Christian Comics etc

Christmas always makes me think of comic books. Growing up, my brother and I had poverty-level pocket-money and Christmas was one of the few times we had enough dough to acquire comic books. So we spent the rest of the year poring over very well-thumbed comic catalogues, regularly picking up comic reviews from Comics Mart, haunting comic swaps, favouring dark graphic novels by indie publishers not from the Marvel or DC stable. I wonder how our lives would have been different if there were good Christian comics/graphic novels on the popular market.

If God's given you the talent, it's a great ministry to consider. Comics and indie graphic novels reach a very different audience from your usual Jane-Austen-tea-and-cupcakes-in-the-garden kids and teens.

Here's what some people have attempted (to various levels of success in conveying the complete truth):

• The Brick Testament: not quite comics...Bible stories with Lego bricks
• Veggie Tales: dancing singing animated veggies with squeaky voices teach Bible stories and morals
• Christian Comics International
• Pontius Puddle: a pontificating frog
• Parkkins Land
• Abba Comics
• Spire Christian Comics: feel-good comics from the 1970s
  
• Megazeen Online: a forum for Christian comic writers to showcase their strips
• Adult Christianity
  
• Jesse Hamm
• Prosperous Warriors Productions
• Jack T Chick: tracts using comics: unfortunately, much fear-mongering and over-spirtualisation
  
• Lightning Prophetess Online: erm...web-manga follows the ongoing adventures of a college student who is drafted as God's prophetess
  
• Vision Land Comics
• Soldier Art

As you can see, there's still much scope for good biblical Christian comics/graphic novels!