Strange that I got this news while taking a break from working on an upcoming Harvey Comics exhibition.

Harvey Korman's one of those great comedic actors who added the right amount of righteous indignation, frustration, rage and blithering to every performance. From the Carol Burnett Show to his career-defining performance as Hedley Lamarr in Blazing Saddles, I can't think of a movie or television show--even an awful one--that wasn't improved by his presence.

Even, so help me, when it was this presence:

Attention webcomic creators! TokyoPop is trying to sign up new talent for its Manga Pilot program. The young manga-style webcomic artists among you might think this is a great deal. Finally, a break in to the big time! Not so fast, says Heidi MacDonald of the PW Beat. TokyoPop: Hey, dude, totally bad contract! Don’t [...]

[CBR] I think it's safe to say that I was really excited about "Final Crisis" the second it was announced. J.G. Jones's art on books like "Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia" and "Black Widow" was jaw-dropping, and saying that I'm a big Grant Morrison fan is an understatement. The idea that "Seven Soldiers" was a prelude to "Final Crisis" filled me with glee, his runs on books like "The Invisibles" and "Doom Patrol" are some of my favorite comics, and when he and Jones created "Marvel Boy" together I thought it was fantastic. So why, then, did the first issue of "Final...

I've got a story in the Secrets & Lies anthology.

It's a wordless story written by me (okay, yes, it was pretty easy to write) and drawn byPewfell creator Chuck Whelon. Other contributors include Rick Geary, Steve Bissette, Dave Roman, Box Brown, Lucy Kinsley...tons of people. You can see a preview with samples here. Thanks very much to Cat Garza for putting it all together!

I've been thinking quite a bit about a new Infinite Canvas comic and thought I'd open up the program and see if i still remember how it works.

This took me about 15 minutes:

In this age when we embed almost all of our flash content, there are things that seem a bit dated about this program. I wish Markus could resurrect it and update it. I'm dying for a text editor and a quick clean exporter, that leaves you with only a flash file.

Character that's been floating around in my head for a bit. Finally put pencil to paper...

LEGAL

Lea Hernandez (and lots others) has been commenting on how bad the new contract from TokyoPop for their superstars of manga contest is.  Does every freaking comics publisher now hold "contests"?

INTERVIEWS

The Scienteers intervew Josh "Girly" Lesnick.

JUSTIFY MY HYPE

Hey! New Boxjam's Doodle!

Hey! New update to Fear My Dear, the sequel to Dean Haspiel's Immortal.

Regarding today’s Man-Man, I really do have some trouble understanding what the big deal is about movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the Matrix, and so on. If people are being replaced by exact copies that behave like them in every respect — or if their minds are free to live their normal lives [...]

Yer gonna embarrass me in front of the other cultists!!! Eeesh. Some parents, you know? So yeah, in case you...

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. DJ Delorie on the Nightstar forum demanded a desktop background from today’s strip, and (as is rarely the case) it was fairly easy to format it. Of course it was also very tedious since my upgrade to Photoshop CS3 ate the macros I’d created for automating this stuff.

The desktops are available in three aspect ratios and several resolutions, shown below: