Blart
For anyone who hasn’t yet been prodded by me into checking it out, go and have a look at Blart, my reasonably new webcomic. It’s a bit of a departure for me in terms of style, being a lot less cartoony than my usual stuff, but I quite enjoy drawing it because of that. It’s also fun because so many of the gags and strips I do otherwise rely on being topical or attached to some current context…but Blart is deliberately not. I choose to call it Absurd comedy, following in the grand traditions of Beckett, Duchamp and Monty Python. But other people tend to call it Stupid.
There’s no overriding storyline, but I hope over time it’ll develop into a reasonably consistent ‘world’. I’m aiming for a certain tone and voice for the various Blart denizens, and pretty soon some of the characters and situations will begin to recur on a more frequent basis. I’ve already posted a couple of dr.vilm strips (here and here), and he’ll probably pop up again.
I’m hoping to get Blart into print sometime soon, so anyone with suggestions for appropriate mags or papers that might fit Blart (or vice versa, I suppose), drop me a line!
But in the meantime, enjoy digital Blart responsibly.