Via kisrael [1], I found this link to Buttercup Festival [2], an odd little web comic. The artwork is fantastic in that ink and watercolor kind of way, but the actual comic itself is rather sureal. The main character may dress like Death, and carry a scythe like Death, but he really isn't Death. The artist also does another web comic, Green Evening Stories [3] where the artwork is even more fantastic [4] in that ink and watercolor kind of way than Buttercup Festival.
Following some links (Elliott Garbauskas' Buttercup Festival, reviewed by Shaenon K. Garrity) [5] I came across a well researched article on the history of web comics [6]. Quite interested, and little did I realize that Dr. Fun [7] was not the first Internet based comic (web based, possibly, but not Internet-only).
[1] http://kisrael.com/viewblog.cgi?date=2004.06.10
[2] http://www.buttercupfestival.com/
[3] http://www.buttercupfestival.com/green/
[4] http://www.buttercupfestival.com/green/g010104.htm
[6] http://www.comixpedia.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=696