Despite having several cartoonist, friends, I’ve never been very good at keeping up with webcomics–the only ones I read with any regularity are Dinosaur Comics, Penny Arcade and Achewood. Thanks to the link from Ryan North of Dino Comics, I’ve got a new favorite comic to follow up with — MS Paint Adventures! It’s basicaly an old school King’s Quest 1 era adventure game in comics form where the artist, Andrew Hussie, sets up a scenario and page by page, readers suggest the actions for the character to do, and then the next day, there’s new pages based on the suggestions. It’s really quite brilliant. Considering how deep his archives are, I’m probably quite late to the party, but for those like me who have never read it, there’s plenty of content to keep you reading!
For more choose-your-own-adventure style comics, I highly recommend the works of Jason Shiga. Whereas MSPA is a community-driven game, filtered through an artist, Shiga’s works are the insanely clever creations of one man whose brain must be structured like a moebius strip of neurons. You can try out several of his interactive works online, but to really get a sense of how amazing they are, you have to see the hand-crafted printed copies. Such is his brilliance that the comics medium alone cannot contain him! He is also a blackbelt in LEGO technic wizardry, as demonstrated by a hand-cranked arm wrestling machine that he built out of the plastic bricks. Does his brilliance know no bounds? Recently he has (no joke) taken up performing raps about Tupac’s sexual orientation. Perhaps it does.
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