Famous Chairs

Further reading: Chair Blog and How to Design a Chair. Get a poster here.

New Year's Resolutions

Ultimate Sledding

The World-Famous Architect

Works of Fiction

Literary Devices

If you would like to nominate Incidental Comics as a "Best Webcomic of 2011," you can go here to voice your support. No pressure!

Thanks to all my high school English teachers for providing the deeply ingrained knowledge behind this comic. And a very special thanks to my proofreaders at the Kansas City Star, who put up with my three consecutive misspellings of "Onomatopoeia."

And finally: English teachers and students, past and current - you can get a poster of this comic for your classroom or reading nook here.

Escape from the digital world.

I have a complicated relationship with technology. It's given me access to endless information, increased my music collection exponentially, and allowed my comic to be read by real people who are not myself (at least I think they're real people). If I don't pay attention, however, I waste countless hours searching for things like "Prince song + karaoke + epic fail" and "cute toy poodles." So I drew this comic to remind me to get outside more often.

Also: I've added a Poster Shop page to my blog! You can purchase an 11"x17" poster of this comic and many others for a very modest price. Click on the "Poster Shop" tab at the top of the screen, or go here:
http://thoughtballoonhelium.blogspot.com/p/poster-shop.html

All You Need

Know Your Ghosts

Fellow ghost hunters! You can order a print of this comic to help you in your spirit identification. Email gsnider11@gmail.com for details.

The Modern School for Gifted Youth

Lately, one my default cartooning methods has been to squeeze an entire children's book into a single comic page. Instead of stretching an idea to 32 pages, I distill it to 8 panels. Due to space constraints, some couplets I write don't make the final cut. Like this highly personal rhyme:

If OCD is off the charts

We train them in the Dental Arts.

Who Needs Art?

What's the solution to being fed up with art? I'm not sure, but looking at the paintings and sculptures of Joan Miro will help immensely.

You can get a poster of this comic here.

Superpower

Strange Animals

The Post-College Arcade

The Other Side

Back to School

As I prepare to enter the twenty-first grade, I still have wildly idealized notions of what each coming school year will bring. For the sake of authenticity, I drew this comic in a college-ruled spiral notebook with a neon highlighter and glitter pens.

Notes on Poetry

The Pool

This comic is now available as a print at http://www.flickr.com/photos/incidentalcomics for purposes of refreshment and self-improvement. Guaranteed to smell like chlorine and sunscreen!

The New Building

The new building, for non-local readers, is the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. It's scheduled to open this September. If you're a fan of architect Moshe Safdie or the Kansas City skyline (or if you just like buildings with personality), you can order a print at http://www.flickr.com/photos/incidentalcomics.

Summer Vision