Whispered Apologies

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Whispered Apologies
Author(s)	Ryan North and others
Website	http://www.whisperedapologies.com
Update schedule	Updates sporadically (usually weekly)
Launch date	April 25th, 2005
End Date	Currently updating
Genre	Humour

Whispered Apologies is the brainchild of Dinosaur Comics creator Ryan North. According to an interview with The Webcomics Examiner, North tells how the comic was born out of two desires.

First, he wanted to invert the format of the popular website explodingdog. On explodingdog, visitors send artist Sam Brown a phrase and he turns it into a piece of art-work. North was intrigued by the idea of having artists send him art, which he would then write text to accompany.

Secondly, he hoped to have an outlet for the sort of comics he couldn't write under the continuing-art format of Dinosaur Comics.

Thus, Whispered Apologies was born on April 25th, 2005. Under a collaborative format, each day's comic is drawn by a new, different artist. These artists submit comics with no dialogue, which Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics, Joey Comeau of A Softer World, Nicholas Gurewitch of the Perry Bible Fellowship, and others fill in.

The dialogue of a Whispered Apologies strip frequently contains humorously sexual overtones or is over-dramatic in nature, and each comic usually ends with a surprise twist. Often, the humour in the comic is derived from the juxtaposition of the artists' intended meaning with the non-sequitur text that accompanies it.

The process used to create a Whispered Apologies comic is explained here.

The series' name originates from a Dinosaur Comic where T-Rex describes his "lovemaking techniques" as "a series of awkward fumbles and whispered apologies"[1].

[edit] External links

• www.whisperedapologies.com- homepage