I think this Clay Bennett panel pretty much sums it up. It’s got enough detail in it that I assume he did two cartoons ahead of time and posted the appropriate one when the call was made.And I suppose the alternative take might have used most of the same art, but with the facial expressions […]
As Chris Baldwin notes over at the latest Space Trawler, the two of us went down to Elmira, NY, yesterday to research a children’s story we’re working on. And he’s right that the archivist at the Chemung County Historical Society is a rare resource. Rather than just trotting out the usual pieces and telling us […]
Believe It Or Not!Pab Sungenis, of “The New Adventures of Queen Victoria,” created a gag about zombies that was both fresh and humorous!Believe It Or Not!In BC, Mason and Mick Mastroianni wrote a “Hunger Games” gag that actually demonstrated some basic familiarity with the story!Believe It Or Not!Kevin Kallaugher drew a cartoon about the presidential race […]
Randall Munroe’s XKCD is a nerd’s webcomic. Randall answering hypothetical questions about physics is taking nerdom to the highest levels – with comics. Something tells me Randall wasn’t the cartoonist that sat at the back of the glass drawing to impress the girls.Here’s the first three questions (and snippet of an answer):What would happen if […]
Two weeks or so ago, NPR had a feature on the morning show about some fellow who sells custom poetry the way caricature artists sell caricatures. He sits at some farmers market/craft fair place and people give him a few bucks whereupon he takes their names and a random fact or two about them and […]
A consumer tip from xkcd along with its own disclaimer in the form of a punchline. And, as always, you should go back to the site for the roll-over gag.”Gag” being operative in this discussion of Cadbury Eggs, which are kind of fun but in a candy-corn sense of “Okay, you’ve celebrated the season. Now go […]
I have some problems with Wikipedia, but I think, on the whole, that its self-correcting structure actually works.Often.Depending on the topic.But today’s xkcd hits at a major vulnerability not just of Wikipedia but of history in particular and of writing in general, which is that, once they’ve found a citation, a lot of writers consider […]
I think I’m prepared to risk $200 on the theory that the universe is indeed undergoing some kind of fundamental shift when xkcd and I are on the same page on an issue of science, since I almost never understand the geeky math/science gags in this strip.I don’t understand science much beyond the general philosophical […]
Penny Arcade is one of the major commercial successes in web comics. I realize “commercial success” can sound condescending in some contexts, but I mean it in a complimentary sense here: The strip is well-drawn, breaks some rules and attracts the kind of geek audience that hangs out on the Internets. In addition, its creators […]