Webcomics

You know how one day you had never heard of a thing and then the next day you heard about it three different places from completely different sources? Thus it is with The Beat and Connie Sun, an aspiring cartoonist who draws in between her day job in "higher education." Despite the "aspiring part" her comics are sweet and charming and will send you into the weekend with a smile.

I actually don't know anything about this, but the cover alone has got me. It's the creation of Brad McGinty.

A while ago we told you about a new service called Comic Rocket that had indexed over 2000 webcomics, and functioned as a portal to aggregate your webcomics reading in one handy place. Well since then they've added some 7000 comics by teaming up with Comic Fury, a free web-hosting service for webcomics. PR below:

Because bums are always funny, we couldn't resists linking to the Jef UK/ Paul Ahern webcomics Time Bum earlier today. But then we were reminded via Twitter that the great Michael Kupperman already did a Time Bum comic which you can read here and here and here and here.

Witness the ongoing adventures of one man with all the time in the world.  He.  Is.   Time Bum!

Stopped by the Cryptozoic pop up at 411 Market Street and things are hopping with free zombie make-up, game demos and signings. Tonight there's...

That's according to a Variety story which suggests that Fangirls are the new golden girls for marketers at Con:

You can squarely file this one under hype, but it is also of interest for you sales chart followers. The original digital comic THE LOOKOUTS, by the Penny Arcade crew of Tycho and Gabe, Cryptozoic's Cory Jones, Ben McCool, and artist Robb Mommaerts is currently the number #3 digital comic at comiXology. Here are the top ten as of midnight Sunday:

Greg Farrell, he of the Strand strike comics, has posted a new comic about the history of Obamacare. It's a history of the whole process and in case you're dying to dig in to this light-hearted topic, this might get you through easy cocktail banter.

Yet another carnival! This one, as we understand it, is set up next to the Gaslamp Hilton in that area where the Scott Pilgrim Experience once stood. It's a video game arcade set up by ShiftyLook. Details below, but the pr notes that the Shifty Look panel will feature Scott Kurtz and Kris Straub and an announcement so...add it up.

Yes it's yet ANOTHER webcomics portal, but they are all so good and fun, we just keep collecting them. Wide Awake Press has launched Epidemic of Webcomics which will feature six comics.

Famed webcomic Penny Arcade and Cryptozoic are putting out their first periodical comic in the shape of THE LOOKOUTS, a six-issue miniseries by writer Ben McCool and artist Robb Mommaerts. Penny Arcade's Mike Krahulik provides some alternative art such as that seen below. The comic will be available digitally starting next week and in print August 29th.