veterans day

Mark Sable is the writer of Image Comics' Graveyard of Empires, a critically acclaimed title that deals explicitly with U.S. troops (and zombies) on the ground in Afghanistan. He's become a dedicated advocate for our men and women in uniform, and published on his blog today this excellent guide to donating comic books to troops serving overseas, and what doing so has meant to him personally...

"Rage comics" are a memetic phenomenon by which crude digital drawings of different facial expressions and physical gestures are remixed infinitely by countless individuals to convey the elation, despair, love and hatred of the Internet hive mind...

In what he agrees must be "the worst timing ever," cartoonist Jim Davis' latest Garfield strip dropped on Veterans Day. What's the big fat hairy deal? The punchline of the strip is the concept of a National Stupid Day, where squished spiders become heroes to remembered annually for generations...