Comics

The Stumptown Comics Fest unfolds this weekend in Portland, one of the premier events on  the indie comics circuit, and what with the Mayor...

Can a gay teen comically get in trouble with Mr. Weatherbee, humorously strive to win a burger eating contest, make horrible puns and have trouble deciding who to date? At Archie Comics, the answer is yes, as they have introduced their first openly gay character, Kevin Keller. In the words of Archie Co-CEO Jon Goldwater, “The introduction of Kevin is just about keeping the world of Archie Comics current and inclusive. Archie’s hometown of Riverdale has always been a safe world for everyone. It just makes sense to have an openly gay character in Archie comic books.”

Although clouds of volcanic ash kept most Americans away from the London Book Fair this week, the locals battled their way through, and there...

As he mentioned on his C2E2 panel, Chris Ware recently finished a cover for Fortune magazine, only to see it killed, perhaps because of...

Cartoon Brew, the respected animation blog, ran the promo art for the new Looney Tunes show we mentioned yesterday day, and the reaction can...

Many more in this link. Is it our imagination, or is Kate Beaton getting even MORE polished and sophisticated in her cartooning and...

Designer Steven Finch aka Fonografiks -- designer of such books as POPGUN 3, KILL ALL PARENTS!, and AQUA LEUNG, has fun reimagining the...

UPDATED with actual art! Deadline's Nellie Andreeva reports on Cartoon Network's upfronts and there is much for Our Kind, a Young Justice cartoon, and a...

Peggy Burns has the results of the Strand bookstores design-a-tote contest; this is the SECOND place bag from rising star Domitille Collardey; the...

The Village Voice has a big cover story on Jaime Hernandez: While Hernandez's L&R women have often been lookers, over the past 29 years he...

The big news from Oni's panel yesterday was a license for Yo Gabba Gabba, the insanely popular show for young kids and those who...

Artist Andrew Zubko executes the cover a poll of readers said they would most like to see. via