The Key to Being a Writer

Date June 5, 2008

[from the New Yorker]

Garfield Minus Garfield

Date June 5, 2008

Remove Garfield from the picture (literally) and you turn a bland comic into one that is strange, delusional, desperate, lonely, and often hilarious.

Kudos to Jon Davis, creator of Garfield, for being cool with the idea and saying so.
[subconscious linktribution: CogDogBlog]

Another Forgotten Strip

Date May 28, 2008

Another comic I forget because I can’t subscribe to it (though that is supposedly going to change real soon) is the almost always amusing– and often scary– Get Your War On. A pair from late last month:

Toothpaste for Dinner

Date May 28, 2008

Actually, Drew Dee’s own comics are also pretty funny:
toothpastefordinner.com

Natalie Dee Comics

Date May 28, 2008

Two of the funnier comics I discovered recently have two things in common… both are at least partly the creation of Natalie Dee and neither have RSS feeds. The samples I’ve chosen here are pretty mild. Most of the entries I prefer are a bit more biting– but I’ll let you find those for yourself!
First, [...]

Allusive Cartoons

Date May 6, 2008

I’ve been enjoying pictures for sad children and came across a couple of literary-ish comics worth sharing since they reference a couple of my favorite authors and works.
First, David Foster Wallace:
[click for full comic]
Then T.S. Eliot and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock":
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How Grandma Sees the Remote

Date February 16, 2008

You’ll have to jump to the original blog entry to see the details…

Terror Bird

Date December 20, 2007

See the rest of this comic as well as many other comic creations by Rosemary Mosco.

Lethem & Chabon, Superfriends

Date May 6, 2007

Patricia Storms’ Art Imitating Lit cartoons are amusing. The irony of needing to be in-touch with the contretemps of the literary in-crowd to understand Storms’ dissing of the same is not lost on me…