I’m loving this webcomic that I just discovered. Jesus Loves Lesbians Too chronicles the tales of Maria Burnham and her foray into lesbianhood, her struggles with her conservative Christian parents, her gay sister Diana, and her own love of Jesus. It also brings up the more ‘sensitive’ subjects like two headed personal pleasure items and other such things. Touching, sweet, and often hilarious, this memoir (published bi-monthly) is a great addition to my bookmarked sites.

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Check out the work of Bilbao-based artist, Tanya Evangelista. From traditional oils and watercolors cum graphite, to haunting digital imagery and comic. Whisps of Schiele, Klimt, Kahlo, Chagal in harsh colors, poetic x-rays, and bony figures. Startlingly good.

Brothers James and Tom Pitilli share a blog to show off their illustration work. It’s interesting to see their different styles side-by-side – James (based in Ashevill, NC) has a looser, more pop/psychedelic style whereas Tom (Based in Brooklyn) favors a comic book feel.

Israeli illustrator Asaf Hanuka is currently documenting via comic his family’s search for a home – you can read The Realist in Hebrew or in English, online or in the Israeli newspaper, Calcalist.

Ryan Riss, aka Craptical, is firmly rooted in the grotesque school of pop art, drawing heavily from horror comics, drug culture imagery, and the work of Ed ‘Big Daddy’ Roth. Beneath the irreverence and sophomoric imagery, however, is contrastingly well-controlled line work and a mature sense of design and composition.

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German graphic novelist Thomas Ott has a really great and expressive scratchboard style. Check out his short comic, La Bête à Cinq Doigts (The Beast with Five fingers).

Illustrator and artist John Malloy has been working on a graphic novel called Channel One and, without wanting to sound too much like Paris Hilton, it’s looking pretty damn hot. Update! As of July 2009, John Malloy has aborted the graphic novel Channel One to focus more on other projects, including his autobiographical graphic novel, Queasy. Stay tuned for details.