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Scott McCloud is a comic artist who is famous for a number of different things. He has written three different books about comics and the science behind them. The Montpelier 24 Hour Comic Challenge was originally started because of a dare made by him and he created a card game made out of comic books from the 1930s.

Noelle Stevenson is a very talented artist who is currently working on publishing a comic book called Nimona. She shares very interesting information not only about her journey through art school and the process of getting her comic published, but also about basic drawing techniques.

What is her style? What aspects of her style appeal to you that you may find yourself incorporating into your developing style?

Similar to Noelle Stevenson, Hanna K is the owner of a blog about art and comics. She has a bunch of great tips about how to draw and focuses more on comic books and how to draw a page layouts and fonts.

Koizu is a professional artist currently working on his own comic book. His video series includes information about Manga and tools that are needed to start drawing.

I saw Robin's bookmark of Wikipedia and was at first confused, but then realized how much I too rely on Wikipedia. Wikipedia browsing accounts for at least 1/3 of all of my computer usage. Literally whenever I find myself interested in a topic, Wikipedia is the first site I look at. The page "/wiki/Portal:Current_events" is even my primary news source. The summation of all of my experiences with Wikipedia is represented in these two xkcd comics. http://xkcd.com/903/ http://xkcd.com/214/

I love the crowdsourcing of Wikipedia. If an entry is erroneous, the crowd catches and improves it. Looking forward to seeing lots of contributions from PL kids who are creating knowledge daily. Be sure to post to Wikipedia - that is the strength of the tool!

Manga University is site filled with tutorials on how to draw manga and anime. (Japanese comic book art and animation) It includes free tutorials for beginners and also premium tutorials for more advanced artists. Each tutorial is two to three short pages long and covers topics like how to draw eyes, mouths and faces.