ShaBot 6000 by Ben Baruch (pseudonym for William Levin) chronicles the daily life of a Jewish robot and his mentor and their daily struggle to find “logic in a religion that does not compute”. It’s quite hilarious, it’s like the Jetsons meet Woody Allen.
Croatian cartoonist Darko Macan’s weekly web comic, Mišo, got dropped last week after his client decided to drop all contracts with freelancers. Considering he’s a nice guy, who can draw a mile (he worked for Dark Horse, DC and Marvel in the past), I’d very much like to help him. So, if anybody of you ephemerists has some space left in your publications or websites, why not give Mišo a shot ?
To be honest, I don’t read Croatian myself (I’m waiting for the translation), but the art is quite funny, and from what I hear, it’s a pretty satirical tale as well.
In late 1987, John Lustig bought the rights to an obscure Charlton romance comic called First Kiss, a not-really-first-rate 40-issue series published from 1957 to 1965. It was a gamble, and as Lustig himself says, it turned out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy : Charlton was not known for actually honoring its creators, and so, although there are some quite big names present in the title’s roster, quantity was more important than quality. Which, according to Lustig, brought along a “nightmarish quality” to the stories.
Anyway, rather than have this sit in his attic to gather dust, Lustig decided to get creative, and started using artwork from First Kiss to develop his own comic, appropriately called Last Kiss by substituting the original dialogue with new text that’s even less fitting, more unsettling and generally immensely more hilarious.
It’s Get Your War On, but with vintage artwork. See it here.
Lucy Knisley did a very nice comic on her ArtJournal blog about her experiences as a city kid moving to the country. I can relate to this very well : I remember when we moved from Antwerp to the middle of nowhere, my sister and I were scared of flies because we thought they stung…
Unshelved, the library web comic by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum, tries to plug Scott Morse’s Magic Pickle. “I don’t read comics” - if I had a dollar for every time I tried to convince somebody to try a good book, only to be totally given the cold shoulder when it turned out to be a comic…
mumblier is a very cool blog of cartoons, strips and sketches by Australian cartoonist Andrew Fulton. He just did a very good rat creature, which makes it even more cool. I’d like to have one of these…
John Adams’ comic Truth Serum is no longer just a series of irregularly published graphic novels. Now it’s, as John imself puts it, a “a classic three-panel strip, a la Momma or Garfield!” The new full color strip appears weekly and is completely free. And it also features all those wacky super-heroes with their great super-monickers and their not-so-super issues.
The Western Nostril is a very nice, new web comic from South African cartoonists Patrick and Alex Latimer. it’s a bit Maakies meets Wulffmorgenthaler, which is never a bad thing.
(via Drawn!)
Doubtsourcing was launched by Sandeep Sood, owner of software consultancy company Monsoon, and is the Dilbert of the 21st century. It’s adequately geeky, and its writer obviously knows what he’s talking about. It even has something Dilbert doesn’t : art that’s good to look at. And when it goes daily in march, it will take the world by storm. Of a sort.
