Cartoonist Assassination Plot Foiled

From the Associated Press today: COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Danish police said Tuesday they have arrested three people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Muhammad drawings that sparked a deadly uproar in the Muslim world two years ago.

According to the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, the targeted cartoonist was Kurt Westergaard. Full details at MSNBC.

Continue Reading

Uncategorized

Midnight Macabre resumes!

In case it hasn’t been reported on Comixpedia ComixTalk yet, Randy Milholland of Something Positive has recently begun publishing new content on his second comic, Midnight Macabre. Currently, he is publishing strips Monday through Friday – and occasionally more often until he finishes catching up on back content.

Midnight Macabre follows the story of comedian Gaspar Baugh as he follows in the footsteps of a beloved deceased TV monster matinee host and simultaneously tries to be a good father to his daughter Lisa. Milholland says he is doing the strip "mainly for my father," but also because he himself has missed it.

Both Baugh and his daughter have appeared in Something Positive. However, as Midnight Macabre takes place in 1981 while SP takes place in the present day, Milholland says there will be no crossovers between the two comics, although there may be a few cameos.

Continue Reading

Uncategorized

The Good Ship Chronicles, or Tauhid Bondia, Don’t Break My Heart (Again)

You ever have that one love affair that haunts you for years? You get together, have some great times together, everything’s going great, and then BAM! you lose your heart when they suddenly break up with you without warning. "It’s not you, it’s me." So you go your separate ways, swearing you’ll never fall for that routine again, but a year or so later, BAM! they’re back, and you’re head-over-heels and bound for heartache. Well, Tauhid Bondia‘s back on the scene with a new webcomic, the Good Ship Chronicles, and here I am like a fool, head over heels again.

Continue Reading

Uncategorized

Ode to a Good Webcomic Navigation System

Dear Navigation System, how I love you so. You make it easy for me to read my favorite comics, and without you I would be lost. Whither thou goest, so go I, and woe betide the webcomic that forsakes your charms. For if it does not think it important that it be easy for me to read through the wonders contained within its pages, so shall I value it not worth reading and seek pleasure elsewhere. Oh Navigation System, let me enumerate your virtues for the world to see.

Continue Reading

Uncategorized

Drawing Strong Women: How to Repair Heroes for Hire #13

Kudos to cartoonist Lea Hernandez for demonstrating how easily Marvel could have turned the very disappointing sexually exploitative cover of Heroes for Hire #13 into a much better piece of art, and for proving you can let your female superheroes be sexy without being victims. (Warning: Graphic links, while from a comic rated ages 12 and up, may still be considered non-safe for work.)

Continue Reading

Uncategorized