Webcomics

No one really knew what the GHOST THROAT postcards around MoCCA meant, but everyone thought it was indeed fresh.

Dov Torbin and Asher Berman

are two Americans who happened to be in Egypt when the recent revolution broke out. The Revolution Will Be Televised is Torbin's comics account of two American travelers who, through clouds of tear gas, watch a country evolve and find themselves altered by the experience. It's launching today on ACT-I-VATE.

We're on deadline so while we're catching up, just go read Mike Norton's BATTLEPUG.

MK Reed (Americus) writes to alert us to her new webcomic About A Bull which adapts the Tain Bo Cuailnge -- a colorful section of Irish legend revolving around Queen Maeve and her jealousy over the majesty of someone else's bull. Hijinks, battles and feats of amazing derring-do ensue.

After several years and three printed collections, cartoonist Julia Wertz has announced that she's finally retiring the Fart Party name for her comic strip. The name had been a constant source of bemusement for Wertz over the years -- although it didn't seem all that appropriate as the name of a comic strip about a 20-something young woman, it had the advantage of name recognition. BUt eventually it was time to move on, she explains. Wertz has moved her comics over to juliawertz.com, where her strip will continue under the moniker Museum of Mistakes.

The winners of the 2010 Webcomics List Award have been announced -- fittingly -- in a webcomic. Winners were chosen by a panel of judges: Although there is not a text list of winners, Brigid Alverson at Robot 6 made a print list:

Continuing their five-year anniversary party, webcomic collective ACT-I-VATE announces another new strip, SUMFIN' SILLY by Xeric-winner Nathan Schreiber (POWER OUT). It's the self-proclaimed "silliest comic on the web."

To celebrate the birthday, a new anthology strip is launching on ACT-I-VATE. EVERYWHERE, by Chris Miskiewicz and Andrew Wendel , is set in a world where animals have suddenly appeared and are wreaking havoc. ... Episodes will run the first of every month featuring the talents of Rick Parker (Marvel, MTV’s Beavis & Butthead), Dennis Calero (X-Men), Nathan Schreiber (Power Out), Bobby Timony (Night Owls), Maurice Fontenot (Ghost Pimp), Thomas Baehr (The End is Here), Seth Kushner (Culture Pop/Graphic NYC), Rodney Ramos (Transmetropolitan/Green Lantern), Kate McElroy (Fables 100), Chris Sinderson (Next Door Neighbor/Twisted/Savage Dragon Funnies), Ashley Quigg, and more TBA.

Via Fleen

The big news of the day: D&Q has picked up Kate Beaton and will publish her next collection, HARK! A VAGRANT. Beaton's current print outlet is the Topatoco edition of Never Learn Anything from History, which, every time we've seen Beaton at a show -- is sold out. Grrrrrr. It isn't clear from the PR if this is a new edition of that material or all new but the word "next" suggests the latter.

The art of Victor Kerlow has been featured in The New Yorker, the NY Times, and many other outlets. His website contains not only his lovely illos but many of his comics, which are also collected in Small Victories, a volume he was kind enough to send us a review copy of. While the art is immediately stunning, stories of danger in toilets, lumberjack exploits and other mysteries makes for a fine assemblage of comics.

Misspelling and all...this is hilarious. : Via Drawn!