A Short History of America in twelve panels by R. Crumb.

Well, the thing that kind of bothers me is that all the girls are white.

Optic Nerve #9 preview

Joe Sacco interview and a lot a other cool stuff in LAW’s Comics Issue.

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Bags and Boards Variety comics weblog

Baltimore City Paper: Funny Paper, November 24-30, 2003

The cavemen have a strange and halting conversation about how thankful they are for freedom of speech. The last B.C. was this clunky was on Nov. 10, when Johnny Hart ran a gag about a crescent-moon-adorned outhouse that some observers took to be a veiled slur against Islam. At the time, Funny Paper wasn't sure if Hart was guilty or not, but the very awkwardness of the strip made us suspicious. Plus it wasn't funny. Not that that proves anything about B.C. But we're going to have to add this Thanksgiving strip to the court file. If Hart wasn't insulting Islam, why's he taking the First Amendment now? His defense two weeks ago was that he hadn't said anything offensive in the strip. Now he appears to be saying that he had the right to say what he didn't say. Which is it, Johnny? Victim or martyr?

Where have I seen this guide to turbans before? Oh, yeah.

“Instead of working, I spent the better part of a week reading over 15 different web comics in their entirety. What follows are the fruits of my labors, with a link to the comic, a rating (out of 5 stars), and a short review and description of the comic. Before we get to The List, we’ll take a brief look at the history of web comics, and provide some tips on finding those rare web comics that are actually good.” Web Comics Reviewed, Kuro5hin.org.

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Wartime ABCs by Mikhaela B. Reid.

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R.A.: Most of the drawings in it are of Aline. Is she your muse?

R.C.: Oh, you know. She's around a lot, and she always wanted me to draw her. Back in the 70's and 80's, she'd say: ''I'll pose. I'll pose.'' After about half an hour, she'd say, ''Can I go yet?''

L.E.: Do girls ever dress up like one of your fantasies to meet you?

R.C.: When Aline first met me, she used to dress up to suit my fancy. She kind of got tired of that. She used to put on white knee socks and these little schoolgirl outfits. She was a lot chubbier in the early days. Now she's gotten quite thin. It's a little disheartening to see her derrière go down. But she's happier being that way, so what the heck. But she's still quite muscular. She says her ideal body type now is Lance Armstrong's.

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Faces in the Crowd by Carol Lay.

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Rees has no illusions about the strip's importance; in fact, he almost gave it up altogether after the summer, but started again when the Bush administration made the staggeringly vulgar decision to hire Henry Kissinger to investigate the events of September 11. "When that happened," Rees recalled, "I sat down and said to myself, 'Okay, let's see if I've still got it.'" He did: "Does Bush even know who these motherfuckers are?" asks one of the strip's generic office workers while talking on the phone. "Didn't he get suspicious when he saw Kissinger and John Poindexter licking the blood off each other's hands?"

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Rawhide Kid, Marvel’s leather-slappin' cowboy.

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Touch Tarepanda for descriptions !

If your local paper doesn’t carry it, you can finally read Lalo Alcaraz' new daily strip La Cucaracha at the uComics website.

Mark Frauenfelder reviews Rebel Visions, a history of the underground comics movement, in this week’s LA Weekly.

David Rees of mnftiu spoke to a crowded house at the doomed Midnight Special bookstore last night, along with cartoon bad boys Robbie Conal and Lalo Alcaraz.

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Page Seventeen is huge.

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“What about where I’m the princess and you’re my zombie slave?”

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In America, you don't have to be a celebrity like Oprah or Rosie or Martha to put out a magazine devoted to your own personal obsessions. Some energetic souls put out several zines. For instance, David Rees of Brooklyn, who chronicled his kung fu training in a zine called My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable, later went on to chronicle his job as a filing clerk in a zine called My New Filing Technique Is Unstoppable.

I just got an email from the e-sheep guy saying:

I’m excited to report my friend Justine Shaw (or, as I like to call her, The Superstar) has just launched Part Two of her epic web comic NOWHERE GIRL. If you haven’t yet read part one of Nowhere Girl, all I can say is: Justine’s work blows E-sheep, and pretty much every other web comic, out of the water. If you have read part one already, I’m certain you’ve clicked through and forgotten all about this email by now :-)

THIS IS EARL.
toon by Mr. John Van Vliet.

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Following the success of Ghost World, in fact, Tomine has received several calls from would-be producers of the first Optic Nerve flick, but the cartoonist actually talked the callers out of it.

The Spiders, Part 2, holy shit.

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When I first did the Lawrence story, the biggest problem was for the very small papers in the United States. The editors may have agreed with it, but they couldn't run it. One editor told me someone broke windows at his paper, and another said his kids got beaten up at school and someone spray-painted his dog.