You, Too, Can Be a Comics Whiz

This Wired article is about people using video-game character art or sprites as the characters in their web comics. This way, even if they can't draw, they can still produce a web comic. Some of these comics are hugely successful. The comic producers realise that they're infringing copyright but the companies haven't taken legal action as yet and some of the comics have a huge following.
W: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,63691,00.html?tw=wn_11culthead