Prison Funnies

linked by Justin Anderson

Chip Zdarsky is from Toronto, and he makes what’s easily one of the best new comics I’ve read all year. "Prison Funnies" started as a strip in a local university, and blossomed into a bona fide cultural phenomenon. (If by phenomenon you mean a printed collection of his strips and the first issue of an ongoing comic book a phenomenon.) Fusing spontaneous violence, skinless arsonists and the sweet, sweet love between guards and prisoners, "Prison Funnies" makes me laugh harder than a comic should make me laugh.

"The guards are shitting in my mouth again!"