Only you can make Jim Woodring’s giant steel pen dreams come true!
The great fantasist/cartoonist Jim Woodring has only raised 49 percent of the $4500 he needs to construct a Giant Steel Dip Pen and Penholder which he will use to demonstrate art, cure cancer, open a portal to Vhoori, save Social Security and make kittens fly out of rainbows.
In this dimension, Woodring's plans for the giant pen are equally noble:
Gabrielle Bell’s San Diego continues
Wow, shit gets very, very personal in this installment.
Cartoonists Doing Things: Ted Rall
Cartoonists Ted Rall, Mat Bors and photographer Steven Cloud are in Afghanistan to tell "the people's story" and send back cartoons. They've been uploading them as often as possible using satellite phones.
Summer Reading: Abner Dean
Jordan Crane's great storage room of comics, WHAT THINGS DO, posts What Am I Doing Here? by Abner Dean, a lovely mid-century comics collection....
Women who went to Comic-Con and drew comic strips about it
Jillian Tamaki
And Gabrielle Bell -- this one is an EPIC.
We could have SWORN there was a third...but can't find it now. Readers?
The Mysterious World of Mr. Mark Millar
Could this be a cover subject for CLInT Magazine?
And why is Mr. Millar wearing ear goggles?
Developing.
Colleen Doran’s sites hacked, but will return
Both of artist Colleen Doran's sites -- A Distant Soil and Colleendoran.com -- have been hacked, she confirmed in a phone call. Luckily, all...
Nice Art: James Stokoe draws the hell out of Galactus
Canadian artist James Stokoe (ORC STAIN, WONTON SOUP) tweeted a warm-up drawing of Galactus, seen full-size here. Holy crap.
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CAPS auction to benefit Heath and Reese
On August 25th CAPS, The Comic Art Professional Society is hosting a benefit auction on August 25 in Burbank to support veteran comics artists...
Things the internet was made for: Kanye New Yorker cartoons
Take one part Kanye West's completely solipsistic Twitter feed. Add in one part abstruse New Yorker cartoons. Result: comedy.
Happy 10th Anniversary, Narbonic
Happy anniversary, Shaenon T. Garrity! It was July 31, 2000 that she launched Narbonic, one of the first prominent webcomics by a woman. Since then she's launched several other webcomics, including Skin Horse, won the Lulu of the Year award, worked as an editor and creator in both traditional comics and manga, and become one of the liveliest, most insightful comics commentators on the web. She's a treasure, that's what.
Frank Miller introduces The Fixer
In an interview with Geoff Boucher, Frank Miller reveals the evolution of his Holy Terror, Batman! story. As many anticipated, it will no longer star Batman, and will find a new publisher, which isn't DC. The story has been adjusted to star, instead, a character called, The Fixer:
