4 Free Comic Websites You'll Love

Portals that offer cartoon strips to brighten up your day.

Most comics that you grow up reading, either start making sense once you are all grown up, or remind you of the fun times of your childhood. While several of these comics do appear in daily newspapers, most of them are very rare to find. Having said that, no one would want to really cut them out or store physical copies in this digital era. However, if you want to have access to them through the web, here is a list of four web sources that will help you out.

1. GoComics.com
   If you are looking for comics such as Calvin and Hobbes, Animal Crackers, Doonesbury, Ripley's Believe It or Not, Cathy, Heathcliff, Nancy, Love Is.., Peanuts, and Pearls Before Swine among others, then GoComics.com is the place to visit. The website puts up a strip everyday, which you can view online. You can even subscribe for specific strips to be delivered to your inbox, free of cost. Pro users will get all the strips in a single email, while free users receive them as individual strips.

2. ArcaMax.com
   While several comics overlap on this website when compared to the previous one, you will find nuggets including Archie, Baby Blues, Beetle Bailey, Cathy, Dennis the Menace, Dilbert, Family Circus, Hi and Lois, Rugrats, and Zits, apart from political, sports, and recipe comics. Just like GoComics.com, you can subscribe to the service and receive comics via email.
    
3. ChachaChaudhary.com
   If Indian comics are what you are looking for, then Pran is your guy. This website gives you access to select classics from titles such as Chacha Chaudhary, Billoo, Pinki, Sabu, Raman, Shrimati Ji, Channi Chachi, and Raaka, in both English as well as in Hindi. While the comics' collection is not exhaustive, it does give you a nice place to start. Another interesting section on the website is the 'Color Books', where you can print the image and let the young ones colour the characters the way they like it.
    
4. Bitstrips.com
   If you'd rather create your own cartoons than reading any of theose listed above, Bitstrips.com lets you do just that. You can create your own strips, consisting of single, three or more panels, depending on the story you wish to convey. The website gives you a limited choice of several characters, whose body language, facial expressions and surroundings you can alter. You can create a several series of comic strips and publish it for the world to read through the website itself.

Which is your favourite cartoon strip? Did you find them listed on any of the above websites? Do let us know through your comments and do share any more of such interesting websites you may know about.