After seeing a notice that Archie Comics is going to be adding a gay character to Riverdale High, I had to go exploring further, both in memory and in the Archie Archives.


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These links are down in the comments on the previous post. I thought them way too fascinating to miss.

mayakda points out the Philippine Komiklopedia, where you can find info about the longest running series, Anak Ni Zuma, a biography of the artist who fired up the comics industry there, Tony S. Velasquez, and perhaps most fascinating of all, his ( Read more... )

avalonestel provided a heads up about a superhero comic that, as she says:

It features a diverse cast of multicultural characters that gain superpowers that embody one of the 99 Names of Allah, or the 99 attributes that are considered holy and commendable in the Islamic faith, which we believe are only embodied in their entirety in Allah. (You can read more ( Read more... )

amegoddess posted a comic about comics today that I enjoyed, but it also got me thinking about comics ( Read more... )

Fellow fantasy writer burger_eater has a small son, Mango Eager, whose adventures I've been following since he was a toddler--frequently laughing out loud. He's about to finish kindergarten, I believe, but he's already devouring chapter books, and he's totally zooming genre.

If you have five minutes, enjoy Mango Eater's first on-line comic. Note the ( Read more... )

Via bookaddict88 this webcomic cracked me up.

Went last night with the German student and the daughter, as the son has no interest (sigh), and we all enjoyed it, and so did the audience, which was made up of people of all ages and ethnicities ( Read more... )

via coffeeem Mang Thomas the Storyhunter

Check it out!

One of the things about having memories wired to image is that I can usually trace back early influences by recalling and then identifying images. I
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Twice in the past couple of days I’ve seen passing swipes at comics ( Read more... )