humor

September 20, 2009

Ephemera: Garfield Minus Garfield

Garfield Minus Garfield is a concept comic by Dan Walsh in which Garfield (the character) is removed from the strip, revealing Jon Arbuckle’s troubled inner life – his paranoia, loneliness and existential angst. The comics are alternately bizarre, hilarious and thought-provoking. The sampling provided here doesn’t really do it justice; click on the strips for […]

July 17, 2009

Ephemera : The Perry Bible Fellowship

The Perry Bible Fellowship is an Eisner-winning comic strip by Nicholas Gurewitch.

July 16, 2009

Ephemera : The “Shreds” Videos

The perpetuation of “shreds” videos is one of my favorite ongoing Internet memes. The basic idea goes like this : take a music video by a well-known band and overdub it with something hilariously awful (typically accounting for lip sync, but not necessarily). As far as I know, the phenomenon started with a handful of […]