Both Schindler's List and The Shawshank Redemption are considered great films, but nearly anyone will tell you that Schindler's List was more powerful, because it actually happened. The same thought process can hold true for webcomics. A journal webcomic is unlike any other breed of webcomic because it's real. It's not merely a realistic comic; it chronicles events that have really occured in the author's life. This gives it a power and an intimacy other webcomics don't have.

Kean Soo's journal comic, hosted on his own site (Keaner.net), is one of the more recent additions to the webcomic world. Started at the turn of the new year, and updated in blocks of two or three 'daily' comics at a time (i.e., he draws daily comics, but only updates in batches), it provides the reader with a glimpse into Soo's life and thoughts, while trying to make us laugh a little along the way.

I’m finally getting around to reading Art Spiegelman's Maus. As I do, I find myself thinking about why this work would be considered worthy of a Pulitzer Prize. I don’t mean to say that it isn’t; I just want to understand what sets it apart in that special way. By analyzing it this way, my hope is to find something to aspire to through my own work, to find another reason to continue to create comics.

Derek Kirk Kim, the creative force behind Small Stories Online, has his first print comic collection coming out next month - Same Difference and Other Stories, collecting all the episodes of "Same Difference" from the site (with a new font) and some other work.

This is the first of a series of forum interviews with questions taken from our readers. R Stevens, the creator behind Diesel Sweeties, has combined the extreme look of pixelation with the bizarre concept of a former porn star dating a robot. The cast has expanded since those first strips about Clango and Maura, including people R Stevens has admitted are based on real life people. Since starting, he's had a brief try at a strip on Modern Tales (Kid Clango), started a monthly club for goodies (the Clango Club) and self-published his archives as a paper book with a shiny, shiny cover.

The Tempest is Not Sublime

On a message board I frequent, somebody challenged people to come up with sublime comedy. Weird, I thought. If this is any sort of challenge, it presumes that comedy is nothing worthy, and when we find comedy that does have value, well, that's the exception.

Sublime: Lofty, or elevated.

Curious to know what's going on inside your favorite creator's head, but haven't found any of them willing to lay on your operating table for a quick scalpel job and brain yoink? Tired of having to call up your local phone psychic to find out what Joe Cartoonist had for dinner last night? Well, don't despair: an interesting alternative has crept onto the webcomics scene, one that may prove to satisfy all your needs for (voyeuristic?) curiosity – without the need for spiritual guidance at 9.99 a minute, or an abduction by burlap sack followed by water-torture interrogation.

You've heard of parents living vicariously through their children, right? Well, living vicariously has now been taken to new extremes. Lo and behold, if you're not satisfied with leeching life from a REAL person, you can now enjoy the satisfaction of pretending to be uber-cool through completely MADE-UP folks.

Wait, wait, wait… you're thinking this is about Role-Playing, right?