Best known as a co-founding member of the radical organization The Weather Underground, Bill Ayers has spent the last few decades as an education reformer who has committed his life to changing the way public schools teach students. Now a retired professor from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Ayers has written numerous books on how to change the learning process, including To Teach: ...

American citizen, Massachusetts resident, and now convicted terrorist Tarek Mehanna was sentenced to 17 and a half years in prison yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge George A. O'Toole. In Mehanna's statement to the court during his sentencing, he made several bold declarations about his beliefs, including that he first began to establish the personal values that would later inspire him to ...

Welcome back webcomics readers. As is the case almost every week, I've got to praise Lauren Davis for her coverage of online titles, this time it's for her review of The Abaddon and also for her coverage of Fart Party creator Julia Wertz's rehab letters to her fellow artists at the now dissolved collective Pizza Island, which was comprised of some of the best illustrators working today. If ...

Before getting started this week, I want to point out some great articles about webcomics that you may have missed. In case you didn't know, ComicsAlliance's Lauren Davis has been doing some longer-form reviews of online titles, like Questionable Content and its evolution as a science-fiction story, the Diesel Sweeties Kickstarter, and Dylan Meconis' brillant Family Man. They're all really ...

After highlighting so many incredible webcomics in this column, I was starting to wonder if I'd still be able to find new material that would surprise and impress me on a regular basis. But thankfully, the Internet is still a vast space of potential creativity, and this week's choices prove that there are still fantastic titles waiting to be found. Find out which titles made the cut for ...

Welcome back to another round-up of Best Webcomics Ever (This Week). If you're playing along at home, please remember that the only way to win is by leaving a comment at the end of this post about your favorite series, as it makes my job easier. Before we get started, there are some news items to talk about, including a joke about this website's editor. Keep reading to find out if it's ...

Another week has gone by, which means it's time for another Best Webcomics Ever (This Week) column. If you haven't read one of these round-ups before, then fear not, as the format is pretty simple. Usually I'll blather on about this or that before getting to some minor points some would consider news, and others probably find to be useless filler. In any case, these first two paragraphs ...

Hey everyone, thanks for coming back to another round-up of Best Webcomics Ever (This Week). It's been a little crazy on the site this last week, but I know some of you aren't really all that concerned with trivial nerd fights or meta-jokes, so . . . let's get on with it, shall we? And, as always, I really appreciate your comments, suggestions, concerns, etc. as they help me find new ...

Last year, artist and Dr. Sketchy's founder Molly Crabapple turned 28 years-old. To celebrate, she locked herself in a New York City hotel for an entire week, covering the walls with white butcher paper, drawing on every blank space with black art markers. Crabapple turned to Kickstarter to fund the project, and managed to raise more than $20,000 over her original goal. Now, IDW ...

As part of our Valentine's Day Giveaway, two lucky ComicsAlliance readers can win a pair of romantic titles from well-respected comic book publisher Fantagraphics: Young Romance: The Best of Simon & Kirby's Romance Comics and Celluloid. Young Romance is a collection of classic material from Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's Real Western Romances and Young Love (which has made a few appearance in ...