Web comics

[avram]

I was hunting around on Scott McCloud’s website to see if I could find the name of that comics magazine I subscribed to that was supposed to ship its first issue this spring. No luck so far, but I found some great web comics:

E-Merl

Weird photographic Flash comics by Daniel Merlin Goodbray. If you’ve got Flash installed, check out Fever, his 24-hour comic, and Icarus Creeps, a hypercomic.

Keanerdotnet

Kean Soo keeps a journal in comics form, and has done an odd experimental musical comic — it doesn’t quite work, the music and the panels don’t really mesh, but it’s a neat effort. He also maintains a journal comics jam page, linking to journal comics.

Butternut Squash

Gag comic, updated Wednesdays, very well drawn. Artist Ramon Perez is doing that cool glazed-background thing Ian McConville does on MacHall, but his foreground rendering is much more controlled.

Feverdream.org

Shannon Galvin’s comics work is a rare case of 3-D art that works as 2-D compositions.

Spiders

I read parts one and two of Patrick Farley’s brilliant comic about an alternate-universe Afghan War last year, but I just checked, and part three should be released this Friday!

Ah, found it — Prophecy Magazine! Fuck, they’re moving their launch to the fall:

Due to the relatively unexpected decision to go to war, the U.S. economy has been highly unstable and consumer spending has reflected a volatile market environment. As such, this is a very risky time to launch an unproven, expensive, national magazine; we cannot risk coming into the market at the wrong time.

Yet another reason to be pissed off at the Bush administration!