If you enjoy comic strips, check out rec.arts.comics.strips, the Usenet newsgroup dedicated to the discussion of "short-form comics". Whether your interest in comic strips is in their humor, craft, art, entertainment, or creation, you'll find some topic of interest within the active newsgroup. Discussion in the group rehashes recent comic strips, their plot, and characters, discusses comic strip history, politics in comics, controversy, criticism and critique, comic as art, method, as well as the creation and marketing of comics, the business of comics, etc. For a comic strip basics crash course, visit the rec.arts.comics.strips FAQ, where you'll find an outline of comic strip history, popular characters and strips, cartooning, the business of cartooning, and links to other resources for the cartoonist and comic strip fan.