Twiddle Rompus

The comics community is an accepting one--perhaps the most accepting. The greatest masters feel a kinship with someone who makes mini-comics, and will make time for them. It's a giving, friendly group of people who share a passion for comics and a collegial sense of belonging. But then there's Rob Granito.

Last night on Jimmy Kimmel, they attempted alchemy by taking sound from Jersey Shore and playing it over the JLA cartoon. The results were eh. But it does reference this early internet classic "Superfriends Whassup" which came out more than a decade ago, before YouTube, even:

Oh, PS, until they make that Spider-Man: The Musical opera, here's Ward Sutton's more humorous take.

For a while last night, Twitter and Facebook were a parade of laughs as a number of prominent comics pros were struck by a hacker who commandeered their tweets and status updates to suggest that "I just viewed my TOP10 Profile STALKERS. I can't believe my EX is still checking me every day." Really no fun for the hackees, but it was amusing to watch unfold. Poor Ed Brubaker was hard hit, and Chip Zdarsky suggested it was getting really out of control. Okay, maybe you had to be there.

In the spirit of Cthulhu Family Circus and other great remixes, Jon L. and Chris D. present Sheen Family Circus. In case you have been in Shaolin seclusion this week, actor Charlie Sheen has been on a manic-phase media run with a series of hyperventilated interviews highlighting our new found media ability to watch famous people pathetically and tragically act out right in front of us. As distasteful as it all is...these quotes are comedy gold.

Jody Culkin is an artist, photographer, and teacher. Thanks to being married to PW comics maven Calvin Reid, she's also a veteran of many comics and book shows. Camera in hand, she has chronicled the activities and faces of the past seven or eight years of comic cons -- her work can often be found in PW Comics Week.

But she also has a hobby.

These memes are strong today

More at Cracked.com. Although shouldn't that be "If Green Lantern WERE A Pervert"? Junior editors?

Via the Village Voice

Cartoonist Ward Suttonlooks at the recent Batman XXX movie via the healing medium of funny drawings.

Click the link if you dare.

Listen up. I know the shit you've been saying behind my back. You think I'm stupid. You think I'm immature. You think I'm a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I'm Comic Sans, and I'm the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg.