Webcomics

Web comicker Shaenon K. Garrity has accepted her mission in life: recapping every episode of The X-Files in comics form at Monster of the Week and this week she hits everyone's favorite episode: "Fluke Man" an eerie monstrosity that sent Scully and Mulder capering through rivers of smelly sewage. I remember attempting to get my family interested in the X-Files one Thanksgiving and this happened to be the episode that aired; needless to say, my attempt was never mentioned again, especially at meal times.

As one of the fruits of their huge Kickstarter campaign, the Penny Arcade folks have made Strip Search! which may finally be the comics competition TV show people have been expecting/dreading for a while. While the above link is a bit light on details, basically a bunch of webcomickers are thrown into a Seattle house and compete to draw the best comics. The contestants:

Vermont Cartoonist laureate James Kochalka is ending his long-running American Elf strip today after 14 years—the strip began in October 1998. During this time,...

Via Comics Alliance, a St Nicholas tale by Benito Cereno And Evan 'Doc' Shaner .

Eisner winning artist Cameron Stewart recently rolled up his webcomic SIN TITULO and he's back with NIRO, which has an extensive and spectacular preview....

About 10 years ago, when someone first proposed the idea of comics on mobile phones to us, we suggested putting webcomics on the phones....

'90s nostalgia fans get in line! Van Sciver travels back to the '90s comics scene in Seattle, when "comics were cool" and hijinks ensue.

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Adam Cadwell is a writer and artist whose works include The Everyday, an autobiographical webcomic which ran for three years between 2007 and 2010....

An amazing descent into oddness by Wright Award nominee Connor Willumsen to disturb your weekend getaway.

The wonderful thing about Thought Bubble, an annual festival in Leeds that encompasses the academic Comics Forum and a two day comics convention covering all sequential art from Bunny to Batman, is that two people can attend the event and come away with a completely different experience. So while Steve Morris brilliantly scratched the surface, the following is the tale of my adventures as I visited one of the UK's most popular conventions for the very first time.

This weekend saw Thought Bubble 2012's convention, and.... phew, it was busy. I did my best to talk to everybody, but don't think I...