Steve Ellis on The Only Living Boy: “He’s a Classic Hero” [Interview]
A year or two ago I spoke to the creative team of The Only Living Boy about their project, a successful Kickstarter which led...
REVIEW: NYC Basic Tips and Etiquette by Nathan W. Pyle
NYC Basic Tips and Etiquette
Nathan W. Pyle
William Morrow/HarperCollins
$10, 144 pages
ISBN 978-0-06-230311-0
I kept expecting this book of cartoon tips to be funny and it wasn’t. Then I realized it wasn’t meant to be funny. It was meant to be what the title says: tips and etiquette.
Webcomic Alert: Default Trigger, a SF comic about student loans
Over the last few years I've done a series of panels called "How to Get News Coverage" (organized by Rik Offenberger) at various cons...
New autobio comic by Kate Beaton: Ducks
Before she was a world-famous cartoonist, Kate Beaton studied history and worked at a oil mine in remote Fort McMurry Canada. Once in a...
ShiftyLook to mostly shut down at the end of the month
Launched in 2011 with much fanfare, ShiftyLook was a fun idea: redeveloping old Namco/Bandai video game properties as webcomics with an eye to further...
Kelly Angel: “Put a tiny hat on a snake and people go crazy” [Interview]
Kelly Angel is the writer and artist of Anything About Nothing, a webcomic which describes itself better than I ever could. But I shall...
Dave Windett Unravels The Kaci Bell Mysteries [Interview]
I never actually expect anybody to take part in International Darkstar Day. But last year a number of people were kind enough to join...
ALERT! Jason Shiga has a new webcomic called DEMON
STOP THE PRESSES!!!!!
There's a new Jason Shiga comic!
It's called Demon and it seems to be about a guy with powers. Granted it's only...
Webcomic alert: The Shadow Hero by Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew
The Shadow Hero is a graphic novel due later this year from the team of Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew that reimagines the...
Webcomic alert: Lucas Adam’s Modern Farmer comics
Beat pal Lucas Adams has been doing some comics for the Modern Farmer website, and they deal with....well, the greatest crimes in farming history....
Webcomics alert: Whit Taylor on survival
A lot of people have been linking toWhite Taylor's comic about surviving a sexual assault. It's tough reading and brave but a needed reminder about the real life pain that certain acts people blog and tweet about all day actually have. Taylor writes:
Mike Dawson on George Orwell and the Disney Princesses
Mike Dawson of Troop 142 fame—whose new GN this year, Angie Bongiolatti (Secret Acres) should be much talked about— has a daughter and now...
