Favorite Webcomics: The Oatmeal


Matthew Inman’s drawing skills over at The Oatmeal are actually worse than WC’s; and WC didn’t think that was possible. Probably WC’s 7th grade art instructor would be surprised, too. But Inman’s imagination is pretty amazing. Here’s an example of his dead-on sense of humor: WC doesn’t have the nerve to copy one of his…

Just a Banana Republic?


It’s the image we are given in Junior High School. The Latin American country – the Banana Republic – with the poor living in squalor next door to the ultra-wealthy aristocrat. Mercedes limousines driving past begging children. Shocking income disparity is a hallmark of Banana Republics, after all. So it came as a shock to…