The 11 Funniest Webcomics

The foibles of a T-Rex and his dinosaur pals are played out in traditional strip form. Except each strip's artwork and layout is exactly the same, with brand new writing each day. The repetitive nature of the strip forces its writer/creator, Ryan North, to come up with outlandish and hilarious dialogue for each and every strip. Be sure to read through the comic's archives.

Video-game fans rejoice: Penny Arcade, the funniest comic strip ever, is here to save the day. The 10-year-old comic strip, created by writer Jerry Holkins and illustrator Mike Krahulik, appears three times a week and stars a pair of slacker gamer heroes, Tycho and Gabe. But if you don't play video games, don't worry -- the strip's easy-going humor and broad pop-culture references will have video-game virgins laughing in no time.

Perry Bible Fellowship is hard to describe. Imagine a more twisted version of Gary Larson's classic "The Far Side" meets the humor of The Family Guy, and you're almost there. The award-winning strip by Nicholas Gurewitch is drawn in beautiful, hand-colored images closer to a children's book than anything you'd find in the Sunday Funnies.

This webcomic is EXACTLY what it sounds like. Dan Walsh, with the blessing of Garfield creator Jim Davis, removes the character Garfield from Garfield comic strips, leaving Garfield's owner, Jon Arbuckle, talking to himself like a schizophrenic. One of the oddest and funniest things on the Web, period.

When a physicist who's worked as a NASA contractor starts drawing a comic strip, you'd expect the jokes to be smart. But who knew they'd be this funny too? Randall Munroe's strip consists of some stick figures, some sharp jokes steeped in intelligent and original thought and little else. Which means it's one of the more perfect comic strips, on the Web or otherwise.

Raynato Castro and Alex Culang find a happy medium between the cleverness of xkcd and the off-kilter twist of Perry Bible Fellowship in their own twice-weekly strip, Buttersafe. A must-read for fans of The Family Guy and The Simpsons.

Though reliant on a continuing story and laid out more like a comic book than a comic strip, The Adventures of Dr. McNinja is a free webcomic that remains an essential read for its action, writing, art and, most importantly, its humor. Chris Hastings' six-year-old comic stars the titular character, Dr. McNinja, a ninja who is also a doctor and follows him on adventures that are equal parts exciting and hilarious.

Brad Neely, who shot to Internet fame with his animated rap video “George Washington,” is the creator of the incredibly random and at times very twisted Creased Comics. As with other webcomics, Creased Comics combines pop culture references, clever humor and an off-kilter world view to produce crazy strips that you'd never, ever find in your local newspaper.

White Ninja Comics stars yet another ninja (the titular hero, White Ninja). But unlike Dr. McNinja, the protagonist of Scott Bevan and Kent Earle's strip doesn't really do much in the ninja department. Much of the strip's understated but classic humor comes from placing a ninja in completely mundane situations, such as going shopping and eating dinner. And it’s in these seemingly boring scenarios where the strip's humor thrives.

British cartoonist Kris Wilson (along with friends Rob DenBleyker, Matt Melvin, Dave McElfatrick and other guest cartoonists) are responsible for this sharp, slightly offensive but cutely-drawn daily webcomic. The strip is made up of stick figures, much like xkcd. But instead of riffs on math and language, Cyanide and Happiness finds its funny along the border where offensive and clever meet. Expect a little violence, a touch of shock and a whole lot of laughter.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is comprised of single panel gag strips—think New Yorker cartoons, if they were drawn by someone in their early 20s who was raised on the Internet rather than highbrow culture. The one-panel strip is brilliantly crafted by the twisted cartoonist Zach Weiner.