Comic Strips Group

Comic Strips@lemmy.world

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

Rules

😇 Be Nice!

Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly.

🏘️ Community Standards

Comics should be a full story, from start to finish, in one post.
Posts should be safe and enjoyable by the majority of community members, both here on lemmy.world and other instances.
Any comic that would qualify as raunchy, lewd, or otherwise draw unwanted attention by nosy coworkers, spouses, or family members should be tagged as NSFW.
Moderators have final say on what and what does not qualify as appropriate. Use common sense, and if need be, err on the side of caution.

🧬 Keep it Real

Comics should be made and posted by real human beans, not by automated means like bots or AI. This is not the community for that sort of thing.

📽️ Credit Where Credit is Due

Comics should include the original attribution to the artist(s) involved, and be unmodified. Bonus points if you include a link back to their website. When in doubt, use a reverse image search to try to find the original version. Repeat offenders will have their posts removed, be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanently banned from posting.
Attributions include, but are not limited to, watermarks, links, or other text or imagery that artists add to their comics to use for identification purposes. If you find a comic without any such markings, it would be a good idea to see if you can find an original version. If one cannot be found, say so and ask the community for help!

📋 Post Formatting

Post an image, gallery, or link to a specific comic hosted on another site; e.g., the author’s website.
Meta posts about the community should be tagged with [Meta] either at the beginning or the end of the post title.
When linking to a comic hosted on another site, ensure the link is to the comic itself and not just to the website; e.g.,
✅ Correct: xkcd.com/386/
❌ Incorrect: xkcd.com

📬 Post Frequency/SPAM

Each user (regardless of instance) may post up to five (5 🖐) comics a day. This can be any combination of personal comics you have written yourself, or other author’s comics. Any comics exceeding five (5 🖐) will be removed.

🏴‍☠️ Internationalization (i18n)

Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
Sí, por favor [Spanish/Español]

🍿 Moderation

We are human, just like most everybody else on Lemmy. If you feel a moderation decision was made in error, you are welcome to reach out to anybody on the moderation team for clarification. Keep in mind that moderation decisions may be final.
When reporting posts and/or comments, quote which rule is being broken, and why you feel it broke the rules.

Banned Artists

The following artists are banned from the community.

Jago

Stonetoss

GPrime85

It should be noted that when you make reports, it is your responsibility to provide rational reasoning why something should be removed. Saying it simply breaks community rules is not always good enough.

Web Accessibility

Note: This is not a rule, but a helpful suggestion.

When posting images, you should strive to add alt-text for screen readers to use to describe the image you’re posting:

Another helpful thing to do is to provide a transcription of the text in your images, as well as brief descriptions of what’s going on. (example)

Web of Links

!linuxmemes@lemmy.world: “I use Arch btw”

!memes@lemmy.world: memes (you don’t say!)

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!xkcd@lemmy.world

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world

Shared in Comic Strips@lemmy.world 16 hours ago

Watch your step, partner.

0/2000

GraniteM@lemmy.world 9 hours ago

Big Enough - Kirin J. Callinan

samus12345@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago

My personal favorite is this one:

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 10 hours ago

Has anyone ever used this line to market a kaiju movie?

GraniteM@lemmy.world 8 hours ago

Hmmm…

BillyClark@piefed.social 11 hours ago

Hey here’s an idea for one.

“This town ain’t big enough for the both of us.”

“Nope, I’m pretty sure it’s just you.”

Last panel zooms out and the first guy to talk is a giant man who can’t fit in the town by himself, and everyone else is normal sized.

Now, then, I think the way this goes is that I’ve told you the perfect comic idea and now somehow I will get a huge check in the mail?

Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago

I love the first and last one. They’re so wholesome. ♥️

9WhiteTeeth@lemmy.today 14 hours ago

What a horribly lazy pun, brought to us by the most overrated school in all of comicsdom, the New Yorker Style.

tal@lemmy.today 12 hours ago

I’m okay with the cartoon, though I’m not a fan of The New Yorker’s articles.

But the spacing on the typeface in the caption around those right-hand quote marks, both the single and double, is killing me.

looks more

I guess maybe when they made the italic font, they had to move the quote marks to avoid colliding with slanted letters, like the capital T—the left-hand quote marks next to it look fine to me. But then, maybe they didn’t add kerning information so that if an adjacent character didn’t require shifting, the right-hand quotes didn’t shift all the way over, so they’re always left hanging out there to make space for potentially-problematic characters.

9WhiteTeeth@lemmy.today 12 hours ago

I don’t think the articles in New Yorker are bad. I do think the illustrations are outstanding, but their cartoons are mostly overrated, artistically conservative, generic fare, imo.

Re: the bad typeface, my guess this may have a comic that was submitted for the New Yorker but rejected, so the cartoonist just published it wherever b/c I agree, I don’t think the NYer would eff that up. Just guessing tho

JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago

This feels very Gary Larson.

jaybone@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago

What is this, a duel for ants?

nieceandtows@programming.dev 15 hours ago

… for even one of them

hOrni@lemmy.world 15 hours ago

Bugs Bunny did it funnier:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps71nLBLcDY

dhork@lemmy.world 15 hours ago

Little House on the Prarie

username_1@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago

Or “Big Cowboy on the Prairie”