Webcomics

The Romanian webcomic Fredo and Pid'jin, has been a big success for its creators Eugen Erhan and Tudor Muscalu, this piece at Next Web tells us, if by success you mean lots of links on Reddit and Digg. What emerges is the story of two guy with a dream and a webcomic about two evil pigeons out to conquer the world. Things looked low, but then a guy who works on the Simpsons came and told them they were on the right track, energizing them to carry on. But...questions remain:

Piskor has a new strip up at Boing Boing that examines the similarities between these two American artforms.

They are infrequent and thus all the more precious.

In this as always charming outing for Tablet Magazine, Davis explains the ins and outs of engagement rings.

Among the lists of Twitter-base comedies, roast spin-offs and other hapless men in a hostile world of supermarkets and doorknob comedies,Comedy Central announced one deal based on a webcomic, namely CYANIDE AND HAPPINESS, the generally amusing stick-figure theater comic by Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, Matt Melvin and Dave McElfatrick, all of whom will exec produce. The show is described as "a half-hour animated show featuring the twisted humor of a world populated by glorified stick figures." The CYANIDE crew has already been producing shorts and an iPhone app, so this is just anther step in their world conquest.

Tee hee

Sound your horn! After a lengthy hiatus, Chris Onstad's emblematic webcomic is back -- hoo boy, is it ever. If you've never hit this dance floor before, Chris Sims has a good beginner's guide with bios for Ray Smuckles, Roast Beef, Philippe, and the rest. Don't desert us, Chris Onstad. We need you more than ever.

It's Randall Munroe's world; we just live in it. Case in point: this mind-boggling chart of where the money goes.

Promoting a comic-con with a webcomic? Why didn't *we* think of that? Emerald City Comicon -- to be held March 30-April 1 in Seattle -- has broken the seal on this idea with "Tales from the Con", a weekly strip by Brad Guigar and Chris Giarrusso. You came for the vendor update and stayed for the laugh.

As we've previously mentioned, Derek Kirk Kim is a real hyphenate. Note only is his webcomic TUNE going strong towards a Fall 2012 collection, but he's just finished posting to YouTube 9 episodes of MYTHOMANIA, a parallel video series following cartoonist Andy Go and his millennial adventures.And now it has a poster!

This rollicking space acventure updates every Tuesday. Creator Victor Kerlow is best known for his illustrations in the New Yorker and elsewhere, but once in a while he gifts us with one of his excellent comics.

A little All Saints' Day grave remembrance from the LA Times and Mimi Pond. Pond's upcoming graphic memoir about the Bay area counterculture, OVER EASY, is due from Drawn & Quarterly one of these days.