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Newspaper Comic Strip

Newspaper Comic Strip is the story of a comic strip character who becomes self aware. He doesn't know how this happened - he can't remember anything that happened before, or even what he's supposed to be doing. The strip occurs in real time, so it's best to think of this as one long moment-to-moment story, and not interwoven daily gag strips, despite how much it resembles them.

Recently our hero has discovered that he has a wife, who he doesn't trust, and that Halloween and Christmas have passed. To him it only seems like half an hour. He has also found that he can see into other newspaper comic strips that surround him.

Read from the beginning.

The Descender

A mysteriously unfolding science fiction story about an amnesiac man lost amongst strange, futuristic tower-like structures. Start reading here!

Random Commercial Parody

The name says it all. We take commercials that have distressed us in the distant and recent past, and parody them.

1989

1989 is a radical 80's tale told in 12 issues, where each one is a different month of the year. The story follows a gang of small town losers and destitute dreamers as they travel the crumbling, neon-yellow brick road of the late 1980's. Watch as kids, monsters, aliens, androids, cowboys, indians, spies, the mentally deranged, and the completely hopeless all tumble together inside a hamster wheel of mad dreams and real despair. All of this and more, without the help of the internet!

Miscellany

Occasionally, we put up strips like Jared Man , Gunman vs Targetman or other Fake Newspaper Comic Strips. The Art Gallery is a repository of paintings, illustrations and other things that are not comics, but still fall under the Riotfish umbrella.

Credits

Almost all of the art is done by Justin Pasieka and most of the writing (except for Descender and 1989) is done by James Randell. They can be reached by clicking the fish at the bottom of the screen.