Archive for March 2012

Book Retort

Mar 30th, 2012 | By

With all the book-related news out there–Hunger Games doing well in theaters, the second season of Game of Thrones hitting HBO on Sunday, vampire sex being more popular than ever–I felt a powerful urge to do a book-related comic strip. So here it is. A book-related comic strip. If this doesn’t make you believe in the power of reading, I don’t know what will.



“Winning with Snotte ™,” by Mike Fowler

Mar 28th, 2012 | By

In the award-winning tradition of million-selling author Frank T. Snotte’s self-help guides, Winning with Snotte ™, Dr. Snotte and his team of in-demand motivational authors are proud to add five new titles to the Snotte catalogue, beginning with “Hum and Shrug for Success.” Our interviews with 150 fascinating people who have become successful and important

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Eureka! I Had a Sex Dream

Mar 27th, 2012 | By

Dear Jonathan, I’m having a moral crisis. I’ve been having sex dreams involving my neighbor. Considering the whole thou-shall-not-covet-thy-neighbor’s-wife clause, I’m feeling kind of guilty. What do I do? First of all, I’m writing in while on sabbatical in lovely Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and it is very beautiful out here. I’ve only heard “dueling banjos”

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Superbadgers

Mar 23rd, 2012 | By

Winslow has always been a science wiz, which is surprising considering all the other ways he chooses to occupy his time. But he has a knack this sort of stuff–especially genetic experimentation, which has given him many profitable successes (including the fierce apple pieger, now used by the U.S. military). While today’s comic doesn’t deal with genetics or pie, it does show Winslow knee deep in science and badger pulp.



“Tips of Advice for Walking Dilettantes from a Walking Professional (Informational Pamphlet),” by Hannah Rodabaugh

Mar 21st, 2012 | By

I’m sure you all think that you know what it means to be a walker. After all, you tell me, “Emanuel, after all, I tell you, walking is just putting two feet and two legs in front of the other again and again until a walking motion is developed!” And this is true enough, I suppose—of walking at its most basic level. However, a True Walker (capital T, capital W) knows the difference between the “dabblers of walk” and the more serious Walking Professionals.