Medium Large is back. Has been for some time, aparantly.

I used to love Medium Large; it was the webcomic I’d suggest people read once they had finally exhausted themselves on the Perry Bible Fellowship or had just plain run out of Beaver and Steve. Then tragedy struck; and by tragedy, I mean, Medium Large suddenly vanishd from  Drink at Work.com. I wasn’t sure what had happened, my girlfriend thought that there were behind the scenes ruptions because of some sort of violent confrontation between Marciuliano and his cllaborators. Me, I thought that he’d burnt out after trying to do his day job comic “Sally Forth,” work for The Onion and do Medium-Large. Who will ever know the truth?

Any ways, now it’s back and Francesco Marciuliano is producing a ream of stuff that is both funny and thought provoking. And by thought provoking, I don’t mean HIV positive single mum makes you giggle and think about how lucky your life has been, I mean he analyses comedy and makes it work. Check out ‘what is comedy.’ 

It’s sad, because that one sequence has just summed up almost all the comedy scholarship about the ‘what’ of comedy, as opposed to the phenomonological ‘how abouts’ of humour theory. Take that, “Theory of the repressive laugh!”

 Hmmn, this should be a topic to delve deeper into.