Slightly off the wall link of the day: Here are the cars of Tintin. I love the way they so often look like they're about to take off... (from newthings)
Gary Northfield, contributor to this blog and all round nice guy, has just started a strip-blog entitled, of course, Stupidmonsters, featuring pretty much daily strips "drawn whilst idle at work". Bookmark it.
Some smart looking mini-comics by Allison Cole, available from her own website, or in batches from usscatastrophe. Check out those gorgeous silkscreened covers!
There seems to be this group of musicians calling themselves The Geeks, & a certain UK smallpresser Mr Nigel Lowrey seems to have gotten himself with them...
I don't pretend to know what's going on - but appear to have converted one of Mr Lowrey's comics into a flash movie... weird...
Anyone with strong feelings about our only major comics-wide event in the UK at Bristol might want to check the Comics 200x mailing list where an actual serious discussion about it all is currently taking place.
This month, The Comics Journal Audio Archive pays a visit to TCJ #140 (February 1991), which contained the final installment of a three-part interview with British comics writer Alan Moore by editor and publisher Gary Groth. Moore, fresh off of his success with Watchmen (and subsequent break with DC Comics), had just embarked upon an experiment in self-publishing with the Bill Sienkiewicz-drawn mini-series Big Numbers. In these excerpts, conducted by telephone, Moore discusses some of the other projects he had been working on (Miracleman, A Small Killing and The Lost Girls) before settling into an extended dialogue concerning From Hell, the magnum opus created in collaboration with cartoonist Eddie Campbell.
Heidi MacDonald interviews Eddie Campbell. Check out The Pulse for more good stuff that's not all superhero related; there's a hefty amount of really good small-press coverage too.
www.serializer.net, which, according to it's editor Tom Hart, is "an alternative sister-site" to moderntales.com, will be a new web-comic anthology dedicated to the "cutting edge".
Unconfirmed artists include Craig Thompson who will be previewing Blankets, his follow-up to Goodbye Chunky Rice; Ben Catmull of Paper Theater; SamMagic WhistleHenderson and HowardStuck Rubber BabyCruse.
Fans of Tom Tomorrow will be pleased to know you can see animations of This Modern World here. And be sure to check out the rest of the animations on the site. You can hit zombies over the head while you wait for this cartoon to load; and fans of Pablo's Inferno might be interested to see Rhode Montijo's sicker side surface.