November 1, 2001

12:49 AM

Tiny Sepuku: Relationship advice column meets "Hello Kitty". It's funny cuz it's true!!! Tiny Sepuku is Ken Cursoe's brilliant, sometimes bitter, and always bitingly funny advice column/ comic strip. I became a loyal reader when it was syndicated by the Seattle Weekly a few months ago, but it seems that Ken has been churning out these nuggets of wry insight, which so perfectly capture the almost comical absurdity of dating in these modern times, since waaay back in '97. He now has a website where you can indulge yourself in all that archived "Sepuku" goodness...
posted by hincandenza (8 comments total)

Yeah, the only reason I pick up the Seattle Weekly instead of The Stranger is Tiny Sepuku.

Of course, I still pick up The Stranger.
posted by j.edwards at 1:02 AM on November 1, 2001

It seems like a pretty blatant rip-off of Life In Hell by Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons). Well, not a rip-off, exactly: I'm not accusing the guy of plagiarism. It's just that the tone and attitude are almost exactly the same, but Groening had it about fifteen years ago.
posted by mrmanley at 5:38 AM on November 1, 2001

Thank you hincandenza. It's things like this that make me love MeFi.

(and it's also things like this that will eventually cost me my job, because I can't see how I can get any work done today until I've read all of these.)
posted by ColdChef at 6:09 AM on November 1, 2001

That was pretty quality. Time to add another comic to my list of webcomics to read regularly
posted by Darke at 11:13 AM on November 1, 2001

this link is "#1 in the hood, yo."

thanks hincandenza. very good read. looks like i'm going to be going through the whole archive over the next couple of days. (i did the same with Penny Arcade, Megatokyo, and Life On Forbez when i first started reading them.)
posted by lotsofno at 11:14 AM on November 1, 2001

ahem
posted by lotsofno at 11:16 AM on November 1, 2001

I think of it as Tiny Sucky-Pu..Sucky, sucky, sucky.
posted by y2karl at 6:48 PM on November 1, 2001