I’ve pilfered the vault over at BoingBoing again because Cory Doctorow posted this hilarious comic by Stephen Collins about how a post-apocalyptic future world will view the Internet.  The cartoonist does lots of work for the U.K.’s Prospect Magazine.  I like the inky black outline drawings.  Mr. Collins has an off-the-side kind of humor that [...]

Cartoonist Lucy Knisley has a comic online called ‘Downloading Optimism: Pessimism Virus Detected.’ It’s a funny but very direct assault on the tendency in some quarters to fret and worry about the emergence of digital books and online reading as the driving force behind the new world of publishing.  She doesn’t understand why some of [...]

Marvel Comics has a Create Your Own Comic tool that lets you put together either a simple 3-panel strip or an entire 22-page comic book.  You don’t actually draw anything, but you choose layouts, backgrounds, characters and objects.  You can re-size everything and layer objects on top of each other.  It’s great for trying one’s [...]

Smith Magazine has another Harvey Pekar comic with drawings by Sean Pryor.  It’s called Searchin’.  I buy every book Pekar publishes.  His collected editions keep me fascinated for weeks because I try to read them slowly to make them last.
Pekar makes comic books out of the ordinary.  Of course they are much more interesting than [...]

I don’t think there is a more significant American comic book writer than Harvey Pekar.  Now he is making comics on the web.  Smith Magazine offers the first installment of what promises to be a series.  It’s called The Pekar Project.
The first story is Pekar & Crumb: Talkin’ ’bout Art.  It’s drawn by Tara Seibel.
This [...]

Robert Berry is adapting Ulysses by James Joyce into web comic form.  It’s very watercolory and seems to capture that disjointed free-floating narrative of the novel pretty well.
Read the Ulysses Web Comic
I found this via Literary Kicks.

Drawing Words and Writing Pictures: Making Comics: Manga, Graphic Novels, and Beyond
This is a book by Jessica Abel and Matt Madden that leads the reader through a full tutorial in writing and drawing comics. It includes many examples and information about what materials to use for your comics. There are 15 lessons in [...]

DC Comics picked Neil Gaiman to write the final two issues of their monthly Detective Comics.  The two-part series is called Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?  It chronicles the death of Batman.  This July, both issues of the comic will go on sale in a hardcover version.  After a period of no Batman comics, [...]

Night Zero is a photo comic book aimed at older readers.  It’s set in the months following a deadly viral outbreak.  It follows the lives of survivors in Seattle, Washington who barricade themselves against the terrors of the outside world and try to build a future for themselves.  The novel is riveting and beautifully designed.
 
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Marvel.com is posting all the original Spider Man television episodes for free viewing.  They originally aired in 1967 on ABC.  They are actually very good.  Highly recommended.  This is the first episode.

Cartoonist Matt Bors has posted a funny AIG cartoon on his blog.  He’s got a whole site full of these.  He was inspired for this strip by the AIG executive who recently resigned and whined about how the company was treating him.  I guess I’d whine too if I woke up one day and realized [...]

Adventures in Cartooning is a book that teaches kids about cartooning and comics in general.  The basic idea is that you can draw comics if you can doodle.  It’s drawn like a doodle comic and it goes over drawing, laying out comic panels, storytelling, and having confidence in your own doodling skills.
There’s an online preview [...]

Artist Dave Gibbons did a video workshop revealing how he paints the Watchmen character Rorschach using digital tools.  The video was produced for ImagineFX magazine which is dedicated to fantasy, sci-fi, comic and manga artists.