whispered apologies

i recently found a really cool concept comic called whispered apologies. the premise is that any old person can draw a comic and send it to the site, then one of the guys from the site, the crew of which is composed of several webcomic authors, will add text to it. it's delightfully quirky and while the comics are not uniformly good there are gems where the both the illustrator and writer are definitely channeling the same good vibe.

this leads me to another genre of comic that i really enjoy called constrained comics. there are only a few examples of this type, dinosaur comics is the best one, and they are all artificially bound in some way. for example, dinosaur comics uses the same panels every day and the only thing that the creator has to work with is text. despite this the comic is varied and fresh, in actuality it's simply a constant and interesting way for the creator to espouse whatever it is that he's been thinking about that day. another benefit to the constrained comic, although it also applies to any comic with a simple format, is that it can update everyday allowing much more content to be released into the muck of the internet. in short, i like them and think that they are good representations of the kind of art that evolves on the net.