Akkam’s Razor

Since Free Comic Book Day is coming up, here's a Comic Book Fetish Friday.

• Meet the man who changed comicbooks forever…
• Watch manga being sketched online, live.
• My favorite comic blog is The Comics Curmudgeon, where the author filets the newspaper comics that he reads.  Drawn is also pretty cool, and I regularly read Warren Ellis as well.
• Today, 5/5/2006, pre-Free Comic Book Day, is Webcomic Day.  There's a list here.  Try the Perry Bible Fellowship, Penny Arcade, and Questionable Content.  I don't really get them, but some people like them enough to get them tattoed on their bodies.
• Some cover scans.  ComicCovers is actually a more comprehensive site for this.  If you kick it old school, like Golden-Age, try this site.  There's also Comic Art Links Directory.
• Can't find a comic book store?  Try this map.
• The Big Comicbook Database, which is exactly what you'd think it would be.  There's also the Grand Comic Book Database as well.
• Museums:  The Museum of Black Superheroes, the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art,
• If your making your own comicbooks, here's some fonts via Blambot.  There's some DIY guides over at ArtBabe.
• Comicbook Resources is a good site for comic news.  Newsrama is also a good source.  You can also try SuperHeroHype, and HerosOnline.
• Ka-Boom!: A Dictionary of Comic Book Words.
• Who wins in a superhero cage match?  Ask Yahoo.
• Deconstructing Roy Lichenstein.
• Worst Superhero Costumes.  Religions of Superheroes.  Superhero Mysteries.
• The Unofficial Guides to the Marvel and DC Universes.
  
• ComicLife is a Mac-only piece of software that will convert your jpg/gifs into comicbook type images.  They have a gallery here - there are also plenty of other pics tagged with ComicLife on Flickr. Or, if you prefer, you can do it the complicated way in Photoshop, by following this tutorial, or this one, or this one.
• If you prefer to draw, you can check some anime-style tutorials here,
• Gnomz is an online comic creator.  So is the StripGenerator.  And the Comic Strip Generator.  And StripGen.  Or, if you want to add comic captions to your images, try the Captioner.  This on e will give you a random superhero description.
• September 11th was featured in several comics as an event.  See them at the Authentic History Center.
• Comic books can educate or serve as propaganda:  Check this Pro-Reagan Grenada invasion comic, some Alcoholics Anonymous strips, Hitler versus Stalin (in Russian), David Bowie, another one focusing on drug addiction, a Marvel Swimsuit Issue, Christian Evangelizing, an anti-Russian rant, tales of the Atomic Revolution, The Bush Junta, Stupid Republican WetDream comics (Reagan, Hannity, and G. Gordon Liddy as superheroes?), Captain Confederacy, the Law for Kids, and an explanation of Fair Use.
• Stealing is wrong, ummmm-kay.  Given that, you can get comicbook torrents at TorrentSpy and Z-Cult-FM.
• There's a Squidoo Lens here with lots of good resources.
• Seminal classic, the Watchmen, annotated.
• Business cards, inspired by comic books.
• Unintentionally sexy comic book covers.  Various unusual, strange, and funny comic book stuff at Superdickery .
• A cellphone concept, inspired by comic speech bubbles.
• Old comic book advertisements.  More here .
• An online version of the Comics Price Guide.
• Secret Wars (Video) Reenactment.  A trailer for Marvel's Civil War.  A hot model's photoshoot inside a comicbook store.
• Comic Book Remixes:  The Punisher meets Archie, Artistic Representation of Historical Characters, Rock Paper Saddam.