The Great Pumpkin The Morning After, by J. Bone
Man, that daylight savings time switch is a bear. (Grabbed from J. Bone’s blog.)
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Happy anniversary, ‘Monster Commute’ and ‘Alien Loves Predator’!
A quick tip of the hat to two Webcomics You Should Be Reading: Monster Commute just celebrated a year and 267 strips online on September 15th, 2009. “While it’s not 10,000 pages or anything that grand, it is cool to have gone a year and and not missed any updates. It’s little, but it’s OUR…
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It was inevitable: ‘Evil Inc.’ on Fox Business Channel
Some days, the headlines just write themselves. Brad Guigar’s Evil Inc. comic strip was bound to be noticed by the people at Fox Business News sooner or later, it’s their kind of company. So yesterday, Brad was interviewed by the standard Fox News panel of a blond guy, a brunette guy, and a blonde woman…
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Review: ‘Happy Hooligan’
Just prior to Comic-Con International, NBM’s David Seidman sent out a note suggesting to reviewers that their just-released [[[Happy Hooligan]]] comic strip collection had been overlooked. [[[Gadzooks]]], I thought, he’s right and had them rush a copy over to be read. Having just finished the 112-page volume, I can say this early example of popular…
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‘Pearls Before Swine’ endorsement video
Normally, we wouldn’t promote in such blatant promotion efforts. Heck, we haven’t even gotten around to publishing our own GrimJack press release. But this touching effort by Stephan Pastis for his latest Pearls Before Swine collection was so earnest, we just had to show you. Pearls Sells Out: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury, the 12th…
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Happy 20th Anniversary, Dilbert!
And speaking of dating oneself… believe it or not, that was the first Dilbert. Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the comic strip by Scott Adams, featuring the office cubicle misadventures of engineering geek Dilbert, his wacky co-workers and bizarre furry friends. The occasion has been marked by the release of Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years…
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Webcomics You Should Be Reading: “Garfield Minus Garfield”!
Howdy folks! We’re back here today to take a step into the post-modern… a step into the existential… a step into a parallel dimension. No, not the twilight zone. Today’s ‘Webcomic You Should Be Reading” is an experiment utilizing one of America’s most cherished cartoon characters. Who you ask? Why, it’s Jon Arbuckle, the would-be…
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Neil Gaiman’s Watchmen parody: Watchdogs
From an Avedon Carol fanzine in 1986– yes, before Neil Gaiman ever wrote a single comic book, let alone write Coraline, Beowulf, or Stardust– he wrote and drew this: As far as Neil knows, this is his first published illustration. Thanks to Rob Hansen for saving this all these years and posting it on his…
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IDW Adds ‘Bloom County’ to Comic Strip Library
IDW Publishing announced yesterday the forthcoming release of The Bloom County Library. Beginning in October 2009, each of the five volumes will collect nearly two years worth of daily and Sunday strips, in chronological order. This will be the very first time that many of these comic strips have been collected, and the first time…
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John Barrowman writing ‘Torchwood’ comics
Via Kevin Melrose at Robot 6: Actor John Barrowman is teaming with his sister Carole E. Barrowman and artist Tommy Lee Edwards on a comic strip for the next issue of Torchwood magazine. Barrowman, as viewers of Doctor Who and the spinoff Torchwood know, plays Captain Jack Harkness, a time-traveling former con man who becomes…
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2008 Weblog Awards nominations, comics category
The 2008 Weblog Awards finalists have come out and voting starts today. The nominees for Best Comic Strip: Day By Day Calamities of Nature Town Called Dobson Garfield Minus Garfield What the Duck The Book of Biff Medium-Large Dilbert Jesus and Mo xkcd In addition, The Comics Curmudgeon is up for Best Humor Blog. Go…
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Spider-Man single again, again
A year after the events of One More Day, Spider-Man has gone back to unmarried status in the newspaper strip. So for all of you who thought this might just be a passing phase– like me– your hopes have finally been dashed. At least, until the next reboot. One of these days I have to…
