Webcomics

They are infrequent and thus all the more precious.

In this as always charming outing for Tablet Magazine, Davis explains the ins and outs of engagement rings.

Among the lists of Twitter-base comedies, roast spin-offs and other hapless men in a hostile world of supermarkets and doorknob comedies,Comedy Central announced one deal based on a webcomic, namely CYANIDE AND HAPPINESS, the generally amusing stick-figure theater comic by Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, Matt Melvin and Dave McElfatrick, all of whom will exec produce. The show is described as "a half-hour animated show featuring the twisted humor of a world populated by glorified stick figures." The CYANIDE crew has already been producing shorts and an iPhone app, so this is just anther step in their world conquest.

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Sound your horn! After a lengthy hiatus, Chris Onstad's emblematic webcomic is back -- hoo boy, is it ever. If you've never hit this dance floor before, Chris Sims has a good beginner's guide with bios for Ray Smuckles, Roast Beef, Philippe, and the rest. Don't desert us, Chris Onstad. We need you more than ever.

It's Randall Munroe's world; we just live in it. Case in point: this mind-boggling chart of where the money goes.

Promoting a comic-con with a webcomic? Why didn't *we* think of that? Emerald City Comicon -- to be held March 30-April 1 in Seattle -- has broken the seal on this idea with "Tales from the Con", a weekly strip by Brad Guigar and Chris Giarrusso. You came for the vendor update and stayed for the laugh.

As we've previously mentioned, Derek Kirk Kim is a real hyphenate. Note only is his webcomic TUNE going strong towards a Fall 2012 collection, but he's just finished posting to YouTube 9 episodes of MYTHOMANIA, a parallel video series following cartoonist Andy Go and his millennial adventures.And now it has a poster!

This rollicking space acventure updates every Tuesday. Creator Victor Kerlow is best known for his illustrations in the New Yorker and elsewhere, but once in a while he gifts us with one of his excellent comics.

A little All Saints' Day grave remembrance from the LA Times and Mimi Pond. Pond's upcoming graphic memoir about the Bay area counterculture, OVER EASY, is due from Drawn & Quarterly one of these days.

If Heidi Klum is the queen of Halloween costumes, Emily Carroll is now the queen of Halloween webcomics. Following last year's "His Face All Red" Carroll has created MARGOT'S ROOM, an interactive comic that is guaranteed to give you the creeps. Read the poem on the first page and then click in the proper order on the main image...if you read this after dark we DARE you not to feel a chill.

More spooky webcomic from Tor.com. This one is by Jim Ottaviani and Sean Bieri and it's about ZOMBIE KITTENS.