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The Internet Goes to Print

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Probably one of the best known internet memes to-date, LOLcats are highly amusing pictures of cats with internet-speak captions. Updated multiple times during the day, there is no end to the number of LOLcat pictures.



Starting as just an artistic experiment in America, PostSecret is now a world-wide phenomenon bringing strangers together by expressing their secrets. Every week the website is updated with new batches of secrets posted from all over the world. The fifth book is set for release this year.
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3. Suicide Girls
SuicideGirls is a subscription-based alternative pornography and blogging website. They currently have two books published.
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4. Garfield Minus Garfield
GMG is a bizarre, but brilliant, adaptation of the Garfield comic strips, and is exactly what the title says.

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5. Stuff on My Cat: The Book
Stuff On My Cat.

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From the website:

Your goal: find that elusive query (two words - no quote marks) with a single, solitary result!


And that is a googlewhack.

As with Garfield Minus Garfield above, Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About is pretty much what it says on the tin. Funny stuff.

One of the three books from Wondermark, a bi-weekly "illustrated jocularity" by David Malki.

A collections of passive aggressive and aggressive notes, Passive Aggressive Notes is like a specified entry of Found, featured below.

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A webcomic spanning a decade, Penny Arcade has been published in multiple volumes.

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12. Insert Coin: Ctrl+Alt+Del
Gaming-focused webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del in three volumes.

Found is a collection of scraps found lying around including photos, letters, notes, drawings, and miscellanea. They have a sister website called Dirty Found.

Spawning two books, a tv spin-off and a brief column in the Sunday Telegraph, Belle de Jour is the blog of a London call girl.

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16. Megatokyo, Vol. 1
Starting life as a webcomic, Megatokyo has been published in manga format.

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22. Argon Zark!

As above, a Tucker Max book. The Tucker Max Stories.

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26. MacHall Volume 1
Mac Hall, a webcomic.

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AppleGeeks, a webcomic.

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28. Errant Story Vol 1
Errant Story, a webcomic.

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29. Exploitation Now
Exploitation Now, a webcomic that ran from 2000 to 2002.

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30. Inverloch: Volume 1
A graphic novel series originally published as a webcomic, Inverloch.

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Aoi House, a webcomic.

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Red String, a webcomic.

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Webcomic, Hark! a Vagrant.
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Posted : 7 months ago at Apr 23 22:27
Don't forget Stuff White People Like!
Posted : 7 months ago at Apr 24 6:13
Sluggy Freelance: Is It Not Nifty?
Argon Zark
Ozy and Millie: A comic strip collection

There is another one in my head, I can tell you the whole story but cannot remember the name of it - will check tonight, as its going to bug me now all day!
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Posted : 7 months ago at Apr 24 6:50
Good idea for a list, others:

Stuff on My Cat
Hot Chicks with Douchebags
Belle De Jour
I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell - Tucker Max
Passive Aggressive Notes
The Alphabet Of Manliness
Posted : 7 months ago at Apr 24 14:01
How about ..
Girl with a One Track Mind
Posted : 7 months ago at Apr 25 23:14
If we're talking mainstream print, and not just self-published stuff.

Belligerence & debauchery: the Tucker Max Stories
Errant Story
Exploitation Now
The Truth About Chuck Norris
Inverloch
Aoi House
Red String
MacHall
Applegeeks is about to go to print.

Tokyopop also published a few webcomics. One of which is also in the sunday funnies. Can't recall the name, but it is funny. There are a bunch more that are small-time or self-published. Too many to remember them all.
Posted : 7 months ago at Apr 27 19:48
The Truth About Chuck Norris: 400 Facts About the World's Greatest Human
Penny Arcade vol. 1-5
Web Sightings: Collection of Web Sights We'D Like To See
Posted : 6 months, 1 week ago at May 21 8:58
Posted : 3 months, 1 week ago at Aug 13 6:16
How about

The Order of the Stick

The Order of the Stick, Volume -1: Start of Darkness
The Order of the Stick, Volume 0: On the Origin of PCs (v. 0)
The Order of the Stick, Volume 1: Dungeon Crawlin' Fools
The Order of the Stick, Volume 2: No Cure for the Paladin Blues
The Order of the Stick, Volume 3: War and XPs

Beaver and Steve

Beaver and Steve Volume #1: A Shoeful of Trouble
Beaver and Steve Volume #2: The Flaky Crust of Disaster

Dork Tower

Dork Covenant
Dork Shadows
Heart of Dorkness
Livin' La Vida Dorka
Understanding Gamers
1d6 Degrees of Separation
Dork Side of the Goon
Go, Dork, Go!
Dork Decade
The Tao of Igor
Posted : 3 months, 1 week ago at Aug 16 17:58
F My Life
Your Whole Family is Made Out of Meat: The Best of Dinosaur Comics
Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics

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Evidence that internet culture makes it into our everyday lives in various forms. Here in print format we see webcomic collections, blog spawn and other random items. Will be added to as I remember/find things. Feel free to make suggestions!

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