? - the slightly demented anti-comic strip is a web comic by Aric McKeown. Web comics are comics that are available on the web. ...

?'s main character is a young professor called Professor Ashfield. Quite what he is a professor of hasn't been explained, but it seems to be most probably chemistry or physics. A professor is a senior teacher and researcher, usually in a college or university. ...

The Ashfield character is famous for his eccentric ideas, twisted sense of humour and even somewhat questionable ethics. He often appears in extremely strange situations, sometimes even involving metaphysics, either because of his own fault, or as a victim of circumstances. He always carries a small, oblong, white object in his hand. McKeown originally explained this as being a piece of chalk (for writing on a blackboard), but later inexplicably changed the explanation to it being a cigarette. Metaphysics (Greek words meta = after/beyond and physics = nature) is a branch of philosophy, and related to the natural sciences, like physics, psychology and the biology of the brain; and also to mysticism, religion, and other spiritual subjects. ... The Needles, part of the extensive Southern England Chalk Formation Chalk is a soft, white, porous form of limestone composed of the mineral calcium carbonate. ... A blackboard, with multiple colors of chalk A blackboard is a surface on which markings made with chalk are visible. ... A cigarette will burn to ash on one end. ...

? is a single-panel comic with a very simple drawing style. Sometimes it uses strange visual effects in the background as part of the setting.

The site uses Flash to produce simple animation effects, or to display multiple punchline options. Macromedia Flash or Flash refers to both a multimedia authoring program and the Macromedia Flash Player, written and distributed by Macromedia, that utilizes vector and bitmap graphics, sound and program code and bidirectional streaming video and audio. ... Animation refers to the technique in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ... Punchline is also the name of a 1988 film. ...

Links

? - the slightly demented anti-comic strip (http://www.ashfieldonline.com)