Last week, I explored two early plague-themed stories of the apocalypse in webcomic form. This week, we're once again going back in time to look at the very earliest tales of the end of the world, this time delving into tales in which the Earth reaches its expiration date. In this short comic, I trace these modern…

What James Stokoe's Wonton Soup is to culinary science fiction, Eric Colossal's webcomic Rutabaga is to high fantasy foodstuff. This webcomic is the tale of a wandering adventurer who is driven not by heroism, revenge, fame, or money, but by a desire to experience all of the mouthwatering delights his magical realm has …

Tuesday was Ada Lovelace Day, a day when we celebrate women in science and remember the contributions of Augusta Ada Byron, later the Countess of Lovelace, who wrote devised an algorithm for Charles Babbage's analytical engine. Cartoonist Sydney Padua celebrates Lovelace in her webcomic 2D Goggles, or The Thrilling…

Katie Cook is a professional cartoonist with a strong sense of cuteness. When she's not making Fraggle Rock comics or drawing the Avengers as cats, she's working on her own webcomic, Gronk, about a sweet little monster and the geeky composer whose life she turns upside down.

Now that the U.S. Attorney General's announced that the oil spill has made almost a third of the Gulf of Mexico off-limits, people are taking their anger to the internet. Here's a collection of pissed-off, BP-inspired cartoons, videos and illustrations

Fanfiction comes in many shapes and sizes, but rarely does it look as cool as Paul Maybury's wonderful Alien short. Someone, please let this guy go a full-length Aliens comic sometime soon (Click through for the rest). [LJ] (Via)

For those who find the reality of Torchwood much harder to stomach than the basic concept, an alternative to the self-conscious "adult" Doctor Who has arrived in the form of fan webcomic Torchwood Babiez. In the words of the creators, the series is "designed specifically to kill you with cute" and "the byproduct of too much …