| Wondermark | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | David Malki |
| Website | wondermark |
| Launch date | May 2003 |
| Genre(s) | Humor |
Wondermark is a webcomic created by David Malki which was syndicated to Flak Magazine and appeared in The Onion's print edition[1] from 2006 to 2008. It features 19th-century illustrations that have been recontextualized to create humorous juxtapositions. It takes the horizontal four-panel shape of a newspaper strip, although the number of panels varies from one to six or more. It is updated intermittently.
A typical Wondermark episode consists of one or more Victorian-era drawings of people and/or objects, repeated for several panels, with dialogue added to create a joke. In some cases, the images vary from panel to panel, creating a narrative. Occasionally, the joke in the last panel takes the form of a purely visual gag. An additional moralism can be found in the comic's image alt attribute.
The creator, David Malki, has stated that the images are obtained from public domain primary sources such as 19th century-era periodicals. Malki obtains these images from public libraries and from his own collection of rare books.
- ^ "PREVIEWS #246". XIX (1). Diamond Comic Distributors. Retrieved 2010-07-13.
VOLUME 2: CLEVER TRICKS TO STAVE OFF DEATH ... Dark Horse Comics presents ... hardbound collection of David Malki's nationally syndicated Wondermark, ... originally published in The Onion
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