Best. Comic Strip. Ever.
Here it is, the saddest comic in the world, about two brothers who love to quote The Simpsons. Read it and weep. [via]
The Perry Bible Fellowship Releases Its First New Comic Strip in Over a Year
The Perry Bible Fellowship is maybe my all-time favorite comic strip. I am very much biased, as it started as a comic in The Daily Orange when I was a student at Syracuse and I became friends with its creator, Nick Gurewitch, but I will still stand by it forever and ever. I was very sad when Nick retired from making new comics weekly. But hey, look at this! Today he released the first new strip in ages. And if you're not familiar with the PBF, I am very jealous, as now you get to go through the archives with fresh eyes.
Comedy's Love/Hate Relationship with Garfield
When I was younger, there was no greater pairing than the holiday season and Garfield. I’d watch wide-eyed as he'd float down 5th Avenue in the Thanksgiving Parade; I’d pop in our VHS recording of A Garfield Christmas, and I’d adorn our tree with Keepsake ornaments of that lovable fat cat dishing out Christmas cheer. But this love affair with Garfield was over as quickly as it began, and soon I was off to bigger things like Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, and Webelos. But I never forgot about Jim Davis’ cartoon cat, and considering the rise of strange, dark, and incredibly funny material the internet has created about Garfield, [...]
Calvin and Hobbes and the Trouble with Nostalgia
My Calvin and Hobbes anthologies sat unread at home on the highest shelf of my parents’ living room bookcase for almost ten years. My father sent them to me last week, and when they arrived in a beat-up box lined with tennis ball cans (don’t ask), I couldn’t even think of the last time I flipped through Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat or Weirdos from Another Planet, or any of the 12 collections my mom bought me when I was a kid. Not everyone had an obsession with Calvin and Hobbes, but I sure thought they were a riot, and still do now.
I first opened Attack of the Deranged [...]
Marc Maron on Relating To Other Comics: "It's like a first-date for emotionally unstable people."
At its best, hearing Marc Maron talk about WTF is like reading a prickly, cat-haired covered Valentine to his fellow comedians. "As a comic, the one thing I know about us is that we surrendered a life. It's a tremendous sacrifice," Maron tells Slate's Culture Gabfest, starting around minute 27. "To commit to this life of being a standup, you have to be somewhat delusional, because it's a long shot. Most of us don't fit in anyway, and I knew that too. We're fighting any sense of security, normal jobs, workplace ethics, ethics in general, a sense of personal morality. There's a lot of things that comics go [...]
