Because shapes have feeling too...

There's something about witnessing an incredibly simple idea executed flawlessly executed that, for just a moment, you almost feel sorry for all those poor souls slaving day in and day out learning to, for instance, draw a recognizable comic strip character. Why bother perfecting Cathy's perpetually exasperated AACK!spressions, or PJ's bemused visage as he humbly requests pasgetti and meatbulbs, when you can simply draw a triangle. CircleDotSquare, or CDS, is delightful new (less than three weeks old) webcomic, ostensibly created by an old industrial robot, which managed to draw more humor from simple geometric shapes than you would have thought possible, if you had bothered to consider the comedic possibilities of simple geometric shapes.

Then again, you could always just forgo the drawing entirely, and instead employ the mighty eraser. The brilliantly existential Garfield Minus Garfield shows us what a sad, possibly schizophrenic, bachelor looks like when left alone without a chubby anthropomorphic feline to commiserate with.

 

 

Better yet, how about just letting long dead existential German philosophers do the heavy lifting. What if, instead of mispronouncing spaghetti, PJ gazed into the abyss, only to see it gazing back at him. Randomly pairing a Family Circus cartoon with a quote from Friedrich himself, The Nietzsche Family Circus seeks answers to this important question and many more like it.