Dresden Codak is a webcomic written and illustrated by Aaron Diaz. Described by Diaz as a "celebration of science, death and human folly", each comic generally focuses on a concept or theory from modern and postmodern philosophy, psychology, or science (particularly quantum physics). The presentation of concepts is surreal, generally to the chagrin of its chief protagonist, Kimiko. For example, in "Summer Dream Job", Kimiko is given a job in her ...
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Dresden Codak is a webcomic written and illustrated by Aaron Diaz. Described by Diaz as a "celebration of science, death and human folly", each comic generally focuses on a concept or theory from modern and postmodern philosophy, psychology, or science (particularly quantum physics). The presentation of concepts is surreal, generally to the chagrin of its chief protagonist, Kimiko. For example, in "Summer Dream Job", Kimiko is given a job in her dreams, for which she receives payment in real life. Before long, dark-suited government agents arrive and inform her that she is profiting from creative energy without her ideas being processed by Corporate America and therefore violating federal labor laws. They then deport her from her own subconscious.
On October 22, 2008, Dresden Codak concluded a long-running sequence called "Hob", which focused on Kimiko's discovery of a post-Singularity robot and its attempted recovery by people from a future in which Earth was destroyed in a war with...
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