Regardless of your age, gender, religion, or ethnicity, you’ve played with your fair share of toys. Odds are, a good number of you STILL play with toys (Lord knows I’ve still got my share). For this reason alone, you should already be enjoying Toyzville by Larry Merrill. If you’re not, then jump on the bandwagon. It’s not too late! The all ages fun of Automaton Tom and Brock as they bounce around Toyzville, interacting with the various toys, young and old, is not to be miss…

What? Toyzville is done? Larry just lost the drive to work with the gang? And the trademark/copyright-happy cast won’t fly in a printed work? Aw heck… just go check the site for the words straight from Larry, I can’t do this now…

Come again? Larry is taking his artistic chops and combining them with the writing prowess of Steve Campbell of Turnsignals to concoct a whole new webcomic titled The Boids? Well… looking back, I would say that this tag-team perfectly covers their respective weaker attributes and could be what both creators need to get their well-deserved time in the spotlight.

Sorry to see Toyzville pass on to that ever-expanding webcomic Great Beyond, Larry, but good luck with The Boids!

Remember when you were a kid and you had a lunchbox that, instead of food, you'd fill with loose toys, scraps of fun, and things you treasured? You'd carry that silly lunchbox all over the place, setting it down to occasionally examine its contents, then securely clack the latches shut. If you weren't that kid, you knew that kid (and if you didn’t, stop ruining my analogy and play along). I feel like that kid all over again.

The newest online comic collective on the block is Lunchbox Funnies, launching with the slogan 'All-Ages Comics for Everyone!' The line-up is incredible, featuring some of the best all-ages strips on the Internet. This, of course, doesn't mean that only children and people of diminished mental capacity can visit and fall in love with Lunchbox Funnies. I myself was already reading several of these strips before now and I is real smart.

The funtastic gang is composed of the following:

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Eric Burns, flexing his Websnark muscle, got a collection of his favorite cartoonists to put together a 17-part epic in which he asked collaborator, cohort, and companion Wednesday White to marry him. “Oh. By the by?” he added to his post later in the day, “She said yes.”

This isn’t the first time the comics medium has been utilized for a wedding proposal. Mike from Penny Arcade did it, the Dave and Raina story is that of legend, and even Rob Liefeld did it in an issue of Youngblood. But each time I’ve seen something like this occur, there’s been a twist. Continue reading →

Flying Monkey Comics, the quirky lovechild parented by Simon Perrins and Andrew Livesey, has abandoned the static realms currently occupied by their print and online comic offerings. No longer shall each of their characters (zombies, aliens, women, etc.) lay flat upon the paper or without tickling the glittering components of a reader's monitor.

Along with a website revamp to ring in the new year, the FMC Crew has provided a moving, noise-making trailer to entice you the unwitting reader into enjoying their wares. Continue reading →

Happy New Year everybody. Hope you and yours are doing well. I for one am looking forward to another year of great Web comicy goodness here at Digital Strips.

Here's something that I thought was worth a gander. Stephen Schleicher, a writer over at Major Spoilers, one of the bigger comic book blogs, has started listing his 57 top Web comics. He's three days into the endeavor and up to 21 with another two (I assume) updates coming. Continue reading →

After The Bean Men left amidst a slew of controversy, it became obvious to all that the Webcomic Idol contest Bomb Shelter Comics whipped up was less than kosher. Sure, the idea was a great one, some might even go as far as saying it was too bold to be done correctly and efficiently the first around. Well, those some people would be correct.

So, with shady voting practices becoming more and more prevalent, the BSC powers-that-be ended the contest before any more creative hearts were unjustly broken. But what to do about those still left in the running? And would there be any saving graces for those already denied passage?

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Ask and ye shall receive: Comics blogger Dave Lartigue posts his best-of-2006 list and he includes two webcomics, Dinosaur Comics and Teaching Baby Paranoia, in among the Marvel and manga and Serious Graphic Novels. In fact, it’s a nicely balanced list.

Also, Derik Badman commented below that he included webcomics in his 2006 roundup. Of course, Derik has a webcomic of his own, Things Change, so he can be considered to be among the already converted.

Comic Book Resources has a feature about a new webcomic by Paul Harmon, Welcome to Falling Oaks. The CBR story includes Continue reading →