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For one week, recommend/share:
Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six : a quote
Day seven : whatever tickles your fancy
so, today is the day i talk about the wonderful world of WEBCOMICS!
and by talk i mean i will post comic strips and caption them with insightful comments like: hay gaiz, this is so lulzy! ♥ ♥ ♥
i read a truly embarrassing amount of webcomics, but for the purposes of this meme i will only share 3.
anyway, the first comic, which i have been reading for years, and served as my gateway comic, is Dinosaur Comics!
it is a fixed-panel comic - which means the artwork (which is from a standard clipart collection) is static: only the dialog changes. so, as you might imagine, the dialog has to be strong in order to stay interesting. on this, dino comics does not disappoint.
at first i thought about pointing all the things that i love about this particular strip, but nothing crushes humor faster than explaining a joke. also like most people i have a difficult time articulating why awesome things are awesome, so, you know, i'm not going to do that either.
ANYWAY. here are some more dino comic strips that i enjoy: everything gets better if we all pretend we're Batman, so you've got this heap of sand..., and difficulties translating Latin into (old) colloquial English!
now, in a completely unsmooth segue, let's talk about Wondermark, which, if you read the print edition of The Onion, you may already be aware of. it's a comic that uses old plate engravings for the artwork, while discussing topics that are wholly contemporary.
the two latest strips, In Which a Study is Stymied and The Fiction Generator, are both LOL-for-reals funny too.
and last but not least (though it is the one i am least familiar with): Dresden Codak. it pokes fun at things like philosophy and psychology and quantum physics, and while that description may make Dresden Codak sound super boring, it is in fact TOTALLY GREAT.
Dresden Codak uses original artwork, and each page is rather sizable, so here's a link to the strip that got me hooked: Dungeons and Discourse, the original philosophy tabletop RPG your friends don't understand.
...aaaand that's it!....for now.
also, to anyone reading this, you should definitely try this sharing meme. through![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hamimifk i discovered a controversial young adult's book that sounds completely amazing, a terrifying Spanish zombie film, and a yuri-centric website that is not shoujoai.com. i would love to see the neat stuff others turn up. :)
For one week, recommend/share:
Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six : a quote
Day seven : whatever tickles your fancy
so, today is the day i talk about the wonderful world of WEBCOMICS!
and by talk i mean i will post comic strips and caption them with insightful comments like: hay gaiz, this is so lulzy! ♥ ♥ ♥
i read a truly embarrassing amount of webcomics, but for the purposes of this meme i will only share 3.
anyway, the first comic, which i have been reading for years, and served as my gateway comic, is Dinosaur Comics!
it is a fixed-panel comic - which means the artwork (which is from a standard clipart collection) is static: only the dialog changes. so, as you might imagine, the dialog has to be strong in order to stay interesting. on this, dino comics does not disappoint.
at first i thought about pointing all the things that i love about this particular strip, but nothing crushes humor faster than explaining a joke. also like most people i have a difficult time articulating why awesome things are awesome, so, you know, i'm not going to do that either.
ANYWAY. here are some more dino comic strips that i enjoy: everything gets better if we all pretend we're Batman, so you've got this heap of sand..., and difficulties translating Latin into (old) colloquial English!
now, in a completely unsmooth segue, let's talk about Wondermark, which, if you read the print edition of The Onion, you may already be aware of. it's a comic that uses old plate engravings for the artwork, while discussing topics that are wholly contemporary.
the two latest strips, In Which a Study is Stymied and The Fiction Generator, are both LOL-for-reals funny too.
and last but not least (though it is the one i am least familiar with): Dresden Codak. it pokes fun at things like philosophy and psychology and quantum physics, and while that description may make Dresden Codak sound super boring, it is in fact TOTALLY GREAT.
Dresden Codak uses original artwork, and each page is rather sizable, so here's a link to the strip that got me hooked: Dungeons and Discourse, the original philosophy tabletop RPG your friends don't understand.
...aaaand that's it!....for now.
also, to anyone reading this, you should definitely try this sharing meme. through
hamimifk i discovered a controversial young adult's book that sounds completely amazing, a terrifying Spanish zombie film, and a yuri-centric website that is not shoujoai.com. i would love to see the neat stuff others turn up. :)
