Achewood-O-Rama
I'm obsessed with Achewood, and found an interview with Chris Onstad (the comic's author). He highlighted a few comics that he likes in particular, and I've started to really get into one of them. It's called Slow Wave - it's a collective dream diary. As I understand it, people from around the world send this guy Jesse Reklaw transcriptions of their dreams, and once a week he chooses one to illustrate. It's very surreal, and really enjoyable.
I've never really even thought of the possibility of collective authorship before, at least not for a comic. It's a really interesting idea and one that works surprisingly well, because dreams are such a universal (or at least close to it) type of interest. Nearly everyone has them, they're more or less completely strange and divorced from reality, so the humor tends to both appeal to and stem from a widespread audience, even though each comic is clearly rooted in an individual's head. And since it's drawn by only one person, there is still a consistend and identifiable style. Anyway, here are two of my favorites:
... and:
Enjoy!
I've never really even thought of the possibility of collective authorship before, at least not for a comic. It's a really interesting idea and one that works surprisingly well, because dreams are such a universal (or at least close to it) type of interest. Nearly everyone has them, they're more or less completely strange and divorced from reality, so the humor tends to both appeal to and stem from a widespread audience, even though each comic is clearly rooted in an individual's head. And since it's drawn by only one person, there is still a consistend and identifiable style. Anyway, here are two of my favorites:
... and:
Enjoy!
