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[18 Feb 2009 | 5 Comments | ]

Apparently there is no difference between post-racial America and racial America.

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[24 Dec 2008 | 2 Comments | ]

Wordpress has granted me the (increasingly rare) privilege of signing in so I thought I should put a post up. But since I am currently sitting in the lobby of an Emergency Room (spider bite- not mine), I’m going to have to phone it in a bit and post the draft of a comic. 

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[13 Dec 2008 | 2 Comments | ]

The webcomic “Sheldon,” has been doing a series of strips called, “Questionable Moments from ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’” which has been pretty good overall. (Sheldon is fairly hilarious overall-I encourage you to read it if you don’t.) Sadly, though, these series has now ended, and he has missed the most questionable moment of all: when we learn what’s happened to Mary.
Towards the end of George’s lesson, when he’s realizing how truly awful everything would be if he’d never been born, he has a horrible thought. Mary! …

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[8 Dec 2008 | 2 Comments | ]

How to Face Your Fear 
Basic Instructions, “Your all-inclusive guide to a life well-lived”, is created by comedian Scott Meyer. Meyer also creates the web feature Ask Captain Pike. 
Go forth and be instructed.

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[1 Dec 2008 | 2 Comments | ]

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is the brain child of Zach Weiner. It has been around since 2002 but has (like most long running comics) changed look some over the course of its life. How cool is SMBC? So cool Weiner had to take to YouTube for a satirical response (video) to a “controversy” over whether Sarah Silverman borrowed material from one of his strips.

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[22 Nov 2008 | Comments Off | ]

Knight Moves 
I discovered Basketcase Comix through a link on Reddit. I went for the chess joke and stayed for the puns. The comic is created by Kelly Ferguson,  who also publishes political comics at Liberal Angst (which was wiped clean due to technical difficulties but is in the process of being restocked). 

Gulliver 

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[20 Nov 2008 | Comments Off | ]

“Ultravention” by Mrrranda Tarrow
Slow Wave has a fantastic concept behind it. Readers from around the world submit their dreams (the sort had while sleeping, not aspirations) and artist Jesse Reklaw creates a comic based on that information. The “by” part indicates who the dream submitter was. 

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[24 Sep 2008 | 2 Comments | ]

If you take a look over at our comics’ links, and I’m sure you check it obsessively, you’ll notice there’s a new addition. Daisy Owl, created by Ben Driscoll, is the heartwarming tale of Mr. Owl, his two adopted human children, and his friend Steve the Bear. I am a fan because Steve wears a tie, and I am a sucker for bears in ties, but others may appreciate the strange, random and wonderful sense of humor.
I’d like to share a couple of examples. The first is …