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. Have something to recommend? Email us: crosshatchdispatch@gmail.com.

1. Million Dollar Beaty! by Trubble Club // March 2011
2. Alone Forever 31: Everyone’s Already Got Someone by Liz Prince // February 28, 2011
3. Grizzly or How I Spent My Spring Break by Jeremy Tinder // 2006
4. Run Scully Run by Nate Beaty // February 3, 2011
5. One Hour Minicomic Challenge by Jeffrey Brown // March 26, 2011

– Sarah Morean

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. Have something to recommend? Email us: crosshatchdispatch@gmail.com.

1. How to Make an Eco-Friendly Cat Bonnet by Susie Cagle // January 18, 2011
2. Graphic Novelty by Jon Adams // July 27, 2010
3. Meanwhile, The San Francisco Dog Walkers by Wendy MacNaughton // December 3, 2010
4. Make Me a Wolfman by Jeremy Tinder // January 16 2011
5. Crow Drinking Beer From Thimble by Eric Orchard // January 19, 2011

– Sarah Morean

Chalk it up to the sophomore jinx, but the Second Annual Astoria Comic Con isn’t going quite so well as I had hoped. Sure there will be naysayers who insist that it has something to do with the fact that once again I stubbornly insisted on holding it the same weekend as the San Diego Comic Con. And then there’s the fact that I didn’t advertise or really mention it to anybody. And, of course, nitpickers will likely point out that I held the thing in my tiny backyard in Astoria, Queens.

Honestly, though, I think the whole thing is just a matter of building proper buzz, and that sort of thing takes at least three years of unsuccessful backyard conventions to build. Maybe next year J. Scott Campbell will return my phone calls…

We’ve still got another day-and-a-half to turn this whole thing around. And believe me, once word gets out about those discount-priced hugs, attendees will be fleeing the San Diego convention center like rats from a sinking Watchmen sneak previewing ship. At least it didn’t rain this year–yet…

In the meantime, we put out the word to some of our cartoonist pals and asked them why the hell they weren’t at SDCC either, this weekend. Check out responses from Jeff Smith, Evan Dorkin, Renee French, Tony Millionaire, Tom Hart, and many, many more, after the jump.

Bonus: almost certainly the most adorable picture in the history of The Hatch.
–BH

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