Webcomics

Via PR, electronic publisher WOWIO has purchased the webcomic site DrunkDuck from Platinum Studios. Just to make it all neat and tidy, Platinum once...

There was a scary time when the URL seemed to have lapsed, but Nick Gurewitch's iconic The Perry Bible Fellowship website is...

Sean Kleefield alerts us to a preview of the Underground & Independent Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels site which appears to do for indies what the now vanished htmlcomics.com did for all comics...but here's the twist....it's...legit?

At the blog for the insanely popular webcomic XCKD, Randall Munroe directly confronts issues of gender, fashion and whether a color can be construed as "dusty" Here are the color names most disproportionately popular among women: 1. ... Kind of an incense-bomb-set-off-in-a-Bed-Bath-&-Beyond vibe. ... Here are the color names most disproportionately popular among men: 1.

Can she get any more awesome?

Friday afternoon news dump as Zuda Comics, DC's webcomic imprint, makes it official that they are leaving their competition format behind. VP of...

Speaking of the obscure characters of pulp writer Robert E. Howard who managed to churn out a jillion characters before taking his own life at the age of 31, his Texan character Breckenridge Elkins is getting adapted as a webcomic by Gary Chaloner ( Red Kelo, John Law) and Cayetano Garza. Elkins was one of Howard's more successful character during his lifetime, and the comic has a nice rugged look.

Cartoonists were showing off their upcoming books covers EVERYWHERE this week. Here's the cover of the first collection of Dylan Meconis's historical yet mystical webcomic, Family Man . And here's a photo of Meredith Gran's first Octopus Pie collection from Villard, coming in June. The book is shown with a cup of coffee for both scale and inspiration.

Jon Lewis's cult comic about a bunch of neurotic critters in the swamp is back as a webcomic. Go forth and bookmark.

Many more in this link. Is it our imagination, or is Kate Beaton getting even MORE polished and sophisticated in her cartooning and...

Caeyetano Garza writes to say that his Ignatz Award-winning webcomic The Year of the Rat is now available in book format. It's a surreal...

Over at the Jewish Review of Books, Harvey Pekar teams with artist Tara Seibel to review Crumb's GENESIS in comics form. Seibel previously illustrated...