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NYT highlights Rage Comics

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The New York Times tech section highlights a popular community created comics on Reddit called Rage Comics.

In that way, rage comics are not like the average viral YouTube video. They are more like a Bob Newhart sketch: the laughs come not from replaying the public foolishness of some stranger, but from watching the awkward reaction of the observer, who almost always appears as a character in the strip. Like Garry Trudeau?s Doonesbury strips, there is usually a punch line after the punch line in which the author reacts to the situation. But where Doonesbury characters typically react with wisecracking aplomb, rage comic characters respond with ? well, rage.

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  2. I like how the lines of the boxes are so straight.

  3. It’s really neat to see a community themed project become international, but I hate the fact that people think this is a comic, or at least puts it on the same level as professional comics.

  4. not bad for a pre schooler, another fifteen years and they will be pros at it.

  5. I didn’t think the NYT could go any lower than they already have….(concerning graphic commentary and entertainment)….but this example proves there is no bottom to where they intend to take the art.

  6. The NYT usually doesn’t cover stuff like this until it’s already passe. So there’s that.

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