You kids today with your webcomics, you don’t know how good you’ve got it. I remember the early 90s
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Seriously, though, there’s a wealth of great stuff out there today–no one could read everything being produced, and just keeping up with the ones I quite like requires some effort. Part of my “morning rounds” of the internet includes opening a set of around 25 tabs to read the latest in the daily webcomics I follow, for example.
But, back in the 90s, I had one weekly web comic (we didn’t call it that then, since it was a print comic that happened to also appear on the web) I made of point of keeping up with. It was originally a strip in the university paper at my alma mater, and was drawn by a McLaren (no relation, that I know of). The strip was called The Parking Lot Is Full, and it had a twisted sense of humour and irreverence that often (but not always) lined up nicely with my own.
The full archives are online, even though the comic has been dead for five years now. You can even still buy the print collections.
Here are two of my favourites from back in the day–these are ones I cut out of the paper and kept pinned to the wall, along with the one funny Wizard of Id strip.
From September 19th 1997:
From February 6th 1998:
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