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Li'l Nyet

Meet Li'l Nyet, the absurdist imp of Russian totalitarianism. She lives the rueful joke of communism, and the whole Soviet Union, from Lenin to Brezhnev, is her playground.

The mood shifted during the Yeltsin era, and she was forced to take a job with the Haliiburton Corporation. But now that Vladimir Putin is imposing his own brand of police state on the long-suffering Russian people, Li'l Nyet has retrieved her pitchfork and returned to her tricks.

Melaines Choles

Welcome, Ladies and Gentlemen, and all those in between, to Melaines Choles, the Theatre of the Black Bile! Please take your seats and do not be alarmed when the doors are locked behind you.

Psychedelic Treehouse

Did you ever have a fort or secret hiding place where you kept all your cool stuff?

The Psychedelic Tree House is a hiding place for cool stuff about web comics. It started when I gathered all the stuff I couldn't easily find back when I was starting out in web comics. I put it all on a site for reference. Over time, the archives have swollen with all sorts of links, art, opinions, recommendations, history and directories.

It's getting so big, we've declared it the Theme Park of Web Comics.

Explore it freely, but don't tell your mom or she'll throw it out.

Redmask

Fire, Water, Earth, and Air - the four prime elements, the cornerstones of reality. Together they bear the weight of existence, they provide stability, balance. Remove one away and the others strain to take up the slack. Remove two, and, well... bad things happen.

RedMask, an action/adventure about ancient relics, ominous prophecies, the classical elements, evil mega-corporations, the end of the world, and one very,very pissed off grave-robber.

Two apocalypses down, two to go.

Scratchin' Post

Everyone in Scratchin Post knows Trixie Schwartz, the big-hearted Labrador with the Russian Blue cat housemate Katrinka. They know she's daft. They know they love her.  She runs the Town Milk Kitchen and does a consumer segment on AM TV called, "At What Cost?"

They don't talk much about Trixie thinking her housemate is a "little grey dog." They don't blink when she introduces Katrinka as "Kevin," explaining that "Katrinka is Russian for Kevin."

Her friends are as odd and varied as the mysteries in the back of her refrigerator.

Irv Poodlestein, owner of Poobisco, the "Home of the Octagonal Biscuit," lives next door with wife Thelma and daughter Tracy. When Trixie's adopted niece Chessie comes to visit, she and Tracy are inseparable. They have to be, to stand up to grouchy "Uncle Kevin."

Homer and his "associate" Chester live in a vacant lot in the Hairball District, but make their way to the green lawns of Trixie's street often.  Homer works the angles to keep them afloat, with Chester clinging along.

AJ has the only rent-free apartment in town, due to a twenty-minute legal window intended for the mayor and quickly closed by city council.  His landlord, Victor Swinesky (pronounced SWIH-neh-ski) has been trying to dynamite him out.

Katrinka's sister, Natasha, has a studio where she seethes, drinking weak tea and watching her little television, until it's time to return to work as a school cafeteria lunch lady.

Seamonster

"Seamonster is Castle’s most ambitious work. The continuing graphic novel follows the story of a young man named David whose life doesn’t seem to live up to his dreams and expectations. His failure to accurately communicate his thoughts and his inability to extend himself socially stand in the way of any meaningful relationship he may want to establish. David’s existential dreams and flights of fancy oppose the other more prosaic events of his life. Castle makes use of some interesting narrative effects here, carefully setting up his theme of separation and alienation. A recurring use of the panel-after-panel depiction of David brushing his teeth, each repetition receding further into the distance, reflects both the passage of time and the addiction of routine. Seamonster promises to be quite an involving narrative ... Castle has depicted a life plagued by boredom and the mundane, punctuated by strained or failing relationships and dark bits of fantasy..." - The Webcomics Examiner

The Floating Lightbulb

Named for the "idea lightbulb" that flashes over a comic character's head during a burst of inspiration, my web comics blog is a mix of practical ideas and comic reviews.

My slogan: Web Comics Eureka.