February 26, 2008

Truth in Comics

Filed under: Internet — dave @ 8:58 pm

I am enjoying the gradual decay of the importance of traditional media, and one of the best examples of that is how terrible the comics page is in any newspaper (and the Statesman isn’t even worth the paper its printed on what with the general availability of the Daily Texan if you need to start a fire or wash windows).

The internet allows for comics like xkcd, which continually reminds me that I am not a beautiful and unique snowflake, but rather there is an entire demographic that recognizes Timothy Zahn as the name of a Star Wars novel author and is obsessed with Ron Paul (http://xkcd.com/367/).

Anyway, I happened upon this gem: http://garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com/
Basically, it’s Garfield but with Garfield and his lines photoshopped out. It’s now a comic strip about an insecure man with schizophrenia.