I love Kazu Kibuishi’s drawings, so I was very excited to see that he’s put up a series of pages about the process he uses to draw one of his comics, Copper.Update: boing boing linked the above site and has two other examples for comparison.

Yet another comic poll.

(That’s their spelling, not mine)

Comic Book Galaxy has a review of their best of the year. Particularly notable is their graphic novel of the year by Alan Moore.Also, from this site is 100 Things I Love About Comics (and its list of annotations).

In every art form (and I do consider comics an art form, even if most of the examples don’t reach that level – or even really try), there’s a process where people get tired of the current mode of expression and want to start something new…. If it takes the form in a direction not much liked or appreciated (think pop art, think atonal music) is not the point as much as it breathes new life in the form and gets people talking…. The art work was also a breakthrough (as mentioned quite well in the article), more (in my opinion) in it’s layout and playing with time, than in the graphics themselves (which I find to be a little muddy).

List of 10 books on Economics recommended by the team behind Freakonomics.

Was recently ended for some reason, but archives are there and it looks interesting.

Bridge City Comics Excalibur Books and Comics (citysearch link – doesn’t look like they have a web site)

A small list of Comics suggestions for newbies. It’s especially meant for “skeptics” so there’s suggestions based on a “very unscientific” personality matching. From BookSlut.

Check this out from RobotJohnny.