Around the Mind in 2192 Strips

January 17, 2016 3:00 AM

For the past six years, cartoonist Dakota McFadzean (Twitter, Tumblr) has been drawing a comic strip a day. On January 10, he finally completed his required minimum of six years of daily comic strips as outlined by the Government of Canada’s Cartooning Standards Act of 1967 and recognized by the Canadian Ministry of Comics, Cartooning and Clock Repair. The previous sentence sounds almost plausible to me, but then, I've been attempting to read his mindbending comic from the beginning.
posted by BiggerJ (14 comments total)

I've been following McFadzean's alternately funny/surreal/silly/creepy/absurd/gross/thoughtful/weird Dailies, via their RSS feed, which oddly dumps a week's worth of strips into my reader at a time. It actually is more fun to go through them in the small batches, allowing the scattershot concepts to fall all around me.
posted by oneswellfoop at 3:17 AM on January 17, 2016 [3 favorites]

While he drew the strips daily, he uploaded them in batches. And in case I wasn't clear, he recently ended the comic.
posted by BiggerJ at 3:21 AM on January 17, 2016

oops. we broke it.
posted by andrewcooke at 3:44 AM on January 17, 2016

It's working for me. Perhaps your computer and/or internet connection is/are objectively bad.

One day, someone's going to post something and it goes down shortly thereafter (it's happened before, with Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life). By the time it comes back up it's fallen off the front page, so the person reposts it and says, 'this went down soon after I posted it last time, please don't remove it mods, here is added content: a picture of a cat' (the picture is of copper tubing, because spite).
posted by BiggerJ at 4:22 AM on January 17, 2016 [2 favorites]

There's a charming specificity in some of his strips.
posted by fairmettle at 4:41 AM on January 17, 2016 [2 favorites]

It's working for me.

hmmm. me too, now. but it wasn't my connection - the site displayed a "capacity exceeded" error, like it was on some low cost host.

edit: huh. and again. i think if you keep clicking through strips quite quickly it happens (i was reading them!): "The website is temporarily unable to service your request as it exceeded resource limit. Please try again later. "
posted by andrewcooke at 4:55 AM on January 17, 2016

I doubt I'm going to get through six years at this rate....

The website is temporarily unable to service your request as it exceeded resource limit. Please try again later."
posted by HuronBob at 5:43 AM on January 17, 2016

The last one gives me a sense that it possibly may have been slightly influenced by a certain xkcd strip I cannot find now.
posted by sammyo at 5:45 AM on January 17, 2016

Wow, more than a few of these speak to me on a fundamental level. Thanks!
posted by Young Kullervo at 6:46 AM on January 17, 2016

There’s a Government of Canada Cartooning Standards Act of 1967?
I’m curious as to what particular cartooning-based incident(s) in 1966 prompted the act.

(in Googling to try and find info about the Act, I stumbled across Nelvana, who sounded like a total badass)
posted by blueberry at 7:03 AM on January 17, 2016

According to my high-school history teacher, it was touched off by the Bionic Beaver debacle of 1965, but frankly, Canadian cartooning had been a mess for decades. Regulation was sorely needed.

Also: why do I only find out about amazing new webcomics when they end?
posted by suetanvil at 9:14 AM on January 17, 2016 [1 favorite]

"Speech bubbles feel like a bum or a boob." Whoa, getting in on a little of that Oglaf action, I see.
posted by Halloween Jack at 9:25 AM on January 17, 2016

These are great, thanks.
posted by mediareport at 10:02 AM on January 17, 2016

Wait, I want to know more about this law.
posted by SecretAgentSockpuppet at 5:17 PM on January 17, 2016