Comics

Greg Rucka and Rick Burchett are teaming on a new steampunk/pirates/western comic called LADY SABRE AND THE PIRATES OF THE INEFFABLE ETHER, as revealed in the Stumptown podcast at about the 41:28 mark. It will appear initially as a webcomic this July.

After 107 entries, writer/tweeter Roger Ebert ha finally won The New Yorker's cartoon caption contest, Robert Mankoff reports. He also notes that it akes practice to make perfect:

Illustrator/animator/visual storyteller Shaun Tan gets profiled in the Sunday NY Times Magazine, the traditional anointing of a major creative figure.

As promised, here are more photos of Stumptown: the comics festival and the parties that just won't quit!

Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson has a been a notorious recluse for 16 years or so; however, he has broken his visual silence for a pretty worthy cause, Michael Cavna reports. Watterson has donated a painting -- yes a painting -- of Richard Thompson's Petey character from Cul-de-Sac to a Parkinson's disease benefit. (Thompson suffers from that illness.)

And as we head off to the weekend....via Tyler Walpole at The Gutters

What is the greatest convention moment of all time? It might just be described in this post!

Digital comics, Dark Horse layoffs, why SPX doesn't reach the civilian, royalties...wow, it's all coming out now, folks.

So this is...whoa. It's very SF. Very STAR WARS, like everyone has been saying all along.

When he isn't doing stunning art for comics, Jock has a busy career doing concept art for motion pictures as well. He's just released some concept art/posters for HANNA, the well-reviewed film starring Saoirse Ronan as a 16-year-old trained assassin.

Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca's totally groovy AFRODISIAC has been nominated for an Eisner for Best Humor Publication. But it's currently between printings. What to do? AdHouse has put it up to read for free:

To ensure that every possible Eisner Award voter has all of the necessary information to cast their ballot in a responsible and educated manner, we have decided to put the entire book online for FREE.