Author: scarfman

scarfman tipped us to the Daily Grind Ironman losing another competitor – Scott Kurtz announced he was dropping out as he began running guest strips from Chris Giarusso while Kurtz is at the San Diego Comicon. Kurtz is also on 3 panels this year – one for Image and two for webcomics (more details after the jump).

gordonmcalpin also caught that there is a new Stripped Books webcomic in the new edition of the online magazine Bookslut. The new strip, by guest illustrator Dan Henrick and Stripped Books creator Gordon McAlpin, adapts Sandman writer Neil Gaiman’s keynote address from the 2005 Nebula Awards dinner, in which Gaiman muses about the state of science fiction today.

The Yirmumah boys are having a fundraiser week – if you’re a fan of Coffman and McDeavitt’s biting sense of humor (see today’s installment!) then drop these guys a buck or two.

Gary Chaloner kicks off a new site hosting his ongoing series: Will Eisner’s John Law. Chaloner is holding a July draw for a signed (by Will Eisner and myself) limited release hardcover of Will Eisner’s JOHN LAW: Dead Man Walking (from IDW). WEJL updates on Mondays at Modern Tales and the new stand-alone site.

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Today’s Real Life features the climax of fictional character Greg’s evening at a fancy restaurant with fictional character Liz: a proposal of marriage.

Real Life has never been strictly a journal comic, but it often incorporates major aspects of real life Greg (Dean) into the webcomic. The assumption of the fans is that today’s comic means that real life Greg proposed to real life Liz. Someone even speculates that today’s comic is in fact meant to be the literal ask of real life Liz.

So is today’s Real Life real life? Continue Reading →