Webcomics

Sam And Fuzzy

Hands down my favourite webcomic. Author Sam Logan, manages to strike a great balance of humor, deep characters, intricate plots, and ties them together in the surreal world that is Sam and Fuzzy.

Summing the comic up in a sentence: Loser and criminally insane bear thing lost in a crazy world featuring ninja and gerbil mafias, a demon fridge, robot clones, a space gopher, a thief, more ninjas, a death metal band, a vampire, more ninjas, communism, capitalism, Skull Panda, and the ghost that is afraid of ghosts (unfortunately, 17th century chemist, Robert Boyle passed away long before the events of Sam and Fuzzy).

If that made any sense, or if it didn't, you (meaning myself, I don't think anyone is going to read this anytime soon) should totally check out Sam and Fuzzy.

Art wise, Sam Logan's style has progressed a great deal over the years. I'd describe his style as Frank Miller meets Sonic the Hedgehog. While his use of black and white, cinematic panel compositions and silhouettes scream Miller, he seamlessly combines this with a cartoonish friendliness in his character designs. His characters to me evoke an iconic cartoony "bounce", while at the same time being grounded enough in reality to evoke the reader's empathy.

(maybe I'll edit this post with pictures at a later time)

While I really enjoy Sam and Fuzzy, it's really not relevant to what I'm doing now (I'll probably post about that sometime),but perhaps it will be in the future, if I say wanted to do something with a narrative (story, storyboard, etc) or even if I just wanted to evoke that same cartoonish empathy. So yeah, Sam and Fuzzy good.

More on other webcomics sometime in the future.