It occurred to me that I hadn’t updated the blogroll thingy on the main page for an age, but I’m slightly reluctant to update it because it’ll only get old again. There are ways of making it dynamic and such but in the meanwhile I’m going to go through my Bloglines account and pick out some of the blogs I’m currently enjoying. I was going to do them all at once but cycling uphill into a gale rather took it out of me tonight so it’ll be a serial. Hold me to that, okay?
Stupidmonsters, Gary Northfield’s stripblog, has been somewhat quiet of late as he’s been developing the excellent Derek’s Diary, “the day to day ramblings of a sheep in a field”. I think this could be the first instance of a Beano character having his own blog.
Robot Alert! is the blog of Matt Broersma, Birmingham-based-Texan-cartoonist-published-in-France and friend of mine. He usually blogs about robots.
Cleanskies, the LiveJournal of Jeremy Dennis, is always good value for words links and pics. A prime example of how a LJ can be consistently excellent and still intrinsically part of the LJ world. Jeremy has a new Blogger blog and does the wonderful Weekly Strip because she’s also a cartoonist of note.
LinkMachineGo was one of the first weblogs I ever came across in 2000 and it’s still exactly the same, one link a day, every day, which is a testament to Darren in some way or other.
PlasticBag was also one of the first blogs I saw and it’s been weird watching Tom grow into something of a major player on the international blogging scene, hanging out with Cory and IMing Mena. More “supplementary links” than blog entries of late, but they’re often good quality.
Thinkbottle is Jim McBride’s stripblog. Nice blocky art and strips about pebbles.
The Coffee Grounds by my man Jez. Nuff said.
Hydragenic I raved about here. Still applies.
More to follow…