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"Reading: This shit is crazy"
If you haven't read every last one of the weird comics of Kate Beaton, well, I just don't know what to say to you. "Farming: Is it the best? It might be." Uh, she also has a selection of less weird ones. [Kate Beaton]
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Malcolm Gladwell Is Even Cuter In Comic Strips
In the current story on the magical webcomic Scary Go Round, heroine Shelly Winters is in love with Malcolm Gladwell, who is taking her to the New Yorker Christmas party. The results are a delight. [Scary Go Round 1 and 2 (with special guest Eustace Tilly)]
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Former 'Times' Gossip Now Just Publishing Sketchbook in Paper
Campbell Robertson used to have what seemed to be the most fun job at the New York Times: writing Boldface Names with crazy Joyce Wadler. Then the Times killed that bizarre little corner of the Metro section and Campbell was sent to the Broadway beat. Recently, though, he's ended up on the campaign trail, where he apparently been drawing funny pictures. In the last week, the Times has brought us three installments of Robertson's funny pictures from his trip to North Carolina, where he's been talking to voters and attending campaign events and, uh, cartooning. Doesn't the Times already have professional cartoonists on staff? Is Robertson auditioning to illustrate an issue of American Splendor? We love him, but surely there are plenty of other "occasional cartoonists" on staff they could send to upcoming primary states. Adam Nagourney's might be pretty funny. He probably draws everyone with really big heads and tiny mopeds!
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The Hilarious World of Speed-Cartooning
What do you get when you challenge a cartoonist to draw 200 three-panel comics in twelve hours? Fun times! Artist Nedroid took up the challenge from Cracked and went batshit nutty. After the jump, some of my faves. More »
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Stop Adapting The Wrong Comics
The movie-going public is experiencing an endless continuum of superhero summers, a trend that doesn't look to be abating any time this decade. The occasional comic-cum-movie is an artistic success, but generally the final product is nothing but a debacle, the latest of which is Sin City creator Frank Miller's mission to ruin comics legend Will Eisner's classic The Spirit. As bad as The Spirit with cell phones might well be, it pales next to the specter of forthcoming adaptations of the already troubled The Incredible Hulk, and the rest of the in-production or planned films ripped from comic book pages: Wolverine, Watchmen, Iron Man, Atlantis Rising, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Nick Fury, Madman, Hack/Slash, Largo Winch, Luke Cage, Whiteout, Wanted, Magneto, Superman: Man of Steel, The Sub-Mariner, Punisher: War Zone, Hellboy 2, Sin City 2, and Spiderman 4, just to name a few. There are absolutely worthy properties here, but the majority of these features will fade away like so many Daredevils. But fear not, Hollywood. Here are four comics tailor-made for the screen that may eventually be needed to bring the genre back to life. More »
Why Superman Will Always Suck
A point-by-point explanation of why Superman is the worst superhero. It's not just because he's indestructible! Highlights are below. [Bam Kapow]
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Batman Probably Dying This Summer
But not, erm, not the way the Joker died this winter. Industry rumor says that DC Comics will kill off Batman this summer, and not even in his own comic book but in the series Robin. According to the rumor (possibly confirmed by this cover of an upcoming Robin), the sidekick will become the new Batman, which isn't even how that works. Since the new Batman movie The Dark Knight comes out in July, Batman's death in another medium would make front-page news, especially since Captain America's death made the New York Times front page last spring. More »
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How A Comic Strip Gets Made In Six Minutes
By Garfield's Jim Davis! Ha, no. This time-lapse shows Meredith Gran drawing her comic strip Octopus Pie, from rough sketch to line art to shading, in six minutes. But if you don't care about seeing the detail work, watch her draw another one in two minutes instead. Both are below. More »
"Girl Talk"
OMG everyone, Lu Ann from Apartment 3-G is going to appear on the soap opera comic-strip version of The View. [Comics Curmudgeon]
OMG everyone, Lu Ann from Apartment 3-G is going to appear on the soap opera comic-strip version of The View. [Comics Curmudgeon]
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Jonatham Lethem's Comic-Book Woes
Jonathan "novelist-hot" Lethem's Omega the Unknown is a project that you might not know about unless you're a geeky comics reader. Then again, even if you are a comics reader, sales figures indicate that you might not know about it either. The most recent numbers place Omega's third issue at 177th among the most sold comics at retail—trounced by Lobster Johnson: The Iron Prometheus #4, but kicking the butt of Zombies vs. Robots vs. Amazons #1. More »
abortions of logic
Please Don't Abort This Baby Too!
Straight out of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Gary Cangemi pens Umbert the Unborn, his charming comic about an adorable unborn fetus. According to Catholic.net, the comic reaches 750,000 readers around the world. "The unborn child finally has a voice of his own!" they proclaim. Umbert is the prenatal Jeffy from Family Circus—and he must be stopped before he roams around the post-foetal world mispronouncing spaghetti and butterfly as "pisghetti" and "flutterby." That said, A Womb With A View does, as Cangemi suggests, make a perfect Christmas gift for "your 'choice' friend." That's not creepy at all!
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Never Fear, the Comic-Book Novelists Are Here!
She draws from Toronto, but illustrator and cartoonist Patricia Storms has identified just the right superhero pair to save sensitive, intellectual New York men from utter and complete emasculation: The Comic-Book Novelists! More »
