Questionable Content

Questionable Content is a comedic slice-of-life webcomic written and drawn by Jeph Jacques. The plot centers around Marten, an average frustrated 20-something indie rock dork, his anthropomorphic PC (AnthroPC) named Pintsize, and his somewhat mysterious and frequently moody roommate Faye. Lately Marten's friend Steve, Steve's girlfriend Ellen, and Faye's boss Dora have appeared more often in the story.

Related Topics:
Webcomic - Jeph Jacques - Indie rock - Dork - Anthropomorphic

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The comic's style ranges between romantic melodrama, humor about indie rock music, and sexual or scatological humor. Frequent settings are the apartment shared by Marten and Faye, and the coffee shop where Faye, Dora and Raven work.

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Questionable Content was first posted in 2003, and has scheduled updates every weekday. The site has an active, if small, community that take a strong interest in Jacques' life. In early 2004, the comic enjoyed a surge of new popularity thanks in part to the continuing refinement of Jacques' artistic ability: the comic reached 2nd on the webcomic rankings of BuzzComix.net in the month of April. At that time Jacques converted the strip to the widepanel format that is growing in popularity, and was accepted into the Dayfree Press. Offering an extra comic as incentive, and following a visual layout redesign, the strip later attained the first place rank on BuzzComix on June 2, 2004. It held that rank consistently until August 31, 2004, when it was given a place in the BuzzComix.net 'Hall of Fame'.

Related Topics:
2003 - Dayfree Press - June 2 - 2004 - August 31

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The comic is accompanied by blog-like entries which are often supportive of other comics and offer insight behind the strips. The creator is a self-described hipster and tries to keep the content focused on Indie style, including many references to bands, critique of Indie conformity, ridicule of emo, humour at Hot Topic's expense, and the "Theory of Hipster Relativity" (M = (BN2)-1) "music equals the inverse of Band multiplied by band's Notoriety squared"). A part of the comic's appeal is the background jokes, mostly one-liners written into the backgrounds of strips (most commonly on the blackboard at the coffee shop where Dora, Faye, and Raven work) such as "Tip Me Or I Will Kill Again" or on the t-shirts of characters in the strip.

Related Topics:
Hipster - Conformity - Emo - Hot Topic

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