Tagged as comics

28 May 2010

  • Nick Edward's Blog. Great young illustrator with some distinctly nerdy subject matter (LARPing!). I see a bit of Spumco and Dave Cooper influence in there.

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29 Nov 2009

  • Royal Boiler. Great comics blog by Brandon Graham with masses and masses of fantastic scans of rarities and oddities interspersed amongst work by him and his friends. I can't stop scrolling! (NSFW in places)

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16 Apr 2009

  • BodyWorld. Incredible complete online graphic novel from Dash Shaw. Just give it a read, you'll thank me.

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9 Oct 2008

  • Preventative Maintenance Monthly. Online archive of a technical publication from the U.S. Army presented in comic-book style. Once illustrated by Will Eisner during the Korean War. Anthropomorphic tanks FTW!

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3 Sep 2008
11 Jul 2008

  • Fugitoid. The mid-80s, one-issue-wonder. A large format comic book and Turtles tie-in, from TMNT creators Eastman and Laird. Scroll down to the bottom to read the whole thing online.

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17 Mar 2008

  • Kate Beaton. Nova Scotia based comics person with a kooky wit and a lyrically doodling pen arm. Her site is filled with good stuff.

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1 Mar 2008

  • The Spirit. Awful, awful teaser site for the Frank Miller directed adaptation of Will Eisner's comic books. Mr. Miller just went down in my estimation for that insultingly bad Sin City knock-off poster, even if it is just a mock-up.

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11 Jan 2008
8 Jan 2008
18 Dec 2007

Race condition

What is up with new entries for web comics showing up in your RSS reader before the graphic of the comic itself is available? It happens to me all the time with Penny Arcade and I've had it happen a couple of times with Double Fine Action Comics.

I really appreciate the feeds so I'm not trying to complain too much here, I'm just wondering what the cause is. Are their admin interfaces submitting the post and uploading the image in one step? Surely they should be doing the upload & preview then final submit dance.

Unless it's issues with a CDN or something, but penny-arcade's certainly appears to be coming from the same domain. And anyway, the delay seems far too long for it to be either of those things. Curious!

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30 Aug 2006
24 Aug 2006
20 Aug 2005

Where am I?

This is the personal site of Matthew Tarbit, a seasoned web developer holed-up in a hideaway somewhere in the depths of Leeds, England.

Should the mood arise, you might add my outpourings to the deluge that is your already overflowing info drip feed.

Alternately, rest a while and dig through my entries like a corpulent pig in search of all that is truffle-icious.