Webcomic Pick: Girls with Slingshots

December 17th, 2007 at 02:47pm Andrew Wright

One of the recurring themes of Webcomics is that you can talk more frankly and honestly online than you often can in print.  Webcomics don’t need to speak in euphamisms, unlike print comics like Dilbert.  And they don’t have to shy away from adult themes and mature topics, watering down dating experiences to Garfield like chaste disasters or Beetle Bailey style objectifications of women and the simple-minded men who ogle them.  Webcomics allow characters to talk like people and have real experiences.

And then add in talking alcoholic cactuses.

Girls with Slingshots, written and drawn by Danielle Corsetto, is a joke-a-day webcomic that captures life through the eyes of several twenty-something women living in the city and dealing with the day to day cycle of work, bars, apartments, bills and dating.  The main characters are Hazel, a cynical freelance writer who is often short on cash and frustrated in relationships, and her friend Jamie, Hazel’s optimistic friend who works at a flower shop and isn’t afraid of sharing her opinion or having a good time.  The strip follows these two and their friends as they deal with dating, bad advice, adult bookstores, bad hair days and using the internet to be social. 

While earlier strips were more artistic, the latter more traditional comic artwork still captures these friends with, in some cases, very realistic backgrounds with achingly honest dialogue.  An extensive cast page can bring new readers up to speed with a quick who’s who, but the archives aren’t so deep that you can’t read from the beginning in a short amount of time.

In your daily search for something new, edgy and honest to read as you kill those last five minutes before leaving the office for the night, make a point to check out www.girlswithslingshots.com

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