There is an online comic called Exploding Dog. It’s pretty cool. In some ways it’s more a series of connected pieces of art than a true comic. Also, you should maybe know that while there is a dog in it from time to time I’ve never seen it explode. And it’s certainly not about the dog. Or anything, in fact, to do with dogs.
Actually, in my mind, it’s about my book.
Me: Look! It’s my novel summarised in cartoon form!
Greg: So… what you’re saying is I could read your book or I could just read the cartoon?
Me: Well… it’s possible the cartoon lacks some of the nuance of the text. Also technically there aren’t any robots in the book.
Greg: Spoilers!
I am not even kidding. If you line up these things in the right order they could illustrate the first Path book. (As long as you pretend one of my characters looks like a robot, the dragons are of the Chinese variety and the people are stick figures.)
If I want to reasonable about it (but why would I do that?) I can admit that the artist probably doesn’t have a freakish channel to my mind. And if he does I want to know where all the bits about the desert island and the tiki bar are coming from. Either way, it’s sort of awesome. Now I want to find the web comic (that clearly must exist) that’s illustrating Wizards for me.
Kandace Mavrick
Paul McLaughlan
platform thing 
jasssa
20/09/2011
Just so long as it’s not Cyanide & Happiness 🙂
Kandace Mavrick
20/09/2011
No. Although the number of things that happen in my head due to A Softer World comics is a bit disturbing.
Wendy
20/09/2011
I love Exploding Dog! It says so much with so few words.
Kandace Mavrick
20/09/2011
Or sometimes with no words at all. That’s one of the reasons I think it’s so hilarious. I wrote a book that’s like 100 000 words long and I swear you could arrange a group of Exploding Dog frames that would have about 100 words total and achieve the same thing. (Well, in terms of message and philosophy. I think the book might have an edge when it comes to emotional engagement.)