Webcomics Working Overtime

AWARDS
The 2008 Harvey Award nominations are out.  The nominees for BEST ON-LINE COMIC are:

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney
• EZ Street, Robert Tinnell and Mark Wheatley
• Penny Arcade, Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik
• Perry Bible Fellowship, Nicholas Gurewitch
• Surreal Adventures of Edgar Allan Poo, Dwight L. Macpherson, Thomas Boatwright and Thomas Mauer

MILESTONES
The Daily Cartoonist has just about everything on the web you’d want to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Jim Davis’ Garfield.

TOOLS
Drawn! links to a video of Mark Criley showing how to draw "manga-style" hands.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
Kate Beaton distills the Anthony-Liz romance from For Better Or For Worse. (h/t FLEEPN)

The Bear Trap – a comic about the meltdown of Bear Stearns (h/t Journalista!)

Raw Materials – an ongoing science comic by Larry Gonick who is the award-winning author of “The Cartoon History of the Universe,” “The Cartoon History of the Modern World,” and Cartoon Guides to Physics, Statistics, and other scientific subjects.

Noted musicologist and sometimes webcomicker Johnny A reviews the leaked tracks of the someday-may-come GnR album "Chinese Democracy".