Comics & Graphic Novels

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Comics

Asterix: Official site of the rebellious Gauls
The Beano: Classic British comic.
Bipolar: A comic series by the Hanuka Brothers
Dilbert: The artist Scott Adams' site for his Dilbert phenomena.
Doonesbury: Bastion of American liberal politics.
Little Lit: Folk tales and stories in contemporary style for children edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly.
Maus: The Pulitzer Prize winning saga of the Holocaust by Art Spiegelman.
Monkey Town: The last word on manga-transformer-battling-monkeys in this strip from Scott McCloud.
PoCom-UK-001: A massive collaborative hypercomic that was originally created for the wall of the ICA as part of the Comica festival. This web adaptation marked the debut of a flash-based zooming infinite canvas delivery system.
Tintin: Official site for Hergé's detective.
Too Much Coffee Man: US weekly alternative/political strip.
V for Vendetta: In depth article about classic British graphic novel "V for Vendetta" on Movie Poop Shoot - Comics 101.

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Michael Allred: Classic American pulp comic style, with creeping post-modernist tendencies.
Robert Crumb: The father of the underground comic strip.
Will Eisner: Creator of The Spirit, industry father figure and author of the definitive - Comics and Sequential Art.
Neil Gaiman: Writer and collaborator with Dave McKean on Sandman grahic novels.
Scott McCloud: The great thinker of web comics. Artist and writer of the book "Understanding Comics". A 215-page comic book about comics that explains the inner workings of the medium and examines many aspects of visual communication along the way.
Winsor McKay: Early comic and animation pioneer behind Little Nemo in Slumberland and Gerty the Dinosaur.
Dave McKean: Unofficial fan site for influential artist behind Sandman.
Moebius: Jean Giraud aka “Moebius” is a legendary French graphic novelist. Hugely prolific, he has produced 27 volumes of “Blueberry” a Western graphic novel together with a large number of science fiction stories. He was a founder of the seminal 70s French comic “Métal Hurlant”.
Joe Sacco: Comics as journalism, from Bosnia to Palestine.
Art Spiegelman: Biography of artist behind Maus and many other highly influential conic trends.
Chris Ware: Creator of Jimmy Corrigan, Quimby the Mouse and The Acme Novelty Library. A master of colour and composition and the "bright hope" of American comics.

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Dark Horse Comics: Publishers of Star Wars graphic novels, Hellboy, Sin City, Akira,
DC Comics: Publishers of Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, Watchmen, Preacher, The Sandman and Road to Perdition
Drawn and Quarterly: Canadian publisher of cartoonists that have been instrumental in defining the literary comics medium for the past twenty years. Drawn & Quarterly has become one of the most influential art and literary comics publishers in North America.
Fantagraphics: US publisher with Joe Sacco, Chris Ware, Robert Crumb and others.
Marvel: Publisher and now Movie Producer of Spider-Man, Hulk, X-Men, Daredevil and The Punisher.
NBM Publishers: America's first publisher of graphic novels.
Oni Press: Small US publisher with very active forum.
Pantheon Graphic Novels: US publisher of Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware, Alex Ross etc.

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Metal Hurlant: Ground breaking French comic started in the Seventies and restarted in 2002. Combines top quality writing with innovative illustration.
Les Humanoides Associes: Publisher of Metal Hurlant among many other things.
Casterman: Publisher with excellent website. Sections from many graphic novels transformed into elegant Flash animated sequences.
Editions Delcourt: French artists and French translations of US and Japanese comics.
Cool French Comics: US site with good overview of French comic tradition.

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Angoulême International Comics Festival: Best comics festival in the world, in France, each January.
comicon.com: The world's biggest comic book convention... because its virtual.
Comics.com: Current syndicated American comic strips, updated daily.
Comics Creators: 943 links to comic artists or articles by or about them. Part of huge website of links on many subjects.
The Comics Journal: A magazine that covers the comics medium from an arts-first perspective. Published by Fantagraphics.
comicsresearch.org: A huge resource containing the Comics Scholarship Annotated Bibliographies maintained by Gene Kannenberg. Primarily lists books about comics but also has massive links collection.
e-merl: New experiments in narrative fiction including webcomics and hypercomics.
European Comics on the Web: Vast collection of limks to non-American and non-Japanese comics.
Lambiek Comiclopedia of Artists: Very exhaustive collection of biographies and links to thousands of comic artists from famous Amsterdam comic shop.
Oubapo America: Site designed to provoke experiment with the comic form.
Tintin est vivant!: An exhaustive collection of Tintin homages and parodies including the brilliant photographic reconstructions of Jean-Fabien de Selve and Laurent de Crinier.
ucomics.com: Another large American site for syndicated comic strips.