Cartoonists

The annual Halloween party thrown at the home of Anina Bennett and Paul Guinan of Boilerplate fame, seems to have been a real humdinger.

"They're big, they're sharp-edged and they contain a lot of energy." Is there anyone other than Galactus who could possibly be behind this???? Head for...

Several readers were offended by this post, in which I snarked a bit on my old friend Kyle Baker for letting his name domain lapse. Although I know Kyle well enough to know he wouldn't have been bothered, I took down the post and contacted Kyle on Facebook (since his kyle@kylebaker.com email no longer worked) and we had a brief correspondence. And then he posted Whatever Happened To Kylebaker.com? which is a total history of the portfolio website and the internet in one. Basically he felt the website was out of date and supplanted by social media, and newer ventures were more business targeted:

Sign o' the times: Josh Neufeld was being sent around the world by the US State Dept. as am ambassador of free speech:

Raina Telgemeier has had a busy year promoting her graphic novel SMILE -- which was just picked as an Honor Book for the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards. She shares some of her pictures, including stops in Maine, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Toronto, and Queens. Here's Telegemier at the Dumbo Arts Festival just a week ago.

Speaking of Cartoonists Doing Things: Steve Murray -- the birth name of the cartoonist better known worldwide as Chip Zdarsky -- has launched a campaign for mayor of Toronto, ON:

The folks at Penny Arcade are running "Rob Liefeld Pose" * contest to promote the Liefeld inspired video game Comic Jumper. And artist Rob Liefeld entered it himself.

Via FLOG, word of a new, expanded website for Johnny Ryan with a blog and prints and all. The above are examples of new prints for sale.

Matt Furie, creator of the much loved indie comic BOY'S CLUB, has supplied the art for a web-video game called Return of the Quack. And it's excellent. It's Friday! At 2 pm the workweek ends, and you may commence playing this game.

And speaking of the '80s -- and Rob Clough! -- he's conducting a career-spanning interview with Steve Lafler over at The Comics Journal. Springing from the underground sensibility of the '70s, Lafler was a fixture of the alt comix of the 80s and beyond with his iconic characters Dog Boy and Benb. From the intro:

Vanessa Davis and her delightful Make Me a Woman are coming to several towns near you in the coming months:

Looking to get high today? What If Kirby is a new site devoted to new, detailed, mind-blasting scans of Jack Kirby's artwork, and honestly just a few minutes of browsing sent The Beat tripping into new realms. Purchase of a membership in the Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center gives access to the real hard stuff however: even bigger scans.