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"If you gals think comics are just for nerds, I have something that&amp;#39;s going to make you change your mind. This one is a little sassy, a little racy, a little &amp;quot;aww&amp;quot;-worthy and a lot genius. Allow me introduce you to your newest obsession: A Softer World.\nI&amp;#39;ve been a huge fan of A Softer World for a while, but their most recent post was so adorable that I knew I had to share it with you Smitten Kittens. Take a look (and make sure you hover over the images for the alt text!):\nPinterestFacebookClick here to see it full-size.\nAmazing, right? To give you ladies a proper introduction to the series that has me smitten, I chatted with A Softer World founders Emily Horne and Joey Comeau to get a peek inside their world:\nGive the Smitten gals a little background on A Softer World, and a bit about both of you.\nEmily: Joey and I started making A Softer World back in 2001 or 2002. We both lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia at the time, where there was an annual zine fair. The two of us would head to the all-night photocopy shop with a typewriter and a stack of photographs, and make a dozen comics on paper to sell at the fair. We started putting them online in 2003, so our out-of-town friends could see them, and then became involved with the wider world of webcomics and webcomics creators. We&amp;#39;ve since moved around the country a bit&amp;#8212;I spent five years on the west coast, for instance&amp;#8212;but we both now live in Toronto. Joey also writes novels and short stories, and I have been doing book design on the side, but for the most part we support ourselves with the proceeds from A Softer World. We&amp;#39;ve only been able to get to that point through eight years of slow growth, and we&amp;#39;re incredibly grateful to our readers who have stuck with us!\nWhat kind of outlook on relationships do you think your comics convey? Do you tend to view relationships and life that way yourselves?\nJoey: The comic swings back and forth between a stark realist view of relationships and a wildly romantic idea of love. Personally I&amp;#39;m not sure where we stand between those two extremes. Wild romance is exciting, and it makes life taste better. But there are certain types of romanticism that are dangerous because they make a story out of the relationship and make the other person just a prop in that story, rather than treating them as a person.\nPinterestFacebookAnd here&amp;#39;s the full-size of this one.\nHow does where you are in your own relationships and lives affect your photos and captions?\nEmily: From the photography perspective, everything that happens in my life has a direct bearing on where the comic goes and what it looks like. I don&amp;#39;t generally get people to pose for photographs, I just have a camera on me at all times, so if I see something interesting, I capture it (if I can). As the groups of friends I spend time with changes, the population of the comic changes as well. People I&amp;#39;m in relationships with will certainly be featured more often than most! Joey and I were actually dating&amp;#8212;and living together!&amp;#8212;when we first started making A Softer World. We decided to break up and I moved across the country when we&amp;#39;d only been putting the comic online for about eight months. But as far as direct parallels go, I don&amp;#39;t think a reader could look at the comic and pinpoint when that happened. Relationships go through so many stages, even when you&amp;#39;re feeling smitten or devastated, those feelings aren&amp;#39;t present all the time, and they don&amp;#39;t necessarily come out when you&amp;#39;d think they would. I&amp;#39;m so happy that we were able to keep working on this together, and I think having this project has improved our post-breakup friendship immensely. So maybe\u2026everyone who breaks up with someone ought to start a years-long project? This is why I make internet comics instead of giving advice\u2026\nPinterestFacebookHere&amp;#39;s the full-size.\nHah! I love it. Thanks for chatting with us, Emily and Joey!\nSo, wanna get as addicted to A Softer World as I am? Head to their site and dig on in (you can start with Emily&amp;#39;s favorite or Joey&amp;#39;s favorite strip if you want).\nWhat do you gals think of A Softer World? Did you find comic on the site that totally resonates with you? Share it in the comments!\n*What&amp;#39;s With All the Spam in the Comments Section?\nSick of all those annoying ads in the comments section lately? So are we! We police the site regularly and delete spam as soon as we can, but recently, the volume of spam has increased dramatically. We&amp;#39;re working on a way to block them permanently, so please bear with us, and know that we&amp;#39;re as eager as you are to get rid of these pests.\nMeanwhile, please continue to use the Report Abuse button to flag spam--it really does help!-- and continue to leave your brilliant feedback below. If you have any urgent questions about the spam, please contact us.\nAnd a special note to you, spammers; we officially declare you a major DON&amp;#39;T.*\nMore Ways to Get Glamour\nVisit ShopGlamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10!\nEnter the latest Glamour sweepstakes!\nFollow us on Twitter!\nAdd us to your iGoogle homepage.\nPhotos Courtesy of A Softer World"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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