This comic by Rhea Ewing about short hair on women is thought-provoking, as a summary of how to turn bad reactions into self-affirmation.

Easter is a little over a week away, and if you’re looking for a new way to decorate eggs for the kids, here’s a clever set of downloads. HalloweenCostumes.com has posted a set of printable egg costumes titled “Eggvengers: Age of Yolktron“. (Warning: AVOID if you can’t stand egg puns.) (Picture makes me think dying most of the eggs pinkish first would be tricky. And the Hulk egg? That’s from an ostrich!) The post has, for each character, a printable […]

Josh Neufeld has illustrated a lot of great graphic journalism (reportage in comic form), including The Influencing Machine (about the media), A Few Perfect Hours … and Other Stories from Southeast Asia and Central Europe (travelogue), and one of my favorites, Titans of Finance. His latest project, published last fall, is “Terms of Service: Understanding Our Role in the World of Big Data”. Co-written by reporter Michael Keller, this online graphic novella was published by Al Jazeera America and discusses […]

This wonderful comic by Sam (whose identity is apparently not public) surprised me and made me think. S/he describes it as “a short comic about witches and wishes and wanting things”. I love the colors and the imagination and the way it took a turn I did not expect.

DC has provided the following two character pages from Convergence: Superman Man of Steel #1 by Louise Simonson and June Brigman to provide background on John Henry Irons and his super-suit. (Click to see larger versions.) The issue will be on sale on April 15 with a cover (shown below) by Walter Simonson. The description is STARRING HEROES FROM ZERO HOUR! Superman is missing, so now it’s up to Steel to defend Metropolis from the GEN13 kids! and the Diamond […]

Comic artist Ronald Wimberly put out The Prince of Cats through Vertigo a couple of years ago. He’s also drawn and colored some pages for Marvel, an experience he powerfully illustrates in “Lighten Up”, a comic posted at The Nib today. While working on the comics, he was asked by his editor to lighten the skin tone of a Latina character, and he writes about the thoughts that resulted from the request. Wimberly tackles institutional racism and comic coloring in […]

The Doctor Who comics, like so many these days, are available with multiple covers. There’s usually a main art cover, possibly a painted variant, but there’s also been a lot of photo covers. These are easy enough to make with clip art, since there are likely tons of images of the previous Doctors in costume, striking poses, but what I’ve found particularly interesting is when they do photo covers with the new companions. The Eleventh Doctor, for example, doesn’t travel […]

Diamond Comic Distributors would like you to know that there’s still time to order DC Comics Bombshell robes, as shown in the January Previews catalog. Images and codes are below, to use at your local comic shop, where the robes are exclusively available. They’ll be shipping in mid-February (but too late for Valentine’s Day). “The satin robes feature some of the leading ladies of DC Comics such as Batgirl, Wonder Woman, Poison Ivy, and more in a collection of colors […]