May 5 Is Online Comics Day!

Every year on this day, Internet comic makers and fans get out to help build community in and build awareness of the world of great comic strips and graphic novels that people make available online. Many are free, many others inexpensive; some serials, some short stories, some daily gags, some personal journals; some beautiful in their artistry, others amusing in their sloppiness; some with millions of readers, others only a few loyal fans; and all available to anyone, anywhere in the world.

If you are already a fan, go ahead and tell your friends to take a look around today. If you aren't, then check out these links for some of my personal favorites - you may find something new and wonderful you've never seen before.

(Comics marked with an asterisk (*) are teen-safe. Or, well, teen-safe enough for the newspapers - use your own judgment.)

Online Comics Day 2007 - http://www.comicsday.com/about/: The hub for this year's celebration of comics on the Internet.
Freefall - http://freefall.purrsia.com/ *: A silly yet serious hard SF comic, following the crew of the Savage Chicken as they work towards fame, glory, discovery, and not getting blown up on and near a newly terraformed planet.
Schlock Mercenary - http://www.schlockmercenary.com/ *: The galaxy-spanning hard science fiction epic of Tagon's Toughs, a crew of mercenaries, as they run from the law, blackmail and double-charge their clients, and set off interstellar wars.
A Miracle of Science - http://project-apollo.net/mos/ *: The complete story of a government agent assigned to apprehending sufferers of Science-Related Memetic Disorder - mad-scientist disease - and the member of the Martian group intelligence he's partnered with.
Dicebox - http://www.dicebox.net/: A beautifully-illustrated graphic novel about a pair of interstellar itinerants in a futuristic world.
Get Medieval - http://get-medieval.livejournal.com/ *: The zany adventures of a group of outcasts hiding on a primitive planet in an minor spiral arm of an average-sized galaxy - that is, fourteenth century Earth.
Bruno - http://www.baldwinpage.com/bruno.html: A down-to-earth story about a confused young woman wandering through life, seeking meaning. Complete story.
Freebird - http://www.freebirdcomic.com/ *: The story of an ex-housewife wanderer leaving her old life to start anew in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Planet Karen - http://planetkaren.girl-wonder.org/: The optimistic and good-spirited graphic diary of Karen Ellis, goth and comic artist in England.
Malfunction Junction - http://www.malfunctionjunction.net/: The pessimistic and irreverent (and hilarious) graphic diary of Matt Milby, artist and gas station attendant in Columbus, Ohio.
Kaspall - http://kaspall.xepher.net/: The fantasy tale of inhabitants of a town built on a swarm of dimensional portals as a supernatural mystery unfolds.
Mnemesis - http://www.graphicsmash.com/comics/mnemesis.php: The complete story of two people waking up in an odd afterlife with no memory of who they were. Exciting and tragic, with a unique look.

Unofficial Online Comics Day poster by Robin Zimmermann - please copy and distribute!

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I supported last year too...
thou this year the link didn't come thru.

I'm packrat, by the way.

http://packrat.comicgensis.com

http://packrat.comicgenesis.com/ (http://packrat.comicgenesis.com/), right? Fun coincidence!

There wasn't an official celebration last year, was there?

My Online Comics Day 2007 Flyer

May 5 Is Online Comics Day!

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