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I apologise if any Transfolk find this comic at all offensive, but I didn't. I think it's hilarious. Hence my posting it here.

(FYI, if you want to know what's so offensive so you know whether or not to click on it, it says that TRON fans like to be called Tronnies, and another character asks if that's short for TRONssexuals or TRONsvestites. I find this very, very funny.)

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http://basicinstructions.net/

Thanks to http://sayakb.blogspot.com/2008/08/so-you-want-vista.html via planetubuntu.

These comics look like PostSecret but aren't, apparently. Thanks to daunasia_y for showing me the first one.

http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=29

http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=518

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20071210&name=Rhymes_with_Orange


Title: Why Chanuka Is So Great.
First panel: A menorah stands with only a white shammas candle in it. The candle is lit. Above the menorah, it says 'Not only are there eight nights to celebrate ...'
Second panel: 'Each night you get to choose from seven candle colours ...' Picture of each candle with its colour written next to it: 'Blue!' 'Green!' 'White!' 'Yellow!' 'Orange!' 'Pink!' 'Red!'
Third panel: '... Leading to interesting subplots every evening ...' A little girl with pigtails thinks, 'Pink & White ... Barbie Chanuka!' A bald man with a moustache thinks, 'Green & Yellow ... Green Bay Packers Chanuka!' A man with a goatee thinks, 'Red, Green & Yellow ... Reggae Chanuka!'

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20071206&name=Rhymes_with_Orange


One panel. A list of six items. 1: Papers are everywhere. (You feel bad.) 2: Papers get put in a pile. (You feel good.) 3: Pile sits there. (You feel bad.) 4: Pile sits there. (You feel worse.) 5: Pile becomes one with the table. (You no longer notice.) 6: Pile expires. Tossed in the recycling. (You feel good again.)

From transgender (original post here):

So brown_betty puts out a call for artwork of male comic book characters in 'female' comic book poses in an effort to examine the stark gender divide in comic books.

This prompts ratcreature to post some scans from a guide to drawing comic characters, including sections on how to draw comic porn stars women.

In a brilliant display of awesome, vito_excalibur 'fixes' the pages, switching all the men and women.

Of course, it's meant to point out how ridiculous the comic book extremes are. And in fact, I found all the characters in the original book kinda creepy. But in the fixed version, I have to say that I found all the fixed characters interesting and awesome. All the pretty femme boi heroes and super-buff womyn heroes.

Anyway, I don't (for once) have a lot to say on the matter. Just wanted to bring this interesting gender experiment to the community's attention. Thought y'all might find it interesting. :)

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In addition to the actual content, please note the difference between April's outfit and Shannon's.

http://www.gocomics.com/forbetterorforworse/2007/03/14/




http://www.gocomics.com/forbetterorforworse/2007/03/15/



http://www.gocomics.com/forbetterorforworse/2007/03/16/
(For those unfamiliar with the comic strip, it takes place in Canada.)




Also, http://comicalert.com/ is something that everyone should check out.

Is there any way that this cartoonist hasn't seen Glorious?

http://www.gocomics.com/stonesoup/2007/02/19/

The local Princess is starting a new webcomic. She writes:


http://ahoykids.com/

Starting Tuesday, 13 Feb.: "Ahoy Kids: The Adventures of Pirate Mom."

New episodes weekly - served fresh every Tuesday.

Supernova's going to put together some of those RSS things (whatever they are) and in general, we'll try to make it easy for people to access the comic every week. I might start a LJ just for posting the comic. After all, someone might want to read the comic and NOT read about the sexual misadventures and hygiene problems I drone on about in this blog.

So I've been busy. I've been drawing up a backlog of comics so that for two months or so I can promise to hit my Tuesday deadlines. After that, I'm on my own.

The "ahoy kids!" website is brutally empty and plain, I know. It will stay that way for a bit. For now, I'm just doing the comic. Like Topsy, the site will just have to grow over time.

By the same token, I'm not going to do much about promoting the comic for now. I'm just going to put it up and see if anyone likes it. Besides, I hate following a link to a "great new comic!" and then there are only two episodes. It seems like most webcomics never get to #4 anyway.

Now, I just have to learn to draw pirates.

Anyway, see you Tuesday!

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See http://folk.uio.no/hpv/linuxtoons/ for more amusement.