Information about comics, creators, and characters throughout the net.
Also take a look at Gopher Select for the best comics-related sites and discussion groups on the Internet.
- Comic Book Reviews
- Broaden your horizons by reading about other people’s perceptions of comic books.
- Comic Meeting Grounds
- Places to talk about comic books on the net: MUDs, Newsgroups, and Mailing lists.
- Comics Creators on the Net
- Comic creator home pages, interviews, reviews, new comics listings, publisher home pages, and on-line comic books and strips.
- Comics Marketplace
- Places to buy comics on-line and off-line, and places to buy related products, such as that cool Vargas painting with the juggling—you know what I mean.
- General Comics Sites
- Everybody and their brother have a comic book site on the net. Hell, my brother’s brother has one too! Look here for piquant and refreshingly short analyses of these sites.
- Gopher Select
- The best comic book web sites and discussions on-line and off.
- International Comics Sites
- Comics are even popular in parts of the world where they don’t use English. Gosh!
- New Comic Book Release Listings
- If you’re interested in seeing a list of new comics shipping, or past lists, find them here. Most rely on Diamond’s shipping list.
- Specialized Comics Sites
- Many fans create detailed web pages with information about a favorite comic or favorite creator. Most are quite interesting and will have comicographies, lists of what they’ve done outside the comics field, and perhaps a sketch or two.
More Information
- Comic Book Resources
- One of the most complete comic book resources available, with some decent news archives going back to August 17, 1998.
- indyworld
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Originally a great print magazine, Indy has become the best site out there for getting information Independent and self-published titles. Also includes the “Industry Addresses” compilation for professional use.
- Open Directory Project Comics Listing
- A wide-ranging listing of comic book related links, from fan pages to reviews (and what’s the difference, anyway?).
- RAC FAQ
- Even if you don’t read rec.arts.comics, the RAC FAQ contains answers to questions you didn't even dream of asking… until now.
- RAC FAQ Index
- Index to all of the Rec.Arts.Comics Frequently Asked Questions files. If you have a question about comics or some strange esoteric item that only you would be interested in, this is the place to look first.
- Rec.Arts.Comics.Info
- Nowadays rac-info is mostly collections of (very useful) FAQs for the other rec.arts.comics groups.
- Rec.Arts.Comics.Misc
- The mother of all comic book discussion on the net. It’s a Usenet newsgroup, and all the other “major” Usenet newsgroups branch out from it. Still a lot of cool discussions going on here.
