While I am breaching the subject of comics, I thought I’d list the various comics I read in my daily traversals. In addition to the comic strips I read in the local paper, I have a few comics in my RSS aggregator, and a couple that don’t have feeds.

The following are probably my favorites:

• Calvin and Hobbes, of course. There really is none better than the almighty Bill Watterson.
• WulffMorgenthaler, for that daily dose of weird, yet hilarious.
• Maakies, for some good, old-fashioned hand-drawn goodness. And depression and alcoholism and suicide and all that fun stuff.
• PvP, for some great geeky humor.
• Non Sequitur is probably the most consistently funny/smart in the paper these days. And dude can draw.
• Speaking of awesome drawing skizzils, Liberty Meadows is awesome, though it is only available in comic books these days. Frank Cho had a fight with his syndicators over censorship.
• Get Fuzzy is Garfield for the next generation, except it is actually funny.
• Frazz has some hints of Calvin and Hobbes, though it is not quite as consistent, and the drawing style is more “cartoony.”
• Bizarro is clever and turns phrases well. It’s also really out there sometimes, and catches you off-guard. I dig his drawing style as well.

I am also a pretty big fan of Rhymes With Orange because Hilary Price is consistenly original and funny, but I must admit, I am bad about keeping up with it.

And before I get away from the strips, I just read through this great archive of old Peanuts strips. What a great tribute to an innovator in the field. It’s too bad his stuff wasn’t as original or funny towards the end as it was in the beginning.

For political cartoons, Tom Tomorrow’s This Modern World is king. I also really like Pat Oliphant’s and Ben Sargent’s drawings.

And heck, that’s just the regular comic strips. Don’t get me started on Chris Ware or Daniel Clowes.

UPDATE: Okay, I’m digging Mutts and Underworld, too. I keep a link list on my custom homepage, so I can load each one into a tab in my Mozilla browser. Actually, I think I can make a bookmark that loads all the tabs at once. Sweet.

I don’t know if I am really cut out for all this blogging stuff. I am not very good about keeping up-to-date with this thing. The best advice I’ve seen is to pick a topic and stick to it, but I don’t know what that would be. I am cursed by too many interests.

Anyway, in order to keep up the randomness quotient for this post, I made a new desktop image out of a character I am working on for a comic. Meet Sam Tastic:

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Okay, so I already killed him, but it’s okay: he’s only a drawing. I can bring him back. I promise.