Webcomics of tomorrow...today!

A few sci-fi webcomics have been making the rounds recently—


Escape from Planet Nowhere by Otis Frampton
Spacedock 7 is a portal to 7 webcomics. Each update weekly.


Spacetrawler by Christopher Baldwin updates Mondays and Wednesdays.


Giannis Milonogiannis presents OLD CITY BLUES, a monthly sci-fi police thriller webcomic. We've highlighted his work in the past.

R.I.P. Frazetta

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NYT obit here. Unofficial gallery here. Museum Syndicate gallery here.

Tributes from the comics community:
Jimmy Palmiotti
The Beat
Michael Oeming
J.H. Williams III
io9
Comics Should Be Good
Robot 6
Bleeding Cool
Newsarama
The Comics Reporter

More remembrances here.

Peter O'Donnell (1920- 2010)

Peter O'Donnell, the creator of Modesty Blaise, died last week in England. He was 90.

NYT obit here. An appreciation here (part 1, part 2, part 3).

Official site here.

Modesty book cover gallery here.


Read an excerpt of "The Gabriel Set-up" with art by Jim Holdaway here.

Read about the Michael Caine-Modesty connection here (comic legend #3, towards the bottom of the page).

Titans Tower...for real!?

Terrace on the Park

Titans Tower

The Secret FIles of Batman and Robin

Take a look into Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's design process for "Batman and Robin."
BATMAN REDRAWN, part 1 — with Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
BATMAN REDRAWN part 2 — BATMAN AND ROBIN #3-6
BATMAN REDRAWN part 3 — THE DESIGNS

Supersculpture

Check out Australian artist Adrian Tranquilli's artwork here.
(link via JB)

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Sorry I've been posting so many videos recently but I can't pass this up:

Official Scott Pilgrim site here.

Jules Feiffer: Methods and Materials

New Who!

The Ghost who Blogs

art by Sy Barry

Read full Phantom (and Mandrake the Magician!) stories at Falkonthewildside!
Also- check this out: the online Phantom encyclopedia.

Alex Chilton (1950-2010)

NYT obit here.
Wiki here.

The Rebel Alliance— Where everybody knows your name.

John Ratzenberger as Major Bren Derlin and Cliff Clavin

New Iron Man 2 trailer

Giannis Milonogiannis

Check out the work of Giannis Milonogiannis here and here.

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Watterson speaks

Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, gives his first interview in 20 years here.

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You give me Fever.

Comics Alliance has an exclusive preview of Brendan McCarthy's upcoming miniseries, "Spider-man: Fever."

Little Nemo inducted into National Film Registry

Full list of films added to the registry here.

Happy New Year Baby

From 1907 to 1943, J.C. Leyendecker rang in the new year for the Saturday Evening Post with a cover illustration of the New Year Baby! Check out the gallery here.

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