{"id":10385,"date":"2010-04-24T04:48:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T09:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10385"},"modified":"2012-09-02T13:01:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T18:01:47","slug":"kelberman-dina-important-comics-a-collection-of-unquestionable-merit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10385","title":{"rendered":"Kelberman, Dina – Important Comics: A Collection of Unquestionable Merit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Important Comics: A Collection of Unquestionable Merit <\/strong>Now Available<\/a>!\u00a0 $12
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One of the things I love about comics is that you don’t have to have a great command of anatomy or conveying reality to make a great comic.\u00a0 Some of the best comics out there are minimalistic in one way or another, and this looks like a welcome addition to that pile.\u00a0 Don’t get me wrong, it’s clear from the layout, coloring and stories that Dina has some serious artistic skills, and for all I know she can paint a mean Sistine Chapel ceiling if she were so inclined.\u00a0 For what she’s doing here it’s irrelevant, even if she does draw an excellent hamburger.\u00a0 This is a collection of strips from her website, all done in color, mostly involving the utter banality of everyday life as related through a series of creatures that mostly resemble odd shapes, but occasionally reveling in absurdity.\u00a0 The sample should give you some idea of what I’m talking about (although a lot of her strips are bigger than that), as it’s going to be a bit hard to explain.\u00a0 The strip on the page opposite the sample page, for example, has two blue creatures (man and wife?\u00a0 boyfriend and girlfriend?\u00a0 who knows), and the male one has snuck off to eat a blue hot dog.\u00a0 His wife\/girlfriend\/landlady comes across him eating the hot dog and demands to know why he’s not using a hot dog bun.\u00a0 That is the kind of thing, for those of you who want a peek into my very odd brain, that I absolutely love.\u00a0 As for the rest of the mostly glorious comics included in this collection, I still recommend checking out her website, but I’ll give explaining a few of them a shot: there’s a politician with nothing to say, why leaving the house is a bad idea, a small cowardly sandwich, no fucking way, pointy water, being a jerk, your new pal the cloud, schizophrenics having a smell, books taking too long to read, going a whole day without the internet, and a roommate leaving all their crap.\u00a0 Confused?\u00a0 Then you clearly haven’t gone to her website yet.\u00a0 Why won’t you listen to me?\u00a0 The art is simplicity itself (and perfectly suited to the stories), a number of the strips passed the all-important “did it make me laugh out loud?” test, and I even noticed at least one strip I didn’t see the first time through due to tininess.\u00a0 I think this woman should be rich to pursue her dream (that I just made up) of never leaving the house again and putting out these comics. Won’t you please help?\u00a0 $12<\/p>\n

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