I came to the webcomic thing late. But living in Bucharest, I can’t easily get US newspapers. So there was a niche waiting to be filled: the three or four minutes I used to spend every morning, flipping through the Washington Post’s excellent comics pages, chuckling over Boondocks or Doonesbury.
These days that niche is filled by a dozen or so webcomics. And, truth to tell, I like ‘em better than most of the comics in the dead-tree papers.
(Oh, most webcomics are just dreadful. But with a bit of effort, it’s not hard to find ones that you, personally, are going to like.)
So I’m pretty regularly clicking on Achewood, Rob and Elliott,, and various others. Which is all fine, except… one day I noticed that they were all, without exception, American. (And about half seem to be from California, but never mind that now.)
So, the bleg: good European webcomics?
– I can read French and, slowly, German. But never mind that; let’s make this a more general inquiry. Italian, Dutch, Estonian, doesn’t matter. What’s out there and good?
Feed: A Fistful of Euros
January 19th, 2006 at 11:47 pm
A bit a-typical but a monument in The Netherlands: http://www.marcelvaneeden.nl/tekenlog.html
January 20th, 2006 at 12:01 am
Still not really a comic, but great French cartoons:
http://deligne.over-blog.com/
January 20th, 2006 at 1:03 am
“Der Tod und das Mädchen” or “Death and the Maiden” by Nina Ruzicka: http://cartoontomb.de/deutsch/tod.htm
Unfortunately updated only every few weeks it seems and not topical in any way.
January 20th, 2006 at 10:19 am
Well, there’s my own, which has been around the block a few times and has some good stuff in it if I say so myself, but plugging aside: Comixpedia has a longlist of webcomics sorted by nationality which shows quite a few Dutch and other European webcomics.
I had never heard of Marcel van Eeden. A monument how, exactly?
January 20th, 2006 at 11:43 am
Fokke en Sukke, obviously (in Dutch).
January 20th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
Quirit (Belgian) is a bit tacky but has
a daily comic in English :
http://www.quirit.com/indexEN.asp
January 20th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
Well, I’m obliged to mention that my friend Reinder has a semi-successful webcomic.
http://www.rocr.net
He occasionally comments here, he presumably knows a few.
January 20th, 2006 at 1:12 pm
Well if my previous comment had made it past the moderation process I’d have been able to share some of that knowledge. Let me try again:
Comixpedia, the online comics Wiki, has a list of Webcomics by nationality. That’s a good starting point even if it doesn’t include any of the comics mentioned so far in the thread, other than mine.
January 20th, 2006 at 4:26 pm
“I had never heard of Marcel van Eeden. A monument how, exactly?”
I probably should have added “on the internet”. He’s been around forever and is consistently good. But maybe my own enthusiasm for him has got the better of me.
Nice to see others “I” did not know as well.
January 20th, 2006 at 5:18 pm
No more updates, but the archive is pretty extensive:
http://www.gummbah.nl
As you can gather from the extension, it’s Dutch.
January 20th, 2006 at 5:21 pm
Fixed the link:
http://www.gummbah.nl
January 20th, 2006 at 8:16 pm
Olle Berg, a celebrated Swedoish cartoonist, has a bunch of comics online.
http://www.olle-berg.com/E.html
Not necessarily webcomics depending on your defiition. It’s a bunch of old comics he’s put online.
January 21st, 2006 at 3:01 pm
For those who can read French AND are interested in French politics, there is : http://24moischrono.blogspot.com/
It is the (fictional) account of the daughter of a prominent Socialist MP.
January 22nd, 2006 at 7:13 pm
Volker Reihe’s “Strizz” in the FAZ is a good daily comic about current German politics and society. The jokes are sometimes mid/high brow so a bit of intellectual baggage or knowledge about Germany helps. Personally I’ve found it one of the most refreshing comics from Germany.
http://www.strizz.de/
Current comics can be found if you look around at http://www.faz.de