Palindramas

Palindramas was a webcomic (now defunct) written and drawn by Dan Mazur. The premise is to create a palindrome (a word or phrase in which the letters are in the same order backwards and forwards), then draw a cartoon illustrating it.

The episodes varied in length from single-panel cartoons to multi-page strips. Some comics have a palindrome as a caption describing the scene; others have the story build up to a palindromic punch line; in a few cases, the entire dialogue forms one big palindrome.

Several strips featured guest art by Ed Gedeon, creator of Everyday Heroes.

Mazur drew the strip for two years, but abandoned it at some point in 2009; in late Spring 2015 the site itself vanished outright. (The link above goes to the Wayback Machine -- do not click on any link to the original site as it appears to now be a Malware host.)

Tropes used in Palindramas include:

• The Alcoholic: The accountant in this strip.
• Explosive Cigar: How tragic.
• Far Side Island: The eventual location of Elsie and Tom.
• Fun with Palindromes: The entire point of the strip.
• The Golden Age of Comic Books: Gets a tribute here.
• Good People Have Good Sex: In one guest strip, the cartoonist and his wife show their love with the help of a palindrome (and a couple of DVDs).
• Intercontinuity Crossover: With Skin Horse, here.
• It Will Never Catch On: The movie exec in this comic.
• Mad Scientist: Mad doc cuts stucco'd dam!
• Must Have Caffeine: We faced decaf. Ew.
• Real Estate Scam: The topic of this comic.
• Shaggy Dog Story: A lot of the strips work awfully hard to get to their palindromes.
• Taken for Granite: The bar patrons in this strip.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Apparently the guide in this strip is an arachnophobe.