Sinister bedfellows
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Sinister Bedfellows is a photo-based webcomic
created by mckenzee and hosted at Comic Genesis
. It has been compared to A Softer World
in several reviews. Each of its strips is composed of a single photo, divided into three horizontal "panels", with one or more captions added. The strip does not feature a Story arc
or regular characters, rather the author's own photographs are presented with captions that suggest dialogue
(of people, animals or inanimate objects such as statues) or convey obscure cultural references.
A trade paperback, Sinister Bedfellows: Anthology (ISBN 978-1-4116-9929-8), featuring selected strips paired with short stories by several lesser-known authors, primarily from the Bizarro fiction
genre, was published in 2006 through Lulu.com
.
Sinister Bedfellows was nominated for Outstanding Photographic Comic at the 2007 Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards in February 2007. The comic strip is also a regular feature in the online magazine, MungBeing as well as the print magazine The Blotter.
Webcomic
Webcomics, online comics, or Internet comics are comics published on a website. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers or often in self-published books....
created by mckenzee and hosted at Comic Genesis
Comic Genesis
Comic Genesis is a free hosting provider for webcomics. It is a service of Keenspot, which covers hosting costs.- Services :...
. It has been compared to A Softer World
A Softer World
A Softer World is a thrice weekly webcomic by Canadians Joey Comeau and Emily Horne. It first came online on February 7, 2003. Early comics had been published, intermittently, in zine form. With the launch of the website, the comic has gained wider recognition, most notably when Warren Ellis...
in several reviews. Each of its strips is composed of a single photo, divided into three horizontal "panels", with one or more captions added. The strip does not feature a Story arc
Story arc
A story arc is an extended or continuing storyline in episodic storytelling media such as television, comic books, comic strips, boardgames, video games, and in some cases, films. On a television program, for example, the story would unfold over many episodes. In television, the use of the story...
or regular characters, rather the author's own photographs are presented with captions that suggest dialogue
Dialogue
Dialogue is a literary and theatrical form consisting of a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people....
(of people, animals or inanimate objects such as statues) or convey obscure cultural references.
A trade paperback, Sinister Bedfellows: Anthology (ISBN 978-1-4116-9929-8), featuring selected strips paired with short stories by several lesser-known authors, primarily from the Bizarro fiction
Bizarro fiction
Bizarro fiction is a contemporary literary genre, which often utilizes elements of absurdism, satire, and the grotesque, along with pop-surrealism and genre fiction staples, in order to create subversive works that are as weird and entertaining as possible. The term was adopted in 2005 by the...
genre, was published in 2006 through Lulu.com
Lulu.com
Lulu is a company offering publishing, printing, and distribution services with headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina. Since their founding in 2002, Lulu has published over 1.1 million titles by creators in over 200 countries and territories and adds 20,000 new titles to their catalogue a month...
.
Sinister Bedfellows was nominated for Outstanding Photographic Comic at the 2007 Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards in February 2007. The comic strip is also a regular feature in the online magazine, MungBeing as well as the print magazine The Blotter.