CSotD: Two new strips by old hands
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ND Mazin is a well-established cartoonist in South Africa but new to me and possibly new to you. However, he is just launching a new version of an old strip, Azaniamania, which makes it a good time to jump on and see where it's going. (This is one time when clicking on the strip to get a larger version is really gonna be necessary.)
This feels like some old-school alternative work, and I'm reminded of Mark Alan Stamaty's Washingtoon, with a healthy dose of a classic web comic from the early days of the medium, Josh McDonald's Bruno the Bandit (not to be confused with another major web strip of the era, Christopher Baldwin's Bruno)
The strip, including a second chapter to follow this one, is hosted at Africartoons, which is a clumsy interface for following a particular strip (hint, hint), but which is worth visiting in any case, since it features some good work from that corner of the world. (Africa being particularly rich in highly talented, incisive cartoonists.)
So you can add it to your daily stops, or "like" their page on Facebook, and the Facebook plan may be best since they'll let you know what's up and you can pick and choose what to click on.
And, speaking of new products from cartoonists with an established track record:
Heavenly Nostrils (they didn't ask me) just debuted at GoComics this past Sunday, which gives you a chance to click through and get current. In fact, what the heck:
Okay, now you're up to date. The ball is in your court.
Anyway, this strip is the result of a contest run through Amazon that included as its prize a publishing contract and a development contract with a syndicate. This strip is quite a departure from the entries that won the contest, but that's how development works when it works best.
And development — which can go on for a long time and be very painful — matters a lot. I'm holding off on featuring another new strip by an established artist because I think they let it out too soon and, so far, it's kind of wobbly and not in the cute fashion of a newborn calf. Just not sure of what it's doing.
But this one seems pretty solid and I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes.
The artist, Dana Simpson, might seem more familiar to comics aficianados under her old identity as David Simpson, creator of Ozy and Millie, which will send the same people who just went rhapsodically nostalgic over the two Brunos into yet another fit of rapture and possibly moreso, since Ozy and Millie was one of the early furry web strips, and thus had great appeal to the rhapsodically inclined.
So now you have two more things to read every day before you get here, which is part of my cunning plan, since I find I'm posting later and later each morning because of all the cool stuff I keeping adding to my list of places to visit before I can start writing.
Speaking of which, here's your one-minute-and-three-seconds of zen (courtesy of Scott Bateman via Daily Kos):
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