As a scientist, I can’t exactly claim to to be underserved by the webcomic community. xkcd does nerdy jokes, including ones about biologists and birds; Hark A Vagrant occasionally covers historical scientists like Rosalind Franklin and Charles Darwin (twice); and Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal often delves into evolutionary biology, with takes ridiculous, entertaining, and sometimes a bit too real.
Still, before today, I had never seen an ornithological behavioral ecology comic. (Talk about niche audiences.)
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Thank you, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, for filling this hole in my life.
(Original comic webpage here.)
This is one of my four favourite online comics and the one that updates most frequently. They have a book out this year. I urge people to buy it if only to recompense them for such great entertainment given for free.
Yes, I don’t know how Zach manages to update SMBC daily but I appreciate it! Can I ask what your other three favorite online comics are?
So SMBC is up in the lead with its philosophical and scientific insights and dark humour. Next is Powernap. This is a graphic novel, unfolding in irregular posts for about three years. It’s drawn by a Mexican guy and is a surreal dystopian and funny narrative. These two I share with my 11year old son. The two others have clear sexual themes and as such will not be to everyone’s taste, and will offend some. One, which I often find laugh out loud funny, is described as starting out as pornography and descending into satire, As it happens both are drawn by different female Canadian artists. Neither is, I think, gender biased or exploitative, which would offend me, nor titillating, which would bore me. Still I hesitate to put links on someone else’s site without permission, as this is an area where people have strong feelings. I have been thinking of discussing these comics on my own blog sometime in any case.
I like comics with grown up themes. SMBC is the closest I’ve found to this. I’ve found very few others.
Yes, in that case I think you’re right not to mention the titles here. But I hope you do write a post on your blog about them!
Ha! That’s great!