ionoi

a technique to make things look cartoony in 3D graphics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cel-shading

a very poetic collection of flash games

http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/

Very different in style, very different in humor:

Scott McCloud // you have to see that one!

http://www.scottmccloud.com

Kyle Baker:

http://www.kylebaker.com/

Robert Crumb:

http://www.zubeworld.com/crumbmuseum/

Mary Fleener:

http://www.maryfleener.com/home.html

Jim Woodring:

http://www.jimwoodring.com/

Peter Kuper:

http://www.peterkuper.com

Paul Pope:

http://www.paulpope.com

Tom Gauld:

http://www.cabanonpress.com

Chris Ware:

http://www.hammergallery.com/Artists/Ware/ware_chris.htm

via modetwo

a very interesting article on rotoscoping, a technique to generate drawn film from prerecorded footage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping

Generally, the entry for traditional animation sums it up quite pretty:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_animation

Here the method of “cell animation” is explained

fastr is an online game where you can guess for the tag of photos, these come from flickr, if your fast you get more points

http://randomchaos.com/games/fastr/

a fine list of graphic design books, typo mainly

http://www.pingmag.jp/2007/01/22/toward-design-literacy/

*thanks rainer*

a simple software for creating mosaics out of many single pictures

http://www.ezmosaic.com/

edit:

here is an online application for mosaics too:

http://www.adelaider.com/image-mosaic/ 

you can find some interesting tutorials for expanding your software skills here:

http://www.ayatoweb.com/

not for readable text, but dirty graphics:-

http://www.dafont.com/

http://www.attheshow.org