2008 Woodie Awards
Internet provides new way to get daily dose of funnies
By Ashton Ruby
Rocket Staff Writer
Issue date: 11/9/07 Section: Focus
There are hundreds, probably thousands, of webcomics out there, so I recommend checking them out for yourself.
The first webcomic I ever read was "8-Bit Theater" by Brian Clevinger.
Based on the first Final Fantasy game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, "8-Bit Theater" is a sprite comic, which means the author takes the sprites from the actual video game to illustrate the comic.
Clevinger puts the characters in comic backgrounds and gives them dialogue, which is absent form the actual game.
Anyone that has played the first Final Fantasy will appreciate this comic and get a kick out of it. "8-Bit Theater" can be found at www.nuklearpower.com.
A webcomic based off of the most popular tabletop role-playing game, Dungeons and Dragons, is called "Order of the Stick" by Rich Burlew and is part of Giant in the Playground Web site. This comic features six dungeon-crawling adventures and spoofs D&D in a 2-D medium.
The comic gets its name from the way the characters are drawn in a stick-figure type way. You'll follow the adventure of these heroes through Xykon's lair, filled with, believe it or not, shtick comedy.
"Order of the Stick" used to appear in a popular D&D magazine called "Dragon Magazine." To read this hilarious fantasy-adventure comic, go to www.giantitp.com.
This next comic is no longer being produced, but was one of my favorites because I could relate to it pretty well.
It was called "MacHall" and was written by Matt Boyd and drawn by Ian McConville. This was a comic about a group of friends in college who all had a love for gaming.
The comics would either deal with gaming, based on some popular game at the time, or just about living in a college dorm. They're funny and have a pretty creative style of art to them.
You can read all of these at www.machall.com or check out the new comic these two are doing called "Three Panel Soul," at www.threepanelsoul.com.
"Video Game Cats" or "VG Cats," by Scott Ramsoomair, is another video game parody webcomic worth checking out where the main characters are, well, cats.
The first webcomic I ever read was "8-Bit Theater" by Brian Clevinger.
Based on the first Final Fantasy game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, "8-Bit Theater" is a sprite comic, which means the author takes the sprites from the actual video game to illustrate the comic.
Clevinger puts the characters in comic backgrounds and gives them dialogue, which is absent form the actual game.
Anyone that has played the first Final Fantasy will appreciate this comic and get a kick out of it. "8-Bit Theater" can be found at www.nuklearpower.com.
A webcomic based off of the most popular tabletop role-playing game, Dungeons and Dragons, is called "Order of the Stick" by Rich Burlew and is part of Giant in the Playground Web site. This comic features six dungeon-crawling adventures and spoofs D&D in a 2-D medium.
The comic gets its name from the way the characters are drawn in a stick-figure type way. You'll follow the adventure of these heroes through Xykon's lair, filled with, believe it or not, shtick comedy.
"Order of the Stick" used to appear in a popular D&D magazine called "Dragon Magazine." To read this hilarious fantasy-adventure comic, go to www.giantitp.com.
This next comic is no longer being produced, but was one of my favorites because I could relate to it pretty well.
It was called "MacHall" and was written by Matt Boyd and drawn by Ian McConville. This was a comic about a group of friends in college who all had a love for gaming.
The comics would either deal with gaming, based on some popular game at the time, or just about living in a college dorm. They're funny and have a pretty creative style of art to them.
You can read all of these at www.machall.com or check out the new comic these two are doing called "Three Panel Soul," at www.threepanelsoul.com.
"Video Game Cats" or "VG Cats," by Scott Ramsoomair, is another video game parody webcomic worth checking out where the main characters are, well, cats.
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