Monday, April 06, 2009

Spot The Frog free online comic strip library at comics.com


Spot The Frog

Sadly, one of my favorite cartoons (that I read online using the Comic Reader by Evan Reynolds) ended a 4 year run in September of last year. I was a bit slow on the uptake and did not check up on why they were running reruns of old ones until recently. That was the bad news, although I am still reading it because I missed most of the first two years of these cartoons.

However, I also discovered that the creator of "Spot", Mark Heath, has his own website, Nobrow Cartoons, which has a very large number of non-Spot comics he has done over many years. These are all single panel cartoons which are usually puns (like the one with a hippopotamus sitting on a guy who is thinking he is cold, numb, and irritated, and the caption says "hippothermia") and are very funny, and some may not be appropriate for all ages. I have not found one yet which is not at least chuckle-worthy.

The site will bring up a new cartooon at random each time you access it, or you can use "Dr. Mueller's Panoptical Cartoon Engine" to dial in a set of three criteria and generate a new cartoon which meets this set. Very ingenious.

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