So, I can't remember why I started reading Ugly Hill* but today's strip really hit home for me today. It was . . . eerily familiar . . . apt? Just replace 'strip' with 'zine' and you could have me talking. The punchline is:
"Hey that's . . . ! Wow, that's kind of comforting. Yes! I'm defective!"It's the set up to the punchline that I think fits me to a tee.
I'm totally digging on Ugly Hill right now. Everyone in Ugly Hill is some sort of monster or creature. They are all unique. Siblings, parents, children, very few characters look like each other. However, at the same time, the strip references things that happen in our world, such as current movies or music. It's a bewildering array of zaniness that I can't stop looking at.
The strip completely loves the fact that it's a comic. The characters are completely ridiculous--the main character's brother goal in life is to be an over-worked drone in a soul-sucking corporate office, and he KILLS or EATS people who get in his way--but the strip seems to revel in that fact.
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*OK, I totally remember, but it's REALLY boring. Suffice to say, it was because of Lore Sjoberg and we'll leave it at that.







2 comments:
That's fantastic!
-beth
I'm going to check that out. Sounds fun.
I got #14 today, yay! That means you're not in an ark somewhere and things are okay.
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