Webcomics

It happens so seldom that it must be celebrated. Nick Gurewitch's much missed webcomic has a new strip out this week. Gurewitch dramatically scaled back production of his popular strip in February, 2008, citing a desire to stay fresh and work on some multimedia projects. He's been disappointingly quiet since then. Come back, Nick! Come back! We need you!

Matt Sundstrom has created a pretty adorable all-ages Halloween comic starring Punkin & Boo.

With the Garrity Doctrine igniting uproar all over the intertubes, Webcomic Overlook's El Santo presents a rebuttal of sorts, Ten Things To Know About the Future of Webcomics. While any kind of manga-vs-webcomics fight is silly -- they are parallel and non-competitive -- lists are always fun. He admits a lot of the list is quite off the cuff, but a couple of points strike us as especially pertinent:

Kate Beaton gets her annual spot in the Halloween countdown with Children of the Night.

While comics fans were celebrating comics and other delights at New York Comic Con, publishers and fans in Europe were congregating in Frankfurt, Germany,...

Not Comics, but it does shed some light on behavior. While we're rounding up some scientific jargon, GigaOM reports that millennials need Wi-Fi the way previous generations needed fresh air and vitamin C. (Millennials are here defined as 17-29 year-olds.)

The other day comics/tech guru Scott McCloud posted examples of two webcomics using current navigation techniques to give advanced motion and storytelling effects. One, Turbo Defiant Kimecan (top) uses Flash to allow readers to time the appearance of panels and balloons. Never Mind the Bullets (bottom) uses HTML 5 to gives kind of "motion comics-y" floating animation. As McCloud points out, both are just examples, not role models -- Never Mind the Bullets suggested we download IE9, which was an immediate fail. The comments are unkind:

From the Bento Comics site, a little horror story, Elevator by Queenie Chan. The story is downloadable for a variety of e-readers as well.

Artist Jana Christy talks about donating a kidney to her brother in her webcomic, the kidney thing

Zach Hazard fights the man.

Several Pekar Project strips are appearing after the death of Harvey Pekar, including the new Untitled, with art by Rick Parker. Two more strips...

Both of artist Colleen Doran's sites -- A Distant Soil and Colleendoran.com -- have been hacked, she confirmed in a phone call. Luckily, all...