Day Five of A Classic Comics Christmas
Dec. 18th, 2010 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jkcarrierStill counting down 12 favorite newspaper strips. See everyone else's picks here:
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=350842
Today's pick is...
Diesel Sweeties
by R Stevens
(I'm fudging a little on this one -- it's primarily an online strip, but it was syndicated in newspapers for about a year and a half.)
Take an extremely odd group of characters (a couple of robots, an ex porn-star, an indie music snob, a guy in a bear suit, a token Canadian, some sentient home appliances), make it look like it was drawn with an Etch-a-Sketch, throw in plenty of snark and nerdy pop-culture references, and that's Diesel Sweeties. I'm impressed with how much expression Stevens gets out of his deliberately lo-rez art style, and how much depth his high-concept characters have developed over the years.
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=350842
Today's pick is...
Diesel Sweeties
by R Stevens
(I'm fudging a little on this one -- it's primarily an online strip, but it was syndicated in newspapers for about a year and a half.)
Take an extremely odd group of characters (a couple of robots, an ex porn-star, an indie music snob, a guy in a bear suit, a token Canadian, some sentient home appliances), make it look like it was drawn with an Etch-a-Sketch, throw in plenty of snark and nerdy pop-culture references, and that's Diesel Sweeties. I'm impressed with how much expression Stevens gets out of his deliberately lo-rez art style, and how much depth his high-concept characters have developed over the years.
