Pathetic geek stories

Pathetic geek stories is pretty much what the name says: awkward, often embarassing little stories that Maria Schneider has been compiling and illustrating  for the past fifteen years or so. The current online archieve collects dozens of the best stories told by friends and submitted by readers over the years (and you can even submit your own here).

patheticgeekstories.com

Hourly Comics - part 2

Lots of people have added their comics to the Hourly Comic Day Forums since I posted about it on Tuesday, including some old time favourites like Marc Ellerby, Adam Cadwell, Lucy Knisley and Box Brown.

There are 7 whole pages worth of links and so many good ones it's hard to pick favourites, but here's a few more that I really enjoyed:

Tim Carpenter


Rachel Weiss


Jordyn Bochon


(click on the images for the full comic)

What things do

What things do is a new webcomic collective founded by Jordan Crane. It features his own comics as well the work of John Porcellino, Sammy Harkham, Ted may, Steve Weissman and it looks like there's even more to come.

I only discovered it a couple of days ago , but have been slowly reading my way through everything on the site and I have to agree with the forbidden planet blog - it certainly is the most beautiful collection of strips in one place I’ve seen in a long time.


whatthingsdo.com

Super person of the week: Seth Fisher

I only discovered Seth Fisher's work last month and was quite shocked and sad to learn he passed away four years ago. His work is great and some of most unique i have seen.

He illustrated 'Vertigo Pop: Tokyo' (which got him a Eisner award nomination in 2003), worked on a variety of DC and Marvel titles, (most notably 'Flash: Time Flies'), designed his own video games, did lots of conceptual design work, and drew for a wide variety of outlets.

His website is still being updated reguarly by his family and hosts a lot of his artwork, games, and even a shop.

www.floweringnose.com

Super person of the week: Alex Ross

Alex Ross was probably the first artist to "paint" a comic (certainly the first one in the mainstream circle) and today is considered one of the world’s most preeminent and well-respected comic book artists around. His first big project in the comic industry was "Marvels", the book through which I discovered this work and was totally blown away by its hyper-realistic quality and how well it worked on the comic book format.

Over 15 years after the "Marvels" debut, his work has been on dozens of book covers and pages on several publishers including DC, Marvel, Warner, Dynamite and Wizard.



www.alexrossart.com

The Everyday

The Everyday is Adam Cadwell's online comic about.. err.. the everday. It hasn't been updated much lately (Cadwell's a busy man, working as a freelance storyboard artist and visualiser) but his site has 3 years worth of archieves of the strip and it's a lot of fun to go thru them. They are also available in paper form, printed in 3 collections from the shop in his website.  Fingers crossed there will be more coming soon!

www.adamcadwell.com

Super person of the week: Bryan Lee O'Malley

Bryan Lee O'Malley is the creator of the super-ace comic Scott Pilgrim, which has been getting a lot of (very well deserved) attention since it first came out in 2004. The 6-book series is not even finished yet, but it is already being adapted into a movie, and I bet will be in a lot of people's "best comics of 00s" list.

Prior to Scott Pilgrim, O'Malley illustrated the Oni Press mini-series Hopeless Savages: Ground Zero, and published his first graphic novel Lost at Sea in 2003.

www.radiomaru.com
www.scottpilgrim.com

Andrew Fulton's take on other artists' comics

Andrew Fulton has been drawing various characters from comics he likes, and by the looks of it, he likes a lot of my favourite comics. So far he's got Brian Ralphy's Daybreak, David Mazzucchelli's Asterios Polyp, Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan, Neil Gaiman's Sandman, Matt Forsythe's Ojingogo, Jim Woodring's Frank and a little protrait of Scott Mccloud. Awesomeness!

View the whole series on this flickr page.

www.mumblier.com
www.flickr.com/photos/andrewfulton&n

Unmasked

The New Yorker comic strip by Chris Ware.


See the original here.

Super person of the week: Jacob Borshard

Jacob Borshard is an illustrator, musician, and general awesomeness-maker based in Austin. I can't really express how much of a genius I think this man  is, but don't take my word for it, check out his comics, t-shirts designs, prints and music, and see for yourself.

Fact magazine had a very nice feature on him a couple of months back.  It's more focused more on his music rather than illustration work, but a very nice read anyway. Check it out here.

www.creebobby.com

Some people

Brilliant mini-comic by Luke Pearson. View the complete version here.



mumblingidiot.deviantart.com
thatlukeperson.blogspot.com

Super person of the week: Paul Duffield

I got to know Paul Duffield's work through Warren Ellis' ongoing weekly comic FreakAngels, and it totally blew me away since the very first chapter. FreakAngels book 3 has just been published, and the online updates keep coming every Friday.

 

Apart from FreakAngels, his published works include a wordless 18 page manga-influenced comic strip called Sojourn, and an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest (view preview here).

www.spoonbard.com
www.freakangels.com

Nuno Platis

It's always very refreshing to see well known characters drawn in a totally different way. That's one of the reasons I love Nuno Platis' work. Super-stylized goodness!!

nunoplati.blogspot.com
www.myspace.com/nunoplati

Daniel Novakovic

Daniel Novakovic is a Swedish illustrator now based in London. A lot of his work is music related - record covers, gig flyers, club night posters, etc; but he's also done some work for the Swedish Council of Public Arts, including a huge piece consisting of over 200 drawings covering 7 walls at Linköping Universit, and a couple of great comics. So good!

www.danielnovakovic.com

Cristy Road

Cristy Road's work as an illustrator started back in the early nineties, in her own self-published zine Green'zine and gradually evolved into her current style, and has always tackled pretty strong subject matters like social principles, gender, sexual deviance, identity, racism, drug abuse, mental inadequacies and death.

She released her first graphic novel - Indestructible, an autobiographical tale about teenagerhood, rebellion, gender, queerness, mental health, promiscuity and punk rock in 2006 and followed with a collection of postacards (Distance Makes the Heart Grow Sick) and a second novel last year (Bad habits).

She is currently based in New York, drawing and writing, and has just been back from an european tour with the all-queer-girl spoken-word roadshow Sister spit.

www.croadcore.org
www.myspace.com/croadcore