Wish list of one

I love Cat and Girl. It's one of a select group of web comics that makes this cycle of caffeine crashes I call a life bearable. I also love the Cat and Girl apparel sold on the site. I own just one web comic t-shirt, a Married to the Sea number. "Stop Believin'" might just be the second. I am likely to wear it much more. It really does set a new standard for negativity in web comic-related apparel.

Search Terms of Endearment

So, after discovering the genuinely useful Australian style blog Super Kawaii Mama, I Googled "Kawaii". It means cute in Japanese, but more importantly it is apparently an esoteric Internet formula unlocking a strange and colorful world of objects I totally need.

 Asiajam.com

In this new world, skulls are new again, nails are three dimensional, and eggs are shaped like
cartoon characters. I even discovered a new web comic, Kawaii Not. Of course, it's adorable.

Dear Natalie Dee

www.nataliedee.com

Don't ever change.

Yours Always,

Bad Idea Potluck

My sister made this for me.

What has your sister done for you lately?

Karmic Komix

I thought I'd never find a new web comic to love, but I have. So, let's just make this week comedy week and go for it. I know I make chronic underemployment look glamorous on this blog, but that isn't the whole truth. It isn't all sleeping in and inventing new ways to eat ramen. Sometimes it's hard work. Sometimes I could use few laughs.

That's why I endorse Darwin Carmichael is Going to Hell. It is guaranteed to balance your karma or at least take your mind off the fact that you too may be going to hell. The basic idea is kind of like Constantine meets Friends in Brooklyn. See, Darwin Carmichael is a lot like you and me, only he made a big mistake when he was a teenager involving the infant Dalai Lama and now he is probably going to hell. (It has yet to be explained how he knows this for sure, but stay with me.) Of course, it isn't all hopeless. His best friend is the daughter of saints and she wants to help him. His pet manticore is pulling for him too.

Set in Brooklyn as it is, the comic is loaded with enough urban subcultural references to make it every bit the guilty pleasure that Nothing Nice To Say and other Mitch Clem comics are. However, when it comes to references to obscure mythological creatures, Darwin Carmichael is probably unrivaled in the online cartooning world. For instance, I'll bet you've never even heard of the Leprechaun of Gentrification.

Nedroid

I found a new web comic too. I thought I'd never find another comic to love, but this one just might work out. Nedroid Picture Diary is arty and crafty like some of the good ones and nerdy like some of the other good ones that I don't love as much. It's also surreal like the best ones. Check it out.

Reading People's Diaries

I must be pretty bored. I've been enjoying a couple of web comics about the lives of cartoonists who are fairly similar to myself. A lot of the strips take place at their desks. And a lot of my life takes place at my desk so I can identify with that. Plus, cartoon diaries tend to have this warm homey charm to them. The ordinary is beautiful, you know, and, like on LiveJournal, skimming through someone else day-to-day can make you feel less alone. This is especially true if you are a person who spends a lot of time at her desk.

The Fart Party by Julia Wertz is pretty great. I love it so much I'm about to run out and buy all the comics she has in print. The world needs more flatulent, disgruntled and comfortably self-deprecating heroines. I can't wait until the movie comes out.

I've also been enjoying Ink Dick by Pranas T. Naujokaitis. It's in a similar, if less idiosyncratic vein.

I'd start one myself but I think this blog is bad enough and I'm not that good at the Internet.

I worry

I worry that people might be on the Internet wasting time on LOL cats and lackluster web comics when they could be reading these ones, which are collectively my blood:

www.marriedtothesea.com

www.catandgirl.com

www.achewood.com

www.mrwiggleslovesyou.com

www.mitchclem.com

www.toothpastefordinner.com

Hate Song was pretty cool. And then I read Bellen when I'm really hard up.

I haven't posted on here in ages because I have been reading funnies on the web.