8-Bit Theater
Final Fantasy sprites recut into 1,200 episodes of pure comedic villainy — Black Mage's stabbing urges alone …
Every multi-panel strip in the directory — from caveman puns to robot existentialism. Looking for one-panel gags? They're on the funny cartoons page.
Three photographs, a few typewritten lines, and a punch straight to the heart — darkly funny, often devastati…
Stuffed animals and housecats with rich interior lives, hustles and existential dread. Time magazine named it…
Adam Newman was a work-from-home dad three decades before it was cool — coffee dependency, school runs and ho…
A boy reporter, a fox terrier and a sweary sea captain circle the globe in 24 albums of ligne claire perfecti…
A caveman riding a pet dinosaur got upgraded with a time machine in 1939 and has been crashing through histor…
Marvel's wall-crawler swung through newspapers for 42 years, with Stan Lee himself scripting into his ninetie…
Britain's laziest man — flat cap, pub tab, permanent nap — created for the Daily Mirror and syndicated to 50+…
Elegant, lethal animation-trained linework with two Pulitzer Prizes — the second won in 2025, months after sh…
Three migrant penguins resettle in the Arctic among polar bears and a lemming with opinions. Eco-comedy that …
A middle-aged couple who still flirt, garden and grow old together in real time. Quietly one of the warmest a…
One small Gaulish village still holds out against Caesar, armed with magic potion and impeccable puns. Nearly…
Optimistic Heart drags pragmatic Brain into bad decisions while Gallbladder just wants to be included. The or…
Cavemen, talking anteaters and a clam with legs ponder modern problems from the Stone Age. Johnny Hart's preh…
The MacPherson household is a war zone of diapers, sibling rivalry and parental exhaustion. The most painfull…
Six British schoolkids solve supernatural mysteries in the fictional town of Tackleford, armed mostly with sa…
A Latino teen dreams of lowriders while Tía Carmen dispenses wisdom and home remedies. The most widely syndic…
It gave English the words "heebie-jeebies," "hotsy-totsy" and "google" (yes, that Google traces its name here…
The laziest private in the U.S. Army has been dodging Sarge's fists since 1950. Mort Walker's gag-a-day milit…
Disney-sweet drawings that end in existential devastation — the comic equivalent of a candy apple with a razo…
A working mom navigates job, family and gadget-obsessed husband Bub with dry Canadian wit. One of the few str…
Sixth-grader Nate Wright holds the school record for detentions and the self-esteem of a rock star. The strip…
Real bird facts, delivered by the birds themselves — science communication disguised as extremely gentle come…
Dagwood's towering sandwiches and collisions with the mailman have been running since 1930. One of the longes…
Opus the penguin, Bill the Cat and a meadow full of misfits skewered 1980s politics and pop culture. Berkeley…
Radical ten-year-old Huey Freeman moves to the white suburbs and declares war on American complacency. So con…
Brutus Thornapple loses to his boss, his mother-in-law, the weather and vending machines — daily, since 1965.…
House cats in tiny neckties report live on breaking household news: "The vacuum is BACK." Watercolor art and …
The dimmest captain in the galaxy commands the space station R.U. Sirius, where the real workplace hazards ar…
Jiggs wins the lottery, his wife Maggie wants high society, and Jiggs just wants corned beef with his old pal…
A 1,500-year-old green witch, a buzzard named Gaylord and a hairy Irwin haunt an enchanted forest. Russell My…
A wordless world of pastel bunnies where every adorable setup pivots into beautiful heartbreak. Cute on the o…
Gentle setups that hairpin into total absurdity — home of "The Detour," one of the most re-shared four-panel …
A six-year-old with a transmogrifier and a tiger who may or may not be stuffed. Bill Watterson's ten-year mas…
A Black writer and his Latina best friend debate life from a city stoop. Creator Darrin Bell won the 2019 Pul…
A patient cat serves coffee and kindness to an anxious rabbit, a hyper kiwi and friends. Gentle mental-health…
Tiny doodles of one real couple's blanket theft, snack negotiations and quiet devotion. Started as a gift for…
Career, chocolate, swimsuit season and "AACK!" — Cathy Guisewite turned modern womanhood's four basic anxiety…
Colorful strangers making terrible decisions in three panels, plus hidden bonus panels for the curious. Dark,…
A pie-baking former figure skater joins a college hockey team and vlogs his way to love. The feel-good webcom…
A small yellow bird (and one very motivational sun) offering pep talks for hard days. The internet's pocket-s…
Fergus the dog walks upright, pays no rent and lives in cheerful role-reversal with his human, Mel. A cult-fa…
Quiet images that detonate on a delay — Clay Bennett's nearly wordless editorial cartoons won the Pulitzer Pr…
The secret life of programmers: cursed legacy code, optimistic estimates and product managers who "just need …
Chile's wisecracking condor-man has starred in gag magazines across Latin America since 1949, ending every jo…
Best friends Kevin and Miles wage water-balloon wars through a nostalgic 1980s suburb. The breakout newspaper…
The world's grumpiest school-bus driver leaves a trail of mangled metaphors and flattened mailboxes across Oh…
The French Foreign Legion as run by the despicable Commandant Crock, marooned in a desert fort with the world…
Gamers Ethan and Lucas have been riffing on the video game industry for two decades, surviving console wars, …
Four-year-old Alice Otterloop rules her preschool while her brother Petey catalogs his anxieties. Bill Watter…
Eleven-year-old Curtis Wilkins battles homework, his little brother and his dad's cigarette habit in Harlem. …
Crudely drawn stick people delivering some of the darkest punchlines on the internet. Gleefully offensive, en…
One cowlicked five-year-old, one long-suffering Mr. Wilson, seventy-plus years of mayhem. Hank Ketcham based …
The square-jawed detective versus a rogues' gallery of grotesques — Flattop, Pruneface, Mumbles. His two-way …
Pixel-art romance between a chain-smoking robot and an ex-adult-film star, plus a cast of lovable misanthrope…
The pointy-haired boss, pointless meetings and cubicle despair — for three decades Dilbert was the official c…
The same six panels of clip-art dinosaurs, every single strip since 2003 — only the dialogue changes. Somehow…
A chocolate lab named Sophie and a baby named Doug compete for snacks, toys and household supremacy. The baby…
Five decades of skewering presidents from Nixon onward — the first comic strip ever to win the Pulitzer Prize…
Tabletop gamers of Mud Bay roll dice, paint minis and argue editions — drawn by John Kovalic, the artist behi…
Big dim-bulb dad Ralph, college-age klutz Norman and a dog who fears the toaster. Pure unpretentious gag-a-da…
A sheltered homeschooler hits a secular college dorm and everything she knows wobbles. David Willis reboots t…
A 23-year-old boomerangs back into his parents' house and the generational sniping begins. Won the Reuben Awa…
Teenagers, shapeshifting, a wisecracking squirrel-girl and twenty-plus years of continuously evolving art. On…
After a mutagenic apocalypse, survivors-turned-cartoon-animals shelter underground from human purists. Cute f…
Nietzsche plays Dungeons & Dragons, Wittgenstein ruins game night, Camus is weirdly chill about everything. A…
Wobbly-faced characters spiraling into magnificently unhinged punchlines. A meme-factory of the highest order…
Li Chen's soft, funny diary comics from New Zealand about her partner, two cats and the small absurdities of …
Exquisitely watercolored birds screaming existential nonsense at each other. Half ornithology field guide, ha…
One round panel, four kids, and "Not Me" the invisible culprit. Bil Keane's gentle family snapshots — includi…
The mischievous black cat was the world's first animation superstar before he ever hit newsprint. His strip r…
A polo player, his girlfriend and a mad scientist crash-land on planet Mongo and fight Ming the Merciless. Al…
A sheepdog called "Dog" narrates life on a scruffy New Zealand farm. The most beloved comic strip in Kiwi and…
The Patterson family aged in real time for nearly 30 years — kids grew up, pets passed away, life happened. L…
Exhausted duck parents say what human parents only think. Drawn by a 20-year Hallmark veteran whose kids supp…
Jason Fox, ten-year-old math nerd supreme, wages war on his siblings with iguanas and code. Bill Amend (physi…
Two shape-shifting everymen take any job in any century — cavemen, astronauts, angels — purely to set up the …
Edwin "Frazz" Frazier is a songwriter-turned-school-janitor who trades wits with precocious student Caulfield…
A philosophical basset hound narrates suburban British life with raised-eyebrow understatement. A Daily Mail …
It started as high-school gags and grew up with its readers — twice time-jumping its whole cast and tackling …
The world's most famous orange cat hates Mondays, loves lasagna and torments Odie daily. Garfield holds the G…
Erase the cat and Garfield becomes Jon Arbuckle talking to nobody — a portrait of loneliness so funny and sad…
In 1921 a baby was left on Walt Wallet's doorstep — and unlike anyone else in comics, Skeezix grew up, went t…
A catastrophically lazy office junior whose inventions destroy the magazine he works for — Franquin's masterp…
Argentina's mischievous cat pines for the unimpressed Ágatha across newspapers, books and an animated movie. …
Bucky Katt is a sociopathic Siamese, Satchel Pooch is a sweet-natured pushover, and Rob just pays the rent. T…
A high-school coach has guided Milford's teams through six decades of championship games and teen drama, one …
Australia's favorite red-headed scamp has been dodging chores and bully Tiger Kelly for a century — the longe…
Mad science, airships and a heroine with a "spark" for building doomsday devices, in lush full color three da…
A no-nonsense grandmother raises two scheming grandkids. Created by Steve Breen, who somehow also won two Pul…
A girl attends a vast industrial boarding school where robots, ghosts and forest gods share the syllabus. Upd…
The comic that gave the internet "This is fine" — the dog calmly sipping coffee in a burning room. KC Green's…
Napoleon, Jane Austen and fat ponies get the comedy roasting history deserves. Kate Beaton went from this web…
Heart Lamarr grows up theatrical in downtown Philadelphia. Cartoonist Steenz took over in 2020, bringing one …
The OTHER orange cat — a garbage-can gladiator who predates Garfield by five years. The modern strip's surrea…
Seven decades at the Washington Post, three Pulitzer Prizes, and the man who literally coined the word "McCar…
Suburbia's steadiest family, created when the makers of Beetle Bailey and Hägar joined forces — Lois is liter…
Four kids play a game that ends the world, across 8,000+ pages of comics, animation, music and chat logs. The…
MS-Paint-style memoirs of dogs, cake and depression that turned crude drawings into devastating storytelling.…
A scruffy Viking raider who sacks England on weekdays and gets henpecked at home on weekends. Dik Browne's wa…
Four tight panels of progressive satire that earned a Pulitzer finalist nod and the Herblock Prize — the firs…
Apple keynotes, tech billionaires and gadget culture roasted twice weekly since 2000 — the longest-running te…
Courtrooms, kidnappings and family intrigue in one of the last great story strips still running daily. Create…
A Philadelphia cop and nurse raise four kids in one of comics' great family ensembles. Robb Armstrong's name …
Autobiographical alt-comix on race, parenthood and life as a touring cartoonist-rapper. Keith Knight's work i…
The Economist's first resident cartoonist in its 135-year history, skewering world leaders weekly since 1978 …
Hans and Fritz tormented der Captain for 109 years, making this the longest-running comic strip in history wh…
A rabbit married to a wolf raise a mixed predator-prey family online. Launched in 1995, it's widely recognize…
A kat loves a mouse, the mouse throws bricks at the kat, and the kat takes each brick as a love letter. Surre…
The first nationally syndicated politically-themed Latino daily strip, from the Eisner-winning cultural consu…
Prohibition-era bootlegging cats in gorgeously rendered sepia St. Louis. The 2023 animated short adaptation r…
A portly cat in a suit delivers deadpan absurdist philosophy — Belgium's most quotable feline, with millions …
Hillbilly satire from Dogpatch, USA that mocked everything America held dear — and America loved it, 60 milli…
A wordless strip about a creepy little boy, his pet squid and a healthy disrespect for the fourth wall. Panto…
Every night a little boy dreams his way into the spectacular kingdom of Slumberland; every final panel he tum…
A blank-eyed orphan, her dog Sandy and billionaire Daddy Warbucks survived kidnappers, gangsters and the Depr…
A bear, a rabbit and a tiny dinosaur trade perfectly-timed deadpan kindnesses. Liz Climo animated The Simpson…
Polished gag strips about procrastination, gaming and the artist's own struggle to draw the very comic you're…
Hades and Persephone retold as a neon-soaked modern romance — the most-read series in Webtoon history with ov…
Luann DeGroot has been navigating crushes, school and growing up since 1985 — and unlike most strip character…
The cowboy who shoots faster than his own shadow has chased the Daltons across 80+ albums since 1946. A Belgi…
A half-man half-moon-baboon dad teaches his kids empathy in four panels, drawn by a Toronto schoolteacher. Re…
Penguins, a girl named Enriqueta and her cat Fellini drift through gorgeously inked whimsy from Buenos Aires.…
A six-year-old Argentine girl who hates soup and questions humanity — Latin America's most beloved comic char…
A conservative duck reporter created as the funny pages' counterweight to Doonesbury. Love him or loathe him,…
A top-hatted hypnotist who "gestures hypnotically" at villains — often cited as comics' first superhero, beat…
A punch-throwing outdoor journalist defends nature from poachers, famously socking villains (and occasionally…
A Great Dane the size of a sofa who owns the sofa, the bed and the Winslow family's entire lives. Seventy yea…
A red-haired baby with a smirk, a full diaper and zero remorse has ruled his household since 1982. The infant…
The queen of comic-strip soap opera: a silver-haired busybody dispenses advice at Charterstone condos while r…
Two American gamers get stranded in a magical-realist Tokyo of zombie outbreaks and idol singers. Its pencil-…
Two Pulitzer Prizes and some of the most meticulously rendered drawing in editorial cartooning, fired daily f…
Two minimalist critters argue about love, ego and intellectual property in three sharp panels. Nina Paley rel…
Tiny, mighty Sonya Hobbs guilt-trips her three grown children with Olympic-level precision. Mell Lazarus drew…
Born as "Robotman" to sell a toy license, the strip outlived the robot and became a gloriously weird showcase…
A garbage-eating bull terrier and his fairy-tale landlady, drawn by Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartooni…
Jittery, big-eyed characters lurch from sweet to unhinged in a single panel turn — with a secret bonus panel …
A tall schemer and a short stooge chasing racetrack money — widely considered the first successful daily comi…
Earl the dog and Mooch the cat ("Yesh!") wander a gentle world drawn like a love letter to old-school strip a…
Rage-faced grammar lessons, odes to running and the legendary Mantis Shrimp explainer. Matthew Inman's comics…
Two mismatched Brooklyn roommates grow up across a decade of sharp, melancholy, very funny slice-of-life. Wid…
Fastrack Inc. has been satirizing corporate tech culture since before email was cool. Bill Holbrook has drawn…
Six-year-old Ruthie mangles the English language with total confidence ("ruined" becomes "rurnt") while her g…
"Optimistic pessimism" from Norway: cheerful art colliding with bleak punchlines about anxiety, music and mod…
Stick figures who know they're in a D&D campaign quest against an undead sorcerer. Its print run once became …
Wildlife, dogs and eco-living on the laid-back Pacific coast, from a Canadian cartoonist raised in a family o…
A British couple, four cats and a thousand tiny absurd domestic moments in candy-bright diary comics. Winner …
Two young foxes philosophize through playground politics like a webcomic Calvin and Hobbes. Dana Simpson's be…
Jill Kaplan juggles work-from-home deadlines, daughters and marriage in real time. Terri Libenson won the Reu…
A middle-schooler joins a club of kids who fight ghosts with spirit-powered tools. Equal parts shonen action …
Once the most widely syndicated political cartoonist on Earth, with a Pulitzer and a tiny penguin named Punk …
Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the gang turned childhood anxiety into the most beloved comic strip ever drawn. Cha…
Cynical Rat, innocent Pig and the croc-next-door ("Hullooo zeeba neighba!") deliver dark laughs and groan-wor…
Gabe and Tycho have been roasting the video game industry since 1998. The webcomic grew an empire: the PAX co…
A young witch and her cat brew potions in lavish painted episodes — released free under Creative Commons. Dav…
Storybook-gorgeous art that lulls you in before the final panel drops the darkest punchline you've ever giggl…
The Ghost Who Walks predates Superman by two years, making him the first costumed crimefighter in comics. Twe…
"Piled Higher and Deeper": the eternal suffering of grad students, unanswered advisor emails and free-food ra…
Nine-year-old Phoebe skips a rock, hits a unicorn, and wins a best friend with crippling vanity. Marigold Hea…
Retirees Earl and Opal Pickles bicker, nap and out-stubborn each other with championship skill. Voted Best Co…
A tiny kitten adopts a scarred military German Shepherd, and the internet collectively lost it — tens of mill…
A gentle possum and the swamp critters of Okefenokee delivered the sharpest political satire of the 1950s. Wa…
Poncho and his pals hold court at a coffee shop for dogs, scheming to catapult cats into the sun. A daily cel…
Deadpan bears, anxious birds and a guy named Ernesto navigating the void with shrugs. The "poorly drawn" is a…
Thimble Theatre ran for a decade before a one-eyed sailor walked on as a bit player in 1929 and stole the who…
A conservative girl and a lefty coyote pup argue politics in the desert and stay best friends anyway — a dail…
A knight of King Arthur's round table in the most lavishly illustrated Sunday page ever printed — no speech b…
The round grey cat who snacks, naps and occasionally becomes a mermaid — born a webcomic, now a global sticke…
A semi-autobiographical geek life that's been running since 1999 — games, marriage, and a time machine in the…
A boy and his telepathically devoted dog in a gentle, permanent 1960s summer. Pure nostalgia engineered by th…
Life at Grumbel's department store: nightmare customers, corporate memos and break-room solidarity. Written b…
A handsome doctor has been dispensing diagnoses and small-town drama since 1948 — written originally by an ac…
A small white creature undertakes a prophecy across the surreal world of Overside. Evan Dahm's psychedelic fa…
A soldier-of-fortune spoof that loves the adventure strips it parodies: explosions, jungle temples, a cowardl…
A blissfully loving family where mom secretly daydreams as a leather-clad biker chick and the toddler's guard…
Soft pastel panels, ruthless punchlines — Pokémon, relationships and the moon landing all get the treatment. …
A working mom juggles career, marriage and a precociously deadpan daughter. Under writer Francesco Marciulian…
A bug-eyed avatar battles adulthood, anxiety and the siren song of staying in bed. Sarah Andersen's painfully…
Daily single-page gags about economics, God, parenting and quantum physics — with a bonus hidden panel behind…
An amorphous alien mercenary and his crew ran twenty years of daily space opera without missing a single upda…
A ten-year-old billionaire software tycoon, his grandpa and a talking duck named Arthur. Dave Kellett left sy…
Blob people battling motivation, sleep schedules and the void — formerly Owlturd Comix, perpetually screensho…
A dim-witted great white shark, his sharper wife and a scheming sea turtle rule a tropical lagoon. Ocean cons…
Cigar-chomping bird journalists run the Treetops Tattler-Tribune from a tree. Created by Jeff MacNelly, who w…
A cat with one goal — food now — and infinite strategies, in wordless pen-and-ink comics and animations. The …
A philosophical street kid in a giant checked hat, drawn with some of the loosest, liveliest brushwork the fu…
A switch-wielding mini lop rabbit, a demonic kitten and dimension-hopping slackers — running daily since 1997…
A detective fox poses solve-it-yourself mysteries where the clue hides in the drawing. Generations of kids le…
Acidic Boston twenty-somethings (and a boneless cat named Choo-Choo Bear) age in real time through two decade…
A hotel bellhop turned globe-trotting reporter, headlining Belgium's legendary Spirou magazine since 1938. Fr…
Ninety years after the world ends, a scrappy Nordic expedition explores the monster-haunted silent lands. Min…
Two sisters — one widowed, one divorced — raise their kids under one chaotic roof with grandma upstairs. A wa…
Pastel aliens describe human life with alarming precision: hugs are "vibration limb presses," coffee is "hot …
A Dungeons & Dragons party's table drama and in-game glory, from PvP creator Scott Kurtz. Includes real "Tale…
The 1929 Tarzan page launched the adventure strip genre overnight, and Burne Hogarth's anatomy-textbook jungl…
Milton Caniff's cinematic chiaroscuro and the Dragon Lady — comics' greatest femme fatale — set the gold stan…
What animals would say if they could: pigeons plotting, cats gaslighting, dogs simply vibing. The answer is a…
Sparky the sardonic penguin deconstructs the news in retro-futurist clip-art style. A fixture of alt-weeklies…
Quiet, beautifully drawn three-panel meditations on work, games and growing older — from the duo behind the l…
Anthology satire starring billionaire Hollingsworth Hound and "Super-Fun-Pak Comix." Winner of the Herblock P…
Shaky stick figures muttering the bleakest, funniest observations about jobs, money and modern life. A daily …
A boy climbs a tower where each floor is a deadly test, chasing the girl who left him behind. The Korean webt…
A bunny-wielding girl with a temper rules Brazil's comics empire — over a billion comic books printed, theme …
A fearless kid explores a salty New England fishing town with his feral little brother Sterling. Gorgeously d…
A horny robot, a death-positive Grim Reaper and a slutty witch deliver four-panel twists from Germany to mill…
Relentlessly kind animals delivering pun-soft punchlines from Colombia to ten million followers. Scientifical…
Every strip ends with a pink blob saying "oh no" — and somehow it never stops being the perfect response to e…
The first nationally syndicated strip by a Black cartoonist, whose integrated "Rainbow Power" kid gang quietl…
A pint-sized tyrant rules a medieval kingdom of peasants, a soused jester and a wizard whose spells rarely wo…
Victorian woodcut engravings collaged into absurd modern conversations. The strip that gave the internet the …
Minimalist stick-figure meetings where the deadline is yesterday and the requirements changed this morning. D…
Office politics at a software firm with a slacker genius, a clueless boss and constant art-style Easter eggs …
Denmark's deadpan answer to The Far Side — a comedian and an animator skewering modern absurdity in 300+ pape…
Famous quotes from Roosevelt to Watterson adapted into rousing short comics. A Melbourne designer quit his co…
A muumuu-wearing surrealist wanders America's roadside diners speaking in non-sequiturs. The underground-comi…
Fifteen-year-old Jeremy communicates in shrugs while his parents decode him like archaeologists. Visually inv…
The independent web strips The Funny Cartoon listed in its first life. Some are still drawing, many have signed off — each page tells you which, and links to the site or an archived copy.