Comically Vintage takes panels from our grandparents' comics and lets those panels stand alone in all their goofy, out of context glory. The site tends to stick to three main themes: over-the-top love and hate from romance comics, "jumping-gee-willikers" 1950s slang and the silly plot twists of Silver Age superhero comics. All three themes are comic gold and will make you want to go back to ...

Charles Schulz explored some pretty depressing thought experiments in his comic strip Peanuts, disguising them with the adorable drawings of Charlie Brown and company. The strip could become as dark as the bleakest Greek tragedy. Consider Lucy pulling the football out of the way of Charlie Brown's kick: After 50 odd years of never kicking the ball, this simple gag more closely resembled the ...

If you are in the New York City area and like comics that push the boundaries of the comic book medium, I cannot urge you strongly enough to check out the Cartoon Polymaths exhibit at The New School. But for everyone else, we've got an overview, photos, and videos that capture a small part of the experience. Cartoon polymaths -- gifted cartoonists who also excelled in another field -- make ...

After seeing Goodnight Dune in College Humor's 5 Sci-Fi Children's Books parody article on Reddit, cartoonist Julia Yu responded to one commenter's request for more by actually writing and illustrating a complete Goodnight Dune book, a mash-up of the famous sci-fi franchise and the beloved children's book, Goodnight Moon. Yu's work is the perfect juxtaposition of arcane Dune vocabulary, bizarre ...

If you don't spend your day surfing 4chan, Tumblr or Reddit, there's a good chance the Advice Animal meme has passed you by completely. Don't beat yourself up -- these are anonymous single panel gags created by and for Internet communites. They don't have any explanation, because you are supposed to already be in on the joke. For everyone else, I've attempted to document every Advice Animal ...

Anyone who read our piece on Underground sales skyrocketing after the comic was bootlegged on 4chan will not be surprised by Neil Gaiman's revelation in this interview with Open Rights Group. Everyone else, hang on to your seats, because he thinks piracy may help increase sales. Gaiman explains it this way: "You're not losing sales by getting stuff out there. When I do a big talk now on ...

Comics, by their very nature, are poorly suited for museum exhibits. They require a lot of space to tell their stories, a problem that is typically solved by printing them on thin sheets of paper which are stacked and bound. Laying the sheets side by side makes even a relatively small trade paperback take up a lot of space, which is fine -- except that museums, (especially museums that cover ...

From Moviefone: One of the most enjoyable online trends of the past year for those of us who love both movies and comic books has been the release of free, high quality supplemental comics that add to, not recap, the movie's story. The best of these so far has been the 'Inception: The Cobol Job' prequel comic, but the newly released 'True Grit: Mean Business' is no slouch, either. ...

Imagine you drew a comic book for a nominal fee and a world-famous artist recreated in paint a panel from that work and sold it for millions of dollars without you receiving any credit or royalties. Such is the case for numerous comics creators whose work was repurposed by Roy Lichtenstein, the uber-famous pop artist whose paintings based on comic book panels hang in the collections of the ...

Merrrry Christmas, ComicsAlliance readers! Because you've all been so awesome about contributing your creativity to the numerous contests and other participatory events we've had in 2010, we wanted to give you something special during this gift-giving season. And by "you" we mean one of you, and by "give" we mean award. That's right, a new ComicsAlliance Christmas contest! The Challenge: Do ...