Cartoonists

Kickstarter, the website that allows creative types to raise money by direct appeal to a community of supporters, has been helping all sorts of folks get their dream comics out there -- from reprints of obscure old comics, to webcomic collections. Most projects we've seen are fairly modest. But some are much bigger in scope. Tony Harris has just turned to Kickstarter for his new project ROUNDEYE: For Love. That would be Starman/Ex Machina, five-time Eisner nominee Tony Harris.

A series of videos interviewing Vancouver comics legend Colin Upton . His website is here.

Congrats to writer Brian Wood on the arrival of Ian McMurray Wood, born last Thursday, 9 lb., 4 oz.

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 Basically he felt the website was out of date and supplanted by social media, and newer ventures were more business targeted: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.