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Bookmark: Sin Titulo

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Sin Titulo by Cameron Stewart is a fever dream of a webcomic.  It’s a perfectly disturbing downward spiral for the main character, Alex, who finds a photograph of his recently deceased grandfather with a young woman he doesn’t’ recognize.  Alex doesn’t realize it at first, but in looking for this woman he pulls at a thread that leads to unraveling his entire life. Stewart is updating it again after a hiatus and it has entered a new phase of the story.  The main character has seemingly jumped over to an alternate world that he had been having recurring flashes of …

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The Abominable Charles Christopher

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I’ve trying out Comic Rocket, a webcomic tracking and reading site, and the first comic I loaded up was The Abominable Charles Christopher, a fantastic webcomic I’ve read at various points but haven’t caught up on most of this year.  I decided to read it over from the start of the archives and it was well worth it. It’s a funny webcomic alright but in it’s own way, a little weird.  Like a family-friendly Twin Peaks.  Strange things are happening in the woods of the man-beast Charles Christopher.  There are all kinds of threads going that creator Karl Kerschl has …

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We Have A Hulkster

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I went back to check out Mr. Hipp, the fairly impressive art and comics blog, which features a lot of comics to pop culture mashup ideas.  It’s a mainstream version of T.S. Elliott’s The Wasteland, without all of the footnotes.  Take elements, memes, from different sources and cross-pollinating them is one of the major schools of art these days. This might be my current favorite one from Dan Hipp’s blog right now: But it’s a current favorite.  It takes a well-known line from the very current Avengers movie and a very Eighties wrestling star to create the new punchline.  While I …

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Captain America Cornered!

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I have a post up at Calamity Jon’s CORNERED blog today.  The Cornered blog challenges you to redraw the classic corner art from comic books (mostly of yore but I imagine there must be some of that still going on).  I picked a Captain America comic from the mid-nineties and tried to give it a goofier, brighter spin than the original. I also had another entry a couple days later covering cornering SPIDER-MAN and the NOT-READY-FOR-PRIME-TIME PLAYERS.  This one I more or less created by reworking bits of the cover art.

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Repaneled Blog

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I have a “cover” of a panel from Spiderman Vs. Wolverine up today (Friday) at Repaneled.  There’s some really good stuff up there and I find it interesting what kinds of panels people pick for the project.  The Covered blog is awesome but there’s a little less material to choose from — there’s a whole book of panels to every one cover to choose from.