Cosmopoetica

This comic (from The Believer – Vol. 8, No.2)  made me laugh (click for a larger view):

You might also want to check out Eric’s short comic series: Tales to Demolish

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[from the New Yorker]

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Remove Garfield from the picture (literally) and you turn a bland comic into one that is strange, delusional, desperate, lonely, and often hilarious.

Kudos to Jon Davis, creator of Garfield, for being cool with the idea and saying so.

[subconscious linktribution: CogDogBlog]

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Another comic I forget because I can’t subscribe to it (though that is supposedly going to change real soon) is the almost always amusing– and often scary– Get Your War On. A pair from late last month:

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Actually, Drew Dee’s own comics are also pretty funny:

toothpastefordinner.com

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Two of the funnier comics I discovered recently have two things in common… both are at least partly the creation of Natalie Dee and neither have RSS feeds. The samples I’ve chosen here are pretty mild. Most of the entries I prefer are a bit more biting– but I’ll let you find those for yourself!

First, from Natalie’s own series:

nataliedee.com

The second from a strip Natalie does with a partner, this time chosen especially for Victoria:

marriedtothesea.com

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I’ve been enjoying pictures for sad children and came across a couple of literary-ish comics worth sharing since they reference a couple of my favorite authors and works.

First, David Foster Wallace:

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Then T.S. Eliot and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”:

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You’ll have to jump to the original blog entry to see the details…

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See the rest of this comic as well as many other comic creations by Rosemary Mosco.

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Patricia Storms’ Art Imitating Lit cartoons are amusing. The irony of needing to be in-touch with the contretemps of the literary in-crowd to understand Storms’ dissing of the same is not lost on me…

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