Big Dreams, by Extra Fabulous Comics. inky

As the World Continues (but now with gradually improving sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere), spare a thought for all the pointless posing and bullshit and ineptitude at communication that would have been such a sad summation of human History had the Mayan calendar actually been the territory rather than the map. Just go and call someone you like.

And let’s try not to scale honesty back too much, shall we? xkcd, obviously

Ban This Book, by Grant Synder. Neatorama

Sometimes I find David Malki’s Wondermark webcomic too busy and text-heavy, but often it pays off to stop and read instead of skipping to the next item on my feed: here’s The Winning Catchphrase.

This cartoon depicts something I find so annoying it’s sad rather than funny. A rather nasty variation of this creative forgetfulness happens to me a lot whenever I need to write (or design, or code, or edit) something difficult: I’m in the shower and I feel I come up with entire paragraphs of articulate, efficient wonderfulness, but then I sit down and it feels stilted, cumbersome and inadequate. The worst part is I have no idea if my thinking in the shower was rubbish to begin with and couldnt stand the test of being commited to physical existence, or if indeed I did forget it.

Perhaps I need a waterproof voice recorder. Inky

Grant Snider’s The Conspiracy of Colors. His blog, Incidental Comics, is a great addition to anyone’s RSS reader.

Randall Munroe’s proposed brand identity for common supermarket goods looks good like most minimalistic designs do. However, that bottle of ketchup looked like a bottle of bleach to me.

Wondermark is all about lost cats this week. Keep’em coming!

Happy 2012, esteemed readers! (Bizarro Comics)