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| x Politics |
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Pogo |
Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious...
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| Opus | |||
| Prickly City | |||
| Mallard Fillmore | |||
| Stone Soup | |||
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| x Satire |
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Pogo |
Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although, in practice, it is also found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of...
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| Opus | |||
| Frank and Ernest | |||
| Li'l Abner | |||
| Tom the Dancing Bug | |||
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| x Computer and video game industry |
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Penny Arcade |
The video game industry (formally referred to as interactive entertainment) is the economic sector involved with the development, marketing and sale of video games. It encompasses dozens of job disciplines and employs thousands of people worldwide....
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| x Family | Cathy | ||
| Stone Soup | |||
| The Buckets | |||
| Between Friends | |||
| Motley's Crew | |||
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| x Religious | The Family Circus | ||
| x Parody | VG Cats | ||
| x Worldending | |||
| x Romance | Krazy Kat | ||
| x current events | Bad Reporter | ||
| x Gag-a-day | VG Cats | ||
| x Magic | Seth and Lucas | ||
| x Comedy | Loxie & Zoot | ||
| The Tales of the Vine-Gar | |||
| x Drama | Loxie & Zoot | ||
| For Better or For Worse | |||
| x Romance Humor | xkcd | ||
| x Suburban Life | Motley's Crew | ||
| x Women | Cathy | ||
| x Gag a day | Bunny | ||
| x Career | Motley's Crew | ||
| x Marriage | Motley's Crew | ||
| x Computer and video games | VG Cats | ||
| x Family values | The Family Circus | ||
| x Topical humor | Bad Reporter | ||
| x Hero | Seth and Lucas | ||
| x Nerd | xkcd | ||
| x Fantasy | El Goonish Shive | ||
| Conrad | |||
| Bruno the Bandit | |||
| Everwas | |||
| x Action | Dick Tracy | ||
| x Adventure | Dick Tracy | ||
| x Prehistoric | B.C. | ||
| Mikrokivikausi | |||
| x Underground | Peräsmies | ||
| x Steampunk |
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Girl Genius |
Steampunk is a sub-genre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often Victorian...
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| x College life | The Academia Waltz | ||
| x Philosophy |
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1/0 |
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, law, justice, validity, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing these questions (such...
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| Dresden Codak | |||
| x Geek humor | xkcd |
Geek humor is a rather diverse comical field, probably due to its wide definition. A geek can be considered a person who is preoccupied with a detailed or obscure area of knowledge or interest (i.e.: technology, the universe, Starfleet's ranking...
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| The Watering Hole | |||
| Sequential Art | |||
| x Science humour | xkcd |
Science humour, like maths humour is a branch of professional humour. There are several types of jokes within the field.
This is a reference to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, which states that an observer cannot know both the location and...
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| x Humour |
|
Little Jimmy |
Humour or humor (see American and British English spelling differences) is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. Many theories exist about what humour is and what social function it serves....
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| Dog eat Doug | |||
| Harold Clifton | |||
| Frumpy the Clown | |||
| Prickly City | |||
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| x Science fiction |
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Schlock Mercenary |
Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that aren't necessarily accepted by mainstream science. such as extra-terrestrial life forms, alien worlds, and time travel, often...
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| Angels 2200 | |||
| Okashina Okashi - Strange Candy | |||
| El Goonish Shive | |||
| It's Walky! | |||
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| x Comedy |
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Schlock Mercenary |
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor. Also, films in this style typically have a happy ending (the black comedy being an exception). One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were...
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| Non Sequitur | |||
| The Order of the Stick | |||
| Scary Go Round | |||
| Okashina Okashi - Strange Candy | |||
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| x Webcomic |
Any comic (including single-panel, traditional strip, multi-page graphic novel, or 'infinite canvas') that is available solely or primarily on the Internet.
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| x Webcomic |
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Dharma the Cat |
Webcomics, online comics, or Internet comics are comics published on a website, often exclusively, providing easy access to an audience, though some are published in books and newspapers but maintain a web archive.
Webcomics are like self-published...
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| x Morality play |
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Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend |
Morality play is a term that theatre historians use to describe a genre of Medieval and early Tudor theatrical entertainments. In their own time, these plays were known as "interludes," a broader term given to dramas with or without a moral theme....
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| x Video game |
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Adventures of Dave the Direman |
A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device. However, with the popular use of the...
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| Penny Arcade | |||
| Little Gamers | |||
| VG Cats | |||
| GU Comics | |||
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| x Fantasy |
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The Order of the Stick |
Fantasy literature is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, the majority of fantasy works have been literature. Since the 1950s however, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic...
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| 8-Bit Theater | |||
| El Goonish Shive | |||
| The Wotch | |||
| Elf Life | |||
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