Web Savvy: Free Stuff--An Endangered Species

Harry McCracken girds up for a fee-based future as free Web services disappear.

The world's best funny pages aren't in any newspaper--they're online, at sites such as these.

Comics.com: Home to the famous ( Dilbert), the up-and-coming ( Big Nate), and the classic ( Li'l Abner strips from 1948).
BayArea.com: The San Jose Mercury News' online edition has everything from Adam to Ziggy; free registration required.
The New Yorker: Home of the Cartoon Channel, a desktop window with a new cartoon every 30 seconds.
Doonesbury.com: Thirty years' worth of Garry Trudeau's strips make this site a satirical history of our life and times.
Big Panda Comics: Indexes 1000-plus mostly online-only strips, including many duds and some gems.

Contact PC World Executive Editor Harry McCracken at websavvy@pcworld.com.

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