Look Straight Ahead does something a bit different for webcomics — it tackles a long-form dramatic story with real-life implications. Elaine Will began the strip six months ago, and she describes her series as follows: The story concerns a high school student named Jeremy Knowles and follows his journey through a severe mental breakdown…. it focuses on what a mental breakdown actually feels like, as well as other situations going along with the experience — the social stigma, the side-effects […]

Every Tuesday, Gavin Aung Than posts a comic adaptation of an inspirational quote or poem at Zen Pencils, and they’re quite good. The most recent, with an excerpt shown here, is from Stephen Fry. This particular comic is an important life lesson as well as a small story in itself. The series overall makes for a great collection of thoughts on, as the author puts it, “science, art, literature, and history”. The archives are labeled by subject and person quoted, […]