Bruno the Bandit is a webcomic drawn by Ian McDonald about an incompetent bandit in a fantasy setting. The strip began on July 20 1998, and a new strip is posted every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. It is published online by Keenspot, and in print by Plan 9 Publishing.

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  • Bruno the Bandit is a webcomic drawn by Ian McDonald about an incompetent bandit in a fantasy setting. The strip began on July 20 1998, and a new strip is posted every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. It is published online by Keenspot, and in print by Plan 9 Publishing. Bruno the Bandit was nominated for Best Fantasy Comic in the 2002 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards Ian developed the comic starting from his parody strip "What if Conan the Barbarian Was Garfield's Owner?", Conan becoming Bruno and Garfield becoming the microdragon sidekick. It began as three or four panels in black and white and laid out horizontally, published six days a week. Strips also appeared laid out vertically, with varying numbers of mixed orientation panels. Double-height strips and occasional solid colors appeared in 2001, at the end of which posting changed to thrice weekly. The strips were colored from 2003-04-04 until 2003-04-16 by Dominic and from 2005-05-30 to 2007-12-14 by colorist Lynn Blackson. The strips from the launch until 2001-07-05 have been translated into German. The comic's plots often leverage anachronistic elements. A wizard cell-phones Bruno right when he's creeping past a sleeping serpent, for example, to warn him about it. After a handful of the first month of strips used deliberately anachronistic punchlines, the author realized he should use only the lightest touch. Bruno simply lives on an Earth-like planet in an alternate material plane with such-and-so magic, and such-and-so technology. Internal combustion engines are not strictly required to etch silicon. The punchline, "look! He’s using a fax machine!" is not good enough, and the best punchlines help the user forget about these blended cultural elements. BtB humor relentlessly rakes up our modern foibles and hypocrisies. For example, in Rothland (Bruno's homeland) barbarians prefer to be called Wilderness-enhanced, and books of great evil are released in paperback, for the benefit of evil wizards everywhere. There are many homages to other comics, such as Garfield (the most referenced), Peanuts, Sandman, Conan, and others. The strip is organized in short story arcs. Some of the stories last for only 6 strips. The longest one as of late 2005 took 72 strips. There is continuity between the sagas, but gags drive the story more than long-term plot development.
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  • Ian McDonald
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  • Humor/Fantasy
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  • Monday, Wednesday, Friday
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  • Bruno the Bandit
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  • Bruno the Bandit is a webcomic drawn by Ian McDonald about an incompetent bandit in a fantasy setting. The strip began on July 20 1998, and a new strip is posted every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. It is published online by Keenspot, and in print by Plan 9 Publishing.
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  • Bruno the Bandit
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