5/29/2023 0 Comments A Softer World by Joey Comeau![]() ![]() The words combine haiku-like brevity with dark comic wit. All of the images are photographs, and all of the text is typeset in a black courier font and placed across the photos in thin white caption boxes shaped to the words-as if each phrase has been hand cut from a newspaper like a ransom note. Most follow the standard newspaper comic strip format of three square panels arranged in an even row, though some are instead double rows of six-sort of like Sunday editions. Anatomy of Melancholy: The Best of a Softer World features roughly 230 of the 1,248 comics previously archived on the website. ![]() The creators, Joey Comeau and Emily Horne, continued their collaborative project through June 2015, before making a selection available in book form. Beginning weekly in February 2003, the website began publishing a hybrid comics form that combined webcomics, poetry comics, and photocomics. ![]()
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