Oh my ladies and gents, the Internet is a wonderful place for comics. All sorts of amazing artists who I never would have found on comic store shelves are working day and night to deliver week after week of strips (sometimes three a week! sometimes five!) that are touching and hilarious and extremely well done. I feel as though I should do something, anything to honor the hard work of these individuals, so I will do what I do best: blog about them.

This list does not include Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton or The Abominable Charles Christopher by Karl Kerschl, not because they don’t belong here (they very much do), but because I’ve already interviewed them on this site before, Kate on the podcast, and Karl over here. Like all of the other comics on this list, please read them.

In no particular order:

-Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: XKCD if Randall could draw more than stick figures. Gags, often scientific in nature, often geeky, and very funny. The SMBC Theater live action shorts are also extremely well done for a site of this stature, and extremely funny as well. It’s amazing that this site isn’t bigger than Collegehumor or that ilk — it’s certainly more creative and funnier.

-Dead Winter: Zombies, bad guys, and cute chicks. And that art style! It’s amazing how far he’s come, both in terms of storytelling and design, but then again, that’s what happens when you really commit to a webcomic like this. It’s amazing that this shows up for free in my RSS reader every few days.

-Questionable Content: What’s amazing about this comic is that the content is never questionable — despite the fact that it updates so often (five days a week, without fail), the comic is always super true to these characters, to their lives, and often funny anyway (though the humor always comes from who these guys are, not some contrived punchline). Great comic — more touching and true than most TV shows I watch.

-Sailor Twain or, The Mermaid in the Hudson: This one’s pretty new to me but the style is terrific. Moody and Victorian and dark and beautiful.

-Overcompensating: Ok, so sometimes I do like the silly non sequiturs. This one’s got them, along with some weird art, but I like it. And it makes me laugh, even though I often have no idea why.

-Dinosaur Comics: This is on the list? Actually, it shouldn’t be — I did interview Ryan North as well a little while back. But it’s recently come to my attention that some people I know aren’t reading their Dinosaur Comics every day, and so hopefully including this here will rectify that situation. This is the most useful and entertaining clip art in the entire history of the universe ever.

-Gunshow: I think I’m late on this but oh man, Gunshow. It’s the best. Sometimes it makes no sense, but then you think about it for a bit later that day and it both makes sense and is very funny. I am a pro at explaining things, and this one leaves me trying to figure out a way to explain why it’s so good. Read this arc and maybe you’ll see why.

-Dresden Codak: Weird. Beautiful. It doesn’t update as often as some of these others, but it doesn’t have to. Each one of these is a gem, and as you look at it, it’s as if you’re seeing the light hit an idea in various ways and reflections.

-The Non-adventures of Wonderella: I’ve been reading this one almost since the very beginning. Like The Venture Brothers, it both skewers the genre it’s parodying, and yet still offers up a surprisingly solid mythos and backstory. Plus, Jokerella is the most adorably incompetent supervillian ever. She tries so hard!

-Nedroid Picture Diary: Reginald and Beartato have such wacky adventures. Like this one. “You just don’t understand cats.”

-NPC Comic: Considering my audience, you probably already know about Mary Varn’s comic, since I’ve talked it up in a few places already. But even if you’re not a gamer or a geek, it’s a great read, and it’s been really fun to see the comic and the site come into its own.

-Lucy Knisley’s Artjournal: So honest, so beautiful, so perfect. Lucy doesn’t update that often, either (I think she’s spending most of her time doing actual work, which is as it should be), but when she does, it’s always amazing. I wish I could express myself and my thoughts with my words with as much vibrance and honesty as she does with her pictures.

I think that’s more than ten, but calling it eleven webcomics would mess up the title, and I wanted to mention them all. Enjoy.