Webcomics

Bad Machinery and Scary Go Round creator John Allison has just returned from attending some comics events in the USA and he's written a...

Folks around the net are linking to the webcomic OUR VALUED CUSTOMERS by Mr. Tim.

This site depicts REAL things said to me (or at least near me) by customers in the comic book shop that I work in. These are real people. This is what they look like and this is something that they actually said.

Obviously, Mr. Tim is made of stern stuff.

Daryl Cunninghamis best known for his scientific debunking stories -- a collection of which has been published in the UK by Blank Slate -- but he also does stuff likeUncle Bob And The Frankenstein Monster. A US edition of Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness is coming out in February from Bloomsbury in the US.

It happens so seldom that it must be celebrated. Nick Gurewitch's much missed webcomic has a new strip out this week. Gurewitch dramatically scaled back production of his popular strip in February, 2008, citing a desire to stay fresh and work on some multimedia projects. He's been disappointingly quiet since then. Come back, Nick! Come back! We need you!

Matt Sundstrom has created a pretty adorable all-ages Halloween comic starring Punkin & Boo.

With the Garrity Doctrine igniting uproar all over the intertubes, Webcomic Overlook's El Santo presents a rebuttal of sorts, Ten Things To Know About the Future of Webcomics. While any kind of manga-vs-webcomics fight is silly -- they are parallel and non-competitive -- lists are always fun. He admits a lot of the list is quite off the cuff, but a couple of points strike us as especially pertinent:

Kate Beaton gets her annual spot in the Halloween countdown with Children of the Night.

While comics fans were celebrating comics and other delights at New York Comic Con, publishers and fans in Europe were congregating in Frankfurt, Germany,...

Not Comics, but it does shed some light on behavior. While we're rounding up some scientific jargon, GigaOM reports that millennials need Wi-Fi the way previous generations needed fresh air and vitamin C. (Millennials are here defined as 17-29 year-olds.)

The other day comics/tech guru Scott McCloud posted examples of two webcomics using current navigation techniques to give advanced motion and storytelling effects. One, Turbo Defiant Kimecan (top) uses Flash to allow readers to time the appearance of panels and balloons. Never Mind the Bullets (bottom) uses HTML 5 to gives kind of "motion comics-y" floating animation. As McCloud points out, both are just examples, not role models -- Never Mind the Bullets suggested we download IE9, which was an immediate fail. The comments are unkind:

From the Bento Comics site, a little horror story, Elevator by Queenie Chan. The story is downloadable for a variety of e-readers as well.

Artist Jana Christy talks about donating a kidney to her brother in her webcomic, the kidney thing