Webcomics

A very special comics "experience" -- the new xkcd: Click and Drag is an actually a vast, draggable world of in-jokes and wonder. There's even a guide to the comic strip. It's immersive and amazing.

[You can't run a comics company without making some waves, and the name Bill Jemas still conjures up strong reactions from many who were around when he ran Marvel from 2000-2004. Jemas, along with Joe Quesada, oversaw a period of revolution and rebirth for Marvel as they started the Ultimates line and made many other business changes. Controversial at the time, Ultimization and other bold moves definitely put Marvel back in the game and provided a blueprint for future company-wide changes—as well as making Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Millar and J. Michael Straczynski household names in households where comics are read.

The Shifty Look webcomic portal has just announced a Katamari comic by Alex Culang and Raynato Castro, the duo behind the site's Buttersafe. Launched this summer, Shifty Look is dedicated to resurrecting old NamCo Bandai video game properties as webcomics. Katamari Damacy is of course the much-beloved video game where players roll a giant magnetic ball around to pick up crap and rebuild the sky. You could say it's a literary nerd classic, and these designs are adorable.

By Steve Morris We've reported on a comic becoming a show, now here's a show becoming a comic. The Insider reports that Jane Espenson and...

Boing-Boing, the blog that made blogging cool, is publishing its first ongoing SFf comic...and it's the venerable indie comics classic Elfquest! Starting Monday, Boing Boing will serialize an all new Elfquest story by creators Richard and Wendy Pini:

Andrew Pepoy's Simone and Ajax is a charming long running strip about a woman pirate and her dinosaur. Pepoy's been working on it in various forms since the early 90s—a collection, The Adventures of Simone & Ajax, is available from IDW (a collection I never knew even existed until now) and Pepoy has now brought it back as a once a week webcomic. Bookmark.

Future comics by Jen Lee. Expect to see this everywhere by the end of the week. Amzing.

The world has been changed. Go see why in the link.

This homage to Wally Woods's 22 Panels that ALWAYS work by Mark Waid and Jeremy Rock at The Gutters nails quite a few good ones. Go to the link for the other four—oh and a snark about a DC executive. CAN U GUESS WHO?

Creator Gar Molloy wrote to us to say it was the 10 Year anniversary of his webcomic Neko the Kitty, with over 900 strips completed. We're not too familiar with the comis, but it has a kitty and that's good enough for The Beat, especially when it means kitties doing the happy dance to celebrate.

Chris Miskiewicz and Dean Haspiel (making his return to the webcomic collective Act-i-vate) present Obambies Everywhere! which is...well I think you can figure it out.

RUN! DO NOT WALK! To Domatile Collardey's Wreckhall Abbey, a new comic about a private school for girls in the proud tradition of St. Trinians and more. Holy crap, this looks AMAZING.