Web Comics

ACT-I-VATE

ACT-I-VATE, a webcomix collective conceived by Dean Haspiel debuted February 1st, 2006 on Livejournal and featured the works of founding members Dean Haspiel, Dan Goldman, Nick Bertozzi, Michael Fiffe, Leland Purvis, Nikki Cook, Tim Hamilton and Josh Neufeld. Since then, the collective has expanded by hand-picking cartoonists at a regular rate to achieve its current membership.

Recommended by Molly Crabapple

Backstage

Set in the Gilded Age of New York, Backstage is a comic romp through sex, drugs and murder. It appears every Thursday on ACT-I-VATE.

Backstage is a comic by artist and Dr. Sketchy's founder Molly Crabapple. The story follows the adventures of gossip-mongers / failed vaudevillians, Johnny Panama and Elizabeth Delancy, as they report on anarchist dance numbers, debauched uptown parties and cheap liquor for the yellow tabloid "Backstage".

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Cartoonists With Attitude

Cartoonists With Attitude is a group of ground-breaking social commentary and political cartoonists, many of whom appear in N.B.M. Publishing's fine Attitude series of books edited by fellow C.W.A.er Ted Rall. C.W.A. was founded over drinks in a very cramped bar booth in Manhattan following the June 2006 Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art Festival.

Recommended by Ted Rall

Molly Crabapple

Molly Crabapple is a Brooklyn based artist, comic, illustrator and former nude model.

As an illustrator, her work has been featured in the pages of Marvel Comics, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Playgirl. Her artwork, which she describes as a "Where's Waldo for perverts", has appeared in The Museum of Sex, the Deitch Art Parade and Miami's Art Basel.  

Artist

Ted Rall

Ted Rall is the president of the Association of American Cartoonists, who's syndicated work has been featured in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, David Eggers' Might Magazine, Mad Magazine and Time. He is a two-time winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, whose controversies section on Wikipedia is over a page long.

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