Toothpaste for DinnerA slide-show tour of the most addictive comic on the Web.

In 2000, cartoonists Ted Rall and Ruben Bolling debated the year's best comics, and in March of this year, James Sturm described the lifestyle at his Center for Cartoon Studies. Douglas Wolk assessed Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis 2, and A.O. Scott considered the incisive realism of Matt Groening's Life in Hell and The Simpsons: "When reality becomes cartoonlike, the only place for a realist is in cartooning." Daniel Engber, Slate's Explainer, discusses his own brush with online infamy.