My New Favorite Thing . . . part.

I loved reading the comics section of the newspaper everyday growing up. For a very long time I wanted to be a cartoonist and have my own daily comic strip. I was the cartoonist for my high school newspaper and was actually considering going to art school to hone my craft.

For one reason or another I ditched that idea, but to this day the comics are the first section I reach for when paging through a newspaper. The experience isn't as magical as it once was. With some notable exceptions, most comics are pretty terrible these days.

Which made me all the more delighted to find the genius of a web-based comic strip that is Thingpart. It's by a guy named Joe Sayers and it is incredibly funny. Way funnier than any newspaper comic I've seen in a long time.

I couldn't get the strips to copy into this post at a readable resolution, but his hilariously simple illustration style is evident above. Here, here, and here are a few of my favorite Thingparts. Enjoy.