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Communist Teddy Bears January 24, 2004
A while back, right after I finished reading George Orwell's Animal Farm, I quipped that the novel's message was so apparent that to point it out would be "...akin to opening up the Sunday newspaper circular for Wal-Mart and saying 'See, what the author is trying to tell us here is that they have low prices every day, guaranteed.'"
It's almost like Sam Logan, who creates the very excellent online comics "Sam & Fuzzy", was listening in. Just a few days later he ran this comic, which proved to be so popular that he created tee shirts featuring the punch line.
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You should read a few strips of Sam & Fuzzy and see if you like it; I do. Other web comics I read? Sluggy Freelance is probably my favorite. Despite the rough art style it characters and stories are really fun. PvP is probably the highest quality webcomics out there. (I once had the pleasure of hanging out with Scott Kurtz, its creator, while he visited GameSpy. I saw him two years later at a convention and he didn't know who the hell I was. Nice guy, though.) Penny-Arcade isn't often laugh-out-loud funny any more, but it's pretty much required reading for gamers and the art is very good.
Nodwick has superlative art and you'll find it funny if you were ever into role-playing games at any point in your life. SinFest only has about a half-dozen jokes, but they're good ones and the strip has style. Foxtrot is a Sunday paper staple, but you can read it for free online. Bob the Angry Flower flitters between "really weird" and "really weird but funny". And finally, Partially Clips proves the importance of writing by taking clip art and turning it into (usually) very funny cartoon strips.
Make with the clicking.
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