A weekly feature spotlighting new & unusual features on the GoComics A-Z roster

Feature: Robbie and Bobby
Creator: Jason Poland
Format: strip
Frequency: Monday through Friday
Recommended if you like: Kate Beaton, Cul de Sac, Monty, children's books

Remember that kid you were in school with who drew really weird things in the margins of his notebooks, illustrating goofy jokes and stories starring bizarre characters he'd made up? (Heck, maybe you were that kid!) Even though I've read comics all my life, I don't know that I've ever been as fascinated as reading the ones drawn in front of my eyes by friends or classmates when I was a kid. I also don't know if I've seen a comic that captures that same excitement, imagination and sense of raw creativity quite like Robbie and Bobby by Jason Poland.

Robbie and Bobby stars a boy and his robot, with cameo appearances from characters like Magnet Bat, Princess Bluestocking, Princess Boy (a pampered aristocrat who stars in his own Japanese cartoon) and Doctor Dinkus, the Learnosaurus. Poland has been drawing Robbie and Bobby since 2003, and the strip has evolved from frenetic pencil drawings to the more polished looking comic currently featured on his website. GoComics has been running Poland's treasure trove of Robbie and Bobby strips every weekday since 2013, giving fans a chance to enjoy and catch up on hundreds of the strips.

While the classic friendship/antagonism dynamic of Robbie (the Robot) and Bobby (the Boy) is what drives the strip, the random topic they're discussing on any given day put it in a class by itself. Recent comics I enjoyed feature Fraggles, the White Witch from Narnia, Rapunzel, Super Mario, Peter Cetera and Super Mario Brothers. And that's just from a single fortnight. Other strips are almost dada in nature, featuring none of the main characters but exhibiting the same weirdness and charm.

I look forward to seeing what Poland does in the future. In the meantime, I'll be reading even further into the Robbie and Bobby catalog right here on GoComics.