little lazy on hard news fact-finding. Claims to journalism should probably be restricted to Feature Journalism and articles penned by Ingrid, who is no lightweight at reporting..
Fleen - Not what it seems: actually a Dumbrella property, which is why it shills their titles relentlessly. A pretty clever scam. Dumbed down, and therefore appealing to USA Today subscribers. Obsequious and Snarky.
Fleen - Not what it seems: actually a Dumbrella property, which is why it shills their titles relentlessly. A pretty clever scam. Dumbed down, and therefore appealing to USA Today subscribers. Obsequious and Snarky.
Floating Lightbulb - Discussion of webcomic creation and theory for enthusiastic readers and creators, with occasional forays into investigative journalism and lighter discussions
KEZ - webcomicks how-to, optimization and tech tips
MPD57 has resumed with a new site (update any links) for 2009, featuring webcomics and also art and design topics. Zuda commentary. Welcome back, Mike.
Online Comics - enthusiastic capsule reviews
Scott McCloud - latest thoughts of cartoonist/author/webcomics theortician
Storming the Tower - in-depth webcomic news, articles and analyses
Tangents - infrequent but long pieces analyzing and reviewing
This Week In Webcomics - new, recent reviews every Wednesday and Friday. Enthusiastic.
Webcomic Asylum - reviews, interviews and commentary
Webcomic Finds - High quality reviews
Webcomics Overlook - energetic reviews and commentary. Among the better reviewers.
Webcomic Asylum - reviews, interviews and commentary
Webcomic Finds - High quality reviews
Webcomics Overlook - energetic reviews and commentary. Among the better reviewers.
Webcomic Wire - A headline roundup courtesy of the Gigcast webcomic podcast
WebSnark - Once famous webcomics blog is now infrequent. Publishes occasional long pieces on variety of topics. Sad to say, no longer particularly relevant.
Zhi - reviews from Australia
Also consider:
The Daily Cartoonist - hard news; webcomics coverage is occasional at best
Talk About Comics - mostly announcements from ComicSpace co-owner Joey Manley and associates
The Beat - Digest of news briefs pertaining to comics of all types. Most links on site are obsolete. Often permeated by an
arrogant tone. Most reports are cut-and-paste summaries of reporting done by others.
Of special interest:
Psychedelic Treehouse is a resource for all things webcomic, featuring a sizable webcomic links list, articles, how-to, art, portal lists and reprints of the best interviews, critical essays and reviews from participating webcomic blogs.
The Directory of Webcomic Collectives, housed at Psychedelic Treehouse, is another great source for locating comics, often by theme.
The Psychedelic Treehouse Webcomic Blog Directory is a more detailed, illustrated version of this list and may be the preferable bookmark.
If you're writing a webcomic blog and you are not listed here, go to Floating Lightbulb, pull my email from the right hand column, and drop me a line. If you don't like how I summarized your blog, don't be put off -- let me know. The goal is balance and honesty, and I am open to your thoughts. Addendum: I can't be held to these standards with Fleen. Just the honesty.
Also see: Article about webcomic blogs linking
If you want to know more about the guy who keeps this site up, you might enjoy scouting my webcomics. Scratchin Post is a weekly about colorful, quirky characters in a small town. Li'l Nyet is a comedy about the clash between human ideals and human nature. It appears five days a week.
WebcomicsCollage.com is worth a look if you do a webcomic.
Link to this site: Webcomic Blog List
http://webcomicbloglist.synthasite.com/index.php
Don't forget to link to your favorite webcomic blogs. Also, many have feeds you can add to your subscription list.
Webcomic Blogs List is Copyright 2008 Bengo and Pug.
The assistance and support of our webcomic blogging colleagues is deeply appreciated.
