Rarely do I find a webcomik worth reading outside of my regular routine (QC, xkcd, qwantz, Dr. McNinja, PBF – to name a few), but recently Pictures for Sad Children caught my attention. I have to say that I am hooked on the tragic-boredom, indifferent, and often random humor illustrated in black, white and a particularly mundane shade of gray. PFSC (akronym’d!) on a purely conceptual level, reminds me of an Acid Zen Wonder Paint and xkcd love child. (Actually, make that an accidental fuck-child. Love-child has connotations of love, which is clearly ridiculous.) To make that analogy make sense, just replace the nerdly concepts in xkcd with, well, a dead guy.
A dead guy named Paul, to be exact. A dead guy named Paul who is a ghost. And at one point, a dead guy named Paul, who is a ghost, who is on a plane. Sound exciting? Well it isn’t, and that’s entirely what makes it funny.
I’m interested to see where this comik goes – if he sticks with Paul who is a ghost, or moves on to other characters and concepts. Given what I’ve seen so far, I’d be happy with either, as long as he keeps the tone and style of humor.
Anyways, enough bad analogies from me for one day, just check it out yourself:
