Mindy Kaling's comics from her undergraduate days at Dartmouth first surfaced on Tumblr in 2013, but have gone mainstream only recently, the Huffington Post reported. Most known for her supporting role on "The Office" and her current starring role on her self-titled show, "The Mindy Project" (pretty good reviews), Kaling first began testing her trademark one-liners as a comics writer at Dartmouth, which she graduated in 2001.

Her work, found here, was titled "Badly Drawn Girl" as a reference to her own poor artistic skills and less-than-neat penmanship. Her jokes and commentary, however, were much sharper.

There's nothing groundbreaking about Kaling's short, four-boxed comics, that were popular at Dartmouth (according to the Huff Post), but perhaps some evidence of the successful actress and comedian she was to become.

Kaling offered a quote to Reader's Digest recently that went something like, "the trouble with dinner parties is that interesting people never want to talk about themselves and boring people don't know how to ask the right questions." The attitude against social norms is at the heart of many comedians' work, and it's what drives Kaling's Dartmouth creativity. In her second strip, she comments on how to achieve "coolness" on a college campus by: never being seen alone, wearing archaic clothes, and also wearing the most fashionable clothes.

Perhaps setting her work apart (though perhaps only years later) was the clarity of her writing, the strange vocabulary (she addresses everyone as shmen, which on urban dictionary is an individual with an indistinguishable sexuality) and with that vocabulary, the inside jokes Kaling seems to be carrying on with herself. She also has some creative one-liners. "Math is a pretty-sounding word," Badly Drawn Girl tells her mathematics professor/academic advisor when informing him she'll become an English major. (In actuality, Kaling was a playwriting major.)

That style is raised to a whole new level in "The Mindy Project." As described in the New Yorker's favorable review, "She's pugnacious, she's self-centered, she's helplessly shallow. Yet she has the nerve (the sense of entitlement, really) to insist that she's the star of her own story anyway."

Basically, she's a more seasoned version of herself from those Badly Drawn Girl comics days.