Forbidden knowledge, cryptogisms, blatant sexual hyjinks, mutant regionalism, and the panorama of mythology combine in Mack's amazing comics. Must be seen to be believed, not for the weak of heart or blue of nose.Step right up!
Also check out Mack's satellite sites:
Bison Bill's Weird West Show -- Truly Wild Western comix, weird cowboy lore and then some!
World Wide News Link -- You want the truth? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
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Apeshot's Official Cartoonist Rookie of the Year 1999-2000. Kevin produces the minicomic Supermonster and is trying a lot of effective and interesting new means of telling a story. And while that's good, his subject matter is even better: the poetry of the familiar-- suburban streets, summer lawns, porch lights, haircuts, Neil Young, and Sonic Youth all relayed in a most rivetting and gorgeous manner.
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One of the greatest natural mechanics and rythmnatists in comics, KAZ presents his weekly strip here. Kaz has been published in numerous classic anthologies and several collections of his own work have been produced by Fantagraphics. SIDETRACK CITY & OTHER TALES is probably the pinnacle of his achievement, redolent of Rube Goldberg, Cliff Sterret, and other kabalistic, krystalline, kubistik klassic kartoonists. Plus many of Kaz's strips are about heroin and cigarettes.
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Ted May and Warren Craghead have hatched a plumb gnarly multi-cartoonist collaboration facility, USS Catastrophe. Internet eye-candy and some really great comix (check the swell Kevin Huizenga piece) combine to blow your FREAKING mind, man.
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Serializer.net
Anthology
The latest, greatest (as of 11/1/02) on-line anthology of weekly web comix,
edited by alternative slugger Tom Hart. Lots of good things here by old
and new artists. Full access to these comix is available by subscription
only (via Paypal), but there are plenty of free previews, updated regularly.
PICK HITS: "Pup", "Alternator", "Achewood",
"Half Empty", "Square Fiction", "Sunshine Disaster",
"The Magic Whistle" and "Monster Parade". 11/1/02
Alternator
by Carrie Golus & Patrick Welch
Very thoughtful and well-executed comix (both fictional
& not), paintings, and other good stuff from this Chicago duo. Golus
is a veteran alternative cartoonist. These folks are well able to reproduce
their unique sensibilities (and actually HAVE unique sensibilities) in
their comix and other artworks, a rare skill in cartoonists these days.
11/1/02
Drew Weing's Journal
Well done "journal" comic (what we used to call "auto-bio"
back in the day) by a young fellow from Savannah, Georgia, USA. The Savannah
School of Visual Art offers a degree in cartooning, which is fairly unique
in the academic world. Drew Weing also produces the very nice "Pup"
weekly strip for Serializer.net. 11/1/02
Jeff
Levine's "Lost for Life"
The creator of classic alternative comix like "No Hope"
and "Snapshot" is making comix again on the web. Riffs and thoughts
about life and existence done up solid with great consideration. Take
advantage of this while it lasts! 11/1/02
Highwater Books publishes fine comix by folks like John (King Cat) Porcellino, Brian Ralph, Jordan Crane, James Kolchaka, and many exemplary others. Tom Devlin is the man in charge, a dynamic individual way too nice to be a comix publisher. He's so nice that he's conned some of his artists into doing DAILY strips for the web-browsing public, FOR FREE! Be sure to check out Tommy D.'s own work, and the luscious narratives of Greg Cook (see illo, left) and Ron Rege.
Update, 5/2001: Dammit, the "daily" comix seem to have hit the skids. No updates in about a month. Oh well, that's show biz.
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Jack Kirby may be the King, but in American Comix History, Alex Toth rules.
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Ted May: man, myth, or monster? Not for the spiritually inconsequential.
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Renee French
Renee French has been making obtuse, creepy comix
for herself and publishers like Dark Horse, Fantagraphics, and Top Shelf
since about 1995. Her viewpoint is unique: sweet and angry, macabre and
gentle, melancholy and lush all at once. Her drawing skills have grown
richer over the years, achieving a high state of grace and subtlety sorely
lacking in the majority of cartoonists of her generation.
The man who explained comics now is now vigorously trying to define comics on the web. Dean of Humanities or human cannonball? You decide! PS. Be sure to check out McCloud's links for more wild web-cartooning.
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by Bebe Williams, king of on-line cartoonists. Bebe has more, weirder cartoon stuff here than you could possibly imagine. Look for Gas Comics, The Red Nonsense, and serialized episodes of Joe Zabel's "The Trespassers" mystery tales here.
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The website jungle fortress of Jordan Crane, ringmaster of Non, a fine anthology of young cartoonists' work, including Brian (Fireball) Ralph and that strange young man, Ted May.
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Comix from the uberground! The Salon webmagazine presents pyscho-noir and political satire from classic underground cartoonists Spain Rodriguez, Justin Green, and Paul Mavrides. Also look for weekly comix by Tom Tomorrow, Keith Knight, Ruben Bolling, and Carol Lay on the Salon index page.
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Serapion.Com!
Jeremy Pinkham has graciously (and with no small html skill) collected
a lot of excellent stuff into this odd kind of on-line journal of comix.
Featured here are the works, ideas, and interviewed rantings of tremendous
cartoonists like David Lasky, Bill Wray, and Stephen DeStefano. A beautiful
comic by the elusive Lasky is featured in its entirety: The Funkiest Man
Alive.
Update 5/2001: Serapion.com has never been updated past its first inception. A pity, but there's still all that cool stuff there if you haven't already seen it.
Longtime underground cartoonist and musician J. Bradley Johnson, whose work has appeared in Last Gasp Comics and many assorted obscure anthologies presents a set of extremely annoying, yet interesting Shockwave animations and a portfolio of his beautiful illustration work. Highly recommended.
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Alternative comix's John Henry. Joe is the alternative comix powerhouse behind Amazing Montage Press, creator of the Trespassers mystery series, and publisher of the upcoming mystery comix anthology, Death by Crowquill. Cleveland native Joe has been working in alternative comix nearly 20 years, creating a huge body of fine work, including collaborations with Harvey Pekar in almost every issue of American Splendor.
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From the pocketbook of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sprang great things: Peter Laird's Xeric Foundation gives out money to promising new cartoonists. They've shown great taste over the years, giving money to folks like Jason Lutes, Jon Lewis, Walt Holcombe, Jessica Abel, and even ME! No comics on their site, but if you're a good cartoonist and need money to publish your work, check them out.
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This site needs no promotion from me, as it is one of the most popular on the web. A bitter & goofy vision of contemporary life portrayed through bendy toys, Leisuretown is also a tremendous exercise in fumetti-style photocomics. If you haven't visited Leisuretown before, stop cheating yourself and get on over there.
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Andy "Konky" Kru and his Amazing Comix Link Lists
Andy is a fine British cartoonist, gently pursuing
new means of cartooning, while approaching these new inventions from some
of the oldest roots of the art form. Andy is also a comix historian and
a tremendous collector of comix resources on the Web. His Link Lists are
absolutely the most comprehensive available.
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Maakies and Sock Monkey are the products of the lovely
and talented Tony Millionaire. Millionaire's main character Uncle Gabby
proclaims to his pal, Drunky Crow: "Being Drunk is the best feeling
in my poor world." How can you not love this comic? Plus the motherfucker
can draw like a, well... a motherfucker! Millionaire is a direct
and heart-breaking throwback to 19th century illustration and etching.
These are graphic pearls made only of ink.
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Poppin' fresh mini-comix reviews as of June 2001. An earnest and extensive collection of reviews of work by the latest crop of cartoonists on the fringe. A great effort! A terrible fucking name!
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Great psychochromatic comix by Roger Raupp.
Raupp is a fine illustrator who is hiding some terrific comics from the world. His stuff is like a cross between Giraud & Caza dosed heavily with Dan Spiegle. His comix recall the lost amalgam of sci-fi and psychofantastic that ran through Heavy Metal magazine until around 1983 and pulses at you still from the writings of Bruce Sterling and P. K. Dick (see if you can spot the cameo by Dick in one of Raupp's unfinished symphonies).
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The Urinal is the only consistent U.S.source for real criticism regarding the comix art medium. The magazine is unique not only in that it covers comix, but also because it delivers substantive thinking and principled writing in this meaning free society of ours. Plus it's got big tits.
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Biggs is a great young comix artist, creator of Dear Julia. He is a powerful, yet extremely subtle draftsman, and supports himself by doing a lot of kick-ass commercial art and design work. His webpage is delightful and surprising. Give it a spin.
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Street punk and coffee cafe society comix from hot cartoonist-town Montreal. What do you know? These cold weather mothers can really draw!
Also, recommended by Sam: "HUNDREDS of pages of comix art, some by the cream of the [Montreal comix] crew such as Billy Mavreas, Bernie Mireault, d.bilos, Eric Thˇriault, D.S.TURBO, Guim, Howard Chackowizc, Jane Tremblay, Caro Caron, Jose Holder, Jesse Bochner, Peter Ferguson, OUESNEL, Rupert Bottenberg, Rick Trembles, Salgood Sam, Mr SWIZ, Staph Dumais, Yanick Paquette, Sherwin Tjia and many many more....all this can be found at the Comix Jam web site - http://www.grenadinerecords.com/jam"
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Means harm to no one, an attribute which applies to very few cartoonists walking the earth today (myself included). Dino is half the genius behind the mysterious, classic KEYHOLE indy comic, the whole behind behind the adventures of BILLY DOGMA, and creator of a great autobiographical collection called OPPOSABLE THUMBS (highly recommended). An often-time collaborator with Harvey Pekar on his AMERICAN SPLENDOR, Dino currently has a straight job drawing junk for Marvel comics, but promises to drop the real science on us now and again in the future.
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Josh Neufeld
Josh is an NYC cartoonist and illustrator who shared KEYHOLE
duties with Dean Haspiel. Josh put together a great comic called TITANS
OF FINANCE, which puts the spotlight on the often less than sane or
sound adventures of America's entrepreneurial overlords. Josh is also
a Harvey Pekar collaborator and decent chap all around.
Indy was once a comics magazine that rivaled the Comics Journal. Today it's just a website, but an extremely elegant and broadly inclusive one. Co-editor Chris Waldron deserves more praise than he usually gets for his design work here (see also the sporty Top Shelf site which he designed, as well). Indy delivers news and interviews, plus a fair amount of hype, often related to co-editor Jeff Mason's Alternative Comics label. Predominantly featured currently is Matt (Black Candy) Madden's "Exercises in Style", an Eno-esque diversion with a loudly proclaimed pedigree from French literary criticism. It works out better than it sounds as you can see from the strips themselves.
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Where once there was Black Eye, now there is Top Shelf. Brett Warnock, wild-mannered bartender, drove his fine little anthology comic into a sort of micro-publishing empire, mostly thanks to the business savvy of partner Chris Staros. Top Shelf publishes fine work by cartoonists like Dino Haspiel, Tom Hart, Brian Biggs, Dylan Horrocks, Craig Thompson, and many others.
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Underground comics were the greatest, and few were finer or funnier than the work of Shelton, Sheridan, and Mavrides in the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, published by, and still available from Rip Off. Dope humor: what a concept!
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L'autre bande dessinˇe Of the "9th Art: comics". This is a French "alternative comics" site, and unless you read French, it'll probably just piss you off. Maybe it'll piss you off anyway, I dunno. Eventually it all leads to great comics by Blutch, Baudoin, Tardi, Goosens, Julliard and the rest. Pursue the fine comics, mes amis!
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An astounding collection of European comics sites, focussing on Italian "fumetti". The Europeans are the most advanced makers of comix on the planet, and if you surf through these sites, you'll quickly understand why.
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