Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist -- how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!

But since my "rock star" days, the public attention has faded a lot. In Pop Culture Time, the 1990s were eons ago. There are occasional flare-ups of weirdness, but mostly I just go about my quiet life and do my best to ignore the rest. I'm proud of the strip, enormously grateful for its success, and truly flattered that people still read it, but I wrote "Calvin and Hobbes" in my 30s, and I'm many miles from there.

An artwork can stay frozen in time, but I stumble through the years like everyone else. I think the deeper fans understand that, and are willing to give me some room to go on with my life.

"Google Chrome is Google's browser project; this comic book by Google, drawn by Scott McCloud, is scanned here and shown under its Creative Commons license."

NITE OWL COMICS: THE SILK SPECTRE IN A FEATURE OF HER OWN!

"Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and methamphetamine addiction in a quiet American suburb."

Review of "Schulz and Peanuts: a Biography" by a generation's favorite Clevelander.

"'Hey, we're inside a BOX.' 'OUTRAGEOUS. nobody puts SLICK in a box. For I defy all CATEGORIES.'"

"I think Superman represents the federal government, while Batman represents the autonomous local governments."

The cute "science vs. faith" image going around is part of this very appealing web comic, I haven't found my upper bound (yet) for this kind of humor.

3-pager by the irrepressible Andi Watson

Interactive comic prototype, play with and send in feedback for this person's MFA thesis.

:(

"New comic exercise, pretty much for fun and because it's true. I've always found the pre-flight safety demo strangely soothing, depending on the 'performance'."

Andi Watson sketches Batgirl.

*Now* I know why information architects suck.

"IN 500 WORDS OR LESS."

Must be seen to be believed.

"Assume a mating between Superman and a human woman designated LL for convenience."

Doug TenNapel is blogging again!

"If you ever want to find out just how uninteresting you really are, get a job where the quality and frequency of your thoughts determine your livelihood."

"Zinesters, comix self-publishers, distros, independent media collectives and other do-it-yourselfers are encouraged to exhibit and share their work."

"We'll be open in the new spot on May 30(ish), 2006.  Our giant new location will have a slew of new inventory!  We're going crazy with all the extra room!  There will be a plethera of comics, mountains of graphic novels, and oodles of stuff!"

"Turns out the cartoonist [of Speed Bump], Dave Coverly, lives in Eberwhite's attendance area."

Round one: fight!

Groovy sketch blog by Andi Watson, one of the best comics creators around. (Ask me to lend you a copy of "Geisha.")

"Welcome one and all to the web's first site devoted entirely to Batman's most mindless villain of all time..."

"A speech by Bill Watterson delivered at the Festival of Cartoon Art, Ohio State University, October 27, 1989."

I've been out of touch! The Gaiman / McKean film opens in wide release this weekend (!).

This is what 75% of conversations at SI sound like. (Except you have to replace the black laptops with Powerbooks and massive discount Dells.)

"Meanwhile" is online!

"I certainly am in a bar with other businessmen."

Dark Horse promotional by Ian Edginton and D'Israeli.

Tag-team choose-you-own-adventure comic (two panels by Zarf).

"It's called a newspaper!"

Jeff Smith has a rare talent for the poorly-conceived, failure-prone media deal.

Fine comics advocacy. (And, well, it's true!)

"The entire universe--for one thing--only exists in your perceptions."

"What the fuck? Why didn't you bless me?"