Ok, so today I figured I’d update not only here, but on our blog as well:

http://mycagecomic.blogspot.com/

 I figured I’d use this site to blog about comics, and our blogspot to blog about random stuff that pops in my head.

Today (as you probably guessed from tht title) I’m going to suggest some comics to read. 

I read a few webcomics everyday (Medium Large, Gill, Zorphbert and Fred), but these are some I’ve jeust discovered.

1. Sandra and Woo - Great little strip! It’s about a young girl and her pet raccoon having adventures. It reads like a modern day fable and manages to do both single strips and longer running stories equally well, as well as manitaining a webcomic sensibility with a subtle sweetness that keeps it from the ‘cynical-ness’ of a lot of webcomics. In short, it’s sweet without being ‘cutesy’ and poignant without being overtly pointed.

The art is amazing also, combining the best of Manga and Walt Kelly’s Pogo.

Check it out:

 http://www.sandraandwoo.com/

2. Minimum Security - Now this strip is just weird…and I love it.

It’s a strip about enviornmentalism and the state of mankind, but it’s characters are so flawed in their own thinking that it’s never preachy.

I can’t really explain it too well in words because…well, it’s not like anything I’ve ever seen before, so words (and comparisons) fail me.

The best I can do is say it’s kinda like someone woke up and drew a dream they had about worrying about the enviornment, during a nap they had after reading a bunch of fairy tales…and maybe taking acid.

Anyway, check it out and…well, just surrender to it’s strange world:

http://minimumsecurity.net/blog/

PS: If you don’t fall in love with the militant bunny character, Bunnista, you don’t understand comics.

3. The Fart Party - Wow. Just wow. This strip is everything an underground/indy comic should be.

The plot is simple, it’s an autobigraphic comic about the girl strip’s creator, but it’s just one of those truly great indy comics that makes me feel under-literate, overly suburbanized, and ashamed to be doing a commercial comic strip for ‘the man’. (Just kidding, ‘the man’)

It’s the kind of strip that recalls the underground comic movement of the 60’s rather than the modern webcomic movement. 

I first came upon the strip because it’s creator, Julia Wertz, was on a panel I attended at the Mocca Festival in NYC this year. Out of all the panelist, Julia stuck out like a sore thumb because a. She’s hot, and b. She was the funniest member of the panel.

So, I checked out the comic and found myself tearing through the archives so fast I had to slow down so I wouldn’t run out.

I don’t want to oversell it because the understatement of the strip  is part of what makes it great, so I don’t want you to go in expecting to have your mind blown, but…my mind? It was blown away by the understatement of the strips.

Not bad for a comic titled ‘The Fart Party’.

Check it out too. You’ll be glad you did:

http://www.fartparty.org/

Later!

-Ed

(PS: Buy ‘My Cage’ stuff: http://www.cafepress.com/mycagecomic, and WRITE YOUR ****ING PAPER! )

Tags: Comic, Fart Party, Julia Wertz = hotty, Minimum Security, Sandra and Woo, webcomics

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