Hey kids! Have you checked out the Boxcar Astronaut Store lately? There’s a bunch super-cool new items that will make all your friends drool with envy while you support your favorite webcomic! We’ve got long-sleeve Robot Tees for men and women, baseball jerseys, onesies, and bibs for the kids, and check out this awesome Boxcar Astronaut wall clock featuring Ben’s rocketship logo!You know you want one!

What do you get when you cross a pint-sized North Korean dictator with a pint-sized imaginary surly teddy bear? Why, “Clov Jong-il” of course! Marc’s a big fan of Lucas Turnbloom’s Imagine This, a webcomic about a guy and his two walking, talking childhood stuffed animals Clovis the Bear and Dewey the Dinosaur. He whipped up this fan art of the cantankerous Clovis, and Mr. Turnbloom was nice enough to post it up at the Imagine this site. If you haven’t had the opportunity to check out this very creative comic, you ‘re definitely missing out on a lot of fun!

Greetings fellow astronauts, and welcome to the all-new Boxcar Astronaut website! As you can see, things look a little different around here now that we’ve moved over to a spiffy-keen ComicPress layout. Things are much less cluttered now and if you look over at the left sidebar, you’ll find a full arrary of helpful links and shortcuts to the monthly archives, other webcomics we enjoy, RSS feeds, links to our personal and sketch blogs, our Myspace page, and lots more. Above the comic you’ll find the usual info about the strip, the characters, our short biographies, etc. Please keep in mind the site is a work in progress, so there will be lots more changes and improvements coming down the pike. So, sit back, relax, and enjoy the all-new Boxcar Astronaut website. Comment please!

Hey boys and girls! It’s guest strip week over at one of our favorite webcomics, Pinkerton by Mike Witmer, and today’s guest strip is by none other than our very own Marc Lapierre! Marc did a fabulous, fully-colored homage to the Fab Four featuring the fuzzy inhabitants of Pinkerton National Park! So far, the comments section for Marc’s guest turn has been lit up with lots of glowing praise for his work, and rightly so! Click on the panel below to see the full version of Marc’s “very clean” Pinkerton guest strip!

Hey gang! A few days ago when I went over to Marc’s place for our weekly “creative pow-wow” for all things Boxcar Astronaut, he showed me this very entertaining piece of fan art that he did for our good buddy Mike Witmer, caretaker of the zany residents of Pinkerton Park. It features Steve, a misguided Guinea Pig who thinks he’s a moose (hence the spoon and fork ‘antlers’ tied to his cute lil’ noggin), interacting with everyone’s favorite imaginative little kid who thinks he’s a spaceman (hence the helmet). Wit was nice enough to post Marc’s art over on Pinkerton’s blog, so head on over and check it out, and while you’re there, be sure to read some very funny Pinkerton strips.