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.

Giannis Milonogiannis

Check out the work of Giannis Milonogiannis here and here.

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Charles Burns Interview

Jesse Thorn chats with cartoonist Charles Burns on The Sound of Young America.

Free Frazer Irving

art by Frazer Irving

Read the full issue of Days Missing #1 for free here.
Archaia Studios Press site here.

Neat!

Buddy, Babs, Butch, Mom & Dad might be joining all of the other animated families on Sunday night! Fox has ordered an pilot based on Peter Bagge's comic "The Bradleys."

Read Fantagraphics' announcement here.

Bone again

Next year, Jeff Smith will be returning to Boneville!

Tall Tales, pictured above, is a major repackaging of a book I did with Tom Snigoski a few years ago called Stupid, Stupid Rat-Tails. This new book, which takes place after the Bones have returned to Boneville, revolves around Smiley and Bartleby telling tales around a campfire to a group of young Bone Scouts (their names are Ringo, Bingo, & Todd!).

Tom Snigoski will also be writing a trilogy of novels entitled "Bone: Quest for the Spark." Jeff Smith will be providing the illustrations.

Read more here.

Karasik interview

Stardust by Fletcher Hanks

Last Thursday at Desert Island, Paul Karasik, editor of You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation!, was interviewed by Dan Nadel about artist Fletcher Hanks.

Listen to the interview here.

More about Fletcher Hanks here.

The Miraculous Return of Marvelman

Marvelman (from left to right) by Mick Anglo, Garry Leach, Barry Windsor-Smith, and Joe Quesada

Yesterday Joe Quesada announced the return of Marvelman from years in copyright limbo. Marvelman, originally created in the 1950s as a Capt. Marvel analogue, was reimagined by Alan Moore (and later, Neil Gaiman) in the 1980s.

Read a Marvelman FAQ here.

A well-illustrated history and thorough of the character here.

Marvelman wiki here.

Wish you were here

Dean Motter's Radiant City (art by Los Bros Hernandez)

How can you beat a city called Mega City One? You don't.
Architect's Journal runs down a list of the top 10 comic book cities. A thorough image gallery appears with each entry.

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Dan Hipp

I neglected to mention Dan Hipp in the 500th post- he's also responsible for getting me to pick up Gen 13 for the first time in a decade...

Check out his blog here.

500th Post Art Link Extravaganza!!!

I. N. J. Culbard is illustrating a series of Sherlock Holmes graphic novels.


Check out some black and white line art from Rafael Grampá!

Mike Huddleston's artwork has me reading Gen 13 again...


Travis Charest has a blog...


... and so does Kevin Nowlan! (This is the penciled cover for Spirit #30- out this week, with story and interior art by Mike Avon Oeming!)

Check out the preview here.

Toby Cypress has a process blog for his upcoming project, "Rodd Racer."



Chris Sprouse is interviewed by the Sardinian Connection...


...as is Ladrönn....


Kevin Cannon speaks about his career here.


Grant Morrison discusses his latest collaboration with Frank Quietly here.




Whew!

So...did this landmark post live up to your expectations, Christian Bale and Kermit?
Glad you found Lout Shelter's 500th post so satisfactory!

Ana Galvañ

Due to her participation in the Full of Pryde fundraiser for Oregon Hemophilia Treatment Center, I came across Ana Galvañ's work. Her concepts are fun and her muted palettes are great.

Check out her blog here- it'll make you wish you were fluent in Spanish. I'd love to be able to read her Manet homage comic.

Kettle of Fish

Lilli Carre blogs about her work and inspiration at Kettle of Fish.

Approximate Nuclear Family

Dan Clowes gives a sneak peek at his in-progress graphic novel to the New Yorker.
Clowes bio here.

Quimby the Mouse

Quimby The Mouse from This American Life on Vimeo.

Miss Lisa Ramsey

Lisa Ramsey has a nice selection of drawings and some cool black and white comixxx (her preferred spelling). I'm looking forward to seeing more!

Marvel goes indie

From Paul Pope's Flickr:

Marvel has finally announced it-- their "indie" comics anthology. I have an 8 pg. Inhumans story in it and I did the first cover for the limited series. Both of my contributions will be colored by my friend Jose "Year 100" Villarrubia.

All my favorite Marvel characters in a serious Marvel Mash-Up.

This should be fun- it sounds like the second coming of "Coober Skeber: Marvel Benefit Issue." I can't wait to find out who else is contributing!

The Architecturons

Read Kevin Cannon's contribution to the upcoming Ghost Comics anthology,"The Architecturons," here.

More about the Ed Moorman's Xeric- winning Ghost Comics here.

"Steam-powered STAR WARS"

art by Gianluca Pagliarani

Warren Ellis gives a sneak peek of the art and origins of "Ignition City," his upcoming science fiction comic here.
Official site here.

Wednesday is New Comics Day

art by Nick Cacciola

L magazine's annual comics issue is out now. Check it out here.