Holiday explorations: Achewood is back
Sound your horn! After a lengthy hiatus, Chris Onstad's emblematic webcomic is back -- hoo boy, is it ever. If you've never hit this dance floor before, Chris Sims has a good beginner's guide with bios for Ray Smuckles, Roast Beef, Philippe, and the rest. Don't desert us, Chris Onstad. We need you more than ever.
Continue Readingxkcd’s Amazing Money Chart
It's Randall Munroe's world; we just live in it. Case in point: this mind-boggling chart of where the money goes.
Continue ReadingWebcomic alert: Emerald City Comicon launches “Tales from the Con”
Promoting a comic-con with a webcomic? Why didn't *we* think of that? Emerald City Comicon -- to be held March 30-April 1 in Seattle -- has broken the seal on this idea with "Tales from the Con", a weekly strip by Brad Guigar and Chris Giarrusso. You came for the vendor update and stayed for the laugh.
Continue ReadingVideo alert: Derek Kirk Kim’s MYTHOMANIA finishes Season One
As we've previously mentioned, Derek Kirk Kim is a real hyphenate. Note only is his webcomic TUNE going strong towards a Fall 2012 collection, but he's just finished posting to YouTube 9 episodes of MYTHOMANIA, a parallel video series following cartoonist Andy Go and his millennial adventures.And now it has a poster!
Continue ReadingWebcomic alert: What’s in the Backpack by Victor Kerlow
This rollicking space acventure updates every Tuesday. Creator Victor Kerlow is best known for his illustrations in the New Yorker and elsewhere, but once in a while he gifts us with one of his excellent comics.
Continue ReadingWebcomics alert: Hollywood Forever by Mimi Pond
A little All Saints' Day grave remembrance from the LA Times and Mimi Pond. Pond's upcoming graphic memoir about the Bay area counterculture, OVER EASY, is due from Drawn & Quarterly one of these days.
Continue Reading24 Hours of Halloween: MARGOT’S ROOM by Emily Carroll
If Heidi Klum is the queen of Halloween costumes, Emily Carroll is now the queen of Halloween webcomics. Following last year's "His Face All Red" Carroll has created MARGOT'S ROOM, an interactive comic that is guaranteed to give you the creeps. Read the poem on the first page and then click in the proper order on the main image...if you read this after dark we DARE you not to feel a chill.
Continue Reading24 Hours of Halloween: Better Zombies Through Physics 01 by Jim Ottaviani and Sean Bieri
More spooky webcomic from Tor.com. This one is by Jim Ottaviani and Sean Bieri and it's about ZOMBIE KITTENS.
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24 Hours of Halloween: EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson
Quite a few holiday-themed strips are up at Johnson's EXTRA-LIFE webcomic.
Continue Reading31 Days of Halloween: Red Light Properties
Another haunted webcomic, this time Red Light Properties Dan Goldman's creepy series about a real estate agency that specializes in cleaning up then selling haunted houses. Cory Doctorow gave it a big plug the other day:
Continue ReadingWebcomic alert: Muktuk Wolfsbreath is drawing to a close
We've previously plugged Terry LaBan's MUKTUK WOLFSBREATH, HARD BOILED SHAMAN because it's a hardboiled detective story about love, metaphysics, and obsession set among reindeer-herding tribesmen in the chilly forests of Siberia. Best elevator pitch ever! Terry writes to let us know the story is wrapping up soon, so there's still time to jump on board the reindeer.
Continue Reading31 Days of Halloween: spooky webcomics
HABE writes with some links to webcomics suitable for the spooky season, starting with his own anthology The Midnight Tea Party, a Goth Lolita collection of tales, and "Fairy Soup" illustrated by Ashley Cope, creator of Unsounded (below).
Continue ReadingWebcomic alert: BRAIN ROT by Ed Piskor
Continuing today's trend of Ed Piskor webcomics at hugely successful blogs, his new strip Brain Rot is now running at Boing Boing, the memaw of all blogs. Piskor's Wizzywig, a comic about the history of hacking, recently wrapped, and the new one looks to be both personal and created in a style to ape aging Silver Age comics.
Continue ReadingEngadget brings the comics by Brown, Harbin, Piskor
Engadget, the hugely popular tech blog, is now running comics by Box Brown, Dustin Harbin, Ed PIskor and more. The comics will eventually appear on the Distro app and the web. Given the subject matter, an eventual appearance on Tumblr/refrigerator doors seems likely.
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