Ag-gravation

Almost there...

2006-11-16T09:59:00.001-08:00

I've finally got the entire archive of Ag-gravation online; although I still need to clean up the site, add some more drawings for a main page, and organize it by semesters to make navigation easier and stuff (there are 267 toons in there covering 4 years). If you wanna plow through the whole archive anyway, though, go ahead!

New site

2006-07-23T18:51:00.000-07:00

Ag-gravation has officially moved to its new home, aggravation.comicgenesis.com. It's not much to look at yet, but I'll get it spiffy-looking soon enough with the complete archive added. Check back here soon.

Change O' Plans

2006-07-14T08:13:00.000-07:00

I'm gonna stop putting my Ag-gravation strips on this site. Since starting Cooties, I much prefer the site format associated with that, as it's made specifically for webcomics. The blog is great for posting most stuff, but I hate the way Ag-gravation works on it. So I'll keep this blog around until the new and improved site is up, but won't be updating it. Keep checking El Cartoonista for the latest info.

Fall Semester 1999 - part II

2006-06-25T07:51:00.000-07:00

Fall Semester 1999

2006-04-19T20:08:00.000-07:00

This cartoon remains my absolute favorite Ag-gravation strip.

After 9/11 I never would have joked about being ashamed to be an American. But in 1999 Clinton was still in the white house...

I got my first hate mail off of this cartoon. You'd think people who inhale toxic chemicals for fun would be a little more thick-skinned...

The preceding six cartoons were my first attempt at a running story that spanned 6 installments. I figured Halloween was the perfect time to try something weird. I, of course, am dressed in a sweet Batman getup; my friend Eric is Pinky (of Pinky and the Brain). The "phantom" of Old Main regales everyone with a horrific Backstreet Boys song that you couldn't turn on the radio without hearing at the time. There's a "Blair Witch Project" joke in there somewhere, too.

Spring Semester 1999

2006-01-30T20:23:00.000-08:00

This is the one that started it all...

This cartoon was the result of a letter to the editor. I should mention up front that it was not instigated by any of my cartoons. My snarky remarks are bracketed:

To the editor,

It is now three successive weeks that there has been at
least one misspelled word appearing in the comics featured
in the "Writing on the Wall" section of The Statesman. Is
this part of the humor that I am too much of an idiot to
comprehend? Or are you advertising to the world that USU
students cannot spell? [by "the world," she means a tiny
percentage of Cache Valley, Utah, I guess] Driveing,
escelating and sepparation are not words in the English
language. At least they weren't the last time that I
checked.

Do you not insure [actually, that should have been "ensure,"
but I'm sure her spell-checker wouldn't have caught that]
that the submitted comics contain proper spelling because
you fear insulting the artistic license of the students who do
them? I do find this trend amusing [I have a hard time
believing she found any of those cartoons amusing, since she
bothered to write to the editor and whine about them. I'm just
sayin'...], but I would prefer to laugh at the funny punch lines
in the comics and not at the pathetic spelling. Would it be too
much to ask to have The Statesman display the work of
educated students or that the reason for the misspelled words
be explained for dummies like me? [Hey, dummy, the reason
for the misspelled words is that cartoonists draw pictures in
high school instead of paying attention. At least that was the
case with me...]

Dayna Moser