Current location:	Troy&Kyle's
Current mood:	amused
Current music:	new Franz Ferdinand

What I'm Looking at These Days.
Sometimes, I have this curious obsession to go through entire catalogs of webcomics [or print comics uploaded online] from beginning to end. Last year, I went through the following: XKCD, Married to the Sea, Toothpaste for Dinner, Natalie Dee, A Softer World, SinFest and a handful of tiny, sporadic webcomics.

Currently, I'm going through Dilbert and Daisy Owl. With Dilbert, there's the task of enjoying 20 years of Scott Adams--the task not being loving the series' wit but having to skip every Sunday on the calender lest you get sent back to the homepage with today's comic. No other comic, in my opinion, has been capable of staying relevant and interesting for such a long period of time. Many, tragically, fall prey to the fate of long-lasting Garfield: hanging on only by the threads of tradition and only getting respect recently through web-hit Garfield Minus Garfield.

There are many lasting qualities of Dilbert, especially in the insightful banter regarding any topic and with the pretense that Dilbert is a loveable loser who works for "the industry," like every average person. He gives everyone a chance to openly make fun of their bosses within actual voiced opinion: passive-aggressive use of spot-on comics goes a long way [to feel understood]. This is known.
However, where I'm at in Dilbert's tale is still in the foundation and his famous short, horned boss isn't even in the picture yet.



The other comic I'm going through [Daisy Owl] is much newer, the first post being July 3, 2008. In the series, an owl [Mr. Owl] raises his two adopted human children [Daisy and Cooper]. It it full of adorable and adventure. Like most clever and popular comics, the alt-text rounds each comic together into perfection. Not very far in this one either, I've found many gems:





Last Notes.
Art Spiegelman gave a talk at NAU. I'll go into how great, but often old and crotchity he was another time.
Check out NAU's best/only[?] webcomic: Cliptomania Comics.