animation, comics, exhibits, events, etc!

On alternating Thursdays, Jennifer M. Babcock reviews and recommends comic strips available in print and on the web.

by Jennifer M. Babcock

I wasn’t sure what to write about for my first blog, other than I wanted to do something either about syndicated comic strips or web comics. After some thinking I decided I was going to write about a comic that relates to both: “Garfield Minus Garfield,” a web comic that is a new feature on GoComics.com, a site run by uclick, which is a part of Universal Press Syndicate (and where my comic, “C’est la Vie,” also happens to be featured!)

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On alternating Tuesdays, Justin Maudslien, aka Sub-Human’s Mr. M., explores weird and little known factoids and shares his skewed observations about the world of comics, cartoons and sequential art.  (All images copyright their respective owners and creators.)

by Justin Maudslien

Tremble in fear, mortals, for the first posting of Mr. M’s Alphabet of the Arcane is here.

Today’s blog is brought to you by the letter “A,” which stands for alcohol – specifically alcohol in comics.  I really enjoy this subject because I’m a bartender who reads comics, so I might be slightly biased.  Mwuhahahaha!

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Friends…Nerds… People Who Stumbled Upon Us Accidentally…

Lend us your eyes.  For a couple of weeks at least.   And then you can decide whether or not you want to avert them.  We hope that you won’t.

Welcome to the Sequential Art Collective blog.

This site is yet another step that we are taking on our journey toward uniting the sequential art community.  This isn’t a news and events site per se (although we will post monthly updates on where to get your comic and cartoon fix), but a place where we can come together and express our opinions about the art we love and what it has meant, does mean or will mean to us. A place to share our love of and for comics, cartoons, animation and the like.

As this blog rolls out it should read like a magazine, with regular columns, features, reviews, interviews, opinions, and, through the power of the interweb, an interactive forum for us to share our thoughts.

Are we re-inventing the wheel here?  Absolutely not.  We know that.  But it is special in that we will bring a novel approach, if not just fresh voices, to the ongoing discussion of sequential art that has been on the web.  We’ll do this through the distinct marriage of high brow concepts and common accessibility that we hope becomes the trademark of our organization.

Among the contributors that you’ll run into in the next month alone are: 2 doctoral candidates, one an Egyptologist who draws her own webcomic; a comic-writing singer for a noise band; a former history teacher; a sergeant in the US Army Reserves; an A/V technician at a prominent financial bank; a former reality TV super-hero; a theologian; and of course your friendly neighborhood Smurfologist.

We’ll be covering topics ranging from Hulk cartoons, to the use and abuse of alcohol in comic books, to Garfield minus and plus Garfield, to math as the unrecognized sequential art.

So do we have your attention?  We hope so.  We also hope to have your feedback, questions, comments, concerns, and, if you find that you want to join in – we’ll take your writing as well.  We’re serious when we say this is about us, and that includes you too.  We’ll always be looking for new and interesting bloggers, so feel free to submit samples to our editors at: tellmemore@sacart.org

Thanks for your attention.  We now return you to a completely new schedule of programming…

Matthew C. Murray
Chairman and President
Sequential Art Collective