2010 March

Okay, I have no good idea today, so here’s a bad idea! Inspired by the awesomeness that is Carl. This is an idea… for a comic about a sentinent lightbulb. Obviously, as you know from a lot of jokes, people often try to change the lightbulb. In the silliest ways. So what if the lightbulb [...]

What defines the time we live in? Seriously: If you had to explain for a complete stranger – and by “complete stranger”, I mean “alien from another planet”, “visitor from another dimension” or “time traveller from the year 3000″ – what it’s like living on Earth in the year 2010, what would you say? What [...]

Sometimes we tend to forget how good life is. Sure, we have problems. Your favorite website is down! You lost a thousand bucks on the stock market! That book you want to buy isn’t out in Norway yet even though it’s already for sale in Denmark! The bus is late! Why does everything happen to [...]

It’s Palm Sunday, and in Norway Easter is synonymous with criminal stories (is that the case elsewhere in the world, too?), so for today’s idea, I’ve got a good old whodunit for you. Bernhard B. Butler is the president of the National Butlers’ Association. He was a faithful butler for many years, and now he’s [...]

Not much time, so I’ll just jot down a short idea today. In David Mazzuchelli’s Asterios Polyp, Mazzuchelli uses different art forms to show how people are different. In Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Spiegelman portrays the different nationalities and ethnicities as different kinds of animals. In Don Rosa’s Pertwillaby Papers, Rosa draws every character with a [...]