For those of us who like to beautify our computers and mobile contraptions, Fantagraphics has a selection of fancy wallpaper hidden in the attic of their gussied-up new website. Check’m out!

I spent the winter holiday at my parents’ house. While there, I rediscovered my collection of beat-up Calvin & Hobbes comics. Man! They are even better than I remembered them! It left me wondering what Bill Watterson is doing now. What does his fine art work look like? Is he drawing comics still… for himself [...]

if you missed stan lee the other night, you can still take some of the fun home with you and contribute to the good cause that the evening was meant to support. way back in 2006, stan lee and the current editor-in-chief of marvel comics, joe quesada, met with director kevin smith and hundreds of [...]

My pals at Kindercore are celebrating the holidays with a comic book. Music, their specialty, is included and 100% of the proceeds go to Oxfam. I contributed one of my Christmas memories to the effort.

James Kochalka’s website, American Elf, was recently redesigned. The archives are now FREE! As is Monster Attack, a comic by Eli Kochalka (seen here with one of his drawings).

More Marvel comics by unexpected artists! Peter Bagge tackled Spider-Man in 2002. In his version of the story, Peter Parker gives up superheroism when he discovers that his mentor, Uncle Ben, was killed because of gambling debts.

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Regarding my fantasy comics anthology, a friend through comics sent me this Silver Bullet Comic Books article about Jeffrey Brown’s take on Wolverine.