Scott McCloud: Understanding Comics

I thought this was a cool video of Scott McCloud sharing a story about comics as a visual form of story-telling, and where it could go when translated onto the web (keeping the spacial relations intact/using the web window as a page-viewer rather than a movie screen). I think this is interesting from a design standpoint too.

Check out his comic Zot! Online: "Hearts and Minds" or some of his other web comics to see his explorations of sharing comics online. They're really fun!

Character artist Jack Kirby

An interesting interview with Jack Kirby, creator of quite a few famous comic book super-hero characters. (From A chat with...PJ Holden and Al Ewing (part four))

I'm also reading Watchmen right now. (I'll tell you how it goes.) It's got a lot of acclaim, plus they're releasing Watchmen as a movie in March. It looks pretty intriguing. (Great website design too!)