All PostsA short piece at Eye weekly on stick figure comics, featuring explodingdog.com and dustinladd.com Probably the most famous of stick figure comics is Matt Feazell‘s Cynicalman. I like the idea of stick figure comics but am rather bored by the humor. Are there any serious stick figure comics out there (or rather… non-humor, because I do think one can do humor seriously). The article notes the theory that more abstracted art is easier to relate to (see McCloud’s Understanding Comics for a detailed explanation) and I wonder how that would play out in a serious stick figure comics story. There are possibilities… (Link via The Comics Reporter, the best daily comics blog I’ve found.)
June 17th, 2005