Is This Tomorrow? Or Just the Future of Comics?

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(Free-Press-Release.com) October 10, 2003 -- Of late, there has been quite a buzz developing on Internet blogs concerning a comic strip that's smart as a whip, idiosyncratic as heck, and well drawn, to boot. Is This Tomorrow?, also referred to as ITT?, is a weekly web-based comic unlike any other (online at http://www.isthistomorrow.com). Scifi.com called ITT? "humorous meta-comics that blend divergent topics and styles to create bizarre bedfellows. Don't miss it."

Writer Kelly Shane and artist Woody Compton create works that hearken back to the last century in their subject matter but rocket into the future with their experimental conceptual form. And they're darn funny, too. (Or thought provoking or scary or many other things, depending on the particular comic.) The creators refer to ITT? as "The Finest in Contemporary Picto-Literature!"

Though most of the strips are comical, some are serious, and a number take a subtle tongue-in-cheek look at the subject matter. Many utilize classic comic book and strip genres as jumping off points, such as the strip that asks what would happen if the lord of the jungle ate a naked lunch. The most popular strips on the web-site tend to be the series of biographical sketches, featuring subjects such as serial killer Albert Fish, novelist Thomas Pynchon, comic book artist Steve Ditko, and poetess Sylvia Plath.

ITT? originally appeared back in the early 1990s in the pages of the Florida Flambeau, a newspaper affiliated with Florida State University and Florida A&M. Its original run ended after some of the early strips offended the sensibilities of the arts editor and certain faculty advisors. Is This Tomorrow? was re-launched as a weekly online comic in July of this year. The comic's name was taken from an anti-Communist comic book published in the 1940s.

Is This Tomorrow? can be found online at http://www.isthistomorrow.com/. At least one new comic is posted every week.