Behold: Bartkira! An intriguing comics jam proposal

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Tweet Ryan Humphrey posted this fantastic Simpson/Akira mash up comic on his tumblr last night and it’s been picking up a healthy number of notes since. The comic (which you can see below) is really striking, mainly, I think, because of those splashes of colour against that rich cream background, in the sense of drama and dynamism [...]

I’m going all Tumblr on ya

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This is an announcement of vital import and historic significance!

‘Seconds’ from Bryan Lee O’Malley Delayed until 2014

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TweetOver on his Tumblr blog, writer/artist/Backstreet Boys maven Bryan Lee O’Malley has explained that – due to a shoulder injury he suffered last year – his next project Seconds will be delayed until 2014.

Jane Mai’s Poop Nightmare

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TweetAt the risk of lowering the tone, I relay to you the news of Jane Mai’s Poop Nightmare: so bad it needed capitalization  As someone who lives in an old Victorian house, I can say with the weight of experience that there’s nothing worse than burst pipes, leaky drainage and overflowing toilet: the water seeps everywhere [...]

The Hawkeye Initiative launches—and genderswapping will never be the same

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TweetOver the weekend someone on Tumblr got the great idea of satirizing anatomically unlikely, and overtly sexualized comic book covers by replacing the women with Hawkeye. As far as we can make it out started withthis post by artist Blue which remixed a Marvel cover on Saturday: By morning, it was a huge vast thing [...]

New tumblr alert: Tom Fowler

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Artist Tom Fowler has a new tumblr blog called D&D&D. That is all.

Winter and Kelly Sue assemble Ninja Princesses (and Ninja Kitties)

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TweetBy Steve Morris Avengers Assemble, Captain Marvel, and Pretty Deadly not enough for her, writer Kelly Sue DeConnick has taken on a new project, at the request of a young writer she met, called Winter. As described way better on DeConnick’s blog (which you should read before continuing with this piece), Winter first approached the [...]

Heck yeah: Comics Workbook

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Frank Santoro’s new process blog Comics Workbook, which has “flipped the script”:

Introducing: crotchleg

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We don’t know who came up with it, but it appears the heartbreak of crotchleg has been with us for a while and seems to be here to stay.

Endless fun: Batman Running away from Sh*t

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Created by designer Roberto Salvador. Open to submissions.

James Kochalka's new Tumblr

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James Kochalka has a new tumblr called KOCHALKALAND and it includes doodles and noodles in the Tumblr way, such as the above piece of art for an iPad sequel to Kochalka’s video game Glorkian Warrior. The sequel is called Glorkbot’s Mini Adventure, for iPad and other platforms. The game is being developed by Kochalka and Pixeljam.

Tumbling Tumblr blogs: Kanye + Comics

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It is impossible not to feel that this Kanye + Comics blog unites the voice for our times with some kick-ass comics panels.

Tumbling Tumblr blogs: A Nice Cup of Comics

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In the ever proliferating world of highly focused Tumblrs about comics, how can one not adore A Nice Cup of Comics which features people having a nice hot cuppa? Above, Wolverine Tea Party by Mike Maihack; below, Cap from TRUTH: RED, WHITE, AND BLACK #7 by Robert Morales and Kyle Baker.