Christopher Baldwin is the artist and writer behind Spacetrawler, a science fiction webcomic about humans shanghaied by an alien to help free the Eebs, another alien race exploited and enslaved by just about everyone because they can build...well, anything, but spacetrawlers (star ships) in particular.
Needless to say the situation is way more complicated than that. There are secrets and revelations; bad guys, good guys, and in-betweeners. It's a cautionary tale about the pitfalls of good intentions when coupled with only partial information...
Sounds serious, doesn't it? But it's also very, very funny (consider the mobile toilet, an Artificial Intelligence who only wants to do his job. And be loved for it, I think. And maybe follow you around, just in case--no, that is not indicative of the level of humor in the comic, though possibly indicative of mine).
Spacetrawler is also sweet and bittersweet.
The webcomic is for grown-ups, containing violence, cussing, sexuality amongst the stars (not explicit), some drinking, some heartbreak, some angst, some rollicking, some rampaging.
His art is often adorable. Even the more amoeba-like aliens are...kind of cute.
Christopher Baldwin's work appears often in MAD Magazine (here's a sample).
He's done other webcomics. His Little Dee is a delightful tale of a lost little girl adopted by a very civilized bear until she can be reunited with her folks. Trust me, you will love it. It's a storybook, sweet without saccharine, and sometimes takes a gentle swipe at our so-called real world.
Start from the beginning; these are real stories.
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