Coloring tips from CCS student/teacher Melanie Gillman.

Via @scottmccloud, clever Flash comics, some of which emulate qualities of paper toys.

E. Merlin Goodbrey (of crazy infinite-canvas comics of yore, and the Tarquin Engine) has a comic / adventure game out for Android. Will have to check this out.

Utterly brilliant.

(Clever use of paper effects, such as folds and cutouts, and light in a photographed drawn comic.

Dylan Meconis on her process for sketching a Family Man page: a braindump sketch melange of all the possible panels that could go into the page, which is then culled down into the final layout (or two, in this case). It's an interesting UX-sketching-style approach to comics--divergent thinking!--and nice insight.

"One of my great hang-ups is the belief that somewhere in my brain is The Perfect Layout, and if I just keep trying and redoing and rearranging, I’ll eventually stumble across it. Imposing a period of playful experimentation like this helps shake me out of that notion."

After almost 20 years of print publication, six bound collections and two animated series, Tony Millionaire announced today that MAAKIES -- the surreal pen-and-ink adventures of Drinky Crow & Uncle Gabby -- has been cancelled. The announcement was made on Millionaire's Facebook feed, with a further note that the alternative weeklies which carried Maakies have all folded or dropped the strip.

The artist is selling original Maakies artwork via the above web site.

Wow. Fully watercolored!