Comics Bestsellers: by the numbers
There's been a lot of talk lately about comics on various bestsellers lists, and of course, comics have their OWN bestseller list at Publishers...
Virginia Tech comics
We recently got an email from a Brazillian cartoonist named Latuff who had posted some comics based on the Virginia Tech shootings at Deviant...
Hutch Owen’s Spider Week
While Spider-Week rages throughout New York's five burroughs -- and Spider-Man 3 has opened to record box office in Asia -- Tom Hart presents...
Humor can be funny–sometimes
The above strip, from Chris Muir's DAY BY DAY, has become a bit of a teapot tsunami for political blogospherians who make a living...
News and notes
§ The LA Times looks at the rising sales for novels based on manga. Already a huge category in Japan, the novels are catching...
Boy on a Stick and Slither goes to Comics.com
As the line between comic strips and webcomics continues to blur, more of Ted Rall's handiwork is visible at United Media, as Steven L....
Rall on Maakies
Ted Rall's Maakies strip has finally been published..
There's a long history here, but the short version is that Tony Millionaire and Ted Rall agreed...
Pibgorn to return to the web
Here's a story going around that strikes us as hiving quite a bit of interest. PIBGORN was one of United Media's wwebcomics (yes they...
Catch-up news: Burford, etc.
Some interesting stuff that we caught on our spin around the web:
§Brendan Burford named to replace the late Jay Kennedy:
Brendan Burford has been named...
SUTTON IMPACT ends
Ward Sutton writes to say he is wrapping up his SUTTEN IMPACT strip which ran in the Village Voice among other places.
In the...
RIP Brant Parker
Wow, they're going fast. 'Wizard of Id' cartoonist Brant Parker has died at age 86, Parker of course collaborated on Id with Johnny...
Morning News Briefs
§ Alex Raymond's space adventurer Flash Gordon returns in a new TV show on the SciFi channel, starring Eric Johnson:
The 22-hour series is...