I’m a huge fan of Chris Onstad’s web comic Achewood. If you’re not, well, you should be, he’s the best thing to happen to web comics (and I dare say comics at large) in a long time. If you’re new to the comic, there’s certainly a bit of an investment required in that you need to read a lot of the archives before you really understand the characters. You’ll either totally not get it or think it’s the greatest thing ever. I make no guarantees.
If you’re not already a regular reader of the strip, you can stop here and come back when you are. The rest of this isn’t going to make sense.
The last few comics have essentially been codifying the thought processes of the major characters through the use of flowcharts. As if it’s not enough that they all have blogs, Onstad has now provided us with handy, suitable-for-framing diagrams that demystify inner workings of the cartoon cat mind. He’s set the bar for cartoon universes higher than ever before.
So, cartoonists of the world, the proverbial gauntlet has been thrown down. Where are YOUR characters’ decision-making flowcharts?
