Palindramas is a webcomic (currently on hiatus since spring of 2009) written and drawn by Dan Mazur. The premise was to create a palindrome (a word or phrase in which the letters are in the same order backwards and forwards), then draw a cartoon illustrating it.
The episodes vary in length from single-panel cartoons to multi-page strips. Some comics have a palindrome as a caption describing the scene; others have the story build up to a palindromic punch line; in a few cases, the entire dialogue forms one big palindrome.
Several strips feature guest art by Ed Gedeon, creator of Everyday Heroes.
After the demise of Webcomics Nation, a large part of the comic is currently unavailable. It appears that on the Wayback Machine, only the very last comic posted
shows up as a non-broken image. However, a handful of them can be found on Dan Mazur's LiveJournal starting here and seven comics can be found on his site here.
Tropes featured include:
- The Alcoholic: The accountant in this strip.
- Explosive Cigar: How tragic.
- Fun with Palindromes: The entire point of the strip.
- The Golden Age of Comic Books: Gets a tribute here.
- Intercontinuity Crossover: With Skin Horse, here.
- It Will Never Catch On: The movie exec in this comic.
- Mad Scientist: Mad doc cuts stucco'd dam!
- Must Have Caffeine: We faced decaf. Ew.◊
- Punctuation Changes the Meaning: Here. "Bossy obese boys! Sob!" or "Bossy obese boys sob."
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: A lot of the strips work awfully hard to get to their palindromes.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Salli, Roger, on gin, ignore gorillas
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Apparently the guide in this strip◊ is an arachnophobe.
