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So I’ve been doing minor housecleaning around here – finally catching up with the webcomics casualty reports, and processing forms to slot in the reinforcements – and I thought I’d throw a few links at you guys. You look all slavering-y.
SMAUG HAS AN UNDERBELLY
Oh look a blog dedicated to my very softest musical soft spot. From here, I learned that Simple Minds was, once upon a time, a genuinely weird band. No kidding.
LOOK SHINY OBJECTS LOOK NO I’M SERIOUS
I found a few comics which have pretty pictures – but, also, continuity, so I can’t totally completely vouch for them since I can’t read more than like ten internet comics in a row without wandering off to go play a tower defense game. Whole books, I can read! When I’m not on the internet. You’ll never see me do one of those “watch me ink on video” things because it would switch to kongregate.com or something for an hour, repeatedly. I can’t let you see me like that.
Tiny Kitten Teeth – It seems everybody is linking to this thing because it is beautiful, which is true. The art is sort of on the ‘60s modern edge of the neo-classic-animation-art trend, with a constricted but very loud palette that almost kicks it clear into abstraction – almost as far as Mary Fleener’s stuff. Haven’t read through the story, obvs.
Weird Fishes – Fluid layouts like you see around here, but the limited flat colors and arbitrary suffering have been replaced by (come on feel the cliches from my keyboard) vivid watercolors, slice-of-life emotiveness, and a book deal. Dunno what the story is.
Chronillogical – Really, really dynamic animation-inspired artwork and unimpeachable coloring. In cartoons, there is drawing pretty and drawing funny, and I hold them to be somewhat in opposition. Some cartoons challenge my belief. This would be one of them. Also light humor, and continuity. Do I know the continuity? Of course not!
Super Doomed Planet Comics – It is possible to do a snappy job of coloring a comic without making a big fuss about it. See here? Nice, flat, simple, balanced colors? Quite nice. Also notable: the story arc I did read all the way through – the one about Buck (think a somewhat more low-key, male Jane Doe) wrote himself in as agriculture commissioner – I had to struggle a bit to keep from stealing it outright. Score one point for my conscience! It’s down, um, 38-4 at the half.
Name Removed – also has snappy colors, plus simple characters and strange, loopy stories. Am not 100% sure of the continuity qualities; seems pretty loose.
MEANWHILE ON YOUTUBE DUN DUN
Readers of this comic should be warned that these videos (and there are many more ) have proven to be the most powerfully inspirational thing I have found in ages and now I have a new hero somewhere. Or at least – these videos were posted in 2006 – this hero is new to me.
Who are your heroes?