Boy on a Stick and Slither
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| Boy on a Stick and Slither | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Steven L. Cloud |
| Website | http://www.boasas.com/ |
| Current status / schedule | Updates Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays |
| Launch date | 1998 |
| Genre(s) | Existential Humour |
Boy on a Stick and Slither (also called BOASAS) is a webcomic by Steven L. Cloud.
Strips usually feature a short, pithy and sometimes surreal exchange between the title characters: the Boy who is literally only a head on a stick, despite which he is something of an idealist; and Slither the snake, who tends to be more of a skeptic. The strip is characterized by dry and cynical humor.
Sample dialogue from "Flowers Think":
- Slither: Flowers think they're SO pretty!
- Boy: Flowers ARE pretty.
- Slither: True. But they'll be dead soon enough.
Other recurring characters include Nancy, a tooth who fights injustice; Florida Cracker, a right-wing cracker from Florida; Frickles Mudcat, a fish who is running for President of the United States and is only ever seen in one fixed pose; and God, who is depicted as a cloud with lightning bolts for arms, a bottle of beer and a cigarette.
The comic is published three times weekly (expanded from twice in 2004) on its own website, and has also appeared in some other periodicals, including Esquire and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Boy on a Stick and Slither is a member of Dumbrella, a crew of webcomic artists.
In April 2007, the comic was picked up by United Media. It is currently syndicated online at Comics.com.
Boy on a Stick and Slither In Print
- Material from Boy on a Stick and Slither was included in Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists.
Interviews and Reviews
- Steven Cloud was interviewed by "The Edmonton Journal" for a feature on Webcomics.
- Steven Cloud was interviewed by "The Jackson County Floridan" for a feature article on Boy on a Stick and Slither and San Diego Comic-Con.
- Boy on a Stick and Slither was featured in the article "Nihilism is Easy: the Theory of Entropic Narrative or Webcomics and the Death of Culture" for the "Webcomics Examiner".
- Boy on a Stick and Slither was "reviewed" by Michael Whitney for "Comixpedia".
