senoritafish | A funny that's not on the funny pages... (Reply)

Call me an escapist, but on the rare occasions when a newspaper falls into my hands, the first page I turn to is the funnies. I'm a fan of quite a few different strips (Get Fuzzy, Sherman's Lagoon, For Better For Worse, Rose is Rose, etc.), but I tend to keep up with them only sporadically. We don't usually subscribe to a the paper, because it piles up, mostly unread, and just contributes to the mess. Although I have toyed with the idea of subscribing merely for enough carbon to add to the compost pile, not having any deciduous trees on our lot. ;)

(Apparently, our newspaper status has changed. My dad subscribed to the OC Register, Sundays only he thought, but we've started getting it every day.)

Thank goodness for comics.com. I can usually go there once a moth or so (when I remember), and catch up on all my favorites. Lately I've noticed the comic artist who does 9 Chickweed Lane also is doing another comic, which is only online.

"Pibgorn follows the epic saga of its eponymous, fairy heroine as she blunders into and out of danger, magic spells, maledictions, love, hate, rivalry, loyalty, trust, friendship and lousy hair days. Anesthetic to rules and regulations, oblivious to the paths her world long ago blazed for her, Pibgorn streaks through the welkin in hot pursuit of what lies beyond being a mere fairy."

It's about a fairy named Pibgorn, who is suffering major job dissatisfaction. If you look back a month or so, Mr. McEldowney is giving a retrospective of how he developed the character, who was originally named Oola Inch. The newspapers weren't too interested in it though, so he decided to pursue other avenues of publication. I loved this strip (since I am a government worker) and it's now posted prominently in my office. It could describe a number of my co-workers, or even me. On very rare occasions, of course. XD

I am quite sure that a related fairy inhabits the earbow of my glasses....

If he ever publishes this as a book, I hope he includes all of the accompanying notes.

In attempting to escape her humdrum fairy existence, she runs into a church organist named Geoff, Drusilla (a jealous girlfriend who is later revealed to be a succubus, although Mr. McEldowney maintains that he didn't know that when he started). Their adventures continue from there, including Dru murdering Pibgorn (but being a fairy somehow she returns), and their eventually becoming allies, although I missed that part so I'm not sure of the details. Thorax, a character from 9 Chickweed Lane, makes occasional guest appearances. You can check out the characters and the first 20 strips.

Right now I seem to have jumped into the middle of a story arc involving Dru somehow conjuring or channeling Mozart by playing the violin, and Geoff is quite disapproving; I'm not sure why. ;)