Evan Shaner does, apparently. :-) (h/t Wil)

How did I miss this interview in Time a couple of years back starring two of my favorite writers?

NG: I always loved, most of all with doing comics, the fact that I knew I was in the gutter. I kind of miss that, even these days, whenever people come up and inform me, oh, you do graphic novels. No. I wrote comic books, for heaven’s sake. They’re creepy and I was down in the gutter and you despised me. ‘No, no, we love you! We want to give you awards! You write graphic novels!’ We like it here in the gutter!

Yesterday, the Washington Post ran an article for the explicit purpose of giving legitimacy to internet rumors about Barack Obama.

Today, one of their editorial cartoonists called them on it. Nice going, Mr. Toles. :-)

Webcomic A Town Called Dobson has been running a series of strips about why Kucinich is the right man for the job. Check them out…

Comic author Gene Yang has been catching a lot of flack lately from people offended by one of his characters, Cousin Chin-Kee.

To those of you who are offended by every third chapter of American Born Chinese, I say this: Thank you. You’re supposed to be offended. That was the desired response.

You see, Cousin Chin-Kee is no more my creation than the Monkey King. I yanked him, every last detail about him, straight out of American pop culture. One of his most over-the-top lines is a word-for-word quotation from a political cartoon by an award-winning, nationally-syndicated cartoonist. In a lunchroom scene in the sixth chapter of American Born Chinese, Cousin Chin-Kee offers Danny a bite of his “crispy fried cat gizzards with noodles.” On April 9, 2001, in response to the Chinese spy plane crisis, American political cartoonist Pat Oliphant drew a six panel strip depicting Uncle Sam’s visit to a Chinese restaurant, where he is served “crispy fried cat gizzards with noodles” by a slant-eyed, bucktoothed waiter. Outside of a few angry Asian-American columnists writing for small Asian-American audiences, the entire matter slipped out of public consciousness without so much as an embarrassed blush of the cheek from Oliphant.

Thanks to Laura for the pointer.

Aerie, the author of the webcomic Queen of Wands, has teamed up with another artist for a new strip, Punch an’ Pie, which started yesterday.

The question is, can they make the rest of Rise of the Silver Surfer as cool as the trailer?

Thanks to filkertom for the link.

Elf just pointed us at a nifty webcomic that I’ll be busily working my way through for a while. :-) One of the nice things about it is that the authors’ comments explain, for example, why there are smokestacks on the moon, and how they would actually behave.

Somehow, I never expected a webcomic that started out like this to be able to reach a place like this.

Someday, I’ll have to give S*P the Queen of Wands treatment and read all the way through it.

Gee, I wonder why my referrer log is full of Google searches for “A Boy and His Frog“….