Catgirls: hot or not? Most anthropomorphic creations look too inhuman to be sexy. I suppose I have a certain amount of … well, respect isn’t the right word. Astonishment? Disbelief? … for afficianados who can look at a curious amalgamation of female body parts and snouts, jowls, or beaks and find it attractive. Yet, [...]

So looking back on it I find that I’m a selfish, arrogant, and disagreeable artist. I like to draw only what pleases me. I hate being made to draw anything.

Chris Bobby Crosby's and Remy Mokhtar's Marry Me is almost done, climaxing with a not completely unexpected marriage proposal between the main characters.  This story of a pop star's snap marriage to someone in the audience is completely high concept but Crosby and Mokhtar made a really enjoyable comic out of it, filling out the two main characters pretty well. 

Here's hoping Crosby does get a movie made out this story. Why not?  It's a good concept and would make a pretty damn funny romantic comedy.

UPDATE: Yes this is the same Bobby Crosby who seemingly exhibits tourettes-like symptoms everytime he posts on a message board.

I just wanted to post and recommend book: Skim, by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki. I got it from the library and it's on my 'to buy' list, because I thought it was just about the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. The story was small and personal and special, capturing the sort of awful emptiness of teenage hood, and how you kind of try and grab on to people to anchor yourself, but how you don't really want to.

The future Dr. Tomori freezes Mystery-man and reveals his new villainous identity.

From the where the hell did they go file:  Lemuel "Hot Soup" Pew, creator of Lethal Doses and Aric "?" McKeown, creator of Ashfield Online are back with a new webcomic titled Blank It.

Candy or Medicine Volume Three is finally out. Featuring sixteen pages of art by Kel Winser, Kostis Tzortzakakis, Eric Myers, Curtis Noel, Erik Dauplaise, Molly Mullen, Colin Tedford, Russ Walton and Dan Taylor.

It can be yours for the low low price of $1 in person or $1.50 shipped. It will also be available at many stores across the world. A list of those will be posted soon. To order, go to www.candyormedicine.com.

DJ Coffman blogs more about his attempts to get some of the rights to Hero By Night returned from Platinum.  Earlier this spring Coffman blogged about shutting down production on the comic book Hero By Night because Platinum hadn't been paying him and other creators working on the book.  Coffman, understandably, has tried to be careful to layer his concerns within praise for Platinum -- he remains one of the company's biggest boosters online.  One wonders if Platinum will do the right thing by Coffman or just not do anything at all...

In related but better for Coffman news, his other webcomic Yirmumah returned to Keenspot this month.

On Saturday, Kate participated in the Fremont Solstice Parade, drumming for a belly dance corps. I got many a photo of the event, which is now up in my Flickr account. WARNING: Bush, tits and dong abound. Proceed with caution.

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And speaking of fun events which get more fun with the more naked dong on parade, I bring to your attention the second-ever Seattle Area Drink n' Draw:

It took about fifteen minutes after the news broke about George Carlin's passing before I saw my first post declaring "Who cares, he hasn't been funny for twenty years."