Two links

I've been wasting my afternoon, delighting at TV Tropes and Stupid Comics. The former contains articles like You Fail Biology Forever, Everything's Better With Dinosaurs, and A Wizard Did It. The later collects fantastic and bizarre images, particularly from golden and silver age covers.

EDIT: Also, TV Tropes just led me to this chart, in which you can see both a Robot Lincoln and an Astronaut Vampire. The internet ate my afternoon.

Two links

(via Laura Hudson, Comics Alliance)
#hawkeyesopoor Twitter meme Hawkeye jokes

(via Kate Beaton)
Hey Oscar Wilde! Artist depictions of literary figures

MoCCAfest 2009!

MoCCA art festival 2009, June 6-7. Chris and I will have a table (and hopefully I'll have more than just high fives to offer people). If you've never been, it's pretty awesome- lots of small press and minuscule press and minicomics and webcomics and people who get excited by all these things. Accumulating changes have made the museum less inviting this past year, but it remains an institution worthy of support and this is their big annual event, attracting all sorts of guests and exhibitors. There's no master list yet, but exhibitors include: Kate Beaton, Joey Comeau, and Bill Roundy (let me know more names).

http://www.moccany.org/artfest09-main.html

Making A Softer World

Open Book Toronto made a short documentary about A Softer World, following Joey Comeau and Emily Horne (and Ryan North) as they put together a strip.

Darwyn Cooke preview pages

(via The Beat)

I'm not nearly as familiar as I should be with Darwyn Cooke or Richard Stark novels he's adapting, but there's 21 pages of preview up at IDW and daaaamn, this shit is gorgeous.

http://www.idwpublishing.com/previews/parker/

Act-i-vate Exhibition

"The Evolution of the Concept of the Superhuman"

Earlier today, Jess Nevins (comics annotator extraordinaire) launched into a history lesson on his twitter account, tracing the history of the superhuman. Fantastic.

http://twitter.com/jessnevins

Infinite Canvas Tour

I just came across youtube videos, which attempted to capture my favorite part of NEWW, the Infinite Canvas Room. It's highly imperfect and was taken in the middle of the weekend rather than the end, but nevertheless fun to watch.

Warbot in Accounting

http://www.nuklearpower.com/warbot/

New Site Design

After a lot of wrangling and teaching myself dreamweaver, our fairy detective webcomic has a site design.