# What webcomics are most deserving of becoming actual comics? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 11, 2006, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-webcomics-are-most-deserving-of-becoming-actual-comics/352298 "2006-04-11T23:47:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-webcomics-are-most-deserving-of-becoming-actual-comics/352298/61 "2006-04-13T04:20:30Z")
I second [Ozy & Millie.](http://ozyandmillie.org/1998/om19980101.html) If you like Calvin & Hobbes, you’ll like this too. I also like [Zortic](http://zortic.com/d/20000327.html) which parodies everything from Star Wars to The Smurfs. ---
**Author:** ![Tamryne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@Tamryne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamryne)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-webcomics-are-most-deserving-of-becoming-actual-comics/352298/62 "2006-04-13T04:29:40Z")
> [@Jonathan Chance](#): > > I’m fairly certain that PvP is in a few newspapers here and there. Kurtz offers it free to anyone who will run it with his URL. Very cool. I know he’s not in my major local paper, I’l see if I can find any close by that run his comics. ---
**Author:** ![Phantom\_Dennis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/51bf81/32.png) [@Phantom\_Dennis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phantom_Dennis)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-webcomics-are-most-deserving-of-becoming-actual-comics/352298/63 "2006-04-13T04:53:32Z")
Scott McCloud, author of _Understanding Comics_ and _Reinventing Comics_, has some links to a few interesting webcomics on his [site](http://www.scottmccloud.com/links/links.html). I’m kinda partial to [the Perry Bible Fellowship](http://cheston.com/pbf/archive.html) at the moment, but it’s already in print in some alternative papers, so I guess it doesn’t really count. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-webcomics-are-most-deserving-of-becoming-actual-comics/352298/64 "2006-04-13T05:16:32Z")
I think [Medium Large](http://www.drinkatwork.com/mediumlarge.html) deserves a mention. It works like a daily strip that might go in a newspaper, but could never be run there. He often draws other comics (especially older pop culture) in humorous (relying often on ‘real-life’ but usually making it actually funny) situations. A recent one had Wimpy offering blow jobs in the parking lot for a hamburger. I’d almost like to see [Get Your War On](http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war53.html) compiled, but it’s almost too depressing to go over it. Yet another comic that manages to work despite the author’s lack of artistic skills (it’s created out of clip art). As for Penny Arcade, it’s simply [uncriticizable](http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/24). ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-webcomics-are-most-deserving-of-becoming-actual-comics/352298/65 "2006-04-13T06:01:34Z")
Chugworth Academy would be good in its own comic. Wouldn’t work in most newspapers. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-webcomics-are-most-deserving-of-becoming-actual-comics/352298/66 "2006-04-13T06:07:19Z")
Make that Chugworth Academy ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-webcomics-are-most-deserving-of-becoming-actual-comics/352298/67 "2006-04-13T14:08:46Z")
You know, it’s fun to watch Miller when he’s arguing with someone who’s not me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-webcomics-are-most-deserving-of-becoming-actual-comics/352298/68 "2006-04-13T14:48:01Z")
Didn’t [Pearls Before Swine](http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/) start on the web, then move to the paper world? ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-webcomics-are-most-deserving-of-becoming-actual-comics/352298/69 "2006-04-13T16:11:27Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > What? That’s utterly ridiculous. Not being a good artist doesn’t mean you don’t have respect for the medium. That doesn’t even remotely make sense. That’s because that’s not what I said. What I was saying, in other words, is despite his knack for comedic writing (which I honestly don’t see, but considering it had nothing to do with my argument, I never brought it up. But now, I will - why not?), if he had respect for the medium, he’d recognize that he isn’t up to the task of creating a comic by himself, and do something about it. The fact that his comics are so visually incompetent shows that he really doesn’t care how they look, as long as they can technically tell his jokes and stories. If you say “I don’t care how it looks. It’s all about the content” about a visual medium, it shows you don’t have much respect for it, because you don’t get that how it looks _is_ part of the content (most of it, actually). > [@](#): > > I also disagree with you that Andy Weir is a bad artist. His art isn’t great, but its _functional_. There’s never any confusion about what you’re looking at, or what’s going on. It’s adequate to transmit the ideas and actions he’s trying to communicate. He’s improved a lot in the two years he’s been doing the comic, and may improve more yet, but even if he’s plateaued, he’s still spent two years working on a thrice-weekly comic, and has been pretty good about hitting his deadlines. There are over 600 strips in his archive. You can argue all you want that he’s not _good_ at it, but he’s definitly dedicated, and I don’t think you’d see that kind of dedication if he didn’t respect the medium. He thinks he’s funny and the easiest way to tell his jokes in a narrative context and have people read them is through a webcomic. I suspect that’s his only motivation, not any real interest in comics. > [@](#): > > But that’s exactly what you cited as remarkable about Ramsoonir’s _Inuyasha_ comic: an essentially monochromatic background changes color to indicate the mood of the character in the panel. No, I mentioned that it gradually constricted, arranged in one row, to coincide with a startle. > [@](#): > > In addition, _Casey and Andy_ does not, by any means, stick to a solely six-panel format. Okay. I didn’t say that was the case. I said mostly. > [@](#): > > Seriously, if you’re going to criticize the comic, at least read it first, because you’re making basic errors of fact, here. No, you’re just misunderstanding me. > [@](#): > > Yes, they have. For one thing, there’s the drawing of the guy, there. Plus, there’s some pretty subtle comic timing that’s involved in the three panel format. The pause between the set-up and the punch line would be difficult to accurately reproduce outside of him telling the joke in person. Fine, I’ll relent. I guess there’s no reason to deem a cartoon standup act invalid as a comic. > [@](#): > > [Wrong](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094089/) and [wrong.](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005Y1M2/qid=1144891330/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-8464622-1794535?s=music&v=glance&n=5174) I realize that lectures and poems can be recorded onto video and disc, but does merely existing on those formats move them into the cinema and song category? Do you consider the Rodney King video a cinematic piece? > [@](#): > > Sorry, I should have said “writing” there, not text. Good writing can save a comic with mediocre art, but good art can’t save a comic with mediocre writing. _Casey and Andy_ has consistently good writing, and decent art. _VGCats_ has great art, and decent-to-good writing. Since I value writing more than art (which is a matter of personal preference) I like _Casey and Andy_ slightly more than _VGCats_. Since the art is a part of the storytelling, I don’t know if the final product can be segregated by “writing” (which I guess refers to the story and jokes, and text when it applies, since a comic doesn’t neccessarily have to be written beforehand) and art for criticism. But I can’t argue with your preference. > [@](#): > > It was the _only_ gag in the comic. Even if it was (which it wasn’t, it was just a part of the overall point), how does that make it a bad strip? > [@](#): > > Yeah, but so what? This is an amazingly shallow and obvious joke. Ramsoomair has done dozens of other strips that used this theme as a starting point, and then actually went somewhere with it. Here, it’s entirely undeveloped. It’s an amazingly amateur strip in conception. There’s no rule that demands depth from a joke. Besides, you keep dissecting it in order to dissolve its effect. Yes, it requires knowledge of an obscure NES game. You used that against it, for some reason, but that’s a part of what makes it funny. If he pointed out an obvious absurdity from Super Mario Bros., no, it wouldn’t have worked as well. Take it in as a whole and it works. Segment it and try to downplay each part that makes up the whole and you ruin it. > [@](#): > > I didn’t say it was. I said it’s what a _good_ parody does. Even still, that’s not necessarily what makes a _good_ parody. > [@](#): > > Marginally better. Still more of a gross-out gag than anything really clever, but at least it’s a bit more original than the other comic. But it’s still the same basic gag: let’s show a video game action in a realistic way to highlight how horribly it is. Being puked on by a lizard and turning into produce is, at least more interesting to depict that way than hitting a guy in the head with a lead pipe. But considering Ramsoomair has done this exact joke a hundred times before, it comes across to me as lazy and unoriginal. Where else have you seen Bubble Bobble lampooned this way? He hasn’t done that exact joke a hundred times; you merely referring to the fact that his subject matter revolves around videogames. The purpose of his strip is, for the most part, to lampoon videogames. If you’re going to define every videogame parody as the same joke, then yes, he does do that same joke all the time. > [@](#): > > As for three panels with avatars telling us how crazy a game is, if they can be funny while they tell it, who gives a fuck how many panels there are? I have more of an issue with the talking avatar thing than the amount of panels. Why bother with the comic if the two just want just depict themselves musing? That’s what blogs are for. Or musing columns. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-webcomics-are-most-deserving-of-becoming-actual-comics/352298/70 "2006-04-13T16:43:36Z")
> [@pizzabrat](#): > > I have more of an issue with the talking avatar thing than the amount of panels. Why bother with the comic if the two just want just depict themselves musing? That’s what blogs are for. Or musing columns. Not to interrupt Miller’s pwnage, here, but they don’t just depict themselves musing. The visuals support the story. I just reviewed every PA back to the beginning of March - at the very least, the facial expressions are used to complement the text by expressing the emotions of the character. They give the words inflections that plain text just can’t provide. And more than half of the strips actually rely on a humorous visual above and beyond simple expressiveness. ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-webcomics-are-most-deserving-of-becoming-actual-comics/352298/71 "2006-04-13T16:50:01Z")
I’m not a big fan of the PPG doujinshi. The art style doesn’t impress me much, and the storyline is way too melodramatic for my taste. Plus, Bleedman always seems to keep adding other projects to his plate. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-webcomics-are-most-deserving-of-becoming-actual-comics/352298/72 "2006-04-13T16:55:53Z")
> [@pizzabrat](#): > > That’s because that’s not what I said. What I was saying, in other words, is despite his knack for comedic writing (which I honestly don’t see, but considering it had nothing to do with my argument, I never brought it up. But now, I will - why not?), if he had respect for the medium, he’d recognize that he isn’t up to the task of creating a comic by himself, and do something about it. The fact that his comics are so visually incompetent shows that he really doesn’t care how they look, as long as they can technically tell his jokes and stories. If you say “I don’t care how it looks. It’s all about the content” about a visual medium, it shows you don’t have much respect for it, because you don’t get that how it looks _is_ part of the content (most of it, actually). I honestly cannot wrap my mind around what you’re trying to say here. It makes absolutely no sense. The guy draws a comic because he likes drawing a comic. He’s not doing it professionally. He’s not making any money off it\*. He’s just doing something he likes, and putting it on the web. I’m sure he’d like his comic to look better: I don’t think there’s an artist alive who doesn’t feel that way baout their work, in any medium, but that’s the best he can do. How that shows a lack of respect for the medium is entirely beyond me. Also, I don’t see how you can say his art is incompetent. When you look at one of his comics, can you not understand what’s supposed to be happening? Are the characters difficult to tell apart? Does the action not make sense? In what manner is he incompetent? What do you mean by incompetent in this context? \*He does have a shop section of his comic, where you can buy a coffee mug or a print of one of his drawings. I doubt the profits from these two items is enough to offset the cost of hosting his website, and he makes no money directly off the comic itself. > [@](#): > > He thinks he’s funny and the easiest way to tell his jokes in a narrative context and have people read them is through a webcomic. I suspect that’s his only motivation, not any real interest in comics. And what’s wrong with that? What’s the proper motivation for creating a comic? > [@](#): > > No, I mentioned that it gradually constricted, arranged in one row, to coincide with a startle. Fair enough. > [@](#): > > I realize that lectures and poems can be recorded onto video and disc, but does merely existing on those formats move them into the cinema and song category? Do you consider the Rodney King video a cinematic piece? No, I’m saying that the barriers between different mediums are not as rigid as you seem to be insisting. Is _My Dinner with Andre_ not a movie, because it’s just two people talking? If it’s not a movie, what is it, exactly? > [@](#): > > Since the art is a part of the storytelling, I don’t know if the final product can be segregated by “writing” (which I guess refers to the story and jokes, and text when it applies, since a comic doesn’t neccessarily have to be written beforehand) and art for criticism. But I can’t argue with your preference. You earlier pointed out (correctly) that a comic can have no words and still be a comic. But a comic with no story isn’t a comic: it’s just a picture. Therefore, by your own logic, story (plot, characterization, theme, etc.) is more important than art to a comic. Wether this is communicated primarily through words or pictures is a secondary consideration. > [@](#): > > Even if it was (which it wasn’t, it was just a part of the overall point), how does that make it a bad strip? Because it’s not that good a joke, obviously. > [@](#): > > There’s no rule that demands depth from a joke. Besides, you keep dissecting it in order to dissolve its effect. No, I’m dissecting it to show why it doesn’t _have_ an effect. > [@](#): > > Yes, it requires knowledge of an obscure NES game. You used that against it, for some reason, but that’s a part of what makes it funny. If he pointed out an obvious absurdity from Super Mario Bros., no, it wouldn’t have worked as well. I don’t see why pointing out an obvious absurdity in a game most people have never heard of is any funnier than pointing out an obvious absurdity in a game everyone has heard of. > [@](#): > > Take it in as a whole and it works. Segment it and try to downplay each part that makes up the whole and you ruin it. Well, no, it doesn’t work as a whole. It’s not a funny comic. I’m segmenting it to explain why it’s not funny. Naturally, that process is going to kill any humor, no matter how good, but in this case, it’s a mercy killing at best. > [@](#): > > Even still, that’s not necessarily what makes a _good_ parody. I disagree. That’s what seperates good parody from bad parody. > [@](#): > > Where else have you seen Bubble Bobble lampooned this way? He hasn’t done that exact joke a hundred times; you merely referring to the fact that his subject matter revolves around videogames. The purpose of his strip is, for the most part, to lampoon videogames. If you’re going to define every videogame parody as the same joke, then yes, he does do that same joke all the time. No, I’m not saying all comics about videogames are exactly the same. I even linked to another _VGCats_ video game parody to show how it can be done differently. In these two comics, specifc element of the strip that is supposed to be funny is identical: realisitically depicting an action in a cartoonish video game to illustrate how horrible it really is. It’s exactly the same joke, used on two different video games. It works better with _Bubble Bobble_ because the action being parodied is so much more bizarre, but it doesn’t shake the fact that it’s a pretty tired gag at this point. > [@](#): > > I have more of an issue with the talking avatar thing than the amount of panels. Why bother with the comic if the two just want just depict themselves musing? That’s what blogs are for. Or musing columns. Because the author would rather draw a comic than write a blog. Why does this idea bother you so much? ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-webcomics-are-most-deserving-of-becoming-actual-comics/352298/73 "2006-04-13T16:56:52Z")
Oh, and here : > **[Penny Arcade - Comic - Torment Unyielding](https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/02/22)** > > Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary. PA defying traditional panel format in a brilliant little riff that I rather enjoy. And that seems to have given rise to a current net-meme. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-webcomics-are-most-deserving-of-becoming-actual-comics/352298/74 "2006-04-13T17:09:59Z")
Webcomics. Serious business. Simmer down before I report this thread to [these guys](http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/). I’m partial to [Mark](http://www.adventurers-comic.com/) [Shallow](http://www.antiheroforhire.com/) (he’s on vacation so those are guest week strips). His art is meh (its’ actually gotten a lot better. Check out the first couple Adventurers! strips) but the jokes and stories are great. I could see Antihero for Hire as a Sunday strip, but the arcs would take about a year to unfold. Like someone upthread said, most webcomics work best on the web where they have more freedom. I somehow don’t see [Striptease](http://www.stripteasecomic.com/) flying in a newspaper. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-webcomics-are-most-deserving-of-becoming-actual-comics/352298/75 "2006-04-13T17:57:40Z")
> [@pizzabrat](#): > > There’s no rule that demands depth from a joke. Is there a rule that demands great artwork from a comic? Is there a rule that every comic artist has to use every tool in the comic toolbox? Why are there rules at all? All I care about in a comic is if it entertains me in some way. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-webcomics-are-most-deserving-of-becoming-actual-comics/352298/76 "2006-04-13T18:06:12Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > Is there a rule that demands great artwork from a comic? Is there a rule that every comic artist has to use every tool in the comic toolbox? Why are there rules at all? Not great artwork, but by definition artwork is a necessary component of comics, so better art=better comic is a valid formula. You can’t say the same about depth and jokes. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-webcomics-are-most-deserving-of-becoming-actual-comics/352298/77 "2006-04-13T18:14:53Z")
> [@pizzabrat](#): > > Not great artwork, but by definition artwork is a necessary component of comics, so better art=better comic is a valid formula. You can’t say the same about depth and jokes. By that logic, [this](http://www.eskimo.com/~rwb/images/europe/11-milan-last-supper.jpg) is a better comic than [this](http://www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb/watchmen/watchmen.jpg). Not to knock Dave Gibbons, but he’s no Michelangelo. And art is, after all, the only valid criteria in judging what what makes a good comic book, right? ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-webcomics-are-most-deserving-of-becoming-actual-comics/352298/78 "2006-04-13T18:55:48Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > By that logic, [this](http://www.eskimo.com/~rwb/images/europe/11-milan-last-supper.jpg) is a better comic than [this](http://www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb/watchmen/watchmen.jpg). Not to knock Dave Gibbons, but he’s no Michelangelo. And art is, after all, the only valid criteria in judging what what makes a good comic book, right? That’s not what I said at all! When I said “better art=better comic”, I obviously was speaking about the art in a comic. The painting you linked to isn’t a comic, so it’s irelavant to compare it to Watchmen. And I didn’t say art was the _only_ valid criteria for judgement either. My only point was that it’s more valid to judge a comic by its art than it is to judge a joke by its depth. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-webcomics-are-most-deserving-of-becoming-actual-comics/352298/79 "2006-04-13T18:57:37Z")
This is relevant. > **[Penny Arcade - Comic - Adventures Into Digital Bullshit](https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/06/01)** > > Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary. ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-webcomics-are-most-deserving-of-becoming-actual-comics/352298/80 "2006-04-13T19:22:47Z")
erm…I’d like to recommend [Irregular Webcomic](http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/cgi-bin/comic.pl?fivelast=1173) …not to interrupt or anything. .:tugs collar nervously:. mmmm…yes… I’m not sure how well it would translate to print, as the commentary can be pretty important for some of his more literary jokes. Also, the photos might not work to well in a black and white newspaper setting [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-webcomics-are-most-deserving-of-becoming-actual-comics/352298.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-webcomics-are-most-deserving-of-becoming-actual-comics/352298.md?page=5)