Previously Closeted Webcomics
Recently in the past year, some of my favorite WebComics had sudden hiatuses due to the creators suffering mental breakdowns and needing to take a break until they got their creative energies back....
View ArticleThe Darkest Silliest Stupidest Timeline (2019)
“Who’s got the worstest disposition? One guess — guess who! Who’d always, always start an argument? Who never shows a bit of compassion? Who’s always wrong but never right? Who’d always dream of...
View ArticleObituary: “Who was the Host of Jeopardy!”?
Since 1984 this well-known and widely beloved television game show host lent intelligence and class to one of the most popular quiz programs in TV history, until his passing today at the age of eighty....
View ArticleBrought Low by my Knees
Two months ago in early October, I had a bit of a health scare. Nothing terribly serious, but it was still alarming. I had a red rash on my leg that also hurt at certain odd spots when I moved....
View ArticleComputer AI Comics
There's been an ever-increasing influx of AI doing increasingly complex formulas to recognize the imagery and language that many of us intuit naturally. But there's still one area that computers are...
View ArticleLicense Re-request: Epileptic 2
David B.'s seminal comic biography about his epileptic brother is one of the most seminal comic works ever seen, easily outpacing the likes of Persepolis and Maus. His drawings have a grandiose...
View ArticleWeird Romance: Cathy & Alex
Cathy's relationship with men can be described as being desperate, while also being unsatisfied seekers of perfection only to attract disasters, and being the inspiration for missing Newspaper Comic...
View ArticleIn Search of an Elusive Good Rabbit Artist
When it comes to sharing age-old comics that only registers in the memory of old-school comic readers, there's the borderline legal impetus to share that joy by posting scans of some notable short...
View ArticleAmazing Greys
Much like a large segment of online Webcomic artists who’ve taken an extended hiatus (due in no small part thanks to the pandemic), before making a comeback about their sexuality, so too have I come...
View ArticleWeird Romance: Zonker’s Quasi-Girlfriend
When I was preparing for my last blog post, I collected as much relevant comic material that could contribute to the subject. However, there was one particular comic I left out after finding out there...
View ArticleDisturbing Stuff: Asexual Zimmerman Fanfic
How could someone introduce an Asexual at the very end of an erotic fanfic? For those of you curious about the fanfic I mentioned when talking about my Asexuality, I’ll give a rough summary of the...
View ArticleThe Gravity of the Situation
Ever since he has looked heavenwards in envy, man has wanted to fly, consequences be damned.On a random comment board, it was mentioned in passing that of all the mechanism failures that occurred on...
View ArticleInterpreting Primer
I’m currently in the process of helping clean my Mother’s office up, which has been consistently cluttered for years, yet I never saw anything wrong with her setup, being accustomed to working in messy...
View ArticlePotential Asexuals: Schroeder
One of my drafts for a potential blog entry was exploring how the cast of Peanuts wound up influencing the character designs for other famous comics, even if they weren’t obvious or intentional.Charlie...
View ArticleWoe Vs. Rade
Well, the day we've been dreading finally happened. The U.S. Senate just overturned the Abortion rights of Roe Vs. Wade. There's been righteous outcry from far more eloquent people with higher stakes...
View ArticleBlondie's Catering Move
I've been gradually making my way through the archives of my newspapers, filling in the holes in my collective memories, that was under indefinite hiatus due to the pandemic. As far as I'm concerned,...
View ArticleMore Mangled Poirotisms
I’ve been cleaning out my excess reams of notes, trying to slim down the excess piles of organized mess that’s been lying around for months, years now. They’ve been accumulating to such an excess that...
View ArticleHow Embarrassing...?
One of the first writing assignments I was ever given in High School was to write about my most embarrassing moment. I just wrote down something along the likes of, “Having to write this stupid...
View ArticleWeird Romance: Cathy and Alex’s Wedding
Following up from my previous mega-post on Cathy’s relationship with Alex, which I’d been meaning to do, but never got around to. Well, no time like the present. Especially in the month of...
View ArticleA Medical Season of 24
It seems like every time my parents go away on vacation during winter, something unfortunate happens. In 2018, I suffered from a bout with gout. The year after that, there were worries when I...
View ArticleObituary: Joe Matt, and Self-Pitying Horny Comic Biographies
Just recently, Joe Matt died of a heart attack, found slumped at his drawing board. Fittingly, this was something that was penned by Chester Brown of the triumvirate of the Toronto Three, Seth and...
View ArticleEmbarrassment Redux
I would like to make an amendment to my previous blog post about feeling embarrassed. At the time, I only had difficulty in expressing my frame of reference for embarrassment. It wasn’t that I didn’t...
View ArticleHair Trigger
I've mentioned before that I'm one of the few people who actively prefers going to the dentist than the barber's. The reasons are varied, but they basically boil down to: getting my hair cut is a...
View ArticleSerious Finale
There’s been years of multiple endings to some long-running serials on TV, regardless of their popularity and quality. After investing so much time in these shows and movies, complaining about...
View ArticleDropped the Fallen Archie
(Author’s note - I’ve had this draft on the backlog for so long that the opener which was intended to be shown at the beginning has already bypassed long past it’s relevant sell-by date, and has been...
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