A friend of mine just finished his magnum opus of relationship commentary, a claymation film with an Eraserhead-like worm. I should mention that the blue-clay figure looks exactly like the director.
Another friend has started work on a web-based panel-comic creator tool called Toonlet.
The point seems to be that you can create "American Splendour"-esque blogs in a time-efficient manner. Here’s a typical creation with toonlet.