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The comic archive

Work, technology, and the strange rituals of modern office life. Newest first.

  1. September 26, 2026
    In a conference room, a raccoon product manager presents a laptop labeled “AI Agent” while an owl engineer and frog designer look at a wall calendar that is entirely blocked off. The raccoon says, “It optimized our calendars into one meeting.”

    Perfect Utilization

    The agent achieved perfect calendar utilization.

  2. Issue No. 1
    Office Wildlife comic: an exhausted worker at a computer that reads “Please just change the font” with a Generate button, surrounded by a towering pile of AI-generated corporate clutter — a 300-page synergy plan, vision posters, a cat labeled Leadership — while a sunglasses-wearing dog naps on the floor.

    Please Just Change the Font

    Issue No. 1 — a decade of AI ambition, deployed against a single formatting request. The dog has the right idea.