Quoth a Webcomic
by I also cannot believe the webcomic Tripp which features the ghost of Edgar Allen Poe as a regular character did not work in this punchline eons ago.
Category: Comics
Ignatz Award Nominees Announced
The Bricks are awarded at the annual SPX comics festival in Bethesda, Maryland in September. The nominees for Outstanding Online Comic are an interesting mix: Bird Boy by Annie Szabla Haunter by Sam Alden Gabby’s Playhouse by Gabby Schulz July Diary by Gabrielle Bell SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki I’ve heard of all of them except for Haunter but haven’t actually read any of them!! Always nice to have good recommendations to get to though.
Bookmark: Project Skin Horse
Shaenon Garrity’s webcomic Project Skin Horse is a worthy successor to her first webcomic Narbonic. Both are wacky takes on mad science with a whole lot of fun mixed in. It’s the end of the world, maybe, but also stylish. I started over reading this comic and I’m not even halfway through the archives at Comic Rocket, but I have hit the introduction of Tigerlily Jones, the first woman who can resist the charms of main character Tip. What I think Garrity does well besides having an awesome sense of humor is create seemingly cliched wacky characters but then layering …
Tripp’s Wacky Tripping Life
Tripp is a two year old webcomic with a sitcom-worthy premise: main character Tripp, unknowingly, licked some really potent acid and is on a perpetual trip. The strip below, about halfway through the archives is a good summary of the plot to that point: It’s far from perfect but there are a lot of good things happening in this comic. Creator Bill Taylor, even at this point in 2012, is getting better at the art, which feels more organic and has fewer moments of awkward people posing (click on the most recent comics at the site to see how the …
I Got Pacman Fever
I kind of like the t-shirt myself (click to see this full size at SubNormality)
Ten Years of Questionable Content
Jeph Jacques Questionable Content is ten years old. That’s a webcomic I’ve read from just about the beginning and it’s been not only a fun read but exciting to see Jacques improve in his craft so much (and so publicly). Check out the ComixTalk interview with Jeph from 2004 — such adorable art! ComixTalk also reviewed the webcomic in 2005 and had another interview in 2006.
Joe Loves Educational Movies
That is an amazing capture of the likeness of Denzel and Wahlburg. Also, I don’t know about you, but this was a near coffee-snorting-through-the-nose laugh inducing joke.