Happy Monday everyone. See, I can say that, because it is currently summer vacation, so Monday doesn’t have that evil power it usually has over me. If you’re at work or school or whatever right now though… um… sorry. I hope you guys enjoyed yesterday’s Sunday Funnies. I laughed out loud when I first saw the bathroom stall prank.
Anyway, time for another post. Today’s topic hit me when I first went online this morning - web comics.
My homepage is NewGrounds.com. After I check out if there are any posts by the admins or my favorite animators, I head over to the two web comics that I have viewed daily since, I don’t know, probably 2005 or 2006. The first one is Ctrl+Alt+Del (CAD), which has been on my bookmarks toolbar longer than the second one, Cyanide and Happiness. Note, it’s only been in my bookmarks longer because I found it first, if I had to compare these two strips, I’d say they’re both equally as entertaining.
First let’s talk about CAD. I’m not going to go into a major description here or anything, just give you the basic gist of it. CAD was created by Tim Buckley who resides in Connecticut, USA. He’s a pretty damn good artist, and it shows in his strip. He first roughs out the comic with paper and a pencil and then scans that into photoshop, where he uses his Wacom Cintiq (I’m guessing this is the model) to trace over his rough draft and digitize the comic that the viewers see. He updates every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (he recently stopped updating on Saturday’s as well, to work on other projects). It’s a little tough to describe to you the actual comic strip, so I’ll just say this. If you’re anything into video games, you’ll like this comic.
The second web comic I’ll be talking about is pretty well known, and I’m sure you’ve all heard of it - Cyanide and Happiness at Explosm.net. When the authors get it right, sometimes this strip will make you actually laugh out loud. The creators of this comic are Rob DenBleyker (also known for his flash stick-figure series, Joe Zombie), Kris Wilson, Matt Melvin, and Dave McElfatrick. If you’re that type of person that gets easily offended by anything, and then has to voice their opinion and make sure whatever it is that you’re protesting is ruined for the rest of us normal people who can take a joke, please, please don’t even bother with this web comic.
Alrighty then. That’s enough of this nonsense. I’m bored.
Cya’.
Oh, and if you’re reading this, you have to leave a comment.
HAVE to.
July 8, 2008 @ 2:45 pm.
Yeah, I read CAD also. I tried to get into Cyanide and Happiness, I really did, but the crappy artwork made it hard for me to enjoy it. It’s actually because of CAD that I decided to start my own webcomic. I have to say, Tim Buckley is a master when it comes to art. He makes comic-making look so damn easy, when it’s actually pretty hard. Happy Monday, man!