TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM:

Boing Boing Offworld called my attention to a gorgeous new online Scarygirl game by Nathan Jurevicius that I look forward to checking out in more detail.

• Pink Hobo Paper Toy and Popout Show this Saturday (April 18th) at PINK HOBO in Minneapolis
• Ghost Comics Release Party (May 23rd)
• MICROCON 2009 Coming Up Fast (April 26th)
• BIG FUNNY DEADLINE IN TWO LITTLE WEEKS (May 1st)
• Graphic Witness: visual arts & social commentary
• Webcomics in a Post-Direct Market World
• Ben Towle: Cartoonist, Educator, Hobo
• The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – RapidoSKETCH vs. RapidoGRAPH pens
• Computer Program Self-Discovers Laws of Physics
• Stussy.com
• The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – Milt Gross (finally!!)
• Op-Ed Contributor – Iowa’s Family Values – NYTimes.com
• Lost Highway Article – Premiere Sept. 96
• George Carlson Biography
• ‘Superman’ artist Joe Shuster’s lurid comic world exposed
• Words Without Borders: An Interview with Adrian Tomine
• South Park creators given signed photo of Saddam Hussein
• Steve Ditko’s ‘Toyland’
• VOA News – Art Spiegelman Takes Comics to New, Thought-Provoking Heights
• agence eureka’s photosets on Flickr
• Gimme Indie Game: Touch My Pixel/Nathan J’s Scarygirl
• It Was a Dark and Silly Night: Gahan Wilson Meets Neil Gaiman
• forces of geek: GEEK CONTEST: RE-NAME CAPTAIN AMERICA
• Flickr: stevechasmar’s Photostream
• Vintage Cigarette Cards
• March Hares
• AlternativeTo Suggests Software Alternatives [Software]
• Hand drawn mechanical schematic playing cards of the early 20th century
• Altered Esthetics 5th Anniversary Show This Friday…
• The death of a block
• The Spirit Was Willing
• Museum of the Mad, the Macabre, and the Marvelous
• Ghost Comics Release Party!
• Fantagraphics Fall 09 – Winter 10 Preview Part 3
• Exceeding the Speed Limit
• Long before 9/11 there was 5/5
• Law and Order: 1918
• Internal Revenue: 1926
• Hidden Orangutan Population Discovered
• The Brinkley Girls – video preview (via YouTube)
• Merry Taxmas: 1920
• Jaime Hernandez 09
• APRIL OF FOOLS: CRAZY TEETH
• The Carpenters: 1921
• Solar cells that imitate plants
• Secretive US prisons hold “terrorists” including animal rights activists and people who gave to the wrong charity
• It Was A Dark And Silly Night and stuff
• Moment of Bladerunner Fanperson-ism: Props
• Wanted: Wolfman to holler at tourists on a New Hampshire steam train
• CW-11 news claims clip of them airing YouTube prank infringes copyright
• Today on Offworld
• Forest J Ackerman auction
• T.V. : Star Wars special
• Richard Nixon gets high with John Lennon. (Wait, did I read that right?)
• Strip Teasers: Capsule Book Reviews
• Altered Esthetics – Celebrate with us on April 17th
• April 15, 2009: Belittled, annoyed, infuriated
• jeu de massacre
• Tommy’s Trip to the Moon
• *Hannes Bok* The Black Wheel *by *A. Merritt
• Trying to save orphan works from the Authors Guild monopoly control
• Multi-level marketing spam for child-fingerprinting operation
• William Stephens Hayward (1835-1870)
• Amazonfail fallout
• Poster Art: Ludwig Hohlwein
• All About Rednecks!
• Bryan Talbot reveals he is Veronique Tanaka
• Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home, But Probably Shouldn’t
• Fantagraphics Fall 09 – Winter 10 Preview Part 2
• Go, Look: LaGuardia Reads Funnies
• Missed a Spot: 1920
• Thomas Doyle’s marvelous diorama art
• House Without Windows: 1938
• Traffic Cop: 1918
• Big Bird: 1918
• Dark Room: 1938
• The Lennon Sisters
• Ghost Coach: 1930
• APRIL OF FOOLS: TRICK CHEESE
• Following Bush Lead, Obama Moves to Block Challenge to Wiretapping Program
• All Aboard: 1930
• Girl Scouts have a Comics badge!
• Dave McKean stamps
• The Cross Hatch Dispatch 4/08/09
• Last Escaped Monkey Captured In Oregon
• Google Image Search Completely Integrates Search-by-Color
• Mattias Adolfsson
• 3-D is a Fad
• Flip’s Lunchroom
• Len Wein News; SpiderBaby Sketchbooks: Little Brothers (1990-92), Part 3
• Tenderloin Lockup: 1908
• APRIL OF FOOLS: MERRY WIDOW HANKY
• Illustration: 30 Ways to Die of Electrocution
• All in the Family: 1908
• Poopdeck Pappy’s walk
• Gag Cartoon Business: How Long Do You Wait?
• Visible Writer: 1918
• Comic Studies
• APRIL OF FOOLS: SQUIRTERS
• Freshman Chemistry: 1925
• Julie Limbaugh: The Rush You Don’t Know
• SpiderBaby Sketchbooks: Little Brothers (1990-92), Part 4
• Gorilla Goes Walkabout At Melbourne Zoo
• Miniature Tableaux of Mark Powell
• I have occasionally spoken in support of the tradition…
• ‘Humbug,’ Restoring Comedy’s Missing Link : NPR
• Drama Club: 1910
• Robot Body Suit Marketed by Japanese Company!
• Russian Scientists Use Google Map to Find Yeti
• The Birth of Underground Comix
• APRIL OF FOOLS: HOT DOG WITH FLY
• Nuremberg Scribe
• Louis’ Jalopy #19
• Merv and Jim: 1954
• 1954 Barry K into the rub rail
• Everybody Smile! – c.1910
• Man on an Adventure
• Red Top Country School
• 1944 Two Buddies Abbeville, SC
• Slow: 1940
• Barber Shop Pennsylvania
• Kiddie TV: 1950s
• Poker Night
• Tom Tom the Elevator Boy
• Victoria, B.C.: 1920s
• Illustration: How Calcium Saved My Life
• Explorations in Stop-Motion History
• Alice Through the Looking-Glass
• Grandfather Mike: 1917
• The new blacksmith in town
• APRIL OF FOOLS: TRICK “ANIMALS”
• Ken Priebe, Stop Motion Detective
• This week: Ball, hoop, cone, vase.
• Excerpt from Art Of Spumco book – Bakshi Days 1
• SpiderBaby Sketchbooks: Little Brothers (1990-92), Part 5 (Final)
• The Rover Boys
• Find Thousands of Easter Eggs at the Easter Egg Archive
• Washington Rabbit: 1911
• Pentagon Blows Up Pigs In Bombproof Armor
• Captain America & His Father
• Diamond Alkali: 1950ish
• Dutch Gap: 1864
• A recent visit to Prehistoric Gardens (flickr link)
• Dick Briefer
• A Heavy Load: 1909
• Interview: Molly Crabapple Pt. 2 [of 3]
• Chicago Sweatshop, c. 1912
• Git Along, Mutant Dogie (It’s Your Misfortune, and None of Ma Own)
• 17 More Images You Won’t Believe Aren’t Photoshopped
• PISTOLAS KENNEDY
• Loop of Disney video that rips off other Disney video
• Thematically composited photos of New Yorkers over time but not space
• Amazon explains cataloging error that banished queer books to ‘adult’ purgatory
• CCTV spooks to be spied upon by gaze-tracking webcams
• Soviet nuclear control devices
• Ronald Reagan was a secret FBI anti-commie snitch
• How to rig a karaoke contest! (Don’t tell anyone)
• MAGAZINE: Famous Monsters #122
• MAPS
• April 14, 2009: T-minus one
• Dungeon Zenith 3 is out
• Interview @ Jazma
• A conversation with Rick Veitch, with an introduction by Alan Moore
• Bean-Stringers: 1909
• APRIL OF FOOLS: WACKY LIQUIDS
• Great Depression Cooking show
• Hyperbolic Bronnerianism in Graphic Design
• Oliver Hardy – Pardon Us
• rondenombres
• Mead Schaeffer Tom Cringle’s Log by Michael Scott
• Len Wein News
• Alien hand syndrome masturbation
• Charles Dickens cigarette cards
• Fantagraphics Fall 09 – Winter 10 Preview Part 1
• OpenSecrets.org releases 200 million government data records
• Alan Moore’s Glory proposal
• Lying In The Gutters – 4-13-2009
• Air Aces of the North
• AY, AY, AY…
• Urban Blight: Row! Row! Row!
• Path To Exellence Sunday Serial Day
• FOLIO: Robert McGinnis
• Radio : Three Skeleton Key (Vincent Price)
• Audio :Muhammed Ali and his gang
• Radio: Vincent Price classics
• 3-D or not 3-D
• *Norman Saunders*
• *N. C. Wyeth* The Mysterious Stranger *by* Mark Twain
• *Elizabeth Shippen Green* 1871 ~ 1954
• Charlton Guide to Making Comics – Super-Rare 1973
• 2roues
• le theatre
• APRIL OF FOOLS: RUBBER CREEPS
• Born in the USA Today! Hooray!
• Donations: 1917
• Young Artistes: 1921
• Everyone Loves A Local Library Sale
• Amazon goes crazy, banishes books with queer content to ‘adult’ purgatory
• Low-tech crowdsourced robot control
• Amazonfail Sunday
• Mel Blanc’s vocal cords
• Johnny Rex’s super-8 movies from Minneapolis’ skid row circa 1960
• The Dark Side of Dubai
• Listen to Jimmy Palm–hey, it’s Darwyn Cooke!
• Review: Boody: The Bizarre Comics of Boody Rogers
• Topolino celebrates 60th anniversary
• Mark Ryden’s Tree Show book comes with special goodies
• RIP Dave Arneson, 1947-2009
• CR Review: Blazing Combat
• World War I re-enacted by dogs
• Mr. Media interview with Monte Wolverton
• Mome 14 errata
• Statebook: how UK gov’t spooks see the Internet
• All Questions, All the Time
• From the E-Mailbag…
• Today’s Video Link
• SketchCrawl in the Twin Cities: Pages from Roz Stendahl
• April 13, 2009: The Comics Journal #297
• The Perfect Art Storm Hits Next Weekend
• Mitchell, S.D. Corn Palace
• April 10, 2009: Today’s antique porn break
• Crazed Costume Shop Owner Pwns Local News Guy Investigating Cyberstalking Charges
• Slide Area
• Foto File
• Go Read It!
• Homemade 3D printer goop made from maltodextrin costs 1/50 of the real stuff
• They only copied from the best.
• Paradise Gained Sunday Serial Day.
• News of Yore 1982: Comics Historian Bill Blackbeard Profiled
• News of Yore 1980: Hagar Creator Interviewed
• News of Yore 1978: Syndicates Combine Forces
• News of Yore 1977: Andiola Vents on the State of Comics
• Higgins ink ad
• Got a match?
• Someone has been sleeping in my bed!
• *N. C. Wyeth* Michael Strogoff *by *Jules Verne
• *Frank Godwin* 1889 ~ 1959 The Blue Fairy Book
• *Mead Schaeffer* 1898 ~ 1980 The Three Musketeers
• *Hannes Bok* The Fox Woman ~ The Blue Pagoda
• And Now A Word From Our Sponsor…
• And Now A Word From Our Sponsor…
• The Six Million Dollar Man Toy Catalog
• Seriously — How great are these ink illustrations?
• Draw Comics – Here’s How! A Complete Book on Cartooning by George Leonard Carlson
• ArtRage Video #5 – Bump Modes, Paint Thinner and Finishing Patrick
• Biography: Carlo Vinci Notes From Terry-Toons
• cotumes hommfemm epin
• chocolanvin
• Mercedes
• How To: Build Your Own Letterpress
• Len Wein News
• The Latest
• Mpls. Sat. Open Studio, April 11, noon to 4 p.m.
• Post-MOMEntum: Gallery Talk
• April 9, 2009: Micropreneurs
• Bundled, Tossed, Untied and Stacked
• Comics All Destroyed
• Biography: George Herriman
• Endangered shark found. Eaten.
• From Hustler to Playboy
• Abbie Hoffman
• Happy Birthday LBJ
• Daddy was a Lady
• Whimville dot com update and a coffee break
• The last rant: Failing papers ‘bring me joy’
• Arianna Huffington saves journalism
• 1. Solve journalism’s data problem. 2. Kill the AP 3. Invest in the next market.
• The speech the NAA should hear
• Keeping current with Joe Kubert
• On the Fringe with Paul Pope – video
• Oh Sandman…NO!
• Mimeographs in Action
• April 8, 2009: You blew it
• New BTA Website
• WFMU’s Antique Phonograph Music Program from Apr 7, 2009
• Quack in Business
• APRIL OF FOOLS: MUD ON YOUR SHOE
• Good Gulf Gas, phone 262
• Larry Latham has posted all thirty three of Ernest…
• The Cross Hatch Dispatch 4/06/09
• Interview: Arnold Roth Pt. 3 [of 3]
• Burgkmair Tournament Book
• Painless Dentist: 1918
• ArtRage Video #4 – Painting Patrick’s Pants!
• Leon Beyond Athon
• Chris Wright
• Nate Powell
• Paul Hornschemeier 09
• Ted Stearn
• APRIL OF FOOLS: TRICK GLASS
• Drive-By Banking: 1924
• The Office: 1925
• SpiderBaby Archives: Dissecting Saga of the Swamp Thing #20: Part 6 (Final)
• Interview: Molly Crabapple Pt. 1 [of 3]
• Lemur escapes, then recaptured
• Random Comics News Story Round-Up
• Another Essay On Monetizing Webcomics
• HUMBUG live on Mr. Media at 2:00EST TODAY!
• Obama DOJ invents radical authoritarian theory to defend Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping
• Len Wein house fire
• Stephen Wolfram talks to Rudy Rucker
• Dreadful News
• Long-secret Red Cross Report Says Medical Workers Helped US Torture Terror Suspects
• Monday Evening
• Monster motorcycle helmet — Boing Boing Gadgets
• National Federation for the Blind protest at Authors Guild in NYC today over Kindle text-to-speech
• What you should be afraid of instead of terrorists
• Giant hand in space
• Tonight, Toronto: Graphically Speaking: Webcomics!
• April 7, 2009: A man from Nantucket
• Stupid Publicist Tricks
• Lying In The Gutters – 4-6-2009
• Biography: Milton Caniff- A Remembrance
• Geeky last words
• The Books Are In! Ladies and gentlemen…the first batch…
• Lettering Essentials: the Character Chart
• April 6, 2009: Google News is not your enemy
• Obama takes on nukes, suggests changing US strategy
• Cough drop commercial from 1967 with Frank Zappa soundtrack
• Why URL shorteners suck
• Hemp for Victory: 1940s US Gov. Film Urging Folks to Grow Tons of Weed
• CR Sunday Feature: Ten Avenues For Buying Comics As Used Books
• Salvador Dali on “What’s My Line”?
• Jackalopes stole my lunch!
• More News and a special treat
• Disney Storybook Artists (1950’s)
• Deputies Shoot Escaped Chimp, Then Find Squalid Puppy Mill
• How Journalism Can Make Money on the Internet, According to an Expert: ‘It’s Really Fucking Depressing’
• Obvious Sign Fail
• Dear Pentagon: Please Give Me All Your Secrets
• ArtRage #3 – Painting Patrick and Using Reflected Light and Shadow Colors
• Love and Rockets rules Free Comic Book Day