''PartiallyClips'' is a

webcomic Webcomics (also known as online comics or Internet comics) are comics published on a website or mobile app. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers, or comic books. Webcomics can be co ...

, created by

Rob Balder Robert T. Balder is a professional cartoonist and singer-songwriter. He graduated from Roanoke College with a major in English in 1993 and, after a variety of jobs, entered a seven-year career in IT, starting as a manager of database development ...

, which ran from 2002 to 2015. At the start of 2010, Balder handed authorship of the comic to Tim Crist, the comedy musician behind

Worm Quartet Worm Quartet is a comedy music project created by Timothy F. Crist who uses the stage moniker ShoEboX and performs fast, synth-driven, pseudo-metal punk/pop. The band was formed in 1991 and its name is a reference to cartoons Crist used to draw. ...

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''PartiallyClips'' is a constrained comic. Each three-panel strip consists of a single

clip art Clip art (also clipart, clip-art) is a type of graphic art. Pieces are pre-made images used to illustrate any medium. Today, clip art is used extensively and comes in many forms, both electronic and printed. However, most clip art today is creat ...

image – the comic has no original art – repeated and unchanged in each panel, with added

speech balloon Speech balloons (also speech bubbles, dialogue balloons, or word balloons) are a graphic convention used most commonly in comic books, comics, and cartoons to allow words (and much less often, pictures) to be understood as representing a char ...

s and/or captions to create the joke. ''PartiallyClips'' tends to use

dark humor Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, morbid humor, or gallows humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discus ...

; frequently, the picture used is rather idyllic, which is common in public-domain clip art, but the added dialogue or captions twist the scene. ''PartiallyClips'' also frequently comments on modern life and culture, especially aspects of Internet culture. There are no recurring characters or plots. Its name is a

mondegreen A mondegreen () is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning. Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to hear a lyric clearly, substitutes w ...

: "Partially Clips" sounds similar to "Partial

eclipse An eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when an astronomical object or spacecraft is temporarily obscured, by passing into the shadow of another body or by having another body pass between it and the viewer. This alignment of three ce ...

Distribution and reception

''PartiallyClips'' was updated twice weekly, on Sundays and Thursdays. The ''partiallyclips.com'' website stopped updating on 17 June 2015. During 2018, the PartiallyClips website went down and as of July 2023 remains unavailable. The archives were available on the

Erfworld ''Erfworld'' was a story-driven fantasy/comedy webcomic and independently published graphic novel about a master strategy gamer summoned into and stuck inside a wargame running from December 2006 to its abrupt cancellation in October 2019. It f ...

domain, but are no longer available after that domain has largely been taken down due to personal tragedy.. In addition to its online audience, the strip was also self-syndicated to print, targeted at

alternative weekly An alternative newspaper is a type of newspaper that eschews comprehensive coverage of general news in favor of stylized reporting, opinionated reviews and columns, investigations into edgy topics and magazine-style feature stories highlighting l ...

newspapers. It appeared in roughly 25 newspapers and magazines, and was published in a book, ''Suffering For My Clip Art: The Best Of Partially Clips Volume 1''. Material from ''PartiallyClips'' was included in '' Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists''. PartiallyClips was included in a 2009 short list of webcomics included in an NPR article. The article's author,

Glen Weldon Glen Weldon is an American writer, cultural critic, and podcaster. He has written for publications such as ''The Washington Post'', ''The New York Times'', '' Slate'', ''The Atlantic'', and ''McSweeney's''. Weldon currently writes for the NPR Arts ...

, described it as "a combination of found art, a finely honed comic sensibility, and awesomeness run rampant."

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PartiallyClips
'' - current online archives
''PartiallyClips''
- original website, now unavailable - see a
archive from 1 Sept. 2015
for one of the last archives of the actual strip Webcomics in print American comedy webcomics Short form webcomics 2002 webcomic debuts {{webcomic-stub

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