Website:http://www.wondermark.com
Monthly Traffic: 31,694 visitors (as of 10/12/09)
Description: a webcomic where characters from Victorian-era woodcuts and engravings make absurd jokes and observations
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What Is "Wondermark"?:
Wondermark is a regularly updated webcomic by David Malki that's comprised of scans of 19th Century woodcuts and engravings composed into a traditional comic-strip format.
Think the animation segments from Monty Python's Flying Circus, in webcomic form.
The strip is normally multi-panel and features new characters every strip. Since Malki isn't drawing the characters himself, jokes are often derived from inherently funny visual cues from the source material, such as someone balancing a barrel on his nose or a man driving a steam-powered car.
Why Should I Read "Wondermark"?:
Wondermark exists at the crossroads of sophistication and silly. Malki clearly has a wonderful absurd and unorthodox sense of humor that tends towards ridiculous visual gags and general goofiness but the whole affair naturally becomes classy when composed with the woodcuts and engravings.
The resulting comic strips are unlike anything else on the Internet, or elsewhere for that matter. Malki's work over at Wondermark really is quite original and fantastic, which is rare in the pool of sameness a web surfer has to wade through all the time.
Best of "Wondermark":
- In which Correspondence is written
- In which an Interruption occurs
- In which an Offer is made
- In which Control is wrested
- In which a Child is threatened
- In which Gambling is referenced
- In which Death is blatantly welcome
- In which Poultry is referenced
- In which Indecency is suggested
- The Masters of Tea
- In which Salvation is summoned
- The Fiction Generator