Webcomics

Jen Wang has built up a nice little shelf of graphic novels for herself—Koko Beware, which she wrote and drew, and In Real Life, which she drew from Cory Doctorow's story. And now she's launched a new webcomics called THE WHITE SNAKE, which will update when new chapters are done. The first chapter is a dandy one, opening with a mysterious murder by...snake? But which snake, and why, and what happened to the snake?

We've linked to a few of Jed McGowan's wordless comics before—including Hawaii, a best in show among geological comics, and Voyager, a wordless comic about a space probe. Despite the dry-sounding material, Xeris-winner McGowan (Lone Pines) presents them in a visually arresting way. This time out, he's got a story to tell, and it's a strange and eerie one entitled Control Room. What happens when that space probe lands on Mars with several sisters aboard? Hit the link to find out.

The long running The Last Halloween is an engrossing tale about a girl and some monsters.

While digital comics have changed the medium for good, individual comics apps haven't really taken off as much as you might think. But there...

by Edie Nugent The main stage spectacles of NYCC saw panels filled with celebrity actors and moderators alike, whipping thousands of screaming audience members into...

A lot of cartoonists—and many blogs, ahem—have taken to PAtreon as a means to finance the creation of comics. There are quite a few (a round up post is called for, maybe later this week) and Patreon doesn't make it clear who makes the most, the way Kickstarter does, but Jason Shiga recently hit $1000 a month for his Ignatz winning webcomic Demon. Given his analytic background, there's much of that in the post, but here's an excerpt:

Australian cartoonist/journalist Eleri Mai Harris isn't just an editor at The Nib, Medium's marvelous comics section, run by Matt Bors. She's a trained journalist who turned to comics to tell stories and in today's Nib she has a good one: the story of the abortive designs for Canberra, the capital of Australia. Like a few other planned capital cities—Celebration and Brasilia comes to mind—the structural, utopian approach to city design rarely works out. The story also includes a dandy forgotten woman—Frank Lloyd Wright's associate Marion Mahony Griffin. So sit back and learn some Australian and architectural history.

This Sunday's New York Times will contain what I would guess to be a full page printed version of the comicMe and the Universe by Anders Nilsen, so you may want to wait for that version to put into your scrapbook. But if you don't want to get ink on your fingers, here's a web version of a diagrammatic image of Nilsen's place in the universe.

Amazon's Jet CIty Comics imprint has been chugging along with a series of comics based on predominantly SF authors. including Hugh Howey, George RR...

Strong Female Protagonist by Brennan Lee Mulligan & Molly Ostertag has gained a nice following online, for its strong storyline and attractive art, and...

privateeye8The good news is that a new issue of THE PRIVATE EYE is available. This webcomic by Brian K. Vaughan, Marcos Martin and Muntsa Vicente posits a world where an eruption in the cloud has made privacy the most valued social element. Oh did you say "torn from today's headlines"? When this started running last year it seemed a little far fetched but after the burst cloud has spilled all of our secrets, BKV looks prescient again.