Mike Baehr pointed out Tim Hensley using ComicLife in the links roundup a couple of weeks ago but he failed to mention how Fantagraphics' Righthand Man, Eric Reynolds, has even stopped drawing and now makes all his comics in the Macintosh program.
Such a convert, he even got his mom into it. Seriously. I've seen her comics but I won't post those. It wouldn't be right– and you probably don't even know who Mr. Blackwell is anyway.
Well, in spite of his flaws, I recommend all fans of comicdom check out Eric's massive Flickr archive of His Life in the Comics World. Lots of con and comic life photos, original art he's amassed, and baby pics. Mike Baehr is on Flickr too, with his photography and Yoda fetish.
So are these awesomely strange jam comic pages, care of Laura Park (who appears in Mome #something) and pals.
There's a great Donald Duck drawing, too.
And J. Otto, the childrens book artist who made digital illustration relevant for everyone. Here he's spraypainting guitars.
While youre hanging out at Flickr you might as well see what Heiko Muller and Lizz Hickey are up to.
But Flickr also has something for the manga fans: Tatsuro Kiuchi's very strange Japanese comics. Note to the Editors: Tatsuro's work is great and should be in Mome, untranslated. Also, his piece in the upcoming Beasts2 was acknowledged with a prestigious illustration accolade. I forget which accolade. One of the good ones. Tatsuro is awesome.
Speaking of manga, I'm not clear who does Spermanga but I love his/her work. I guess it's "Bolino." I need to research this.
Speaking of things I have a reputation for hating, if you don't generally like web comics then you might want to check out this great French site, Grandpapier, that hosts over 100 comic artists. Technically billed as web comics, it's more like scans of indie books that you aren't likely to see in the States. Unfortunatly you kind of need to read French to fully enjoy the work.
But as long as we're just hanging out, shooting the shit, maybe you'd like to get away from comics: How about Mexican pulp covers featuring things like creepy space monsters with rayguns? Or dinosaurs fighting UFOs? Can anyone paint like this anymore? Can you? Contact me if you can. People should know about your work if it looks like this.
Bibliodyssey is pretty rad and so are these illustrations from Edith Farmiloe.
The Family Circus website could be a lot better. Where are the character bios and the tshirts, Billy?
Jesus, there's a Gary Panter tee at Threadless?!
I e-met this guy Pierre Richardson a while back and, speaking as someone who did pretty well doing rock photography in a past life, Richardson's multiple exposure work (done all in-camera) is badass. Really. Also see his blog, with interviews of artists who have a scrawly, scratchy bent.
The Buenaventura Press space. If you were wondering. I was. Sort of.
I'm out of steam for this rambling.