Bullseyeart is back!

This made my day: way back, around the turn of the century, there was a website that hosted awesome Flash cartoons, that were like South Park on steroids. The website was Bullseyeart. They were Adult Swim before Adult Swim existed. Then Bullseyeart disappeared. Today, I uncovered Magic Butter, and found out where Miss Muffy, Space Dog, and Porkchops had been all this time. So if you're jonesing for an entertainment fix while the writers' strike rages on, look no further!

A Most Excellent Blog, feat. Craig Thompson

Comic book artists tend to have the coolest blogs (see Evan Dorkin, Neil Gaiman, Glen Fabry, Michael Zulli, Jill Thompson) and now, add Craig Thompson to the list. Not only is Blankets an awesome book, period, his artwork is so delightful, dreamlike, warm. The brushpen inkwork gets me time after time. Chris Ware may be more technically proficient, but Craig has soul. Needless to say, I'm a fan of all these guys.

Carson Ellis gets props too, she's done artwork for the Decemberists.

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.