Webcomic Rumble Sequential Art Studies and Appreciation.

Ordinary Things

Ordinary Things by Ozge Samanci is anything but ordinary. I hope you can appreciate why.

Russell’s Teapot

Since the humble beginnings of the comic strip, sequential storytelling has been used to bring across a purpose and drive home a message to people unwilling to listen. Comics have been the foot-in-the-door for local political reasons, activist demonstrations, and human rights. The cartoon form has been used to make highly controversial moral points to people who would otherwise be unwilling to apply reason to both sides of any given argument..

Russell’s Teapot brings rational atheist arguments to an irrational world. Even if you find the message to be against your beliefs, I believe everyone could appreciate the simple and tactful execution.

Russell’s Teapot no longer seems to update, but is still a good read regardless.

Journey To Mt. Moriah

Take the pilgrimage to Mt. Moriah, as Scott will Sherpa you into the heart of your natural life. Something that transcends our daily routine and the humour we use to deny it.

What you call abstract depends entirely on what you pretend to be your reality.

How To Be Happy

Shannon Wheeler created his trademark protagonist Too Much Coffee Man while seeking a character with a handle people could cling to. Beginning as a pun, it has evolved into years of explosive iconic monologues and satire of the nuances of life.

Wheeler returned to tell of relationships, weaknesses, and trappings of every day life. How To Be Happy is not so much a guide, but a warning made with love.

Home Portrait

Jen Wang proves that with fluidity of motion paralleled only by the fluidity of line can provide great storytelling of all the small things that flutter unnoticed in our daily lives. Lullabies for the tired soul as told through the fleeting whispers of fireflies.

See also: Touch Food / Dance of the Flight Attendant

Idiot Comics

There is something beautifully self-deprecating in the moments of silence in Idiot Comics. Moments of silence that can last a lifetime.

Horribleville

Horribleville ends it’s inane four-year tenure into the absurd dealings of a boy and his pet mental block with K.C. Green’s own graduation. If you haven’t hitched up and taken the bus back to Horribleville to enjoy the joyful bliss of madness, now is the time.

Rest in peace, Horribleville. (2005-2009)

Don’t Cry For Me, I’m Already Dead

In a world absorbed with the familiarity of fiction, sometimes all is lost before it can be found. Our first daily find is a beautiful short story by Rebecca Sugar that will make you rethink the way you watch The Simpsons forever.