Aaron Colter
Crowd Funding Watch: ‘Home Of The Brave’ Tackles Human Trafficking
Though it's true that crowd-source funding has been a huge help to independent comics creators, it's not easy to follow through on large projects. Both Kickstarter and IndieGoGo have their benefits and drawbacks -- Kickstarter is more popular but doesn't allow projects to keep any money unless they meet their fundraising goal...
Activist Bill Ayers Talks About Teaching Comics [Interview]
Best known as a co-founding member of the radical organization The Weather Underground, Bill Ayers has spent the last few decades as an education reformer who has committed his life to changing the way public schools teach students. Now a retired professor from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Ayers has written numerous books on how to change the learning process, including To Teach: The Jo
Convicted Terrorist Claims Batman and Comics Inspired Him To Act
American citizen, Massachusetts resident, and now convicted terrorist Tarek Mehanna was sentenced to 17 and a half years in prison yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge George A. O'Toole. In Mehanna's statement to the court during his sentencing, he made several bold declarations about his beliefs, including that he first began to establish the personal values that would later inspire him to sup
Best Webcomics Ever (This Week) 3.25.12
Welcome back webcomics readers. As is the case almost every week, I've got to praise Lauren Davis for her coverage of online titles, this time it's for her review of The Abaddon and also for her coverage of Fart Party creator Julia Wertz's rehab letters to her fellow artists at the now dissolved collective Pizza Island, which was comprised of some of the best illustrators working today...
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Best Webcomics Ever (This Week) 3.17.12
Before getting started this week, I want to point out some great articles about webcomics that you may have missed. In case you didn't know, ComicsAlliance's Lauren Davis has been doing some longer-form reviews of online titles, like Questionable Content and its evolution as a science-fiction story, the Diesel Sweeties Kickstarter, and Dylan Meconis' brillant Family Man...
Best Webcomics Ever (This Week) 3.11.12
After highlighting so many incredible webcomics in this column, I was starting to wonder if I'd still be able to find new material that would surprise and impress me on a regular basis. But thankfully, the Internet is still a vast space of potential creativity, and this week's choices prove that there are still fantastic titles waiting to be found...
Best Webcomics Ever (This Week) 3.4.12
Welcome back to another round-up of Best Webcomics Ever (This Week). If you're playing along at home, please remember that the only way to win is by leaving a comment at the end of this post about your favorite series, as it makes my job easier...
Best Webcomics Ever (This Week) 2.26.12
Another week has gone by, which means it's time for another Best Webcomics Ever (This Week) column. If you haven't read one of these round-ups before, then fear not, as the format is pretty simple. Usually I'll blather on about this or that before getting to some minor points some would consider news, and others probably find to be useless filler...
Best Webcomics Ever (This Week) 2.19.12
Hey everyone, thanks for coming back to another round-up of Best Webcomics Ever (This Week). It's been a little crazy on the site this last week, but I know some of you aren't really all that concerned with trivial nerd fights or meta-jokes, so ...
Relive Molly Crabapple’s ‘Week In Hell’ [Exclusive Preview]
Last year, artist and Dr. Sketchy's founder Molly Crabapple turned 28 years-old. To celebrate, she locked herself in a New York City hotel for an entire week, covering the walls with white butcher paper, drawing on every blank space with black art markers...