Thursday, December 1, 2011
Best Thing Today: Opinioncat Lady
Posted by Lauren Davis at Thursday, December 01, 2011 2 comments
Labels: diary comic, shazzbaa bennett, today nothing happened
Monday, November 28, 2011
Best Thing Today: Cyber Monday
Planning to do a little online shopping today? Here's what you need to know:
TopatoCo has posted its holiday shipping deadlines. Take note and get your orders in early.
Danielle Corsetto has posted original Girls with Slingshots artwork in her store (squee!), and it's very reasonably priced. If you're looking to buy GWS jewelry, there's free shipping in the jewelry shop until 11:59 ET tonight.
PvP is having a Cyber Monday sale on all the items in its store, including the big hulking PvP Awesomology.
Narbonic and Skin Horse fans should wander on over to the Couscous Collective store for their Cyber Monday deals, including free sketches in all Narbonic and Skin Horse books ordered today.
Penny Arcade has free shipping on all domestic orders over $50 until December 15th, as well as a bunch of items still on Black Friday sale.
I'll probably have a more comprehensive webcomic gift guide up at a later date, so keep your eyes peeled. And post any Cyber Monday deals I've missed in the comments.
Posted by Lauren Davis at Monday, November 28, 2011 0 comments
Labels: merchandise
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Achewood Returns
It appears Chris Onstad's Achewood is back, updating for the first time since February. That is all.
[Achewood]
Posted by Lauren Davis at Wednesday, November 23, 2011 0 comments
Labels: achewood, chris onstad
Best Thing Today: Happy Snakesgiving!
Posted by Lauren Davis at Wednesday, November 23, 2011 0 comments
Labels: gunshow, kc green, thanksgiving
Monday, November 21, 2011
Best Thing Today: xkcd Visualizes Money
I admit, I get kind of frustrated when people treat xkcd as the platonic ideal of webcomics. For one thing, people, there are tons of amazing webcomics out there once you dig past Top Ten lists (which seem frozen in amber at this point). For another, xkcd simply isn't one of the strongest webcomics of the moment (although, let's face it, Randall Munroe has much more important things on his mind). But when Munroe nails it, he nails it. Some of his most powerful comics aren't really comics at all, but striking infographics, such as his radiation chart, his height map of the observable universe, the gravity wells of different celestial bodies, and his epic movie narrative chart. Now, he's added a timely new data visualization to his collection: Money. There's been a great deal of talk about money lately, with the budget crisis and the Occupy protests, but it's hard for us to picture relative spending and cost when the numbers get so big. Munroe breaks down everything from campaign spending to the net worth of professional rappers to how much it costs to raise a child to age 17.
Naturally, the entire chart is huge. See the whole zoomable, scrollable thing here.
Money [xkcd]
Posted by Lauren Davis at Monday, November 21, 2011 0 comments
Labels: infographic, randall munroe, xkcd
Dinosaur Comics' Ryan North Writing Adventure Time Comics
Between Netflix and Hulu, there are few reasons to be a cable subscriber these days, but it meant I was a latecomer to the awesome absurdity that is Cartoon Network's Adventure Time. But after a trip to Comic-Con where no one was talking about anything else, I was won over by the charms of the happiest post-apocalyptic TV show on the planet. And Boom Studios has just announced that Adventure Time is coming to comics, written by Dinosaur Comics creator Ryan North!
Now that North is taking on the beloved Jake and Finn and Dr. McNinja's Chris Hastings has done the rounds on Deadpool, could we start seeing a trend of print publishers looking more and more to online talent?
'Adventure Time' Comic Series Coming from Boom! in February [ComicsAlliance]
Posted by Lauren Davis at Monday, November 21, 2011 0 comments
Labels: adventure time, dinosaur comics, print comics, ryan north
Friday, November 18, 2011
Tomorrow: Narbonic Release Party at Borderlands in San Francisco
Even if you can't make it to Borderlands, you can still pick up the two-volume collection at the Couscous Collective store.
Narbonic Release Party [Shaenon's LiveJournal]
Posted by Lauren Davis at Friday, November 18, 2011 0 comments
Labels: events, narbonic, shaenon garrity
Best Thing Today: My Cardboard Life Sleepover Diorama
Posted by Lauren Davis at Friday, November 18, 2011 0 comments
Labels: my cardboard life, philippa rice
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Best Thing Today: Menage a 3's Yuki Crotch-Attacks Giz's Characters
Very nice [Menage a 3]
Posted by Lauren Davis at Thursday, November 17, 2011 0 comments
Labels: cool cat studio, gisele lagace, menage a 3, penny and aggie
Octopus Pie and the Infinite Canvas
You Should Call Him [Octopus Pie]
Posted by Lauren Davis at Thursday, November 17, 2011 0 comments
Labels: infinite canvas, meredith gran, octopus pie









