Webcomics

Superheroes sometimes come in for some criticism here at The Beat—I was a teenaged superhero reader but haven't read them regularly in a looooong...

In a story on how Grumpy Cat—the dwarf cat that people (including The Beat) will line up for hours just to see—is worth $1 million, it's revealed that one of her signature catch phrases first appeared in a cartoon by Kate Beaton. Which wouldn't be so odd except that Grumpy's manager, who is a "meme manager", is very litigious about other people stealing his own memes. Beaton, who hasn't received any money from the cat or her manager, is philosophical about the whole thing, writing:

How had we not noticed that Darryl Cunningham has been serializing a comics biography of Ayn Rand over at Act--i-vate?

A new book by Matthew Inman is coming out, collecting his comics from The Oatmeal. It's called Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants,...

This news has been around for a while, but it never got it's own item, so here it is: Hyperbole and a Half, Allie...

Mini-comics and stick-figure philosophy pioneer Matt Feazall has been turning out his delightful mini-comics since the 80s. Now he had an Indiegogo campaign going for The Amazing Cynicalman Vol. 2, a collection of his weekly strips from 2002 on.

Boulet is awesome, nuff said. The French cartoonist is very popular in his home country, and his amazing 24 hour comic published here by AdHouse as Noirness has begun to get him a well deserved US following.

The Private Eye, the webcomic by Brian K. Vaughan, Marcos Martin and Muntsa Vicente about a world without the internet, is up to the...

Continuing with the raccoons, a 24-hour comic in only 9 pages about a raccoon and a kitty cat by DV user Anima Project:All you...

Live from San Diego Comic-Con, it's More To Come! Heidi and Calvin Reid's podcast from Publishers Weekly Comics World brings you special coverage from...

Okay... here's a sampling of what's been being fed through the newswires today from the Comic-Carnival in San Diego... --- Man of Action Studios partners remember...

Zainab brought this Kickstarter to my attention a little while back, which seeks to bring the webcomic Not Enough Rings to print. Drawn by...