A comic strip about graduate student life started by
Stanford Mechanical Engineering student
Jorge Cham, and starring quasi-fictional grad students
Cecilia,
Tajel, and
Slackerney. The strip debuted in
The Stanford Daily in
1997 and is now entering its sixth year of publication. Recently, Cham has come out with a collection of the first five years of strips and the strip has been picked up by other papers around the nation.
http://www.phdcomics.com/