Cerebus the Gopher is devoted to Comic Book Information and Comic Book Creation. Look here for information about the industry, individual comics, characters, and creators. And, if you’re so inclined, use the Gopher to meet with other creators for collaboration or discussion.
Special on Negative Space
- Alan Moore’s Twilight of the Superheroes
- Some time circa 1987, after Watchmen and before his falling out with DC, Alan Moore submitted a proposal for a series that was never published. Plunging the DC Universe into Ragnarok, the Twilight of the Gods, it was never brought to fruition.
- The Annotated Will Eisner Dreamer
- An annotation of the real events portrayed in Will Eisner’s ‘The Dreamer’, a fictional look back at the beginnings of the comic book industry.
- The Comics Link Morgue
- Where do links go when they die? Over the last few decades some useful and interesting work has been lost; you can find some of them on the Internet Archive.
- Comics text archive
- Elder comics info archive from before the web, and the web’s infancy.
- San Diego Comic Convention
- The San Diego Comic-Con has a rich history, and there were some fascinating reports out of San Diego during the last century.
- Tools for Comics Creators
- Tools for comic book creators, including the “Comic Ground” collaboration area, the Gutters and Closure mailing lists, and some retailing ideas.
- Why They Went Exclusive
- Mark Thompson’s in-depth analysis of the 1995 exclusivity fever in comics publishing.
reading comics
- Comic Book Conventions
- Conventions, convention listings, and convention reports. Home of “Fear and Loathing in San Diego”.
- Comic Book Net Sites
- Information about comics, creators, and characters throughout the net.
- Comic Book Recommended Reading
- A list and description of the best comic books in the world. Or at least in the United States.
- Comics on the Net
- Many creators are putting entire comic books and comic strip collections on-line. Look here for the best of the on-line strips and books.
- Comics Scholarship
- Writings, studies, and surveys about comics, the comics community, and comics history.
- Gopher Select
- The best comic book web sites and discussions on-line and off.
