Another week of not-much-to-report, so I decided to go with a comics theme for this week's mood board. Actually, I wound up doing two boards.
Some comics that I enjoy reading online include:
- Dilbert -- brilliant deadpan delivery on the pithy truth of office life
- toothpastefordinner -- slackers, office drones, and lots of coffee
- Calvin and Hobbes -- an oldie but a goodie; grownups are either mundane or sinister -- Calvin does his best to escape
- Non-Sequitur -- sharp jabs at mass media and the hypocrisy of a certain Republican government
- Cat and Girl -- class warfare and jabs at liberal hypocrisy
- explodingdog -- drawings based on phrases that people send in; often whimsical, sometimes sad
- Get Fuzzy -- cats are evil and dogs are trusting and adorable
- The Joy of Tech -- mostly for Mac-o-philes, but will appeal to geeks of all stripes
I also read these comics (which don't appear on the boards) regularly:
- Bloom County -- an 80s relic 'fer sher, but some of the humour is timeless
- Gaping Void -- Hugh Macleod's (in)famous "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards"
- Spamusement -- clever twists on spam subject lines
And I keep track of most of the comics in the above lists using Comic Alert. Set up an account and have updated links to many of your favourite comics sent to you via RSS or email. (They've also started offering a web-based version.) Loads of fun.
Comics that I would read a lot more often if I would remember (or could subscribe via RSS):