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Comic Strips

comicstrips@lemmy.world

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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: https://xkcd.com/386/
  ❌ Incorrect: https://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:

Markdown - Links / Images

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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Half off (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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❗Top comics posts of the month❗ (15 Sep 2026) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by best_of_comics_bot@lemmy.dbzer0.com [B] to c/lemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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1. 🖼️ Half off (direct link) (👍1239 👎4)

from Comic Strips (!comicstrips@lemmy.world) lemmy

Posted by The_Picard_Maneuver

2. 🖼️ xkcd #3290: Trade (direct link) (👍912 👎4)

from xkcd (!xkcd@lemmy.world) lemmy

"You legs may have a comparative advantage at running, but we arms have a competitive advantage at swinging hammers, so unless you accept that we're the dominant limbs and stop hogging the oxygen, that running advantage won't be around for long."

Posted by xkcdbot

3. 🖼️ Canada officially changes and recognizes the United States as Mordor. (direct link) (👍340 👎25)

from Comics (!comics@lemmy.ml) lemmy

Posted by technocrit

4. 🖼️ Good Thoughts [Mr. Lovenstein] (direct link) (👍313 👎0)

from Comics (!comics@lemmy.blahaj.zone) lemmy

![This four-panel comic strip, rendered in a cartoon art style, depicts a confrontation between a blue humanoid figure and a small, pink, brain-shaped character. The first three panels feature a bright yellow background, while the final panel shifts to a vibrant red.

Panel 1 shows the blue figure to the left of a small wooden table, pointing at the pink brain character on the opposite side and demanding, "GIVE ME GOOD THOUGHTS!".

By Panel 2, the blue figure is visibly distressed, sweating profusely, and exhibiting wide-eyed agitation. The pink brain, now also agitated and displaying an anger icon, retorts, "GIVE ME GOOD SLEEP!".

Panel 3 captures the blue figure's rage as it flips the table, with the word "FLIP" emphasizing the action. The surprised pink brain is to the right, while the blue figure, still sweating and angry, shouts, "FUCK YOU! GOOD THOUGHTS FIRST!".

The final panel, set against a red background, escalates the conflict. The blue figure roars with anger, fist balled, holding the pink brain. Both figures are depicted as extremely angry, with anger icons, and engaged in a physical struggle. The brain yells, "I NEED GOOD SLEEP, MOTHERFUCKER!!", countered by the blue figure's defiant, "NEVER!!".](https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/eeaf78b2-ddab-4c1f-a04f-8784583230d9.png)

Posted by ThorrJo

5. 🖼️ 2026-08-22 #1 (direct link) (👍252 👎2)

from The Far Side (!thefarside@sh.itjust.works) lemmy

Posted by m_f

6. 🖼️ 18 August 1989 (direct link) (👍167 👎0)

from Calvin and Hobbes (!calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world) lemmy

Posted by dailycomic

7. 🖼️ ‘RANDOM FLUFF #148’ [OC] (direct link) (👍138 👎2)

from CustardFist (!custardfist@feddit.nl) lemmy

- - - This is a one-panel comic - - - Caption says: MOVING THE ENTIRE FACTORY. Behind the contractor, we see the ‘Worcestershire Sauce’ factory being moved with heavy machinery. Contractor: IT’S EASIER DONE THAN SAID.

Posted by CustardFist

8. 🖼️ weird little creators of unix_surrealism (direct link) (👍119 👎0)

from unix_surrealism (!unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org) lemmy

Posted by pmjv

9. 🖼️ "favourite things 💖" (direct link) (👍73 👎2)

from Extra Ordinary Comics (!exocomics@lemmy.world) lemmy

4 panel comic featuring a cat. Panel 1: Cat: Welcome to My Favorite Things! Panel 2: (showing the items, each one labelled): Crinkly Mouse, Squishy Ball, Tinkly Bell, Catnip Buns. Panel 3: Cat: Do not worry if you forget! Panel 4: Cat:I will loudly show them to you again in the middle of the night :)

Posted by sundray

10. 🖼️ 1981-08-20 (direct link) (👍52 👎0)

from Garfield (!garfield@lemmy.world) lemmy

Posted by m_f

11. 🖼️ Mr. True cares about children (direct link) (👍51 👎1)

from Everett True Comics (!truecomics@midwest.social)

Posted by The_Picard_Maneuver

12. 🖼️ Heathcliff without Heathcliff 9/2/2026 (direct link) (👍52 👎4)

from Heathcliff (!heathcliff@lemmy.world) lemmy

Posted by FauxPseudo

13. 🖼️ 1956 - Moomin Falls in Love (49/51) (direct link) (👍24 👎1)

from Moomin Valley (!moomin@sopuli.xyz) lemmy

Posted by MentalEdge

Inactive communities 👻

These communities have had no posts in the last month:

Strange Planet by Nathan W. Pyle
- A community dedicated to Strange Planet comics by Nathan W. Pyle.
Loading Artist comics
- The official Loading Artist Lemmy community
Comics
- A community for sharing comics related to programming
Peanuts [Moved to discuss.online]
- For posts about the comic Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz
MonkeyUser
- A community for sharing and discussing the monkeyuser comic! https://www.monkeyuser.com/
Litterbox Comics
- Let’s talk about Litterbox Comics!

Here is a popular post from one of the inactive communities. 🪦♻️

🖼️ Handslap (direct link), posted in Strange Planet by Nathan W. Pyle (👍417 👎7)

Posted by other_cat

The main links are using lemmyverse.link which should redirect to the post on your own instance. If you have not used this before, you may need to go direct to https://lemmyverse.link/ and click on 'configure instance'. Some apps will open posts correctly when using the direct link.

Multicommunity: comics.json

Young Being says "Elevated Handslap!" and it and another being high five. Younger being says "Now Descend", lowering their hand. When the second being goes to low-five, the younger being jerks their hand away, saying, "Insufficient Speed!" The secondary being murmurs "Meaningless Deception" while an elder being in a rocking chair in the background takes notice and comments joyfully, "The ancient ritual persists"