This made my day

A little set up: this is a music video for "Crooked Teeth" by Death Cab For Cutie animated by Rob Schrab, who is a genius. Rock on!

P.S. Rob is also the writer of Scud The Disposable Assassin, an indie comic from the 90s that ran for 20 issues, before ending on a cliffhanger and coming to an abrupt halt. Apparently issue 21 will be the last issue and wrap up everything. Unfortunately for me and everyone else who wants to catch up on their Scud reading, the earlier trade reprints have all sold out! The good news, though, is when #21 comes out, so will all 20 previous books in a giant omnibus! Yay! (I have added "The SCUD Omnibus" right below "The Collected Miracleman by Alan Moore, wrapped up by Neil Gaiman" on my list of comics that need to be reprinted, but are stuck in limbo.)

Comics Dump, feat. Tank Girl

Remember Tank Girl? Well she's back, written by Alan Martin, the original writer, and now drawn by Ashley Wood, who's Australian and with a style that reminds me a lot of Dave McKean's work on Cages. It's been a while since I actually read some Tank Girl, but the original stuff is totally random, I mean it was written and drawn on the fly without any sense of what would happen next. This new material is written in episodes of a few pages each. Woods' art is reminescent of Hewlett's, but a lot sketchier, and wilder. Thus is the sort of no-holds-barred outrageousness I love in comics.


And here's an Alan Martin interview. And here's a Jamie Hewlett interview, he was the original artist and went on to co-create the Gorillaz.

I should also mention Telling Tall Tales, a webcomic by Parker Emerson, is worth checking out. Not only does it use photos for the artwork, but I met Parker when we were both studying abroad in England, and he's a really great guy.