Linktastic Fiesta!

Here’s a collection of random links, nearly all of them comics-related, that I’ve found entertaining over the past few days.

• The great Norm Breyfogle, a guy who’s done amazing work on almost every character he’s ever drawn, including Batman, Spider-Man, the Spectre, American Flagg, and dozens of others, is going to be drawing Archie soon.
• In other “Archie” news, Kevin Church digs up some clips from a TV pilot called “To Riverdale and Back Again“.
• The Kirby Alphabet.
• Gay characters in comics.
• Kate Beaton draws funny comics about Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Catherine the Great!
• The 50 Most Loathsome People of 2008.
• Editorial cartoonist Ben Sargent’s evolving images of George W. Bush.
• David Rees is shutting down his political cartoon series “Get Your War On.”
• Kevin Melrose looks at some stories about comics and the economy.
• The Helsinki Complaints Choir.