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.

Comics after newspapers

Ryan North makes a couple hopeful predictions about usage of the word "comics" in a post newspaper world.

http://qwantz.livejournal.com/107040.html

2009 Eisner Nominations

The 2009 Eisner award nominees have just been announced. I wish I could comment on the list, but am embarrassed by how few of the entries I've actually read.

It's interesting to notice that three nominees:
Wondermark: Beards of Our Forefathers, by David Malki (Dark Horse) (Best Humor Publication),
MySpace Dark Horse Presents, edited by Scott Allie and Sierra Hahn (Dark Horse) (Best Anthology)
Fishtown, by Kevin Colden (IDW) (Best Reality-Based Work)
were originally webcomics, but receive nominations only as printed material. Either the judges found a dramatically different experience reading Wondermark online from reading it in print or the digital comics category is so robust that nominees from other categories can't compete in it (that's how I'll choose to interpret). Last year, a Myspace Dark Horse Presents work won digital comics, while Haspiel's Immortal was nominated as a webcomic, but not as print comics this year (although I was heartbroken at the lack of color in the floppies).

And because I can link to them (and will sit down now to read), here's the best digital comics nominees:
Bodyworld, by Dash Shaw, www.dashshaw.com
Finder, by Carla Speed McNeil, www.shadowlinecomics.com/webcomics/#/finder/
The Lady’s Murder, by Eliza Frye, http://theladysmurder.elizafrye.com
Speak No Evil: Melancholy of a Space Mexican, by Elan Trinidad, www.theoryofeverythingcomics.com/SNE/
Vs., by Alexis Sottile & Joe Infurnari, www.smithmag.net/nextdoorneighbor/2008/12/08/story-18/

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=20716

Confessions of a Superhero

Confessions of a Superhero is a 2007 documentary, depicting the desperation on Hollywood Boulevard. It goes deep into the troubled lives of four costumed performers.

Happy Belated Birthday to Shawn

Last year, I hoped to surprise Shawn by creating a comic based on a short-story he wrote long ago. However, I did not have the ability to create what I pictured. Now that my digital art skills have reached the pupae stage, I decided to give it a shot. Yes, the text is crammed. and you'll have to zoom in to read it. Yes, my drawings still look like a demented six-year old's. Still, I feel proud in saying, "Happy Birthday Shawn."