John Martz ends DRAWN, but we’re getting DESTINATION X
Ulp. I guess blogging is dead. Artist John Martz just announced he's ending his art blog, Drawn which was one of the most influential art blogs of the last 10 years or so. Martz started it in 2005 linking to tons of creator websites, and art pieces over the years. But as he notes, 2013 is not 2005:
Behold: Bartkira! An intriguing comics jam proposal
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,...
I’m going all Tumblr on ya
This is an announcement of vital import and historic significance!
‘Seconds’ from Bryan Lee O’Malley Delayed until 2014
Over 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.
His...
Jane Mai’s Poop Nightmare
At 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...
The Hawkeye Initiative launches—and genderswapping will never be the same
Over 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...
New tumblr alert: Tom Fowler
Artist Tom Fowler has a new tumblr blog called D&D&D. That is all.
The state of the comics internet on September 4, 2003
If you're a digital hoarder like The Beat you may wake up one day and realize you have some bookmark files that go back 10 years or more. And then you may poke around and you may find something like. Bradley's Almanac - comic book links which was last updated more than nine years ago.
Kickstarter UK Opens Up for Business
Kickstarter has become the go-to crowdfunding website for a variety of comic projects, whether they be furiously exciting or somewhat dubious. But up until now, the site has been fairly restrictive about who can...
The Long Dark Eternal September of the Soul
The recent, latest online activism against an online idiot encouraged me to write something which I had been thinking about for awhile.
The philosophical musing began when I discovered the following on Wikipedia:
Eternal September
From Wikipedia,...
Winter and Kelly Sue assemble Ninja Princesses (and Ninja Kitties)
By 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....
