Webcomics

Illustrated version of real torture techniques used by REAL CIA operatives drawn in an old school Basil Wolverton style for added punch.

Link NSFW. As long as there have been comics, there have been people imagining what happens when Superman and Lois Lane have sex. Larry Niven's "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" set the standard, with a sobering, scientific look at Kal-El's supersonic baby paste, and the potentially horrific effects of a human/Kryptonian hybrid pregnancy. And now the new artist of Rat Queens made his own little version.

Web serialization of a comic intended for print is one of the standard models of comics production now (Although it still isn';t profitable but that's a whole other post) and here's avery insightful post by Ben Towle on the conclusion of his webcomic, Oyster War. I've been enjoying his account of local skirmishes between 19th century Chesapeake Bay oyster farmers since he started it in 2008, and much has changed in how he put the comics out in that period, including the rise of Tumblr and yet more social media. Towle offers some VERY practical advice including how running it on GoComics affected the comics, mistakes in character design and URLS (get a separate URL for your comic) and also preparing for print:

Gilbert Hernandez has a new weekly comic at Vice. So one good thing happened this week.

Return with us to the simpler days of 2007 when Nicholas's Gurewitch's The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories, a collection of his...

Brian K Vaughan writes to inform us of some Panel Syndicate related business: Hot on the heels of the release of our new series UNIVERSE!...

The other day we linked to the fine Comic Arts LA poster by Sophia Foster-Dimino. Poking around her website, we found this charming comic about the band Cibo Matto, created for Pitchfork Review. Billed as two Japanese expats singing songs about food, Cibo Matto's 1994 debut Viva! La Woman! is a staple of the 90sscene centering about Grand Royal Records, and led to the haunting Sugar Water video directed my Michel Gondry that features the same footage shown backwards in palindromatic fashion.

Al Jazeera publishes a web comic, and it's not what you expect! Two Harris County (Texas) District Attorney employees were indicted by a grand jury for...

Okay not maybe the most chipper reading, but you'll be thankful for you life after you read it> Dave Sim's Judenhass (literally "Jew hate")...

Here's a little holiday jam to get you in the mood for next week's Turkey Marathon.

Jen Wang has built up a nice little shelf of graphic novels for herself—Koko Beware, which she wrote and drew, and In Real Life, which she drew from Cory Doctorow's story. And now she's launched a new webcomics called THE WHITE SNAKE, which will update when new chapters are done. The first chapter is a dandy one, opening with a mysterious murder by...snake? But which snake, and why, and what happened to the snake?

We've linked to a few of Jed McGowan's wordless comics before—including Hawaii, a best in show among geological comics, and Voyager, a wordless comic about a space probe. Despite the dry-sounding material, Xeris-winner McGowan (Lone Pines) presents them in a visually arresting way. This time out, he's got a story to tell, and it's a strange and eerie one entitled Control Room. What happens when that space probe lands on Mars with several sisters aboard? Hit the link to find out.