PhD Comics
After surviving just enough higher education to finally get out of school, why in the world would anyone go through graduate studies? According to
PhD Comics, that way lies not only madness, but
indifferent advisors,
interdepartmental rivalries, an
excess of sugary snacks, and, eventually, a trip to the
real world. ("PhD" is also short for "Piled High and Deeper.") Creator Jorge Cham, who has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, knows the graduate world well enough to make fun of everything and everyone in it. He also goes on the road to different universities, where real grad students confirm the misery he depicts, but also remind him (and us) of the reasons
why they chose to study their fields in the first place.
The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
Let us briefly recount the history of ninjas in black and white comics: In the late 1980s, ninjas were extremely cool. But soon, ninjas were utterly played out. How could this have happened to the dark assassins of the night? That's easy--comic creators made them all mystical and superserious, but forgot about the sheer, simple awesomeness of ninjas. Chris Hastings has not forgotten.
The Adventures of Dr. McNinja features a dry, absurdist tone similar to
The Tick, but Hastings has generously thrown in pirates, zombies, robots, bears, robot bears, Dracula, and a (repeatedly) resurrected Benjamin Franklin.
Nice.The Perry Bible Fellowship
If you like
Robot Chicken, you'll be delighted to find that
The Perry Bible Fellowship has three things in common with the Adult Swim TV show: (1) The title doesn't tell you anything about the work. (2) The strip uses and subverts many images that are familiar from childhood. (3) No matter how innocuously a strip starts, by the final panel you'll find some kind of horrible (but strangely hilarious) life-or-death struggle...or a joke that ten-year-olds would snicker at. Really, it can go either way. Creator Nicholas Gurewitch uses traditional tools (you know, like pencils and stuff) to create images that are gorgeous, garish, or somewhere in between to transport his readers into his fever dreams.
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