Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon interviews Joey Manley of Webcomics Nation and its related family of sites (including, you know, serializer which I curate) about the webcomics nation group merging with the comicspace group.

Shaenon tells me the following about new comics on Modern Tales:

* Little Dee, by Chris Baldwin, a daily strip about a little girl raised in the woods by animals. Baldwin is best known as the creator of Bruno, one of the longest-running and most acclaimed webcomics, which ended early in 2007.
* Planet Saturday Comics, by Monty and Kelli Kane, a monthly comic about “childhood, parenthood and memory,” based on the creators’ own experiences as kids and as parents.
* Gothbunnies, by Joanne Wojtysiak, a whimsical fantasy about three rabbits dealing with their new home and its overgrown, magical garden.
* No Stereotypes, by Amber “Glych” Greenlee, a sprawling fantasy about an immortal searching for his lost love, the ordinary girl who might be what he’s been looking for, and the troublemaking gods who get in their way. No Stereotypes is returning to Modern Tales after a long absence.
* All Knowledge Is Strange, a new strip by renowned experimental webcartoonist and minicomics creator Daniel Merlin Goodbrey. All Knowledge Is Strange replaces Goodbrey’s previous comic on Modern Tales, Brain Fist.


Modern Tales editor Shaenon K. Garrity will interview the creators on the blog Talk About Comics (www.talkaboutcomics.com). The first interview, with Little Dee creator Chris Baldwin, is already available here: http://www.talkaboutcomics.com/blog/?p=1166#more-1166.

Screwing around with some beta flash stuff. You should go here and tell me how it looks to you.

The paintings? I say, "Bring them on."

Bush, Four years ago today:

There are some who feel like -- that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring them on. We've got the force necessary to deal with the security situation.

That's right: We've totally got the force necessary to deal with the security situation in Iraq. It's just going to take over four years and 3,000+ soldiers' lives, and then we're going to have "surge" in more soldiers four years after we already had all the forces necessary.

Idiots. Criminals. Liars.

How are y'all celebarating this grand anniversary?

Every now and then I make a comic that will change every comic I ever make after it. This is one of those.

There's this one brush stroke coming out of her left eye that I could stare at all week ...

This is my painting of Fetus-X burning this painting about censorship, theft, and commodification.

Incidentally, I was talking to someone from one of the newspaper syndicates recently who said Fetus-X would be a tough sell to newspapers? That's crazy talk! Y'all should write all your local newspapers -- big dailies, alternaweeklies, college, high school, church newsletters, all of them -- and just tell them you want to see hot flaming Fetus-X full-color mummy on fetus action!

CC me at eric-at-fetusx-dot-com on your letters and I'll run the best of 'em here.

- Eric

Mikhaela B. Reid, 27, is a Brooklyn-based freelance political
cartoonist. Her strip "The Boiling Point" runs regularly in the Metro
Times (Detroit), In These Times, Bay Windows, The Rochester Insider,
Funny Times, Campus Progress and Chelsea Now and on GoComics.com and
Cagle.com. Her cartoons have also appeared in The Phoenix (Boston),
Los Angeles Times, The Guardian (UK), Ms., Bitch, The Advocate, The
Villager, Women's eNews, Feministing and other fine publications.


Masheka Wood grew up in Boston where he was warped by MAD, Night
Flights, Garbage Pail Kids and Tex Avery cartoons. His lettering,
cartoon and illustration work has appeared on MTV and in The New
Standard. Wood's cartoons were featured in a recent exhibit in Jackson
State University, "Other Heroes: African American comics creators,
characters, and archetypes." He is also a Glyph Award nominee for
black cartoonist "rising star".

Uploaded to accompany this talkaboutcomics.com post.

See that Sat Jun 9, 2007 stop at Green Brain Comics in Dearborn, Michigan? I'll be there, you should be, too.

Mikhaela and Masheka's Books:

Attack of the 50-Foot Mikhaela! Cartoons by Mikhaela Reid (Foreword by Ted Rall).

Bushies are bum-rushing Cheney's secret bunker! Ex-gays are quaking in their closets! Abstinence educators are shivering in their shiny silver purity rings! Greedy CEOs are heading for the hills and Minutemen are bolting for the border! Cartoonist Mikhaela Reid is on the rampage—and no hypocrite is safe! Attack features 150 of Reid's greatest cartoon hits, plus rarities, odds, ends and behind-the-scenes commentary! Available June 4 at Lulu.com!

Deep Doodle: Cartoons by Masheka Wood.

Masheka Wood takes you deep into the warped, candy-colored recesses of his brain as he tackles a variety of social, political and just plain grody targets. Here are Wood's "Not Just Knee Deep" cartoons, assorted illustrations and a delicious dose of old-school comics. Prepare to lose your mind—or your lunch! Wood's work has appeared on MTV, The New Standard and Jackson State University's art exhibit, "Other Heroes: African American comics creators, characters, and archetypes." He is a 2007 Glyph Comics Award nominee for 'Rising Star.' Available now at Lulu.com!

Mikhaela and Masheka's Book Tour:

Sat Jun 9, 2007 4pm
Detroit: Mikhaela Reid & Masheka Wood Cartoon Slideshow & Signing @ Green Brain Comics

Tue Jun 12, 2007 7pm
NYC: Mikhaela Reid & Masheka Wood Cartoon Slideshow & Book Launch Bash @ Bluestockings

Fri Jun 22, 2007 7pm
NYC: Planned Parenthood book event w/ Jessica Valenti, Mikhaela Reid & Amber Madison
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