Awesome Stuff: Pat Grant draws wicked comics

What little of the internet is not obsessing with cats or busily working to fulfill Rule 34 (do NOT google image search that rule) seems to me to be filled up with comedy.

Some of it is bloody awful, most of it is generally 'meh', but every now and then you come across an Artist. Someone who manages to combine style, humour and depth without coming across as an arrogant twit (such as a blog I may or may not write).

Pat Grant of Pat Grant Art Dot Com may not be the most original when it comes to names, but he is an Artist in the truest sense of the word.

And this is on low-res...

Pat's art is pretty rad, and strangely flawless in a very flawed kind of way. Everything he puts on paper has a character of its own - it doesn't go on the page unless it's alive and interacts with everything else in its own right.

But on it's own, it wouldn't be enough for the sort of praise I'm flinging at it like a giddy schoolgirl. What really makes Pat stand out is the way he meshes a story into this glorious cacophony of awesome.

I mean, how the hell do you get something as funny and yet strangely profound as this out of the topic of sharehouses?

But if it's pure comedy you're after, the insanely funny and somewhat horrifying I Shit You Not series, features a selection of the best surfing stories gathered from across the country and illustrated in Pat's signature style.

I recommend 'The Colonel' especially, provided you ain't squeamish.

But probably the most impressive piece on this site is Pat's account of the Cronulla Riots, which he missed by about an hour. It's rare to come across a commentary of such a serious and controversial event that doesn't actually detail the riot itself, but gets you thinking about it all the same.

So check him out! Oh, and the bugger has a rather impressive book coming out called Blue. Book launch this Thursday!

And it's largely blue. Truth in advertising right here.

 And stay tuned to the Palunawack Chronicles as well - next week we've got a special guest blogger onboard, describing a recent encounter with snakes on a train (no, seriously) and, in an entirely unrelated situation, why she threw a boost juice at a school girl.

Life remains interesting!