Archive for the ‘Webcomic Wire’ Category

Drawn from sources that are loving the new season of the IT crowd…

• Matthew Inman, creator of The Oatmeal, talks about how to get people to read your site.
• A collection of interviews and articles on the life and work of Robert Crumb.
• Criterion Collection reissues R. Crumb documentary with special features.
• Castration comics from Mary Roach and Ariyana Suvarnasuddhi. Ouch!
• Scott Pilgrim and Shonen Manga.
• An interview about BoingBoing.net.
• Mal and Chad’s fill in the bubble frenzy 2.
• Brody’s Ghost: Mark Crilley’s 6-part graphic novel.
• A tour of Dark Horse Comics.
• Gabrielle Bell’s comic strip about ComicCon.
• August 28th is International Read Comics in Public Day.
• Critique of a badly-drawn Bible story coloring book.
• An interview with Lev Yilmaz, creator of Tales of Mere Existence.
• Gods Playing Poker is offering Fox News Bingo cards as a free download.
• The Onion AV Club interviews cartoonist Jim Woodring.
• The comics Bill Waterson sent to Berkeley Breathed posted on BoingBoing.net.

Reported by Michael Moss.

Drawn from sources that are ill at the moment…

• Things aren’t going so well for Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspapers now that they’re behind a paywall.
• Jim Woodring is making a giant dip pen for cartooning.
• Twaggies turn your tweets into pictures.
• Pascal Campion on Illustration and Storytelling.
• Winnie the Hulk?
• The Pirate Party starts its own ISP.
• Comic-Con punks Westboro Baptist Church. Here’s more.
• BoingBoing.net opens the Submitterator!
• A good story about one families visit to Studio Ghibli’s museum.
• Moresukine – a comic about a German cartoonist’s experiences in Tokyo.
• Bugs turns 70!
• Stan Lee and the Censors.
• Comics about Nikola Tesla.
• ComixTalk reviews the new Quitting Time book.
• Kanye West tweets as New Yorker cartoons.
• Resistance: Book 1 is a comic about the kids who served in the French resistance during WWII.
• Bill Ayers in comics?
• WEBCOMIC SPOTLIGHT: Twaggies

Reported by Michael Moss.