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Tyler Hutchison has built a fantastic online jam comics application called We Draw Comics that allows you to draw jam comics with friends and/or strangers. It’s been in private beta for the last year, but for today only, and since it’s his birthday, Tyler’s opening up the beta to the public. Registration will be open for anyone to join, but at the end of today, registration closes up again.

Shown here: a jam by Joe List, Joe Decie, Tyler Hutchison, Evan Dahm, Tyson Hesse, and Nate MacDoanld.

Birthday Street

This is a brilliant idea — Kevin Cornell, Matt Sutter, and Peter Dalkner have started a tag-team webcomic called Birthday Street.

The concept is similiar to Matt and Kevin’s also-brilliant The Superest, in which each cartoon is a direct reaction to the one that followed.

It’s like a jam comic that trades hands every page rather than every panel.

I’ve just spent far too long pouring over these wonderfully executed jam comics from some of the French comics community’s finest members. Championnat de bras de fer (Championship Arm Wrestling, or arms of iron literally), pits the artists against each other in arm wrestling bouts that turn the collaborative art of jam comics into an all-out bloodsport.

The tournament-style jam is in its second stage of duels, and the entire thing features some of of the world’s best cartoonists such as Lewis Trondheim, Dupuy and Berberian, and Frederik Peeters to name a few. And if you don’t speak French, not to worry — the cartooning here is so expressive and creative, that most if not all of these work entirely as pantomime strips. I can’t wait for the next round.

With all that’s going on upon the American political stage, it’s almost easy to forget about the impending election up here in Canada.

Louis Riel cartoonist Chester Brown has become the Libertarian candidate in my riding of Trinity-Spadina here in Toronto. He’s interviewed comic-jam-style by my friend and Extremely Bad Advice columnist Steve Murray of the National Post, who tries to get at the heart of Chester’s forays into libertarianism using the medium they know best.

The incredible Laura Park has been uploading a whack of jam comics to Flickr created by some of her local Chicago comicking friends. These hilarious and oft-disturbing collaborations are created by the likes of Jeremy Tinder, Rachel Niffenegger, Grant Reynolds, Jeremi Onsmith, Lilli Carre, Bernie McGovern, and others.