Graphic Novels, Comic Books, and Cartoons: Websites

Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of the First Amendment rights of the comics art form. The CBLDF provides legal referrals, representation, advice, assistance, and education in furtherance of these goals.

Started in 1982, Diamond Comic Distributor has become the world’s largest distributor of English-language comics, graphic novels and pop-culture related merchandise. It provides reviews of what is new and upcoming, guides for educators, vendor and retailer information.

Hosted at the annual Comic-Con International Convention in San Diego, CA the Eisner Awards are given for creative achievement in the American comics industry.

Site to buy, sell, trade, consign, and collect comics. Includes Modern, Bronze Age, Silver Age, and Golden Age comics as well as hard-to-find issues.

This multiple award-winning online comic has a tagline of "A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language." Created in 2005 by American author Randall Munroe, it has found fandom world-wide as part of shared Internet culture.

The web's largest catalog of syndicated newspaper strips, political cartoons and webcomics, offering free new content every day as well as subscription service.

The longest-running independent fantasy graphic novel series in the USA which ran from 1978-2018. Everything published before 2014 is available for online viewing.

Created to keep up with all comics industry news, it provides timely information on comics, movies, TV, toys, comic cons and fan culture.

An Eisner Award-winning site for Comics Journalism in 2015, the company that runs the site placed it on indefinite hiatus since April 2017. Useful as an archive of information regarding everything related to the comics industry.

Owed by Pop Culture Media, Comicbook is the division that focuses on comic franchises, TV, movies, comics, anime, and video gaming.

Online scans and digital downloads available of public domain American comics from the Golden Age (1930s-1950s).

Scans and digital downloads of Golden and Silver Age American comics, fanzines, pulp fiction, non-English comics, newspapers and magazines, adverts, booklets, public information posters, and coloring books, that are in the public domain. Additionally, forums for comics discussion.

Free online magazine about comics and graphic novels with a print edition published annually. Information, news and reviews covering American and international publications.

Independent, online review site that covers all genres of comic books, including graphic novels, independent press, alternative, manga, graphic memoir, superheroes, and mainstream.

Reviews of Kids, Teens and Adults comics, manga and anime divided into sub-genres such as Action and Adventure, Fantasy, Humor, Mystery, or Romance.

Paul Gravett has worked in comics publishing and promotion since 1981. With his expertise in the areas of comics, graphic novels, and manga, he posts reviews, reading lists, highlights creators, curates exhibitions, publishes books and provides links to many other useful sites.

Graphic novel review site based in the United Kingdom. In addition to chronological reviews, can search by writers, artists, series, publisher, genre, year and five star reviews.

Full-feature painting tool with free basic version that allows working together on the same document with other artists.

Web series to show how to create comics and characters in Adobe Illustrator.

Comics design site which allows for greater customization rather than presets.