September 20, 2006

Smile (A Dental Drama) is as great as any comic about orthodontics can be.

Note: most links stolen from this interesting livejournal post. SMILE (bookmarkable link) is an autobiographical comic about dealing with the pains of middle school and dentistry. In some ways, it's a lot like For Better or for Worse, but without all the things about For Better or for Worse that are cloying and irritating (well, okay, SMILE also spells "have to" as "hafta," but I'll let that one slide). To put it another way, it has humor, drama, continuity (in a webcomic? Gasp!), and characters that are easy to empathize with. For more information about the artist, Raina Telgemeier, visit her homepage or livejournal, or even this scholastic.com page for her latest project. By the way, she's engaged to the cartoonist Dave Roman.