This time we’re going out of this world. While at Wizard World I ran into Stephen Daymond whose work I had noticed before but hadn’t followed up on. Specimen B28 is a little bit 70′s UFO culture, a little bit Tripping the Rift and a bit Douglas Adams, all wrapped up in a...

So an area I haven’t wandered into is webcomics doing what print comics have all sealed up. Superheroes. It’s a tough area, when you have a whole industry that is focused in on that one genre. You are putting yourself out there up against work that is done by very talented...

On Sunday my walkabout took me to the Toronto Wizard World show. A bit barren, but I did stumble across a few new finds. My first was one I was aware of before attending, but pleasantly pleased to find and get a chance to chat with. Boum, or Samantha Leriche-Gionet is a 27-ish freelance...

Buffy and or say X-Files might be the best comparison for Spare Keys for Strange Doors. Or maybe Lost Girl if you know it. Toby Hathaway and Marion Sark are professional supernatural problem solvers. ‘Blessed’ with powers of their own, they are sought out or brought in when...

And now it’s time for a trip down the rabbit hole, over the rainbow and through the wardrobe. At least, if you happen to be named Alice, Dorothy or Peter. In that case, you may be a namesake. Namesake by Isabelle Melançon and Megan Lavey-Heaton is an example of the sort of meta...

And now for something demonic. And pink. Of course, those might be mutually inclusive. In this case, they go together. By accident. Or more accurately by Apathy. The Demon apathy. See, somebody sold their sold to the devil in exchange for wealth and power, the usual deal. But the three Imps...

  In honour of her new book Friends with Boys arriving today, I thought we should have a look at one of Faith Erin Hicks’ other comic works. A quickly rising star, Faith cut her comic teeth in the webcomic world, starting with her long running Demonology 101 and followed by a...

Will they won’t they, the corporate world oh yeah, and something dark. Like monsters and murderous dreams dark.  So Nicholas Grey is the head of Grey Inc. an environmentally friendly tech company. Kennedy Parker is his friend and right hand, looking out for him, making sure he eats,...

Quick read for you this week. We’re going to take a tour of the sculptures of Richmond Virginia as seen through the eyes of Bizhan Khodabandeh. Wait, I thought this was a webcomic column you say. Well it is, because every Sunday Bizhan takes one of the sculptures in Richmond and lets...

Okay, it’s gonna get a little weird this time. So, there’s a thing that happens with webcomics. People leap in, start creating stuff and sharing it. It’s not unique in terms of artistic development to do a lot of work while figuring out what your voice is, or what sort of...

Agnes Garbowska has made a name for herself in the Toronto comic scene for her cute renditions of popular characters. So much so that she has done a few pieces for Marvel Comics. But she has now launched three webcomics of her own. Yes, three. Waking Up Abbey is the story of a young girl who...

Don Ahe has created something truly charming. Road Apples Almanac is like a trip to the past. Visually striking chords of Herriman’s Krazy Kat, feeling like something out of a time when comic strips were a selling feature for newspapers, it yet somehow doesn’t feel dated or...

Poor Marlowe. Life can be hard when you’re a clay monster still living with your mother. But for us, it’s a bitter-sweet and often funny comic. And let’s just decide it’s a single panel gag comic right now and not get into any debates about form. (Although Marlowe also...

Powernap hits you over the head the minute you see it. I mean, seriously, look at this: Could you see that and not click on the next button? So Powernap is the new work from Maritza Campos and Bachan. Both have other web comics work previous to Powernap, Maritza’s College Roomies From...

Well, it had to happen. I had to eventually stumble upon a Steampunk comic. Now I know there’s Girl Genius, (I actually bought a couple of floppies when it first started) and a couple others, but there was something about that air ship that caught my eye, so I wandered over for a closer...

Originally I was gonna write this last week, but illness kept me from doing my walkabout. But hopefully you are still in the holiday spirit. So the Easter Bunny is evil. Annnnd all those other Holiday characters? Yup, they exist as well. Valentines, April Fools, Halloween, and even some lame...

  One of the reasons I started doing these weekly walkabouts is to finally make myself sit down and read all these great looking comics I’ve stumbled across online. This week I finally tackled Jackie Rose, a great adventure story that has recently finished its first story. Josh...

There’s a half-dozen strips on the newspaper comic page that could be given mercy killings to make way for a strip like Snowflakes. Set somewhere in the snowy heights of the Andes, Snowflakes follows the lives of a group of orphans left largely on their own by the nuns who nominally look...

Despite it being a hugely popular genre in fiction, comics have traditionally been a bit lean on fantasy stories. Webcomics are changing that. There is a wealth of fantasy material being produced, from dungeon crawls, to fairy tales. Little Guardians by Ed Cho and Lee Cherolis is looking like...

If you have to be stranded on Mars, it could definitely be improved by having a good friend with you. Sadly Captain John is Marooned on Mars with Asimov the Robot. Asimov would rather be alone. Asimov's mission was to attempt a space mission run by an AI and hampered by a human. It's not going so well.