DieselSweeties

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...

Oni Press announced new collections from webcomics creators Scott C. of Double Fine Action Comics and Rich Steven's Diesel Sweeties, as well as teasing some upcoming projects and sharing info about their stable of continuing series at Friday's RevolutiONIize panel ...

We are not the mainstream. That's a truth understood by anyone who identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered or in any other way queer. We are not the audience. We are not the market. We are not the people. It's also a truth understood by a lot of people with a passion for comics...

When I give to a Kickstarter campaign, I tend to give cheaply; I fork over my 20 bucks, get my book or t-shirt and I call it a day. But a friend of mine recently told me that it was the upper level rewards that really made her campaign a success...

Logos: Bongo Comics has unveiled its new logo, along with new book titles across its entire line. Digital: R Stevens estimates that his recently released Diesel Sweeties eBook has been downloaded 10,000 times. Video: Building a TARDIS ain't easy, which is why they're grown on Doctor Who, I guess...

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...

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...

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

There's new monochromatic apparel out from two of more popular webcomics on the block: an embroidered pixel skull polo shirt from "Diesel Sweeties" and a black xkcd tie with its trademark stick figures in white.

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...