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Back issues Of Punk Magazine

The charmingly hand-crafted, by which we mean shitty, zine of the 70s punk movement in America Punk Magazinehas a web site going where you may flip through scads of lovely old material, which is a fine way to pass your useless time until you finally drop dead. See wonderous things like AC/DC before they got around to going to the dentist, and the joyful Bosko.

Punk Magazine
via Drawn

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Ballad

Ballad is a lengthly and intensely drawn gothic style comic strip from artist Deadmouse about "a little boy who was dead but now finds himself alive, much to the surprise of the little girl who made him."

Too much Deadmouse right off the bat? Check out six page Oshidori to get into his meticulous style.

Deadmouse's Ballad
Deadmouse's site

Seen @ Monkeyfilter

How the other half live

Comic art genius Sean Phillips envisions a moment of soul searching for Tony Blair at the Gleneagles Hotel during the G8 convention.

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Gabba Gabba

On August 16th the Ramones box set Weird Tales of the Ramones will be unleashed from Rino. Three CDs (85 songs), one DVD (18 videos) and, interestingly, a graphic novel featuring a shopping list of fantastic outie stripper talent, including Sergio Aragones and Carol Lay.

Aragon�s, Hernandez, Woodring and more bring you the Ramones [Comic Book Resources]

Never get out of the boat, Charlie

In Dave Milloway, Matt Wood, and Stephanie Freese's comic strip Chocolypse Now, the grown up Golden Ticket kids are sent by Slugworth to the heart of darkness, Loompaland, to find Wonka. Ironically, Veruca Salt becomes the Courtney Love clone that the band Veruca Salt never quite managed to. A pretty fantastic comic strip parody of both Willy Wonka and Apocalypse Now.

Chocolypse Now [Likely Stories]
via the mighty Accordion Guy

The 2005 Cartoonist's Choice Awards

John Allison's Scary Go Round takes the Outstanding Comic crown, with James Turner's The unfeasible adventures of Beaver and Steve! as the Outstanding Newcomer for 2005.

We don't know what this award means for the winners, or if they receive a small plastic fat guy who never goes outside trophy for their respective mantelpieces or what, but the site is a fantastic "greatest hits" starting point if you're new to online comics.

The 2005 Cartoonist's Choice Awards

· Scary Go Round
· The Unfeasible Adventures of Beaver and Steve!

What does Bruce Campbell MEAN?

Comic strip CulturePulp drops in on B-Actor / Cult movie god Bruce Campbell doing his cooler-than-mere-puny-humans thing at a Q & A session to promoting his film Man With the Screaming Brainamong other projects. So rightly enamored of Mr. Campbell, a moment is taken to ponder the meaning of his existence.

CulturePulp 032: What does Bruce Campbell MEAN?

Ig City

Appealing personal cartoons from crimefighter/humorist Amy Ignatow

Ig City

Smile Time: The Comic

Smile Time: The Comic is a very nicely done bit of Angel fan fiction, which expounds a little on Angel's experiences as a living Muppet style creature, a fate that befell him in the Smile Time episode of the Buffy spin-off. Even if you're not into the Angel show, the watercolor style of the comic is fantastic and worth checking out.

Smile Time: The Comic [Astridv/Live Journal]

Superdickery

A museum of comic book covers grouped into what's going on with the cover, an expansion of the "Superman is a dick" thing.

Superdickery

The Daily Grind

The Daily Grind is an eclectic comic strip done by one Uncle Comics... we'd say that's a weird name to go by, but we live in a glass moniker. Released, well, daily, every strip of The Daily Grind is a little different both in style and media; random thoughts given a random and stylish presentation. New to us, its quickly become one of our favorite reads.

The Daily Grind [unclecomics.com]
Seen @ Drawn

Action Philosophers

"Action Philosophers is a bi-monthly comic book series detailing the lives and thoughts of history's A-list brain trust in a hip and humorous way that proves that philosophy is not just the province of boring tweed-enveloped college professors"

We read "Bodhidharma: Grandmaster of Kung-Fu!" at the Evil Twin site, and find ourselves likely customers. The comics are a snappy Cliff's Notes of your major Philosophers.

Action Philosophers [EvilTwin Comics]

Watch Out For Snakes

Re-mixing existing comics is not a new thing to do, however this is one of the odder results of the practice we've ever seen. Not so much "funny ha-ha" as "funny this drooling guy with the blood-stained bible and the traces of clown paint behind his ears sitting too close to me on the bus keeps putting his hands on my knee."

Watch Out For Snakes [livejournal]

The Cartoon Raspberry Museum

Website The Sneeze has pulled together a gallery featuring examples of the invaluable literary device known as The Raspberry.
" The raspberry, or razzberry, or Bronx Cheer is one of the all-time great sounds. But even though a baby can do it, no one can actually spell it. Cartoonist have struggled with this since the dawn of time. I'm sure there's a cave painting somewhere of a cro-magnon guy sticking his tongue out, with some mangled word scrawled above it in a futile attempt to capture the moment. The following is a collection of valiant and horrendous raspberry spellings in print...

The Cartoon Raspberry Museum [The Sneeze]

Douche Shill

Hootie and the Blowfish lead singer Darius Rucker recently did a goofy (even by Blowfish standards) cowboy/ Gay musical - themed Burger King commercial that hasn't been, for the most part, well received. Most recently the ad took a little heat from cranky syndicated comics strip Boondocks; last Wednesday's strip featured a cameo and a little pithy commentary from the characters.
The Boondocks Do Hootie [Yahoo] Seen @ Adweek