weird, sad, surreal, dark and fucking funny.
do yourself a favour and go to www.picturesforsadchildren.com RIGHT NOW and read the entire collection from the start. Then buy the book to show some love to john campbell.
i love this webcomic.
i love this book.
i love his little stick arm characters with their dots for eyes and strange problems.
my favourite comic from the collection:
http://picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=107
lower-case weirdness
200 pages, softcover containing the first 200-ish pictures for sad children comics which runs sans punctuation. this collection has a lot of story comics – ongoing episodes completing an overall story arc mixed with single page stories. and man oh man are they funny. i’ve read through the online archive about six times i think and if i were a richer man i’d be buying some of john’s t-shirts as well.
beautiful minimalism
john campbell’s characters have so much character even though they have dots for eyes and no mouths. it’s amazing what excellent writing combined with the placement of two black dots can convey.
http://picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=164
some of john campbell’s other cool stuff
his blog at livejournal called goodbye, foom (http://stereotypist.livejournal.com/)
his journal-diary style hourly comic http://www.hourlycomic.com/
my all-time favourite comic
it’s not in the collection but you can read it online.
http://picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=257 (I would eat this comic if I could)
how i got pictures for sad children
ordered it online from john’s shop (signed edition). as soon as the paypal link went up i bought! if i had to choose between eating for two days or this book – the book wins.
happy (or sad) reading,
mat
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