MetaFilter posts tagged with comix

Top shelf Lego

bonobothegreat — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:40:39 -0800

CUBEDUDES ...dig into Pixar Animator Angus Maclane's Lego figurine photostream.

Life's Calendar

WCityMike — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:19:56 -0800

Eventually ... (SIL), by Winston Rowntree. Also from Subnormality: The Line. The Worst Kind of Boss. There are Two Kinds of People. Welcome to Hell. And Abnormality: The Adventures of Bonoman. The Truth Behind Obnoxious Assholes. The Four Possible Husbands and the Four Possible Wives. Every Album Ever. How to Win at Panhandling.

wysiwyg: Ed Piskor

not_on_display — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:59:08 -0800

Ed Piskor became interested in alternative comics at the tender age of nine [according to Wikipedia] after watching Harvey Pekar reading one of his stories in a documentary [most likely this one]. Fast-forward a decade or so, and Ed's getting the call from Pekar himself, asking Ed to draw some comics for him. He started by collaborating with Garbage Pail Kids creator Jay Lynch before being picked up by Pekar (for whom he's since drawn peices for Our Movie Year [linked to above], Macedonia, and a history of the SDS, among others). Ed's also published a few well-known minicomics. He's currently working on the Wizzywig series, a fictional comics biography whose main character is a composite of well-known phreaks and hackers. Portions of part one and two are available on his website. For more pages from Wizzywig, as well as a veritable shitton of his other work, visit his blog. (Really. You'll get lost in there.) I don't think he's on Myspace, though.

CommunityComixWeblogging

not_on_display — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:04:06 -0800

Two examples of community weblogs that revolve around DIY-comix-by-flash-template: Toonlet, where the comments are in comic form, too; and Pixton, which allows for a bit more creative control (but no comix-comments).

Comic book grammatical and aesthetic traditions

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:31:38 -0800

Comic book lettering has some grammatical and aesthetic traditions that are quite unique. What follows is a list that every letterer eventually commits to his/her own mental reference file.

Black and White Indie Filth

Artw — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:37:05 -0800

“It is going to be rough for us Top 20 publishers. It will be epic for anyone smaller. Lots of folks will vanish due to this, even some bigger guys.” - Hard times ahead for indie comics: Diamond Distribution, which has an effective monopoly on American comics distribution, will be raising it’s wholesale benchmark, meaning many of the comiocs currently available in comics stores will soon be dropped. In a further blow to the adult comics market Diamond will be dropping that section from the print version of Previews, in favour of a PDF only available to retailers. Comics are about to get a whole lot blander.

HI I'M ON METAFILTER AND I CAN OVERTHINK A WORLD OF BEANS

JHarris — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:32:04 -0800

Tales of the Beanworld ("A most peculiar comic book experience") recently resumed publication after a long hiatus. It's a strange and abstract mix of Native American mythology and culture, with a strong ecological focus, into an wonderfully charming cosmology. While it certainly invites, uh, overthinking, it's also entertaining on a purely casual level.
A sample short Beanworld story is on the Dark Horse Comics Myspace page.
If you have questions about it, the BeanWeb just may have answers, along with illustrations from the comics. There is now a Beanworld Wiki to supplement it, and creator Larry Marder keeps a blog where he talks about things bean.

Okay, now that it's properly introduced... the real point of this post is to link to this awesome Beanworld Flash cartoon, animated by Fashionbuddha and with music by They Might Be Giants!

Yow! I am having FUN!!

not_on_display — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:30:49 -0800

The Zippy the Pinhead Archive: Are We Having Searchable Fun Yet? lets you search through many years of Zippy daily comic strips by keyword or date, from January 1, 1994 to the near-present. Sundays included. The Roadside Tour lets you search to see if Zippy's been in your part of the world! [Click the "Where's Zippy?" javascript button for detailed location indeces] Also onsite: Understanding Zippy. Bill Griffith has been drawing Zippy since early 1971. The Zippy Quotes Database (used by the old FORTUNE program and the m-x yow command in GNU Emacs). Also available in a different format here. Zippy's inspiration is mentioned previously on MetaFilter. Laundry is the fifth dimension!!

Who doesn't want to look like Marilyn?

adamvasco — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:13:10 -0800

Aren't bullet bras and girdles uncomfortable? Welcome to retro fashion; - What Katie Did by Casting Couch. From bullet bras to vintage skivvies and Girdles to Stilettos.

oh bondage, up yours! xo, wonder woman.

jessamyn — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:52:01 -0800

"The only hope for peace is to teach people who are full of pep and unbound force to enjoy being bound... Only when the control of self by others is more pleasant than the unbound assertion of self in human relationships can we hope for stable, peaceful human society." William Moulton Marston, the quirky psychologist who created Wonder Woman, had a bondage thing. He also had a PhD from Harvard, lived in an openly polyamorous relationship -- with one wife, one mistress, and four kids -- and invented the precursor to the lie detector (more at /. and of course, youtube).

WOOUUIIIIII: The sound that a radio makes while being tuned

anastasiav — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:37:28 -0800

Ka-BOOM! :: A Dictionary of Comicbook Words on Historical Principles, Based on the Latest Conclusions of the Most Dubious Wordologists & Comprising Many Hundreds of New Words which Modern Literature, Science & Philosophy have Neglected to Acknowledge as True, Proper & Useful Terms & Which Have Never Before Been Published in Any Lexicon

Kim Dietch's The Ship That Never Came In

y2karl — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:16:21 -0800

Hey, kids, let's watch a cartoon! May I present The Ship That Never Came In by Kim Deitch, comix genius. It's a piece with his magnum opus Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Both, as Time magazine's comix critic Andrew Arnold notes, focuses on Ted Mishkin, a talented animator whose gifts can never quite overcome his curse. His curse is Waldo, a mischievous cat who walks on his hind legs. Waldo may be a delusion or he may be real, but only Ted can see him. Wotta concept! More inside ? Fuckin' A !

comics about criminals

Peter H — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:06:58 -0800

Bush Junta: A Field Guide to Corruption in Government - A substantial visual document (200 pages of comics from Fantagraphics, fact-checked with an extensive bibliography; the link goes to a number of sample pages) on the Bush Dynasty, from its beginnings benefitting off of Hitler and WW2 (that entire piece, which is printed in english, is posted in its original dutch online here), to the Bush's connection to Reagan's assassination, CIA and Iran-Contra, ending with the unsettling origins and profiles of the current administration. A great election primer, featuring comics and art by Steve Brodner, Ralph Steadman, Spain Rodriguez and many others. (Amazon link provided for a better description)

comic artists, sharpen your pencils

btwillig — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 13:20:38 -0800

Strip Fight! has nothing to do with clothes and everything to do with comics. Inspired by Songfight.org (mefi post), Strip Fight was created as a place for comic strip artists to flex their skills.

Pavitr Prabhakar. Say it out loud.

Tlogmer — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:57:57 -0800

Forget translations. Spiderman gets remade, bottom-to-top, for the subcontinent.

Ninja!

Tlogmer — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:36:38 -0800

Isometric goes anime.

X-Men declared nonhuman

Tlogmer — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:29:06 -0800

Judge rules: X-Men are not human. Prof. Xavier could not be reached for comment.

xowie — Tue, 01 Jan 2002 06:51:29 -0800

The Spiders, Part 2. Surely the greatest instant book of all time. cf. Part 1, and don't miss the "next..." link at the bottom of the first page. WOW.

barbelith — Fri, 31 Aug 2001 07:57:07 -0800

Does this take your fancy? Or perhaps this does. Or this? Old comic book ads featuring OJ SIMPSON defaced by a range of naughty, should-know-better uk webloggers (and their friends). Darren's still taking submissions, so if you'd like to add your intepretation to this, this, this, this, this, this and this, then feel free. Warning: May Cause Bleeding.