Comiques is a comic about "life's little trivialities" by
Anne Emond. Her main subjects are her
family,
cat,
friends,
New York City and
random musings. It is mostly
drawn from life though her work sometimes
tends towards the fantastic.
Here is a short video interview with her which also features some candid shots of her cat and
here's a longer interview on more technical matters. Finally, here are some random favorites:
Pug,
Celebrity Look-alike Generator,
Irrational Rage Comic,
Umbrella,
Writing a Detective Story?,
The Best Karamazov,
Ode to the Avocado,
Top of the Morning to You and
The Day I Realized I've Never Tried to Dress My Cat in People Clothes.
posted by Kattullus
on Aug 5, 2011 -
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Four Color Process is a blog which reposts magnified details from old comic book panels. The images become semi-abstract and very striking (and surprisingly non-Lichtensteinian). Some favorites:
Ruined City,
Steranko's Strange Tales,
Ghouls,
Swirl Lamp,
Kirby's Silver Surfer,
Romance,
Novelty Magic,
Ditko's Dr. Strange,
Man at Conference Table,
Homo Comicus,
Easy to Do and finally
a comparison of contemporary printing with the old four color process.
[via The Front Section]
posted by Kattullus
on Jan 3, 2011 -
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The Zine Library has
hundreds of zines in pdf format for your perusal. They are organized into categories ranging from the common political (
anarchism,
political prisoners &
animal liberation) and identity based zines (
indigenous,
race &
gender) to the more esoteric (
anarchist history,
primitivism &
theory) as well as the useful (
cooking,
DIY &
organizing manuals) and arty (
art,
comics &
music). Now, zines are by their very nature hit and miss but there are some real treasures to be found. I recommend these three:
[all links pdf] The Rebel's Dark Laughter - The Writings of Bruno Filippi,
Barefoot in the Kitchen and
Delivery from Below, Resistance from Above - Electricity and the Politics of Struggle in Tembisa, South Africa. Note: Many if not most zines are set up to be printed out and bound together in chapbooks. That requires a bit of going back and forth when reading in pdf-format, but they wouldn't be real zines if they were straightforward to read ;) Don't know what a zine is? A pretty good overview is provided by zine librarian Jenna Freedman in
Zines Are Not Blogs: A Not Unbiased Analysis.
[This site has been posted previously but was buried deep in the weeds of more inside]
posted by Kattullus
on Mar 10, 2009 -
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Blotchmen is a short comic by Kevin Cannon that collides Watchmen with children's books. Other short comics by Kevin Cannon can be read on
his site under
Grab Bag and on his blog,
Freshman for Life. His professional work is done through
Big Time Attic which he founded with Shad Petosky and not-brother Zander Cannon.
posted by Kattullus
on Oct 27, 2008 -
8 comments
American Elf is a daily diary comic by James Kochalka. The latest strip is always free but the archives are subscription only. He also a musician, his most famous song being
Hockey Monkey, and he has number of songs up for free on his site.
[via Eddie Campbell who says: "Beginning in 1998 Kochalka took the form of daily strip and imbued it with a life that has been missing from it for a long time. Since then he has made sure his daily round is not finished until a strip is done. Another thing I like about it is the way he carefully avoids any taint of 'continuity'. There is no story here, just the eternal incidentalness of life as it is lived."]
posted by Kattullus
on Aug 29, 2007 -
21 comments
