CALLING ALL VAMPIRES: Gamine 19-year old girl seeks adventurous, cheeky vampires to fill roles in zany, well-rendered webcomic. Ridiculous sense of humor, unwillingness to take oneself seriously a must. Tight pants and skills in (s)wordplay/punnery also a plus. Sounds like you? Contact one D. Meconis via this link. A Godzilla-sized monster of talent in a college freshman-sized package, Vera Brosgol is already better than many professional illustrators. Alternatingly cute, bitter and viscious, she is not unlike a ferocious chocolate-covered coffee bean. Plus, she's been all over the world, and, and, oh man...it's taking all the willpower i have to keep from asking her to marry me right now. Well, the fact that she punches me keeps me from wooing her as well. Fat men like me need all the unbroken limbs that we can get. I guess I'll have to sate myself by drooling all over her artfiles, instead. *sigh* Meet Kevin Hannah, ex-3D animator, current 2D cartoonist, and prince among men. He's forgotten more about comics than you'd ever know in your entire lifetime. Plus, he's married and has kids, so if you don't click on the link and buy something from him, it's like taking a hot meal from the mouth of one of his children! You heartless bastards! What, are you a Republican or something? Click the damned link already. After much studying and debate, it's been agreed that Erika Moen is, indeed, a human cartoon. Just watch her tumble from a rooftop and spring back up, completely unharmed! Regardless, Erika's got a catastrophically funny sense of humor, a loose and 'kooky' art style that completely accentuates it, and...well...she farts a whole lot. And isn't afraid to admit it. I mean, she just lays air biscuits all over the place. It's a medical thing that she's looking into having fixed someday. Goddamn, this is one funny chica. Jen draws like i eat. Ferousciously, and with passion. And that's a good thing. Here you'll find her comic "Strings of Fate", a comic about star-crossed lovers set against a backdrop of Chinese mythology, heartbreak and demonic intrigue. Sounds a lot better than "dead Jewish girl who fights Moon Nazis", doesnt it?' Derek Kirk is both funny, sensitive, and Korean. I have no idea what bearing that has on anything. Scott McCloud is the patron saint of webcomics, the author of two of the most revolutionary tomes in about comics ever produced (Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics - these two, along with Will Eisner's Comics and Sequential Art belong in any comic-geek's library) and is also one of the world's all-round swell guys. Mosey on over to his site, peruse his comprehensive listing of webcomic links, party down with Scott's own comics, and wallow in the love, baby. If you enjoy Anne Frank Conquer's the Moon Nazi's screwball 1930's cartoon style, and you like to ingest psychotripoc materials by the truckload, then you'll love Cat Garza's stuff. One of the foremost webcomic pioneers, Cat's been fusing digital cartoons with flashy (yet sometimes wonkily subtle) animation since 1997, and...oh man. His work reminds me of the graffiti & barrio paintings that i used to see all over the streets & markets of Juarez when i was as a wee kid, so Cat's work holds a special place in my heart. Clio Chang. Fellow Pants Presser, web-design genius, unnaturally good artist, and an all-round swell human being. Jesus, just go look at her art gallery already, and you'll be left wondering why she isn't a millionaire yet. She does things with watercolor and Painter that just make me weep. In a good way, of course. The best story photodeveloping murder-mystery since "One Hour Photo". Except Beecomix one-ups that flick by simply not having any Robin Williams in it. Rock. Look, it's cute cut-n-paste girls with wonky hands being chased by cut-n-paste monsters with gnarly teeth! Watch out! This comic is also home to Shelley Winters. There are men in this world who spend entire nights at home, beating off to how cute Shelly is. Not that i'd know anything about that, of course. *cough* Look, it's a shit-cloud! *runs away* A teensy artsite run by Emily Carroll, who draws lots of half-naked girls in crazed Swiss Miss/geisha-girl outfits. She's too busy with school to actually write and draw a proper comic. Man, i hate artschool. Another student with too much talent on her hands. Her linework is great, and her coloring skills using Painter and OpenCanvas are unmatched. Jesus. It's true what they say - Carla Speed McNeil's Finder books are probably the best comics that you've never read, so take steps to alleviate that situation now - click on the link above to browse through several complete issues of Carla's sprawling, Mad Max-meets-1984-styled story, and when you're done, wander over to Carla's e-shop and order yourself copies of all of her books, starting with Talisman. (You guys can thank Dylan Meconis for my slavish devotion to all things Carla Speed McNeil, by the way. I'm still kicking myself in the ass for not reading Finder before we met Carla in San Diego this past summer....ay-yi-yi...) Jenn Manley Lee's epic (and i mean epic) slice of sci-fi life on the lam. Jenn's a genuis at imbedding personal and cultural myth & symbolism so deeply into her work, that it puts the rest of us to shame. As such, the comic is a giant Rubik's cube of comic narrative, and worth reading through several times to glean all the details and nuances that Jenn's scattered around Griffen and Molly's beat-up world. Start reading now.... This is the girl-fueled, guy-friendly webcomic composium run by Lea Hernandez, of which it seems half of the people on this links list is a part of. Hop on over and subscribe right now. This is the homepage for Chris Baldwin's many, many porthfolios, mini-comics and his starring strip, "Bruno". Despite the name, Bruno's really just a really frumpy, funny bi-sexual gal trying to find her place in the world. The anti-"Cathy", if you will. Chris Baldwin is also an extraordinarily politically-minded, smart and funny guy, and also inks with a Pilot Precise V5 disposable pen (the same pen that fuels "Anne Frank"), so you know that i'm contractually obligated by fate to love this guy. Steve Wolfhardt: Recent graduate of the Sheridan Classical Animation program. Close friend of Vera Brosgol (see above). Pal to monkeys everywhere. And all-round great cartoonist. He's the Jack Black/Tenacious D of the cartooning world. See him. Love him. If you enjoy Anne Frank Conquer's the Moon Nazi's screwball 1930's cartoon style, and you like to ingest psychotripoc materials by the truckload, then you'll love Cat Garza's stuff. One of the foremost webcomic pioneers, Cat's been fusing digital cartoons with flashy (yet sometimes wonkily subtle) animation since 1997, and...oh man. His work reminds me of the graffiti & barrio paintings that i used to see all over the streets & markets of Juarez when i was as a wee kid, so Cat's work holds a special place in my heart. The Copacetic Comic Company, A.K.A. the World's Smallest Store. This place is actually a brick & mortar shop located less than 2 blocks away from the house in which i live, and is run by Bill Boshell, a Pittsburgh comic-retailing legend. If you're into obscure comics, books, and CDs, and into supporting the mom & pop shops that stock 'em, give this website a whirl. I have no idea what this guy's name is, but the sheer amount of CG stuff he pumps out is amazing. Updated almost daily, it seems. It's no small secret that Evan Dorkin is pretty much my favorite comic creator of all time (his tiny run of Hectic Planet books are still the height of funnybook hijinks, if you ask me), so when Evan started up his own weblog, i almost shit myself. Go read it now, and make the bastard feel even more self-conscious than he already is. Have you met Topato Tomato yet, or his studious assistant, Sheriff Pony? Then face the wrath of Topato's Whirlwind Kick of a Thousand Widowed Kittens! Elizabeth Watasin is a cartoonist (and Disney animator) that i became familiar with way back in the early nineties through Sarah Dyer's Action Girl comic anthology, and she's remained a favorite of mine ever since. Of particular note on E's site are the online reproductions of The Adventures of A-Girl zines, which chronicles the life and times of the world's keenest suit-wearing bi-sexual protagonist. E's off-the-cuff-cartooning skills are to die for. Shane Glines, ex-Spumco employee, and Master of of Cartoon T&A. His galleries are top-notch, his got loads of link to swank artists of the past and present, and he hosts a great (if pop-up ad-packed) communal forum for artists. It's Neil Gaiman, what else is there to say? I once used to think that Gaiman's stuff was just over-hyped crap designed for "goth" morons, but that was before Dylan Meconis (see above) actually convinced me to sit my fat ass down and read his damned stuff. Now i've seen the light, hallejullah and Amen. (American Gods was still kinda lame, though, but that's besides the point...) Enrico's got a really loose, easy-going drawing style here, which he puts to good use by doodling giant clap-trap airplaines piloted by talking dogs and cats. How in the hell could you beat that? Aimee Major is often seen wearing pants. Link to Me: Here's a few banners for your own use, should you be possessed with the fiery desire to link to this site. Just make sure you keep the gifs on your own server, buddy-boy.