Duck & Cover :: Indie rock music writing from Arcade Fire to the Zygotic Minci

Oh Noes! Here it is the last day of April, and "Internet Comics Month" failed to deliver the grandeur promised all those many days ago. In fact, it could be said to have ground to a screeching halt through a near willful lack of followthrough from one half of Duck & Cover. In my defense, if you were able to view our drafts folder, you would see that there are many, many writeups of many, many comic artists that were begun, walked away from, and never returned to. Good intentions, road to hell, broken promises, typical, etc. So. This is going to have to serve as a bit of a roundup, and for that, I do apologize. Each and everyone of these artists has something very cool to offer, and deserve much more attention than what they're about to receive. ::Cat And Girl:: Much as the title implies, it is about a cat and a girl. It is an "experimental meta narrative". It is also awesome. Cat and Girl had won my heart with Dorothy Gambrell's character's delightfu...

After a brief discussion, Jamie and Dakin decided that April is officially Internet Comics Month at Duck & Cover. They're going to take the opportunity to share with you some of their favorites, as well as hopefully discover some new favorites. In any event, they hope that you enjoy what they have to share, and, should you have some suggestions of something that they would like, flick them an email at duckandcovermusic[at]gmail[dot]com. For the final comic of International Duck & Cover Music Web Comics Appreciation Month of the Year, here is " the most addictive comic on the web. " However, I have to say that this post doesn't have the gravitas it WOULD have had. So many people wrote/twittered/texted us to "do a thing on toothpaste for dinner!" that now it looks like we're doing it because of public demand. But we're not (of course, we will do other things for the public--I'm looking at you, jigglejuggz88). We're blogging about it bec...

After a brief discussion, Jamie and Dakin decided that April is officially Internet Comics Month at Duck & Cover (although judging from the last two posts, Dakin has already forgotten this discussion). They're going to take the opportunity to share with you some of their favorites, as well as hopefully discover some new favorites. In any event, they hope that you enjoy what they have to share, and, should you have some suggestions of something that they would like, flick them an email at duckandcovermusic[at]gmail[dot]com. My good friend, and fellow web jockey, Pete introduced me to The Adventures of Dr. McNinja last year. We were working on the same PHP project for a government agency (that shall remain unnamed), and the thing was driving us mad. Or it was driving ME mad. Pete seemed to be on top of everything, which is why he told me to take a break and read this comic. After a few pages I understood why Pete was such a bizarre (but thoroughly likable) young man: this comic ...

After a brief discussion, Jamie and Dakin decided that April is officially Internet Comics Month at Duck & Cover. They're going to take the opportunity to share with you some of their favorites, as well as hopefully discover some new favorites. In any event, they hope that you enjoy what they have to share, and, should you have some suggestions of something that they would like, flick them an email at duckandcovermusic[at]gmail[dot]com. Kristy vs the Zombie Army was one of those rare finds while compulsively clicking "stumble" while on a very tedious web contract with a government agency. The contract in question is beside the point, but consisted of six hours-a-day of copy-and-paste. During this time, I searched, surfed, and stumbled my across the internet, and can safely say I've seen every page. I even made it to the end . Yet before I did, I found Kristy chainsawing her way Ash-style through an army of beady-eyed zombies. The comic follows a relatively linea...

After a brief discussion, Jamie and Dakin decided that April is officially Internet Comics Month at Duck & Cover. They're going to take the opportunity to share with you some of their favorites, as well as hopefully discover some new favorites. In any event, they hope that you enjoy what they have to share, and, should you have some suggestions of something that they would like, flick them an email at duckandcovermusic[at]gmail[dot]com. If you like manga comics filled with katana blades, nunchucks, throwing stars, and blood gushing from severed limbs, then you should not visit White Ninja Comics . He's not a ninja in the classical wait-three-days-in-a-pit-for-the-perfect-kill sense. No, he's a modern ninja filled with anxieties and prone to bad decisions: like tasting a freshly picked scab. Ninja's bizarre antics throughout the strip range from hilarious to psychopathic (read: more hilarious). White Ninja Comics is one of those internet success stories that make som...

After a brief discussion, Jamie and Dakin decided that April is officially Internet Comics Month at Duck & Cover. They're going to take the opportunity to share with you some of their favorites, as well as hopefully discover some new favorites. In any event, they hope that you enjoy what they have to share, and, should you have some suggestions of something that they would like, flick them an email at duckandcovermusic[at]gmail[dot]com. In the Edward Albee play Zoo Story , something has happened at the zoo. We learn this because a man (Jerry) has approached another man on a park bench (Peter) and told him as much. (Among other things -- other very personal and inappropriate things-- and, by and large, it is far from any conversation that we've had or would care to have on a park bench.) In any event, something, something awful, happened at the zoo, and we never learn just what that thing was. In the flash game Fruit Mystery (developed by Australian Brett Graham) something ...

After a brief discussion, Jamie and I decided that April is officially Internet Comics Month at Duck & Cover. We're going to take the opportunity to share with you some of our favorites, as well as hopefully discover some new favorites. In any event, we hope that you enjoy what we have to share, and, should you have some suggestions of something that we would like, flick us an email at duckandcovermusic[at]gmail[dot]com. Before leaving Honolulu I found myself spending a lot of time drinking away the sad and surfing the internet (much, um, much like now, in Seattle, but I, uh, wear pants instead of shorts[?]), and I happened to stumble across The Fart Party, an autobiographical comic written and drawn by Julia Wertz. The Fart Party manages to come across as both remarkably vulgar and deeply touching. (I'm reminded of the later work of R. Crumb, but I know next to nothing about comic art, and I did just see a retrospective, so likely I'm just full of it.) Wertz presents...

The cartoons that Nicholas Gurewitch draws are like the sideshow freaks at a carnival: never an attraction for the main audience, but odd and poignant enough to have a strong cult following. While there is more on offer at the PBF website , I have only trawled the comics. Kinda creepy, mostly hilarious, it's currently replaced White Ninja as my favorite web comic. I know--you never thought it would happen. . . or maybe you never cared. Most likely the latter. Many thanks to Phil, the super seeper, for the recommendation.