Comic Recommendations & RIP Google Reader
Alas, there will be no new comic today as I unfortunately caught the sniffles over the weekend and mostly spent it under a blanket coughing instead of drawing comics. However, fear not! – with some luck the regular updates will soon resume as normal. But since you’re already browsing these “Internet” pages, why not check out some other webcomics? Here are a couple who have caught my eyes lately:
Actually I have been reading See Mike Draw by uh, Mike for a while already, but I don’t think I’ve mentioned his comics here before now. Pretty much all of them strike gold on a regular basis, but especially the recent Game of Thrones jokes struck a chord with me.
Also in a similar vein, both the artstyle and the humor, are the hilarious scribblings of The Gentleman’s Armchair by Wes. I’ll highlight this “shocking” comic as one that really made me chuckle. Go read it!
Also, also! If you’ve kept up to date with Optipess through RSS, you probably already know that Google is shutting down their Google Reader service TODAY. Of course, RSS still lives on anyway, and the feed for this site remains unchanged, but today is probably your last chance to jump ship to another feed aggregator. I’ve been using Feedly which appears to be a fine replacement for the old Google Reader. Or, much like Google, if you’ve instead put RSS entirely to rest you can still get notified of new Optipess comics through the Facebook Page, my Twitter profile, or even my Google Plus page!
Know of any other sweet webcomics, or do you make one yourself? Comment below with the link! Also, feel free to chime in with other Google Reader alternatives. Thanks for reading!
Gotta wonder about feedproxy.google.com and feedburner.com which is also a Google property. How much longer will they run such services when they don’t do feeds?
Long live RSS or at least feeds in general. I’m not a fan of social media as a means to stay up to date on news and blogs.
I’ve been putting off moving from Reader for as long as possible so I can make the right decision. I shall have a look a Feedly now; it better be awesome, or I may just break down into tears.
Comics that are similar in my mind:
Bug Martini http://www.bugmartini.com/
Buttersafe http://buttersafe.com/
Also Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Oglaf (nsfw), xkcd, Eat That Toast, …
Greader replacement:
http://theoldreader.com/
Another vote for TheOldReader.com. No bells & whistles that I don’t need; just the features that I do, like showing me only the items that I haven’t yet read. I haven’t been able to figure out how to do that with either Feedly or Digg, and because TheOldReader.com is so intuitive, I no longer care how they work.
I use bamboo rss. It is inside firefox as addon – I dont know if that has a standalone application but it is very simple and great in my opinion. and I have subscribed to 20-25 webcomics feeds that i collected through reddit /comics /webcomics . just read those for a while and after some time, you will have a great collection for your taste
I would recommend Savage Chickens and Completely Serious Comics in addition to already mentioned ones.
http://www.savagechickens.com/
http://completelyseriouscomics.com/
People who like Optipess will probably also like Buni: http://www.bunicomic.com/
i like netvibes as a feed manager
http://www.netvibes.com/privatepage/1
Hey, found this entry using google reader ! (I’ve switched to feedly too, but I’m enjoying the last moment under google reader)
check out gunnerkrigg court and oglaf, i read them via selfoss.
also take a look at matt speroni’s the dreadful, and jimzub’s skullkickers. oh yeah, and cthulhu: unspeakable vault of doom by goomi.
I am using goread.io, which seems to be working nicely as a Reader replacement so far.
I am trying to use the Digg reader but it doesn’t damn work.
http://reader.aol.com
Just sayin’. :)
Hah yeah, I was going to mention that one. Looks snazzy! Did you do any work on this?
Yep, part of a team of 9. We still have a lot of features to add but we’ve gotten pretty positive feedback so far!
Thanks a lot for the suggestions, good stuff!
i’ve been switching between feedly and http://theoldreader.com/, not sure which i like better yet…
I read all my comics at inkoutbreak.com which has been huge for me finding new comics. That is where I found this one. I never liked reader for reading comics.
try Commafeed for an RSS reader. It is very similar to Google reader. http://www.commafeed.com/
Why are so many people dependant on web-based feed readers? If you use a local aggregator like RSSOwl (Windows) or Liferea (gnu/linux) you do not have to worry about some service shutting down. Or having to open a browser tab and logon to a site.