DieselSweeties

Webcomic Artists Pay Tribute to the Mars Curiosity Rover
Webcomic Artists Pay Tribute to the Mars Curiosity Rover
Webcomic Artists Pay Tribute to the Mars Curiosity Rover
After the tense clicking of cameras, the victory hugs and Bobak Ferdowsi's awesome mohawk, I came away from Sunday night's Curiosity rover landing with a lingering rush of excitement. We're back on Mars! We're looking for the building blocks of life on another planet...
Best Webcomics Ever (This Week) 1.15.12
Best Webcomics Ever (This Week) 1.15.12
Best Webcomics Ever (This Week) 1.15.12
There are some excellent offerings in this week's round-up, so I hope you're prepared to waste some valuable time online after reading this post. Wait, what am I saying?! You clearly do if you're reading these words. Stupendous! I know I mention a handful of the same webcomics each week, but I have to point out that the most recent update from The Gutters is, again, pretty damn funny...
Inspirational T-Shirt Reminds Us That The Clobbering Time Is Now
Inspirational T-Shirt Reminds Us That The Clobbering Time Is Now
Inspirational T-Shirt Reminds Us That The Clobbering Time Is Now
Society has some interesting -- and arbitrary -- ideas about when we should do certain things. We're told we should eat cereal for breakfast, for example, when it is clearly a 24-hour food, and drinking alcoholic beverages is frowned upon early in the day but smiled upon in the evening despite tasting just as magically delicious at both junctures...
Link Ink: Eisner Burns, Hot Zombies, and Stark Slurpees
Link Ink: Eisner Burns, Hot Zombies, and Stark Slurpees
Link Ink: Eisner Burns, Hot Zombies, and Stark Slurpees
Webcomics: "Diesel Sweeties" ponders what it means to be "adult," in comics and in life: TV: If you enjoyed the JSA appearance on "Smallville" earlier this season, good news! They'll be back for the season finale. Eisners: The roundups and reviews of the Eisner nominations have begun, and Terry Nantier goes to the mattresses while Chip Zdarsky offers his review of o
BBC Profiles Bangladeshi Women Making Diesel Sweeties Toys
BBC Profiles Bangladeshi Women Making Diesel Sweeties Toys
BBC Profiles Bangladeshi Women Making Diesel Sweeties Toys
Over at the BBC there's a profile of Hathay Bunano, a company that hires women in remote Bangladeshi villages at fair rates to make hand-knitted goods for western companies -- including Red Robot plush toys for the webcomic Diesel Sweeties. At the moment the women are working on finger puppets of animals, rattles that look like biscuits and large, soft, red-square robots...