Konfabulator - the comic

A week ago, the announcement that Yahoo! was buying Konfabulator stirred a lot of buzz through the blogosphere. The whole 'widget' thing isn't particularly something I'm interested in. What did catch my eye - however - is that Konfabulator chose to introduce their concept using Comics as Communication.

Too often I see technical folk stumble and bumble their way through a description of just what these things are. But here, in a few dozen panels we learn, not only what this little piece of software is and can do, but we get the whole backstory of its development and a nice introduction to its new life at Yahoo! Fabulous work.

What's more, the comic is by the incredibly talented and remarkable Vera Brosgol. I've been following Vera's work since I first stumbled upon 'Return to Sender' three or four years back. Konfabulator couldn't have picked a better talent to work with.