You kids today with your webcomics, you don’t know how good you’ve got it. I remember the early 90s1, when getting a comic on the web meant puerile Space Moose sodomy jokes or the banal comedy of Doctor Fun.
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Seriously, though, there’s a wealth of great stuff out there today–no one could read everything being [...]
Yes, it’s time again for an original-content free collection of pointers to things that amuse, interest, or frighten me.
I believe I have to mention the opening of Knol, Google’s attempt to take on Wikipedia with “authoritative articles” that have specific owners, rather than the anonymous wisdom of crowds. I admit, I have no idea how [...]
The story about the classic “car on the roof” trick at Cambridge–my favourite bits are how they used skirt-hitching distractions, and the bit about the case of champagne the Dean sent.
Dawn Tyler Watson & Paul Deslauriers performing Led Zeppelin’s classic Going To California. Make sure to click the “watch in high quality” link.
There’s a new [...]
That’s a sample page from a book I’m really enjoying reading at the moment: The Explainers by Jules Feiffer. (You can see some other sample pages at The Comics Reporter, or even cooler check out the slideshow on Flickr.)
Here’s how the publisher describes the book:
In 1956, a relatively unknown cartoonist by the name of Jules [...]
Why not?
More details at the YouTube page–here’s the first bit, but there’s much more:
Performed for us live (at the La Brea stage in Hollywood, 1978), and rotoscoped - a process that traces back the live action frame by frame and turns it into animation. The original live action was shot with 5 cameras - 2 [...]
Got a little time to spend crawling around on the web?
Allow me to recommend that you use some of it to check out the archives at Hey Oscar Wilde! It’s clobberin’ time!!!
You might ask “what the hell is that”?
Well, in the site’s own words:
This website, now in its ninth incarnation since being launched in 06.1998, [...]
Here’s wishing a hearty Merry Christmas to everyone who reads Homo Sum.
(The image above links to a wall-paper sized version. It’s from here originally.)
Why are old Life Is Hell cartoons from over a decade ago suddenly showing up everywhere I look?
And why are they so apposite and topical?
(click to see the full strips)
Today I picked up a poppy at the grocery store, and probably severely over-donated as part of that interaction.
I can’t help myself–one of the things that completely crack through my stern and manly1 exterior is the “uniformed old men with dignity” thing. I see that guy, who’s probably a hundred years old, clearly making a [...]
Yes, that’s correct. Apparently there is a BaldGuyz corporation making products just for… well, “bald guys”. As time goes by I am falling more and more into their target audience.
I think these boxes look pretty funny though.
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I wouldn’t actually buy BaldGuyz products, but as an engineer I think I am duty-bound to [...]
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