[Above, future's so bright kids have got to wear the world's worst haircut. Below, the Dispatch has it made in the shade.]

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[Above, some surprisingly clean jokes are told at the Jim Woodring pen demonstration. Below, you kiss your mother with that Dispatch?]

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Simon Moreton is a cartoonist and zine maker living in Bristol, UK. He has been writing, drawing and self-publishing comics since 2007. To date, he has released three issues of his semi-autobiographical comic zine Smoo and a bunch of other minicomics and zines. Smoo #4 will be out later this year.

Along with fellow guest-stripper Nick Soucek, Simon is also one half of Things in Panels, a joint publishing venture. In May 2011, Things in Panels published its first title, an Indie-Go-Go funded newsprint anthology called The Sorry Entertainer. This black and white, tabloid sized newspaper featured contributions from Jarod Rosello, Noah Van Sciver, Sam Spina, Rob Jackson, and Brad Foster amongst others. He thinks it’s pretty awesome.

In July 2011, Simon launched Better, Drawn, a website where readers can share their experiences of living with long-term mental or physical illnesses in the form of short comics. In addition to this project, Simon and Nick, along with a group of illustrators, comics artists and writers based the South-West, also collectively founded the Bristol-based Bear Pit Zine. Bear Pit #2 will be released later this summer.

Simon’s current series, The Escapologist, is a gentle, abstract comic dealing with the lightness and the weight of things (it also has some pretty pictures in it). The first issue was released in May 2011, and you can read the first three pages HERE. Issue 2 will be out very soon.

Simon and Nick will be appearing at the Thought Bubble Sequential Arts Festival in Leeds, UK November 2011.

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[Above, mural mural on the wall, who's the fairest of them all? Below, it is the Dispatch. Of course.]

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[Above, King Mini takes aim. Below, the Dispatch dodges a bullet.]

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[Above, we learn that some books with very little action are incredibly labor-intensive. Below, the action-packed Dispatch is surprisingly lazy.]

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[Above, French-speaking men adore Ludovic Debeurme's Lucille. Below, the Dispatch makes use of the English language.]

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[Above, Vanessa Davis welcomes you, baby. Below, more news to sweeten up your dispatchition.]

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Sarah Becan lives in Chicago, where she draws some things, designs other things, and plays still other things on the accordion. She has two cats, but they have only three eyes between them. She has selected these fine comics for you as today’s Lunch Break guest editor.

Lunch Break is a short round-up of favorite webcomics appearing here each weekday at noon. Here’s something for you to enjoy over your lunch break or whenever. The premise is simple: it’s another day on the internet. Here’s a new or forgotten comic that seems interesting.

We’d love to have you guest edit Lunch Break! Check out the Contribute page for more information.

1. I Love You Chicago Page 1 and I Love You Chicago Page 2 by Lucy Knisley // June 2011
2. Prologue by Kenan Rubenstein // October 12, 2008
3. March 30th Dream Journal by Emily Carroll // March 30, 2011
4. Dream House by Corinne Mucha // January 18, 2011
5. Map of Thursday City by Joshua Ray Stephens // date unknown

– Sarah Morean

[Above, Noah Van Sciver wishes someone in Colorado would buy his comics. Below, the Dispatch lives on the internet and doesn't have a dime.]

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