Comic Book Resources

Hey, I used the side links all the time! Now you’re requiring me to actually remember all these URLs instead of my usual method which was to come here first and just link off the side! No fair!

I notice I’m not there anymore.

Clearly because Cronin hates me.

No, Graeme, you will still be able to get them from here. You’ll just have to do an extra click.

There will be a “Links” button you’ll click on, and that will have all the links - this time a bit more organized, instead of “in the order that I added them to the blogroll years ago.”

You were on the blogroll, Morts!!!

You have opened up such a can of worms!

I’ll throw my hat in the ring for http://www.howtomakecomics.net

I write all of the reviews for the site and it had a lot of really great content for aspiring creators, but the webmaster hasn’t posted anything in a long time. I think getting some exposure might jump start his interest, since it has the possibiilty of being a great website rather than just a home for my reviews.

EnterVOID.com is essentially pit fighting for comic artists. We strive to provide an environment for prospective comic artists to sharpen their skills and upgrade their abilities through the fires of mortal combat. Certainly we can’t physically fight other artists, but we do so through art. By creating characters we can then challenge other artists to a battle in which the better sequential will reign supreme.

I used to use the blogroll. All the links really needed were alphabetizing…

For sites, you gotta have Barbelith, CBR, The Engine, Newsarama, the Pulse, Superdickery, Superman Through the Ages, Scans Daily, the X-Axis…

For blogs: the Absorbascon, the Beat, Beaucoup Kevin, Bloggity Blog Blog Blog, Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog, Comic Pants, the Comic Treadmill, Dave’s Long Box, Dial B for Blog (defunct, but maintaining the wonderful archive), Eye on Comics, the Hurting, Jog the Blog, Johnny Bacardi, Listen to Us, We’re Right, Progressive Ruin, the Savage Critics.

That’ll do for a start…

I found one called Living Between Wednesdays that I like. She’s pretty funny, and just finished a Bob Haney week earlier in the month:

http://livingbetweenwednesdays.blogspot.com/

Cool deal.

Here’s…

…A Smattering of Creator Blogs:

Pierre Alary: http://pierrealary.blogspot.com/

Adam Archer: http://blogoni.blogspot.com/

Denis Bodart: http://denisbodart.blogspot.com/

Dario Brizuela - http://dario-brizuela.blogspot.com/

Eric Canete: http://kahnehteh.blogspot.com/

Leonel Castellani - http://leonelcastellani.blogspot.com/

C.B. Cebulski: http://www.chesterfest.blogspot.com/

Jo Chen: http://jo-chen.com/main-data/jo.html

Christopher Copeland: http://www.ianspirational.blogspot.com/

D’Israeli: http://disraeli-demon.blogspot.com/

Andy Diggle: http://andydiggle.blogspot.com/

Marko Djurdjevic: http://sixmorevodka.blogspot.com/

Joe Dodd: http://joedodd.blogspot.com/

Warren Ellis: http://www.warrenellis.com

Sean “Cheeks!” Galloway: http://gotcheeks.blogspot.com/

Ale Garza: http://alegarza.blogspot.com/

Neil Googe: http://neilgoogeart.blogspot.com/

Keron Grant: http://kerong.deviantart.com/

David Hahn: http://yourbalanceis.blogspot.com/

Stuart Immonen: http://www.immonen.ca/news/

Frazier Irving: http://www.frazerirving.com/home/blog/blog.html

James Jean: http://processrecess.com/

Tim Kane: http://absoluteart.blogspot.com/

Sunny Lee: http://sunnyart.blogspot.com/

Francis Manapul: http://manapul.blogspot.com/

Mike Manley: http://drawman.blogspot.com/

Jonboy Meyers: http://fromthecan.blogspot.com/

Josh Middleton: http://joshuamiddleton.blogspot.com/

Takeshi Miyazawa - http://www.takeshimiyazawa.com/

Dustin Nguyen: http://duss005.blogspot.com/

Mike Norton: http://www.ihatemike.com/blog.html

Ben Oliver: http://benoliverart.blogspot.com/

Alex Ortiz: http://leyendecker13.blogspot.com/

Ryan Ottley: http://ryanottley.com/

Dan Panosian: http://urbnbarbarian.blogspot.com/

Jeff Parker: http://parkerspace.com/

Sean Phillips: http://surebeatsworking.blogspot.com/

Humberto Ramos: http://humbertoramos.blogspot.com/

Khary Randolph: http://kharupt.com/blog.htm

Howard Shum: http://howardshum.blogspot.com/

Joe Suitor: http://monoluminant.blogspot.com/

Ed Tadem: http://e22.livejournal.com/

Dave Taylor: http://d-taylor-comics-music-ford-mustangs.blogspot.com/

Dylan Teague: http://dylansdrawingboard.blogspot.com/

LeSean Thomas: http://leseanthomas.blogspot.com/

Dean Trippe: http://dryponder.livejournal.com/

Cory Walker: http://corenthal.blogspot.com/

Chris Weston: http://chrisweston.blogspot.com/

Mike Wieringo: http://www.mikewieringo.com/html/Blog.htm

Ashley Wood: http://ashleybambaland.blogspot.com/

Brian Wood: http://www.brianwood.com/

Pete Woods: http://petewoods.livejournal.com/

Skottie Young: http://www.skottieyoung.blogspot.com/

…A Handful of Group/Studio Sites:

Horhaus: http://www.horhaus.com/v3/index.html

Mercury Studios: http://www.mercurystudio.blogspot.com/

Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba: http://fabioandgabriel.blogspot.com/

Royal Academy of Illustration and Design: http://royalacademy.blogspot.com/

Ten Ton Studios: http://tentonstudios.com/

Wildstorm: http://gelatometti2.blogspot.com/

…Also!

Project Rooftop: http://www.tencentticker.com/projectrooftop/

And, that’s just scratching the surface.

X-Axis should go on there. My own blog is too sucky at the moment cos I’m in the last couple of months of my degree and I never have time to update it, but I hope to do more on it soon.

Two suggestions:

http://geniusboyfiremelon.blogspot.com for obvious reasons, and also http://www.sequart.com because I write for them too.

And I use the CSBG links all the time, actually. I usually just pick randomly and see what goodness I can find.

I offer non-moron thoughts to the universe at large (ie humans and other creatures who understand English word language) at …

Thoughts From the Mind-Brain
dwightvlahos.blogspot.com.

There was/were/are other website address places that were in use but unfortunately due to circumstances that are not my fault they are no longer in access by yours truly.

if you want to learn how to make comics not be stupid crap AND also about professionalism in this cut-throat industry AND also get the benefit of learning from a ‘different’ prospective then your own then truly you should read the blog.

If you are stupid stay away because even though you would benefit from ‘common sense’ your moron tendencies will cause mental distress when dealing with superior thinking pieces.

Also, for anyone who goes way back, New Humans of Future IS RETURNING at some point in the near-to-far future when it is ready.

Zoombaboom Babies!

Dwight R. Vlahos

I have a tendency to comment on comics and comics related news pretty frequently on my blog ( http://uncle-sean.com comics posts are: http://uncle-sean.com/tag/comics/) and started weekly “Comic Book Movies I’d Like to See” posts( http://uncle-sean.com/tag/comic-book-movies-id-like-to-see/ ).

Oh, and I used the blog roll recently when I was looking for new blogs to add to my regular reading, found some great stuff there. I look forward to the links page.

http://www.ninthart.com may be done, but the site is still up. I really liked their work.

4thletter, Bully Says: Comics Should Be Fun! and Ye Olde Comics Blogge have to be on there, because you cut me off right in the middle of reading some really cool archives.

We just started up at funnybookbabylon.com last month with a weekly podcast. We’re trying some interesting bits that we hope people like. Check us out and let us know what you like or don’t.

Thanks km!

4thletter’s address is http://www.4thletter.net.

Most of the ones I’d suggest have already been linked. http://kalinara.blogspot.com is a must-read each morning, as is http://comicsworthreading.com. I’ll go through my RSS reader and find some more later on!

Funnybook Babylon is run by some cool dudes, too.

Well, I just recently started a blog at http://outdatedopinions.blogspot.com/ and since I started it, I’ve been itching for Comics Should Be Good to let me know if it’s up to snuff.

I’ve got two sites — or site sections, depending on your interpretation (since they’re on the same domain). First, Flash: Those Who Ride the Lightning, a site full of profiles of the various Flashes, their supporting casts, and their enemies. Started in 1996, and I’m still adding stuff to it.

Also, I blog about comics from time to time at K-Squared Ramblings. Here’s the direct link to the comics category.

I’ve been posting almost daily at my blog called mad science at http://underpantsontheoutside.blogspot.com/ since the beginning of the year. Usually, I write reviews, post comic related pictures or videos, and talk about robots. Also, sometimes robot arms.

http://www.everydayislikewednesday.blogspot.com is excellent.

Ooo, and Comics Curmudgeon, too.

Critical-Hits.com

While we mainly cover gaming and gaming-related topics, I do a semi-regular comics review column, and we talk about comic movies all the time.

At the risk of being a little narcisistic, I’d like to put Kung Fu Rodeo’s hat in the proverbial ring. We’re not 100% comics, but that’s still our main focus.

You can be considered “Blogs By Us,” Steve.

Glad to hear you’re updating the links. Even the current blogroll is very useful, but there are a lot of dead sites there, and quite a few mistyped links (a lot of the blogspot.com links have been given a double-slash at the end, somehow).

Rampant ego time! My own Gad, Sir! Comics! is, I suppose, a kind of transatlantic comic blog. The biggest thing on it at the moment is a 7-part, 54-panel review in comic strip format of Bryan Talbot’s Alice in Sunderland; but that probably isn’t typical of the content.

I’m not here to re-pimp my previous list status; instead, I come to totally hype up the already mentioned livingbetweenwednesdays.blogspot.com and monitorduty.com. both great sites.

http://www.monitorduty.com, a group comics/geek news/analysis site that features excellent, in-depth character profiles by Alan Kistler, the occassional psuedo-coherent essay by myself, and scores of other cool things from less than a score of other cool people, including Webmaster Michael Hutchison, who used to run Fanzing.

A friend of mine made a blog to promote his mini comic, which you should all check out, and I’m doing comic reviews on it.

http://goodstuffcomics.blogspot.com/

I totally forgot to post the link for my blog, http://www.funnybookbabylon.com/

http://www.orangelazarus.net

Go check it out. Comics, music, movies, fun!

Well, for shameless advertising, I recommend my two sites:

http://lightbringer.comicgenesis.com - My webcomic Lightbringer, which makes many references to mainstream comics while trying to introduce the first superhero to the “real” world.

Or, if you want something on more of a bloggy comic analysis type of thing:

http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com - Atop the Fourth Wall, my blog where I find the worst comics ever (the latest entry came about because of an entry you had in the Back Issues Box) and make fun of theme page-by-page.

I’m kind of opposed to linking to Superdickery.

Posting a panel from a comic that contains a joke and NOT REALIZING that the creators of the comic were aware that they were making a joke, and then repeating the joke and saying “Haw haw haw! Lookit this funny thing those dumb bastards did completely by mistake”

Ummm…

Not cool.

I like Mort’s site.

Also, can you make the blog links to wordpress work?
(And quite a few of them were outdated. The Beat and Trout in the Milk moved.)

OK Brian,
Here’s mine:

Collected Comics Library podcast and blog
http://collectedcomicslibrary.blogspot.com/

Having read through both their archives a few times…I don’t think Superdickery is set up to laugh at the creators of those covers, anymore than What Were They Thinking! is.

(Just based on his commentary, I’m not even sure the SD webmaster *has* context for a lot of those covers.)

In both cases the focus is the bizarre *results* of their labours. Like MST3K.

And sometimes, you really do have to wonder. There’s stuff in there that can be explained by deliberate creator weirdness, and then there’s - uh, stuff that can’t. ‘Heidi, the Girl Who Loved the Swastika’ is by no-one’s definition a good idea.

Oh, and my pleasure re: 4thletter, David. The Top 100 What-If? series alone is a mini-masterpiece.

I’ll pimp my blog, Warren Peace Sings the Blues. And I might as well mention a few friends:

Geoff Klock
View From the Cheap Seats
Stephen Frug
Jones, One of the Jones Boys
RAB

AND DAVE SIM!

Why can’t this blog link to Dave Sim?!

It’s really interesting reading!

I read a lot of blogs, but I use the links here a lot too. Need to add Lady, That’s my Skull too…
Fortress of Fortitude
Ye Olde Comic Blogge
Random Panels
Polite Dissent
The Absorbascon
Facedown in the Gutters
Dave’s Long Box
Progressive Ruin
Ear in the Fireplace
Superdickery.com
Seven Hells!
Postmodern Barney
The Hurting
Gone and Forgotten
Silver Age Comics
Blockade Boy
Snark Free Comics Blog
Two Guys Buying Comics
The Kirby Museum
Chris’ Invincible Super Blog
Beaucoup Kevin
The Savage Critic
Comics should be good
Dial B for Blog
Comics Oughta be fun!
Reporting on Marvels and Legends
Title Undetermined
Pretty, Fizzy Paradise
Spoilt!
When Fangirls Attack!
Uatu.blog!
Occasional Superheroine!
Word on the Street!
Fish Flavored Baseball Bat
The Beat
Pop Snark Hooligan
Green Lantern’s Butts Forever!
Matching Dragoons
Dave Ex Machina
4th Letter
Legion of Doom
Brainfreeze
Another Geeky Blog
Of Course, Yeah!
Bill’s Comics
Again With the Comics
Oh, and my blog too, I guess…

I used the links! And can’t find the darn link page now!

Since you are changing things, update your link to The Beat, you link to the old URL.

Don’t have many new links to add. I do have a comics blog, but it’s in portuguese:
http://euroquadrinhos.wordpress.com

Best,
Hunter (Pedro Bouça)

….on the other hand, self pimpage is always a good thing.

Paperghost.com, where I rant and complain about lots of things that suck about comics…quite often where aspects of race and / or stuff that I find insults women to some degree are involved. Sometimes I’m full of joy and praise. The next such occurrence is scheduled for sometime in 2047.

I’m really just messing around with it, but what the hey:

Doesn’t merit a link at this point, but if anyone wants to check it out and (please) offer feedback, that would be cool.

Well, I botched that all kinds of up. Still catching up with new fangled html technology. It’s called s1rude: Geek Insurrectionist

I’d like to humbly suggest my own, the Legion Omnicom (http://adventure247.blogspot.com), for all your Legion of Super-Heroes needs.

I’ve never been listed on the blogroll, and I update every weekday. Where’s the love?

Both Comics Make No Sense and The Procrastinator at panel2panel.com would fit in quite well.

Other than the stuff that was on the blogroll before–the stuff that’s still active, that is–there’s the Legion World message board (www.legionworld.net). ComicSpace. The various comic-book-related wikis out there. Comics.org. Lots of database sites, like the DCU unofficial guide, and what have you. The Cape Symposium. The different comic-blog-central-update sites. Sites for comic companies themselves, and for retailers, and webcomics, and creators (neglect not John Rogers’ site at kfmonkey.blogspot.com). ComicBloc and Comixtreme and Newsarama.

Anyway, once you get a page up and we can see what’s there we’ll be able make suggestions to fill in the gaps.

Nobody reads my blog.

Le sigh.

http://tomfoss.blogspot.com