Some of you may know that when I play video games I use the moniker migraineboy. I get a lot of comments about this name when I play Halo on Xbox Live. Most stuff like "Hey, do you get migraines?" and "migrainboy, huh, cool name." Most people don't seem to be aware of how the name came about.
Back in college I used to watch more MTV cartoons than is really considered healthy. Shows like Beavis and Buthead, Aeon Flux and The Maxx (one of my favorites). Around this time a few shorts were on MTV for a cartoon called "Migraine Boy".
Migraine Boy is the anti-hero of the cartoon and he is a little kid with a constantly splitting headache. He also has a little friend (who I think is named Aspirin Boy) who is in love with Migraine Boy and also his nemesis. The MTV shorts are based on simple 6 panel comics that run in independent weekly newspapers and were featured on REM's album Monster.
Yesterday during a somewhat random google search for Migraine Boy I found the official site of Migraine Boy's author/artist Greg Fiering. I'm not sure how long it has been up, but it can't have been for more than a few months, since I think I looked for this a while ago. Anyway, the good news is that he is updating the site somewhat regularly with new Migraine Boy strips. He also has an archive of posted strips and the MTV shorts available.
I guess I'll just have to add it two my list of regular web comic reads. I've listed most of the webcomics I read after the jump (I left out a couple that I don't read regularly).