Toothpaste for Dinner

Toothpaste for Dinner is a webcomic created by Drew Fairweather. The comic was launched on January 1, 2002.[1]

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Toothpaste for Dinner
Sample comic
Author(s)Drew
Websitetoothpastefordinner.com
Current status/scheduleDaily
Launch dateJanuary 1, 2002
Genre(s)Comedy

A new strip is posted every day at 12:01 AM, EST. Each comic features small, simple drawings, paired with short captions or dialogue. The style of humor on Toothpaste for Dinner encompasses surrealism, irony, social commentary, cynicism, and schadenfreude, among other sub-types of humor. Each cartoon is entirely self-contained (except in certain cases of a series, such as the horoscope series.)

Art

The art for Toothpaste for Dinner is drawn with ink on paper (Uni-Ball Micro pens and 300 lb. wt. Bristol board illustration paper). Although the art is primarily black and white, a color comic is occasionally posted. The art style, although minimalist, stands out due to its disjointed style. The artist often draws people with misaligned eyes, and only three, flipper-like fingers.[2][3] The comic has been illustrated by contractors since 2010, so that Fairweather can focus on his other projects: "The Worst Things for Sale" and his rap career as Crudbump.[4]

Reception

Sam Anderson of Slate described Toothpase for Dinner as "the most addictive comic on the Web."[5] Whitney Reynolds, producer of PC Magazine, said that the webcomic showed "beauty in simplicity," and supported Anderson's claim of the Toothpaste for Dinner's addictive nature.[6]

Books
  • The Drew Book
  • Mad Drew: Beyond Coffeedome
  • Toothpaste for Dinner: hipsters, hamsters and other pressing issues, 2005 (ISBN 1-58180-786-4)
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gollark: Can you post Lyric's Law? It appears to not be on the starboard.
gollark: Looping construct: jump backward one instruction (`L`)Branching construct: pick next instruction or previous instruction (`B`) - next if accumulator > 0, previous if accumulator <= 0.New branching construct: pick next instruction if user types `0` or previous if user types anything else (`N`)Making loop non-infinite: `E`, exits program if accumulator < 0.+1/-1 act on an accumulator initialized at zero (`+`/`-`)A program consists of a sequence of these instructions (first line) and arbitrary data encoded in base64 (second line) which is loaded into linear memory as bytes. These are executed left-to-right until the end is reached; when this occurs the direction of execution will be reversed.Infinite arbitrary data: command (`D`) to set accumulator to value of linear memory at position in accumulator.This language is called "HahaYourLawIsBad".

See also

References
  1. Mlodzik, Christine (May 31, 2007). "Web Comic Makes Point Of Drawing Out Laughs". Thedenverchannel.com. 7News. Archived from the original on February 14, 2008.
  2. Brush daily with random humor
  3. Merrill, Scott (February 26, 2010). "An interview with famed comic artists Drew and Natalie Dee". TechCrunch.
  4. Dale, Brady (November 16, 2015). "The Webcomics Business Is Moving on From Webcomics". Observer.
  5. Anderson, Sam (June 24, 2005). "Toothpaste for Dinner: A slide-show tour of the most addictive comic on the Web". Slate. pp. 3, 12.
  6. Reynolds, Whitney (June 4, 2007). "10 Wicked Awesome Webcomics". PC Magazine. p. 1.
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