Beaver & Steve by James Turner is simply addictive. Like crack cocaine sugar. Mmm, yeah. It's about the adventures of a beaver and his trouble-making lizard pal and is just about the funniest and most original comic I've ever laid eyes upon. Of any of us, this comic deserves to make the big time.

You have seen me mention many times the exploits of my friend Big Dirty Mike, the Man, the Legend! Well, here is his blog.

Simon Nader does two great comics in his unique style. There's Billy Learns To Rock and Electronic Revolutions: The Burnhams. Both are damn good reads with humor and anguish and if you look closely, Fork pops up on occasion.

Crazy Man Online - Comic strips by George Brix, another alumni from The College of New Jersey funny pages. For years now, I've been reading George's tales of friends going through college, life and parodies of all the same geeky (and some not as geeky) movies that I know and love. Detective Fork will always be linked with The Crazy Man because they shared many a "Fun Stuff" page together. It's just a shame we never got that big comic crossover thing off the ground.

Ctrl+Alt+Del is one of the biggies of webcomicdom. I'm not much of a gamer but I still enjoy the hilarity of its gaming protagonists and the art by Tim Buckley.

Death Gets A Website: "The Death Series: An Introspective Look on Western Theophilosophical Archetypes and Metaphysical Models in the Context of Anthropomorphic Societal Constructs" In other words, "This is Death. He's just this guy." By Samuel Marcus.

Divisible By Zero by Giando Sigurani is about gaming. Or at least it was about gaming and now it's about ninjas. Lots of ninjas. Colorful ninjas! And politics.

Dribble For Kids is by Nick Arganbright, one of the good webcomic buddies I've made in my time doing this. D4K is derived from his own life but with the added bonuses of things like a talking dog who doesn't really talk and an evil clone of Wesley Crusher. At least, I assume those two things aren't really a part of Nick's life.

Drunk Duck was the center of my world when I started my webcomic becaue it opened my comic up to many readers through its busy community and excellent comment system. I made many good friends there and found a lot of great comics.

Grind by Lothar is a "SCI-FI FANTASY ACTION-PORNO" that is not for minors but is one hell of a visual experience. The colors will burn your eyeballs. Seriously, the art and coloring are unlike much else I've ever seen and you never know who or what will get together in its ultra-futuristic setting.

Hey, Professor - This was the comic strip I drew for my college newspaper from 1999-2001. Hey, Professor chronicled the adventures of a mad college professor, his android niece, a slacker college president and lots and lots of mice! I ended it to start Detective Fork. The page is archived here from its last update on Geocities and has the whole series available for viewing. Yes, I do draw other things besides silverware. ]:) Someday, I've gotta redesign that site, though.

Mr. Bluesky draws a comic about an airport called L.A.X. light/motion.dreams that implements music and showcases his awesome skills at drawing architecture and mechanical objects. I should take lessons from him.

The Naked Nurse by Chris Johnston is a sex comic that manages to be both smart and silly. The art's dynamic but surely not for kids or prudes. The comic is about Nurse Nancy, a sex therapist who believes that most of humanity's problems are caused by people's troubled sex lives. If she can cure enough of them, world peace might arise!

Penis by Matt Bojangles is actually an artistic masterpiece disguised as a poorly drawn comic. The humor is subversive but spot on and insane like I like it. Not for everyone but certainly unique and doesn't pull its punches.

Let me confess something to you. I'm in love with Pinky TA. I don't just mean the steampunk (which I guess it is) comic about a more technologically World War I in which scantily clad women serve as soldiers with the men in seafaring battles. I mean the titular (heh) character who's got hair as pink as the teddy bear in an LSD-enduced haze and muscular curves that can crack your mind like a nut. Ahh, Pinky. If only every kid on the webcomic block wasn't already hanging around outside your door. By Michael John Morris.

Mark Palmer's Rumf Adventures looks like it came right off the Sunday funnies page. It also has that feeling of adventure that was popular in comic strips many years ago and has all but been lost. For that reason, it is a soul brother to Detective Fork. Note: That's not Rumf at left, but Mark's rendition of my favorite female superhero, The Disco Dazzler.

Adrian Ceroni (a.k.a. shadree) is a big Fork supporter. His ultra-funny comic is called The Crazy Life and his site includes his artistic ventures and interests. Talented dude.

Michael Dean's Slither and Friends is like Detective Fork, only much funnier. It's similar in that Michael, like myself, has had these characters since his grade school years, kept revisiting them, and eventually made a webcomic out of them. These characters are like family, at this point. In Michael's own words, "Slither and Friends is a comedy adventure strip featuring the story of Slither J. Garter, a snake of unbridled enthusiasm and dubious intelligence. Slither, along with his friends Herman and Tadpole, face numerous challenges on their mountain home, the mythical Plateau." Trust me, this is one fantastic comic. In a crossover story Michael and I planned that never got off the ground due to our busy schedules, Slither and Detective Fork are each other's favorite comic book characters and magically get to meet up. Although that story hasn't (yet?) happened, Slither and Fork have shown up in each other's comics as said stars of comic books. You just gotta look closely.

SmackJeeves is the webcomic community I began posting Detective Fork on after Duck went down one time. It has a great, friendly set-up and there's lots of good folks there.

There's noir and then there's NOIR. Strange Case by Noelle Dreves is something spectacular.

Sus4 Life is a comic about a rock band and is the only one on that topic I've found. (Granted, Billy Learns to Rock is about a kid...learning to rock.) Rock bands are a preoccupation of mine and I love reading about them, especially in a comic as funny as this.

The Thrilling Detective Web Site - Everything you want to know about detective noir, the genre centered on hardboiled sleuths. Has fiction, info on film and tv shows and, of course, web comics!

Vic and Edwards by Kat Peterson is just about the cutest vampire story I've ever seen. And that includes Count Duckula.

My favorite of the very talented Zoestead's comics is The WAVAM Project, a medieval vampire tale that is black and white but makes vibrant use of small dashes of color.

The Webcomic Crossover & Cameo Archive keeps tracks off all those times comic strip characters wander into other webcomics. As the Detective makes a routine habit of this, you can bet he's listed. Steadfastly maintained by (not Hulk) Hogan.