It must have been over five years ago when I first compiled a simple html page that would display a bunch of my favorite online comics. I still use that page and manually update it, so it always shows the comics of today. Yes, no doubt there are programs that do this, but my simple method works for me. Even though lately I have been able to subscribe to an increasing number of comics by rss.

I love reading comics. Sometimes one of the comics or cartoons is so funny or appropriate, I want to share it with people. This is usually limited to taping a printed comic on one of my walls at work. Sometimes it would be cool to show people on one of my sites what made me laugh that day. Most comic sites online have a very strict reuse policy. I.e., don't do it! In fact, years ago when I found some funny cartoons I contacted publishers to ask if it would be ok to display a single cartoon on my non-profit (very low volume, we're talking 10 visitors a month) web page. The only way I could do that, was to pay a hefty sum of money. Hah. No thanks.

Comics.com is one of the comics sites that has been around for a long time. I checked it out and didn't like it. It would only email comics and I didn't like html mails. Still don't. Recently, comics.com got a major overhaul. And lo and behold, now there are lots of social options. A lot of comics now have great options like view full size, votes, share to social networking and bookmarking sites, printing, and embedding of comics. Which is what I intend to give a try at the end of this post. Best of all when it comes to easy reading of comics: if you register, you can create your own comics page that contains your selected comics, get your comics by mail, or as rss feed ... That is awesome.

Available options probably depend on artist or publisher policies. I notice some comics don't offer the share and embed options, while others (such as Dilbert) can't be selected for your comics page/rss. A good thing Dilbert has its own page, complete with rss, share, and embed options.

It looks like the embed option simply gives you the proper html including the correct image link. Since it is basic html, it should work on any site. So, let's see if I am right by pasting a recent Pearls Before Swine episode.



Oh, this is going to be fun!