About this site!

Riotfish is a variety comics site that updates Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Generally, Newspaper Comic Strip is posted on Mondays, Random Commercial Parody strips appear on Wednesdays, and 1989 pages go up on Fridays.

Newspaper Comic Strip

Newspaper Comic Strip is the story of a guy who somehow realizes that he is in a newspaper comic strip, and he doesn’t remember how or why or what he’s supposed to do in it. Despite its name, Newspaper Comic Strip isn’t a newspaper comic strip. However, like a newspaper comic strip, which it isn’t, it consists of 6 short, three panel black and white strips called “dailies,” followed by a larger, color strip called a “Sunday.”

It is also told in real time. For this reason, you may want to start at the beginning.

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!

Random Commercial Parody

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

Miscellany

Occasionally, we put up strips like Jarded 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 1989) is done by James Randell. They can be reached by clicking the fish at the bottom of the screen.