{"id":291,"date":"2008-01-14T22:29:46","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T03:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/01\/14\/comics-worth-mentioning\/"},"modified":"2008-01-14T22:29:46","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T03:29:46","slug":"comics-worth-mentioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/14\/comics-worth-mentioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Comics worth mentioning"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve updated several<\/a> pages<\/a> on<\/a> my<\/a> website<\/a> over the last few days, which included adding links to some webcomics that I hadn’t linked to before.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve also added links to these in the blog sidebar (over there on the left and scroll down a bit), but I thought it would be good to give them some explicit recommendations in an entry.<\/p>\n

First up, I’ve had Shaenon Garrity’s comic Narbonic<\/a> listed on my comics recommendation page for quite a while, but haven’t had her in the sidebar.\u00c2\u00a0 She has several strips that she’s done online, som in collaboration with others.\u00c2\u00a0 This seems like a good time to list her, as she has a new strip that started 2 weeks ago, called Skin Horse<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d give a description of the strip here, but it’s a bit hard to categorize as yet.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s certainly a sci-fi element, and it’s humorous like all her work, and this one is rather surreal so far as well.<\/p>\n

Next, I had heard about Questionable Content<\/a> for a while, but just started reading it about 4 months ago.\u00c2\u00a0 It took about a month to get through the 1000 strips.\u00c2\u00a0 Jeph Jacques (pronounced ‘jacks’) is the writer\/artist, and he lives in Easthampton, an adjacent town to me.\u00c2\u00a0 The strip is sort of romantic-comedy-slice-of-life-indie-music-fan type stuff, if that makes any sense. \u00c2\u00a0 It also seems to take place in a world just a little different from our own, as there exist little sentient robots known as AnthroPCs.\u00c2\u00a0 The strip has well-written characters and is often really funny.\u00c2\u00a0 The strip also spawns various T-shirt designs, which Jeph sells on the site.<\/p>\n

Last, but not least, is Templar, Arizona<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0 Spike is the name of the artist, and she is wildly hilarious.\u00c2\u00a0 This strips cracks me up to no end much of the time.\u00c2\u00a0 The setting of the strip is a fictional city in a sort of alternate history Arizona.\u00c2\u00a0 The rest of that world might resemble ours, but not so much Templar.\u00c2\u00a0 This is another comic with excellent characters, whose personalities contrast with\u00c2\u00a0 each other greatly, but where details of the city and backgrounds are very important as well (so don’t just pay attention to the people).\u00c2\u00a0 I actually discovered Spike a few years ago when she had a different strip running on Girlamatic<\/a>, and have been following Templar almost since it began.\u00c2\u00a0 Besides her wonderful writing, I love her art style – lots of heavy lines and subtle sepia tones over grayscale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve updated several pages on my website over the last few days, which included adding links to some webcomics that I hadn’t linked to before.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve also added links to these in the blog sidebar (over there on the left and scroll down a bit), but I thought it would be good to give them … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,5,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}