Tag: comics

• Your monkey’s on fire (July 13, 2026)

  Mimi Smartypants discovers this mid-century cartoon on a coaster in an antique store. She writes how she was initially stopped short by its seeming complete nonsense, and then decoded it with some amount of effort and deep-cultural recall—but at the risk of it all falling apart again if you analyze it too far past that point.

• To Hell and Galgenbeck (January 5, 2026)

  This week finds me gearing up to run a session or two of Mörk Borg, a doom-metal role-playing game and tiny cultural phenomenon that I discovered in November. As part of my research and preparation over this past weekend, I came across To Hell and Galgenbeck, the official Mörk Borg webcomic. It’s pretty great.

• Nothing Doing; Bad Angel (January 3, 2026)

  I have discovered Nothing Doing, a webcomic by the pseudonymous HORSE ON VHS. I like it very much. High-quality sitcom-style funny-animal office follies, and the attached strip resonated especially well with me, given my very recent experiences in running through tech-job interview gauntlets.

• Liberals, liberals, liberals! (September 18, 2025)

  I try not to make a habit of peeking at the trending-posts tab of my Mastodon server, but when I do it anyway, I often find myself thinking of the preceding 2005 installment of “Anthropomorphic Republican Talking Duck”, a “Mallard Fillmore” parody by Adam Jameson.

• YouTube comments are all right (August 8, 2025)

  They used to be famously the worst on the internet, but they've been pretty wholesome for a while now, yeah?