Today, I launch a new column to focus on webcomics since I have been ignoring floppies lately. Webcomic-O-Rama will, hopefully, be a weekly column featuring a webcomic you may have never heard of otherwise. We’re all familiar with PVP, Shortpacked!, Penny Arcade, XKCD, and Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (probably the most surreal comic ever and I’m including The Invisibles.), so I’d like to focus on stuff you probably didn’t know about. While I do have quite a few friends who create webcomics (When you’ve been hanging around comic sites as long as I have, you know people with webcomics.), I’m going to start with one by a stranger as not to show favoritism.
I love this strip. It’s published irregularly and its creator doesn’t believe in following a storyline, but it’s one of the funnier bits of satire on the ‘net. The writer and artist, known only as Humon, a Danish woman, chooses to share history and events of the world through the eyes of Scandinavian stereotypes. I know, it sounds offensive, but it’s funny.
Humon is kind enough to provide context and the history of many jokes or references with each strip, although, I think this one is pretty obvious. The characters are named after the country they represent and their shirts are their nations flag. In the above strip, Sweden is burning England’s flag shirt, Norway is holding England aloft and Denmark has stolen his wallet.
Humon pokes fun at the whole world.
To be honest, in the beginning, I wasn’t a fan of the cutesy artwork, but they grew on me. It’s fun to have world-wide incidents personified.
Scandinavia and the World is a smart, funny strip with worldwide appeal. Go read it and order some of Humon’s prints.
Tune in next Saturday to see what other silliness I’ve found.
