1. “Nedroid Fun Times” by Anthony Clark
Format: stand-alones
Genre: humor, mostly
2. “(@Dril)bert” by ???
Format: parody
Genre: twitterature
Dilbert comics laid over with @dril’s tweets.
3. “Hark! A Vagrant” by Kate Beaton
Format: 3-10 panel stand-alones
Genre: dang
Literary fan fic, medieval slapstick, fierce Wonder Woman and most recently the most astute ethnographer of Canadians. She’s a wonder and you probably already know her.
4. Misc. Comics by Zac Gorman
Format: short stand-alones
Genre: gif diary / video game comics
Zac Gorman’s personal and fan art projects are equally delightful. Most of them make use of gif animation in nifty ways.
5. “Crawdads Welcome” by Ezra Butt
Format: short stand-alones
Genre: hilarious
Sassy David Attenborough. Animals talking smack.
6. “Bongcheon-Dong Ghost” by Horang
Format: spooky short story (takes a minute to read)
Genre: HORROR HORROR HORROR
If you show this comic to anyone with a heart condition, you belong in jail. Otherwise, this is a very surprising use of the web medium.
7. “Moonbeard” by James Squires
Format: 4-6 panel shorts
Genre: sadfunnies
8. “Dinosaur Comics” by Ryan North
Format: short sketches
Genre: paleo-Weird Twitter
9. “Romantically Apocalyptic” by Vitaly S. Alexius and various contributing artists
Format: short stand-alones
Genre: morbid cyberpunk humor
Two dudes trying to make light of a post-apocalyptic situation.
10. “Gunshow Comics” by KC Green
Format: short stand-alones.
Genre: “hugs own” -the artist
Check out this dog arguing with the mirror on a crashing plane.
11. Editorial Cartoons by Matt Bors
Format: 2-8 panel stand-alones
Genre: political cartoons
Matt Bors is published by The Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, and The Nation. The above links to his Tumblr, where he posts most of his shorter cartoons.
12. “Eat More Bikes” by Nathan Bulmer
Format: four panel (updates daily)
Genre: absurdist
13. Misc. Shorts by Nick Sumida
Format: short stand-alones
Genre: Brooklyn schadenfreude
You aint seen dating woes.
14. “Terminal Lance” by Maximilian Uriarte
Format: 3-4 panels
Genre: military diary
Satirical diary on life for a grunt in the U.S. Marine Corps. A hugely popular strip among servicemen.
15. “Looking For America’s Dog” by Steven Weissman
Format: short sketches, some of them continuous
Genre: invented news/history dispatches
16. “Three Word Phrase” by Ryan Pequin
Format: 3-4 panel
Genre: humor
17. “Sticks Angelica” by Michael DeForge
Format: alien diary? (updates every Sunday)
Genre: alien
If you want a longer story from DeForge, Ant Comic is probably one of the weirder things you’ll read. It’s up for an Eisner Award nomination this year, and Adventure Time is lucky to have him onboard as an artist.
18. “A Softer World” by e horne & j comeau
Format: short aphoristic photo diaries
Genre: observational
19. “Supermutant Magic Academy” by Jillian Tamaki
Format: short sketches
Genre: schoolyard comedy / drama
Schoolyard drama among supermutants.
20. “Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal” by Zach Weiner
Format: 2-10 panel shorts
Genre: comedy/observational
An old favorite of the internet nerditariat.
21. “Achewood” by Chris Onstad
Format: start updating already
Genre: Achewood
22. “Black Is The Color” by Julia Gfrörer
Format: short story (completed)
Genre: gothic?
Two sailors are walked off the plank of a Victorian ship. On a small raft, sassy mermaids arrive to throw shade on their entire lives. Entirely worth the 10 minutes it takes to read. NSFW.
23. “Thunderpaw” by Jen Lee
Format: serial narrative
Genre: post-apocalyptic buddy adventure
Homesick pups stranded in post-apocalypse. The animated gif layouts make inventive use of its web format in a way few other comics do.
24. “Haunter” by Sam Alden
Format: serial narrative (updates every Saturday)
Genre: action/horror
A rare action comic that creeps under your skin without using any words. Sam Alden’s one of the best dialogue writers out there (see below for “Eighth Grade”; also the bitter sweet family drama of 
25. “Depression, Part II” by Hyperbole And A Half
Format: comics essay
Genre: observational
Probably the most accurate description of what depression is like. “Hyperbole” is consistently amazing.
26. “His Face All Red” by Emily Carroll
Format: short story (takes about 5 minutes to read)
Genre: horror
Probably the most inventively claustrophobic comic you’ll read online.
27. “Girl Mountain” by Simon Hanselmann
Format: mid-length short stories
Genre: super dark comedy
One big room, full of bad witches. Meg the teen witch and her stoner monster friends stumble into sordid altercations in their Los Angle-ish neighborhood. Start with this strip and see if this is your jam. NSFW.
28. “Hobo Lobo of Hamelin” by Stevan Živadinović
Format: side-scrolling pop-up picturebook (updates bi-monthly)
Genre: fable/lore
Holy lord of the dangs. Go to the website. This is some black magic.
29. “I Think I’m In Friend Love With You” by Yumi Sakugawa
Format: short stories/comics essays
Genre: observational
Yumi does great heartfelt short comic confessionals in general, but this one is a standout.
30. “Some People” by Luke Pearson
Below is an entire short story. Read other Luke Pearson comics here.
31. “Tiny Kitten Teeth” by Becky & Frank
Format: serial narrative
Genre: cute as hell
Dapper cat finds trouble in a pretentious preppy college where he clearly doesn’t belong.
32. “Octopus Pie” by Meredith Gran
Format: serial narrative
Genre: Brooklyn roommate drama
Grumpy organic grocer and ekes out her frustrations in Brooklyn. Her upbeat hippie-ish roommate has none of it. They’re good friends, really.
33. “Destructor” by Sean T. Collins and Matt Wiegle
Format: serial narrative
Genre: fantasy/sci-fi
The comic unfolds briskly and grittily. It never stumbled over itself to explain its futuristic feuds, warlords, and prison systems to you, but you’ll absorb its rules along the way.
34. “Girls With Slingshots” by Danielle Corsetto
Format: serial narrative
Genre: drama
Now on its #1641st strip and updating five time a week, Danielle Corsetto’s comic is not only an acclaimed full-time enterprise, but one of few prominent web comics to honor the experience of queer women.
35. “Nimona” by Noelle Stevenson
Format: serial narrative (updates Tuesdays and Thursdays)
Genre: fantasy comedy
Punk girl shapeshifter runs amok as an outlaw’s intern. Her boss, a former lord betrayed by his best friend, is out to expose the kingdom’s hypocrisies. It does not always work out.
36. “The Super-Gay Adventures of Ross Boston” by Drew Green
Format: serial narrative
Genre: adventure/fantasy/comedy
Adventure Time meets Power Puff Girls meets old school Saturday morning cartoons. A pizza delivery boy with a douchey boyfriend gets enlisted into some superwizard’s league. Unfailingly cheerful.
37. “Blue” by Pat Grant
Format: serial narrative
Genre: beach bum youth memoir, Aussie gentrification horror
A career beach bum remembers his gross schoolboy days in New Zealand, before Aussie developers came in and poshed up his beachside town. You will speak heaps Kiwi after reading this, ay.
38. “Go Ye Dogs!” by Michael Arthur
Format: serial narrative (sporadic updates)
Genre: adventure
This is how you’d want your backpacking trip in Miyazakiland to go down.
39. “Modern Fried Snake” by Ryan Armand
Format: serial narrative (updates 1st of every month)
Genre: drama (very quick read)
A warm, sparsely-worded comic about a street food hawker living on the edge of an (Edo Era Japanese?) town. Reminiscent of a quieter Tezuka.
40. “The Fox Sister” by Christina Strain and Jayd Aït-Kaci
Format: serial narrative
Genre: supernatural thriller
Supernatural detective story, Korean folklore, wartime drama, history of Christianity’s spread in Seoul — all of that packed into tale as briskly paces as a blockbuster.
41. “Spera” by Josh Tierny and an A-list roster of comic artists
Format: collection of stand-alone short stories
Genre: fantasy
Two princesses team up with their fire-breathing dog to cause trouble. Many of the most active current comic artists contributed chapters to this massive project.
42. “Eighth Grade” by Sam Alden
Format: serial novella (still updating)
Genre: golden age television drama
Probably one of the best narrative comics you’ll read this year. The story’s less about the cruelty of middle school children (though there’s a ton of that) than the grudges, jealousies and heartbreaks of the families around them. Like the best TV shows, it’s sympethetic towards even its worst characters. Takes an hour or so to read. Start here.
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