If you return before you go

Please forgive the back-to-back posts. Hopefully this inspires some people.

Kenneth Patchen was not in the business of making graphic novels. He was, however, a supremely talented painter and poet. I am not an expert on the term, but I'm pretty sure that a book of painting-poems would sort of loosely constitute a graphic novel

I hope.



xxxxx
James.

Oh yeah!

This is ridiculous.

http://againwiththecomics.blogspot.com/2008/07/alan-moore-peter-bagge-and-kool-aid-man.html



Alan Moore and Peter Bagge re-imagine the Kool-Aid man as an outlaw writer. It is really, really rad.

Peter Bagge is the guy behind HATE comics, which are also worth checking out. Especially for those of us with soft spots for greasy drunks living in squalor.


peacepeacepeacepeacepeacepeacepeacepeace
James.

Watchbabies

I've posted the first six pages of the little Watchmen comic I've been doing. I'll be uploading more pages when I have time. You can find the first page here: http://etherstar.deviantart.com/art/WatchBabies-1-116166536
Follow the links in the "Artist's Comments" box for subsequent pages.



~Steph

Saturday Morning Watchmen - Lindsey

If "Watchmen" had been made into an extremely 80s cartoon, it would've probably looked something like this. (Don't let the fact it's on Newgrounds worry you. ;) )

I'm kind of embarassed at how many times I've watched this since I found it earlier tonight.

The Cartoon History of EVERYTHING

Do you need something unspeakably complicated translated into Basic Sarcasm? It's not a big deal. Larry Gonick has probably already written a dictionary-sized comic about it for you. Check out his website here and view some pages of each of his galaxy of books: http://www.larrygonick.com/index.html



(panel from "The Cartoon History Of The Universe: Volume I," click to embiggin)

He's got a new daily Peanuts-sort-of-thing going on over at the Discovery Channel's website if you're interested in that sort of thing as well: http://blogs.discovery.com/raw_materials/

This guy's one of my absolute favorites for explaining things in any medium, and has thoroughly warped my childhood. :D Enjoy!
-Laurel

Hourly Comic Day

Hourly Comic Day is gone gone gone but you can challenge yourself EVERY DAY. A great way to get yourself out of a rut or a dry patch, especially if you try paring down your drawing style to the bare essentials like this guy:



The guidelines are here as well as some links to examples: http://hourlycomic.com/hourlycomicday.html

And the fella who generally runs the event has his own non-autobio comic here at Pictures For Sad Children: http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php

Check out his link page for more great webcomics!
-Laurel