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From the site: "SIGNs - Studies in Graphic Narratives - is a new, peer-reviewed journal focusing on Comics (or, in contemporary jargon, Graphic Novels), from modern times up to the early decades of the 20th century."

Home of the work-group building GNARP, based currently in an online Collaboratory of the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. Features posts for discussion on various topics relating to graphic narratives such as graphic novels, manga and comics, as well as tools for interaction between members of the collaboratory. Contact the founder of this Diigo group for more information or to join the effort to pool the exciting scholarship being done on graphic narratives and its explosion in current pop culture.

El Eternauta - Classic Argentine post-apocalyptic comic first published in 1957. In Spanish.

Welcome to our online "ashcan" version of Templar, a five-issue comic book series by David Campbell and Ken Christiansen. Templar takes place on an earth under siege by creatures of the night and follows the adventures of Templar Knight Martin Sinclair and his team of bad ass commandos as they try to stop a demonic conspiracy in the heart of The Vatican.

The Marvel Database Project, a free Marvel Comics wiki encyclopedia. opensource.

J. Caleb Mozzocco is a freelance writer based in Columbus, Ohio. This is his delightful blog that is mostly about comic books.

Belgian advertising illustrator Guy Peellaert was one of the first cartoonists to embrace Pop Art and incorporate Andy Warhol's appropriation of mass market iconography into his work. His first comic, Les aventures de Jodelle, (Jodelle's likeness based after yé-yé chanteuse Sylvie Vartan) appeared in 1966, swiftly followed by 'Pravda la Survireuse' (her visage modelled after Françoise Hardy) for the magazine 'Hara-Kiri' in 1967.

Free, weekly ongoing comic written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Paul Duffield. British disaster fiction/steampunk webcomic to be published soon as paperback/hardcover graphic novel.

Watch the actual satire music video of a-ha's 1985 "Take On Me." Fabulous lyrically literalized adaptation of the comic book action in the original music video. Go nerd girls!

Article about a satire video re-working of a-ha's "Take On Me" video, featuring a girl hot on comic books! Dustin McLean did the lyrically literalized version of the 1985 video.