Weekend reading: Saturday Morning Webtoons
J. Bone! J. Torres! Eric Orchard! Agnes Garbowska! All these cartoonists and more can be found at Saturday Morning Webtoons, an all ages comics portal. Among the strips featured:
Frank Quitely covers Walking Dead #100
Frank Quitely has provided a variant cover for the landmark issue, which will be released at Comic-Con.
Creepy!
Nice, er, Historical art: Indie Cover Spotlight
Dara Naraghi has been running a features on his blog called Indie Cover Spotlight where he goes through his longboxes and pulls out the amazing, unlikely, and just plain forgotten indie comics of yore, say, like this cover of something called STAR RANGERS by Dave Dorman, a loving tribute to Fredric Wertham.
Introducing: the AlphaBooks project
Ben Towle is at it again, organizing another alphabetical tour through some delightful category. Last time it was fantastic beasts; this time, it's fictional characters, and it's called AlphaBooks. Towle kicks it off with A is for Captain Ahab and a quote on his blog fromMoby Dick:
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.
Nice art: Danny Hellman
Danny Hellman—one of the signature art styles in the New York illustration world until that went kerflooey. The Holy Yost has a shout-out.
Nice art: John Cebollero
Artist John Cebollero has a new sketchbook out called DEEP DRAG. IF you're a fan of deeply caustic Will Elder/Richard Corben-inspired comics art, Cebollero is the man for you.
Nice art: Mike Allred draws Daredevil #17
DAREDEVIL continues to be the superhero book that proves that "nice art" can be better than "house style" as Mike Allred takes over for an issue. Mark Waid continues to write.
The strange case of the stolen Joe Simon artwork
Daniel Best is at it again, this time with the decades-spanning story of Joe Simons's stolen artwork and a subsequent investigation by the FBI:
MoCCA debuts and notable books
Better late than never! Please at least scroll through this (very incomplete) listing of new books out at MoCCA and just look at the pictures if nothing els.e There are some pretty amazing books coming out that haven't gotten that much press, so I think it's wroth your while.
