• Christoher Schultz has sold the domain WebcomicZ.
• RSA Animate tackles 21st century enlightenment.
• MUTTS creator Patrick McDonnell features Sea Shephed in recent comic strip.
• Comic book autobiography of a teen girl’s life with braces.
• 10 years ago: The Wally Wood letters.
• Koko Be Good, a graphic novel about finding meaning in lifecomplex by Jen Wang.
• Jersey Circus, a parody of the reality TV show Jersey Shore and the cartoon The Family Circus.
• Wookie The Chew, Winnie the Pooh retold with Star Wars characters.
• Cartoonist Pete Emslie posing with Julie Newmar.
• Cory Doctorow’s latest column about ownership called Proprietary Interest.
• What Things Do: excellent webcomics.
• Giant, fetishistically detailed Little Nemo art.
• Betty White gets her own comic book.
• 24 Hour Comic Book Day in San Francisco and Berkeley.
• Maker Jim Henson in 1969: HOWTO make a puppet.
• WEBCOMIC SPOTLIGHT: A Mad Tea Party by Jonathon Dalton.

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• Matthew Inman, creator of The Oatmeal, talks about how to get people to read your site.
• A collection of interviews and articles on the life and work of Robert Crumb.
• Criterion Collection reissues R. Crumb documentary with special features.
• Castration comics from Mary Roach and Ariyana Suvarnasuddhi. Ouch!
• Scott Pilgrim and Shonen Manga.
• An interview about BoingBoing.net.
• Mal and Chad’s fill in the bubble frenzy 2.
• Brody’s Ghost: Mark Crilley’s 6-part graphic novel.
• A tour of Dark Horse Comics.
• Gabrielle Bell’s comic strip about ComicCon.
• August 28th is International Read Comics in Public Day.
• Critique of a badly-drawn Bible story coloring book.
• An interview with Lev Yilmaz, creator of Tales of Mere Existence.
• Gods Playing Poker is offering Fox News Bingo cards as a free download.
• The Onion AV Club interviews cartoonist Jim Woodring.
• The comics Bill Waterson sent to Berkeley Breathed posted on BoingBoing.net.

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• Scott Pilgrimage: Documenting real-life locations from Scott Pilgrim comics.
• Apple Censorship hits comics and more. Miyazaki keeps his title of ‘Anti-globalization curmudgeon‘ and good for him.
• US Army ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ instructional comic on gays in military.
• Make your own Android App with Android App Inventor.
• Nikki Cook will be the guest artist this month at Gizmodo.
• Keith over at Karmic Debt Comics talks about collectives, the Webcomic Planet collective and.. well karma.
• Northern News Services has an article about Webcomics.
• iDrawDigital has a post about webcomics review sights.
• Mtv has it that Harvey Pekar has passed on to less ordinary places. Sad to see you go Harvey.
• The Hindustan Times talks about comics on your phone.
• Storming the Tower has 13 webcomic supervillains in the spotlight.
• Scott Kurtz leaves Image and returns to self-publishing.
• WEBCOMIC SPOTLIGHT: Squid-Sensei

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• Quitting Time Vol. 1: I love the smell of corporate evil in the morning! is for sale with introduction by our own Scott Gallatin.
• Hetalia fans flood Anime Expo in Los Angeles.
• Sita Sings the Blues: A benefit screening for the EFF and the SF Cartoon Art Museum on Tuesday, July 20th.
• Pressure-sensitive drawing headed to iPad in free software library. Will it become a viable low-cost alternative to the Cintiq?
• Here are some interesting tutorials on how to ink in Photoshop. (Here and here.)
• I forget if I’ve linked to this before, but Gene L. Yang takes apart the casting for Last Airbender movie.
• The Beat has a look at DC’s shutdown of ZUDA.
• The Webcomic Overlook has some creator responses to the ZUDA shutdown.
• DC Perazza answers questions on changes to ZUDA.
• WEBCOMIC SPOTLIGHT: Polar Opposites

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• Douglas Rushkoff on the Pekar Project.
• Single comic panels that depict both cause and effect.
• Rick Marshall makes the case for following comic creators via social networks over at Pop Candy.
• Webcomic Beacon #125 features Erika Moen.
• MTV’s Splash Page highlights Octopus Pie and other webcomics in print.
• The Depression Support Network has a post entitled ‘Webcomics and Mental Health.’
• Fabric Dragon has a wonderful post about how you can help out the Foglios and other webcomic creators.
• The Webcomic Overlook #125: Bottle of Awesome.
• Webcomics.com has part 1 of 4 of a Q&A with Scott Kurtz.
• DC comics launches an iPad app.
• The Scene posts their picks for the top 10 webcomics.
• ComixTalk has a post about the Webcomics Auction for the Gulf Coast organized by Carly Monardo.
• WEBCOMIC SPOTLIGHT: Architexts

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• WordPress 3.0 is out! Hurry and jump on the bandwagon today!
• The Chuck Jones Center for Creativity is now open in Orange, California. Darn I wish it was closer.
• Make it harder to track your browsing with HTTPS Everywhere for Firefox. While your at it get you some TOR.
• Comics Alliance is reporting that the Gulf Coast is getting aid from sales of Venture Bros. and webcomic auctions.
• Storming the Tower reports that the Webcomics App is coming back.
• The Webcomic Overlook #124 reviews MS Paint Adventures.
• Platinum Studios reports that Cowboys & Aliens have begun filming in Mexico.
• Battlemouth interviews Bad Machinery creator John Allison.
• WEBCOMIC SPOTLIGHT: Hyperbole and a Half (Ok, maybe it’s a blog with comics in it, but it’s still darn funny.)

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• Apple tries to censor more content for the iPad and iPhone, sometimes successful and other times not. Apple also gets punk’d at WWDC.
• Quitting Time goes to three times per week starting this week.
• Kelly Thompson lists some webomics that she loves.
• Word Balloon University makes its debut.
• Episode 27 of the podcast Letters vs. Numbers is entitled ‘Webcomics for the Blind.’
• Matt Unedited gives us An Ode To Webcomics.
• Absolute Write has a post and discussion about how to make money off of webcomics.

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• How to make a printer that will work directly on tshirts. Be a maker!
• Robot 6 has an interview with Molly Crabapple.
• STL Webcomics interviews BlueStar Blues creator Joshua Jericho.
• The Webcomic Beacon #122 is about photocomics.
• Digital Spy interviews Esther Bircham of Alien Ink.
• Xaviar Xerexes clues us into who the 2010 nominees for the Manning Award for Comic Newcomers are. Xaviar also interviews Bellen! creator Brian Brown.
• The BEAT covers Marvel’s latest experiment in combining digital and print publishing and some great news about PBF.

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• John K., of Ren and Stimpy fame, has started offering cartooning classes.
• Robot 6 spotlights Filthy Figments, new adult website by creators Gina Biggs, Jennie Breeden and a host of others.
• Hark! A Vagrant creator Kate Beaton will have some cartoons published in upcoming issues of The New Yorker.  Congratulations Kate!
• RGB Filter has an interview with Ryan North.
• Christopher Rivan has an essay posted on his blog entitled ‘What can you learn from a webcomic?’
• TGT Webcomics interviews Dawn Griffin from Zorphbert & Fred at C2E2.
• Playback:stl has an interview with creator Raina Telgemeier.
• Whazamo! State of the Art tackles the subject of webcomics.
• Cyanide and Happiness launches their iPhone app.
• WEBCOMIC SPOTLIGHT: Dynagirl

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• A documentary film about the work of Jim Woodring.
• Blogger frankh lists 5 webcomics that he thinks don’t suck.
• The Daily Cross Hatch has an interview with Jonathan Rosenberg.
• STLWebcomics.org offers a guide to publishing for the newbie.
• Webcomic Beacon #119 is about LEGO brick comics.
• Webcomics Critique reviews Cyanide and Happiness.
• Joe Hunter brings us his reprisal of Every Webcomic Ever.
• ComixTalk has a roundup of the nominees for the Joe Shuster Awards.
• Bean Leaf Press asks what makes a webcomic work?
• The Webcomic Overlook will be taking a break and offers a review of Marilith.
• The Red Right Hand returns to reviewing.
• Focus has a list of 12 cartoons to get you through the work day.

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• Matt Mullenweg, creator of WordPress, with this year’s State of the Word.
• Storming the Tower blogger Lauren Davis has a great wrap up and commentary of the recent webcomic app-flap or as I like to say app-flap-recap. Those Tweedles, they do battle don’t they!
• Geist has the nominees for the 2010 Joe Shuster Award in the Webcomic category.
• CBR has a piece about Christian Beranek and Tony DiGerolamo have joined forces with other webcomic creators to launch The Webcomic Factory.
• The Daily Cartoonist has a review of how Webcomics.com is doing as a subscription site.
• Jacked Up is a new webcomic by creator Jack Carter.
• CBR reports that Goats is on hiatus.
• WEBCOMIC SPOTLIGHT: Max vs. Max

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• Cory Doctorow talks about the danger to publishers posed by the iPad.
• Robot 6 talks about the contest being offered by Microsoft UK where IT professionals share their user stories. The winning stories will be made into a webcomic called ‘Where’s the ‘Any’ Key.’ They also track down Brad Guigar and talk to him about discounts offered to Webcomics.com members.
• The College Voice calls out some webcomics it considers worth reading.
• The Webcomic Builder talks about how to script a webcomic.
• TGT Webcomics interviews Digital Pimp.
• The blog Eye Lazor Beams shares the webcomic he reads.
• The Times Live has a piece on Penny Arcade.
• Daily Break News highlights the Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
• Gods Playing Poker releases two new tshirts.
• Geeks.co.uk has a list of recommended webcomics.
• The Racquette highlights the webcomic ‘Bug.’
• New webcomic Big Damn Deal launches and gets a mention on Laughing Squid.

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• Cartoon advice from Bill Griffith; creator of Zippy the Pinhead.
• GeekDad has an interview with Foxtrot creator Bill Amend.
• Robot 6 has a MoCCA 2010 wrap up.
• ST. Louis Webcomics (STLwebcomics.org) has an interview with Spilled Ink Cartoons.
• The term ‘webcomic’ might make it into the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
• Storming The Tower has a post about this years’ Eisner Award nominations in the webcomic category.
• Denver Westword News has a piece about webcomics.
• New features of Photoshop CS5.
• Patrick Farley vows to return to webcomics.
• Can the iPad be a cheap substitute for the super expensive Cintique?

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• ‘Let’s Be Friends Again’ artist Chris Haley is moving on. Joel Priddy will be taking his place.
• USA Today has a piece about Penny Arcade, calling it a testament to the power of gaming culture.
• A write up of Shaenon Garrity and Gail Simone at WonderCon 2010.
• Chris Baldwin’s comic ‘Little Dee’ has come to an end. He’ll be moving on to his new comic ‘Spacetrawler‘ but in the meantime you can pre-order Little Dee Volume 4. Good luck Chris!
• DJ Coffman returns to doing ‘Yirmumah!’ daily. Best wishes to you DJ!
• Xaviar Xerexes reviews the book ‘At The Movies,’ a collection of the comic ‘Please Rewind.’
• A newsvine.com post by Dungbeetlemania about his favorite webcomics. What are your favorites?
• WEBCOMIC SPOTLIGHT: 20 Something by Jimmy Norris

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• Vox Magazine this week has a story about local creators using the web to share their work. It also has interviews with Scott Ziolko, Jeremy Burt, Gary Lister, JB Winter, and Keith Chan.
• Revo-emag has their picks for the best webcomics ever.
• CBR spotlights Gabrielle Bell.
• Webcomic Planet War! 2010
• The Webcomic Overlook #113 reviews Xylia Tales.
• The Beat has an interview with Rantz Hoseley on the LongBox launch at Emerald City.
• White Ninja reaches 1000 strips! Congratulations!
• Odori Park turns one year old. Congratulations Chris!
• Joey Manley posts about American Elf creator James Kochalka’s video game fund raiser.
• WEBCOMIC SPOTLIGHT: Out Of The Blue

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• Free ebooks correlated with inreased print-book sales on BoingBoing.net.
• Jackson Ferrell at This Week in Webcomics has announced that he’s cartooning again. You can check out his new work over at Borderline-Boy.com. Best of luck!
• The Webcomic Overlook #111: Las Lindas.
• Check out The Bad Webcomics Wiki. There are some good comics on the list in my opinion so read it with a critical eye for the overly critical.
• Quitting Time and Gods Playing Poker are the newest webcomics to take Harknell of Onezumi.com up on his offer to create iPhone apps for comic creators. If you are a webcomic creator you should check out his offer!
• ROBOT 6 has an interesting piece on cartoonists and their self portraits.
• CBR has an interview with Bill Barnes and Paul Southworth about their newest effort Not Invented Here.
• Viper Comics and Daniel Barcroft launch Sanford Park. Best of luck!
• The British International Comics Show is coming up in October 2010.
• The Casual Webcartoonist writes about how to price your artwork (h/t ComixTalk).
• Otis Frampton talks about his new webcomic Escape From Planet Nowhere on ComixTalk.
• The Beat posts about cartoonist Asaf Hanuka and his webcomic The Realist.
• WEBCOMIC SPOTLIGHT: Steal This Webcomic

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• Nedroid is coming to TopatoCo.
• OSM cast has a roundtable discussion about webcomics.
• The Webcomic Builder takes on procrastination.
• MTV profiles Penny Arcade creators Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik.
• Video Game Virtues interviews Matthew Taranto, creator of Brawl in the Family.
• Seattle Geekly podcast talks about electronic media and webcomics.
• The Daily Cartoonist has it that the Dallas Art News is going to start a webcomic section in April.
• The Webcomic Overlook reviews Hark! A Vagrant.
• MTV.com gives Axe Cop some press.
• The Webcomic Builder has an interview with Gianna Masetti, creator of The Noob.

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• Neil Gaiman weighs in on Christopher Handley’s case.
• Marvel Comics takes flack from Tea Party protestors and apologizes.  The price of accuracy I suppose.
• The Makers start an online series about business.
• The Webcomic Builder has an interview with Gianna Masetti (Hat tip to ComixTalk).
• Brad Guigar celebrates 10 years of webcomics. Congratulations Brad!
• Coyote Trax has a review of Atomic Laundromat.
• Comic Riffs interviews Scott Kurtz after he speaks at Macworld.

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• Cleveland.com has the first interview in 15 years with Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes.
• On the Etsy blog there’s an interesting post by Amanda Steinberg, founder of Dallyworth.com, about understanding online advertising.
• Charlie Stross posts about earning a living as a writer in a ‘post-Google’ era that has some good questions for webcomic creators as well.
• Xerexes has an interesting comparison of various webcomic tools for WordPress.
• The blog Vana Jezebel wants to know what webcomics you read.
• Hey! Look! Comics! has posted some thoughts on the Washington Post Webcomic of the Decade award.
• Comic Riffs at the Washington Post has eight burning questions from readers about their poll.
• While we’re on the subject of awards, This Week In Webcomics gives his us thoughts on The Webcomic List Awards.

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• The Escapist has a webcomic contest. The winner gets a paid gig.
• The Webcomic Overlook reviews Order of Tales.
• Project Wonderful has added a geotargeting feature to their site.
• Fleen reports of a malware-distributing hack that targets WordPress/Comicpress.
• The Beat moves from PW to its own site.
• Webcomics Community opens up in response to Webcomics.com going behind a pay wall.
• Robot 6 at CBR has a conversation with Phil Foglio about why he chose to publish Girl Genius online.
• WOWIO and Top Cow team up to bring you Wanted, Darkness Witchblade and others.
• Comics Alliance talks with the creators of Axe Cop and Dinosaur Soldier.
• Webcomics on the iPad? An interesting article on Comics Alliance.
• Valley News has story about Zuda contestant Forest Rhodes.

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• Here is an interesting video of Ralph Bakshi on surviving tough times.
• The Somali man is charged with attempted murder of Danish Cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.
• On a lighter note, here’s a create your own comic link from Marvel. You can create either comic strips or a comic book.

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• The Washington Post column Comic Riffs wants nominations for best webcomic.
• Gunbaby? The baby with guns? Sounds like a gun that shoots knives to me, but the art is cool. Check out the submission call as well by Webcomics Community.
• Fleen clarifies a previous post about Webcomics.com.
• ComixTalk has an interview with David LaMason of Unbearable Bears.
• Xerexes shows us a highlight from a recent trip to the Cartoon Art Museum.
• Webcomic Overlook #103: Dead Winter.

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First have a happy and fruitful New Year! Now on to the webcomic news.

• Robot 6 has a round-up and a happy first anniversary to you Sean!
• Webcomics.com becomes a pay site overnight with no transition.
• The marelouspatric has a dimmer view of Halfpixel’s pay-move. I think the ensuing discussion is pretty good.
• Here and here are some more people weighing in.
• Part 1, by Robot 6, what are you excited about for 2010?
• Kidd and Geezer talk webcomic economics.
• Fleen has a good round-up of chaos at Keenspot.
• ComixTalk has an interview with David LaMason of Unbearable Bears.

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• When teachers make webcomics.
• Michael Jasper asks ‘Why Comics? And Why Webcomics?’
• 20 Questions with Lucas Turnbloom, creator of Imagine This.
• Robot 6 gives thanks for several favorite webcomics.
• TGT Webcomics asks how often do you update your comic?
• Nicholas and Jay ask about superhero webcomics so send them your favorites.
• The Webcomic Overlook will be updating sporadically due to another writing project.
• Sequential Tart interviews Gina Biggs, creator of Red String.
• Bukisa posts part three of a series on how to start a webcomic.
• Remember the Webcomic-Con 2009 at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, coming December 12th.
• The School Library Journal talks about webcomics for teens.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

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• The Company Man, by Pedro Hernendez, has started publishing on its own website in addition to Comics Nexus. Check it out!
• Webcomic creators assemble! Develop your own iPhone app offered free from the makers of AWSOM.org.
• The Telegraph picks the ten best webcomics.
• Scott McCloud asks what is ‘Your Comics-to-Crap Ratio?’
• Scott Kurtz has strong feelings about Wizard conventions and form letters. Good for him.
• Hermit Hill, the first webcomic in Metaplace.
• John Cleese gives us shares his brilliance on creativity.
• CBR talks about the death that stalks all webcomics.
• Brad Guigar asks the question, Facebook or SEO?
• Xaviar Xerexes reviews The Amulet Book Two, The Stonekeeper’s Curse.
• Does Kiva hold some secrets for webcomics?

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• Comics Nexus has some great webcomics in their column Webcomics Wednesday. Check it out!
• Joey Manley talks webcomic promotion. Don’t forget to read the whole series.
• PHD Comics gets a post on Neatorama.com.
• The Beat gives us a good look at Baltimore Comicon.
• The Trades has an interview with Lora Innes, creator of The Dreamer.
• Brendan McGinley of Bankshot Comics announced the launch of their new webcomic ‘Citizen X: The Mission’.
• io9 highlights webcomics-in-print.
• The Floating Lightbulb posts some challenges to Joey Manley’s post about how to make a living with webcomics.
• Viz is accepting for submissions for their original graphic novel.
• Galactic Binder says that Star Wars themed webcomics deliver the goods.
• The Consumerist explains why even bad online reviews can increase sales.
• CBR has an interview with Tom Siddell, creator of Gunnerkrigg Court.
• Robots and Monsters on Neatorama.
• Fraggin’ photo reference for a fee.Scientific paper explains Superman’s powers.

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• Gordon McAlpin needs your help. He’s trying to raise funds so that he can pay for his print fun of the first Multiplex book. While you’re at it, check out Kickstarter as a way to raise funds to pay for your own project.
• News-a-rama interviews Emma Caulfield about Contropussy.
• The blog Shiny Shiny has a post about Bitstrips, a DIY webcomic site.
• CBR has an interview with Ron Perazza of DC Comics fame.
• Micropayments making a come back?
• A recording of 24 Hour Comic Day with KC Green, Scott Kurtz and Kris Straub.
• The Floating Lightbulb posts about raising the prominence of archive pages.
• Techdirt asks if Doonsbury has anything to learn from XKCD.
• At Digital CIty comic book artist Joel Watson shares how he makes a living with HijiNKS Ensue.

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• An illustrated guide to making t-shirts with the Yudu machine. What IS a Yudu machine you ask? Make with the clicks and find out.
• The Beat has the 2009 Ignatz winners. Congratulations!
• Who reads webcomics? Read this post and find out. Here’s the original post.
• Newsarama.com reports that the webcomic Wide Awake has been optioned for film.
• io9 has an interview with Randal Munroe.
• GeekToMe posts that Wednesday will be webcomic day and asks for creators to email them with their URL.
• Act-I-Vate goes to the movies.
• Sweet Fat Life: Webcomic.

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• Secret Asian Man leaves Comics.com and resumes publishing on own site.
• Act-I-Vate at the Brooklyn Book Festival.
• Brad Guigar posts a how to create your own survey on Webcomics.com.
• The School Library Journal has a post about webcomics.
• Ryan Estrada posts about the state of the Cartoon Commune.
• Mike Lynch points out that today’s Hi and Lois talks about webcomics.
• The XKCD book, ‘xkcd:volume o,’ is now available.
• An interesting article about taking a look at what we’re actually paying for.
• Gods Playing Poker celebrated 2 years online on Sunday.

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• Forbidden Planet Intl. posts about Hark, A Vagrant.
• The Floating Lightbulb ponders 50 questions to ask yourself about your website.
• Counterpoint Weekly has a post The Rise of Webcomics.
• Minneapolis/St. Paul’s City Pages blog posted a Q&A with webcomic artist Keith Pille.
• Brad Guigar offers Evil Inc. to college newspapers for free. Hasn’t something like that been tried?
• Red String hits 1000 pages. Congratulations Gina!
• Yul Tolbert discusses the Rules for Engaging an Artist.

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• Harvey Pekar talks about webocmics in this interview at MTV.
• CBR reviews Skin Horse volume one.
• Randall Monroe reading to benefit EFF in San Francisco on Sept. 21st.
• PhD Comics posted on Neatorama.com.
• Swine Flu at PAX?
• Brad Guigar posts about how to use Photoshop paths to create word balloons and talks about self-syndicating to college newspapers at Webcomics.com.
• The webcomic Beacon #86 is about SIMS Machinma Comics.
• The Floating Lightbulb makes a case for using ComicRank.

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• WordPress under attack? The case for upgrading your sites without delay made by Laughing Squid.
• Newsarama.com posted a review of Achewood Vol. 2: Worst Song, Played on Ugliest Guitar.
• Coyote Trax’s Webcomic Critique reviews Starslip Crisis.
• Storming the Tower posts about Eerie Cuties and other works by Gisele Lagace.
• Xerexes posts about Side B: The Music Lover’s Comic Anthology over on ComixTalk.
• The Boston Comics Roundtable has just produced their third anthology: InBound.

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• AppScout has a post entitled ‘Disney, Marvel, and the future of Online Comics.’
• Bad Idea Goggles has part one of a guide on how not to make webcomics.
• Coyote Trax’s Webcomic Critique reviews Out Post 7.
• CBR checks out the Ignatz nominees.
• Locus column is about the success and critique of releasing free ebooks.
• Publishers Weekly talks about print collections and webcomics.
• io9 talks webcomics with their new post.
• Hey! Look! Comics! has a sarcastic list of tips for webcomic beginners. A word of caution: Successful people don’t seek company.
• The Examiner has a write up about the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco.
• Xerexes points us to The Continentals, a new webcomic from Darryl Hughes and Monique MacNaughton.

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• Are you the next Comic Strip Superstar? Amazon and Andrews McNeel Publishing want to know. Brad Guigar has a good analysis.
• Webcomics.com University has it’s pilot episode.
• Jasper the Cat Tackles Health Care.
• 3 Keys To Finding Your Source of Inspiration.
• XKCD explains how to be a tech-support guru and gets highlighted on BoingBoing.net.
• Wowio! Has been bought from Platinum by Platinum CEO, Brian Altounian. More.
• The Floating Lightbulb points us at an interview with John Campbell.
• Marvel Digital Comics are coming to the Sony PSP.
• The Webcomic Beacon #87 is about the Femme Fatales.
• Guest Strip at Calamities of Nature.
• Comedy.com has a post ’11 Greatest Sex Jokes in Webcomics.’
• Comics Nexus highlights Pedro Hernandes’s Company Man.

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• ComicRank is getting some new features.
• WebDonuts is running a caption contest.
• CBR has an interview/article with the August Zuda contestants.
• CBR has an in depth interview with Ryan North.
• AppScout has an article about Top Shelf embracing the web.
• An interview with Diana Cameron McQueen about the new Girlamatic site.
• Teaching Baby Paranoia reaches it’s 500th strip. Congratulations!

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• News-a-rama features webcomics creator Felipe Sobreiro.
• Big Shiny Robot! has an article about Gunnerkrigg Court.
• WYLFWT has launched version 5 of it’s website.
• The Boston Comics Roundtable has published anthology number three.
• Xaviar Xerexes interviews Caleb Sevcik.
• The LGBT Webcomic Charity Art Auction is coming. Check it out!
• Webcomic Beacon number 85 talks Editorial comics.
• TGT Webcomics turns 1 year old. Congratulations!
• Get Your War On is calling for a boycott of Jamba Juice. Here’s more.
• Odori Park creator Chris Watkins shares some lessons he learned during his ‘one-a-day personal challenge.’
• Brad Guigar posts about customizing the InkBlot theme for Webcomic 2.1.
• Pop-Tarts copies Kawaii Not. It is becoming clear that webcomic creators need a strategy to combat the stealing of our awesomeness.

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***ADDED AFTER INITIAL POSTING***

Webcomic creator Megan Rose Gedris, YU+ME: dream, is being blackmailed. If you see any nude or semi-nude images posted somewhere on the inTARnets please notify her and help her get them taken down.

• Comics drawn on post-it notes.
• The art of Harvey Kurtzman.
• Syndicated cartoon strip headed for the Commons need uploading and tagging help.
• Kyle Latino continues to brainstorm about digital comics.
• Dinosaur Comics Battle v. New Yorker Dingus?
• CBR posts about six things that webcomics fans should do at SDCC.
• Juice company rips off Get Your War On.
• Over at ComixTalk Captain Nihilist asks ‘What’s so bad about calling them ‘webcomics?’

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• Comic writer Mark Sable detained by the TSA for carrying a script about writer under suspicion by the TSA. It’s no secret that the TSA has a great sense of humor.
• Razman360 asks, ‘What are your favorite Webcomics?’
• Sannalim posts a small webcomic entitled ‘Why I don’t Draw Webcomics.’The Examiner talks about the wonderful world of webcomic and has another article about starting one.
• The Floating Lightbulb talks about webcomic store traffic.
• Zingerding explains why they don’t like webcomics.
• ComicSpace does an ROI experiment to see who’s advertising is the best.
• ComixTalk has an interview with Calem Sevcik.
• Sandy Debreuil has a good article on Webcomics.com about creating comic strips in Flash.
• A Palace In The Sky reviews Precocious.

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• Jeremy Mullins has passed away due to injuries sustained while climbing in the Catskills. To his family and friends, please accept our heartfelt condolences.
• Kidjutsu gets a review in PW.
• The Daily Gamecock has a post about webcomics.
• PW also has a post about Sinfest and it’s creator Tatsuya Ishida.
• Stripshow 2.0 for WordPress is out.
• Webcomic Overlook takes a look at Set To Sea.
• The Floating Lightbulb posits twelve things that hurt your webcomic.
• The folks over at Winged Wolf Studio ponder the difference in jargon between webcomics and digital comics.
• WordPress 2.8 released.
• Fritz over at RackaFracka has a new Cartoons for Business page where he hocks his cartoons with business themes.

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• The Sudbury Star, also published in the Toronto Sun, has a piece about webcomics called History in the Making.
• TGT Webcomics interviews Alina, creator of WereGeeks.
• The Floating Lightbulb has some tips on raising your visibility with Google.
• Brigid Alverson is joining Robot 6 on CBR.
• The Create a Comic Project has received funding and will have a 2010 tournament.
• The Awkward Scientist reviews Anders Loves Maria.
• The LoliDudes talks about Kawaii Not.
• News-a-rama talks about the changing technology of comics.
• Heidi macDonald, as always, keeps us informed.
• The Webcomic Overlook brings us One Punch Review #21.
• ComixTalk points out the Online Internet Webcomic Show.
• Brad Guigar posts about common mistakes when making word balloons.
• The Webcomic Beacon has a two part series called How Not to Make a Webcomic.

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• Onezumi had a car accident and, so if you can, please stop by her site and wish her well. There is also a donation sale. (*Thanks for the correction)
• Tom Spurgeion has a Comic-Con survival guide.
• The Boston Comics Roundtable has released the third issue of their anthology Outbound.
• Daryl Cagle talks about the future of syndication.
• Comics Worth Reading has a post about the business of comics.
• And the author of Beaver and Steve offers this on the creative process.
• Keith Knight is interviewed by The Story on American Public Media.
• Viz Media has launched a webcomic site according to ICV2.com.
• Starship Castle is starting a review column called Webcomics Warp where they review fantasy or sci-fi webcomics.
• The Washington Post interviews Comic Riffs Blogger Michael Cavna.
• The Floating Lightbulb points out where more help for WordPress users can be had and reviews Asset Bar.
• Robot 6 reports that the ACT-I-VATE primer is due out this fall.

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• Sean Kleefeld talks about the future of comic distribution.
• News-a-rama interviews Brock Heasley, author of SuperFogeys.
• The National Post talks to Jason Thompson about the Toronto Comic Arts Festival.
• The Floating Lightbulb has some behind-the-scenes plug-in advice about WordPress.
• Krishna tells us why he doesn’t participate in link exchanges.
• Robot 6 has a post about Slash Print following the digital revolution.
• TwiTip, Twitter for Cartoonists.
• For Better for Worse author Lynn talks about reference material and give some great tips including using toys.
• Dinosaur Comics collection: improbably fantastic re-use of dinosaur clip art.
• Ever wonder what’s up with Jughead’s hat?
• A mini-documentary of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival.

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• Digger moves from Graphics Smash to its own site where the men are pretty and the archives are free.
• Erfworld also has moved off of Giants in the Playground and  launched its own site.
• There are unconfirmed reports of ComicGenesis being hacked into and shut down over the weekend. Critical Kitty has more.
• The Floating Lightbulb posts about why he thinks Comic Hosts are fading. Are they?
• Webcomics.com has an article on how to create a media kit.

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• The Seattle PI has an interview with Jerry Holkins of Penny Arcade.
• The National Post talks to Ryan North.
• Brad Guigar is taking pre-orders for Evil Inc. Volume 4. Now in color!
• Not to be overlooked, Evil Diva is review no. 75 on The Webcomic Overlook.
• Readers pick for best webcomic: Nerd Rage.
• Forces of Geek review thirteen webcomics.
• Coyote Trax’s Webcomics Critique posts about some new finds.
• The Floating Lightbulb posts about webcomic growth and measurement.
• Nick Eff reads a lot of webcomics. Let him show u some.
• Sunny Kris, The Webcomic on Indian Workplaces.

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• Yirmumah now has it’s own Anti-Social network ning.
• Palace in the Sky Webcomic News has an interview with Christopher J. Paulsen, creator of Precocious.
• The Beat reports that Saltwater Taffy is starting a webcomic version of it’s print comic.
• Neil Cohn needs some people to take part in an experiment. Bwahahaha science!
• Platinum Studios is facing a 20 million dollar defecit. Yikes!
• Free Webcomics Workshop for grades 6-11 on May 2nd at the Centerville Library if you happen to live in Ohio.
• The Floating Lightbulb highlights some French webcomics.
• Strawerry Syrup has an interesting post about being on hiatus.
• Johnny Saturn suggests some webcomics we should be reading.
• The blog Young Australian Skeptics gives a scathing and pretty spot on review of After Eden, a Christian anti-evolution webcomic. I suppose there had to be one out there.
• George Carroll has a post on Webcomics.com called ‘Learning from…webcomics?’ which is pretty good.

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• Joey Manley talks about drama in webcomics.
• Scratchin Post and Li’l Nyet get reviewed by Talkin Bout Comics.
• Heidi MacDonald talks about the webcomics approach to printing.
• Xerexes posts about Musicslu as a possibility for pre-selling webcomics.
• An interview on ComixTalk with Brian Brown, creator of Bellen!.

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• Cat Garza’s is having some issues with a chiropractor, fleen has the story.
• The Webcomic Beacon #70: the 2008 Beaky Awards.
• The Washington Post asks ‘Where Else Do You GO to Fill Your Comics Needs?’ A good question!
• News-a-Rama has an interview with Box Brown.
• Spy6teen debuts on Zuda.
• Yen Press Launches Toxic Planet Comic Online.
• Talkin Bout Comics talks about webcomics that aren’t Zuda.
• Karmic Debt Comics gets hot under the collar about Scott Kurtz.
• Barkeater Lake celebrated 10 years in January. Better late than never for a hearty congratulations!
• Here’s some good advice on designing memorable tshirts for your webcomic from Webcomics.com.
• Sandra and Woo get a review on WebcomicZ.
• The Floating Lightbulb talks about webcomic site design.
• The Art Geek Zoo has a post about its evolving status after one year. Congrats on turning 1!
• The new webcomic Urfs by Mike Jacobsen and Phil Selby was in the spotlight on Neatorama.com.

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• A digital painting demo from Jami Noguchi of Erfworld.
• Emerald City ComcCon is on for this coming weekend.
• Startslip reaches 1000 Strips. Congratulations Kris!
• The Webcomic Overlook is taking April off.
• Hugo nominated webcomic ‘The Body Politic’ is free download.
• BlogTO has a post about Ryan North and Project Wonderful.
• Palace in the Sky Webcomic News has an interview with Alex and Nick of Rocket Llama.
• The Examiner has a review of ‘MY 25 Percent’ and part 3 of a series about how to get a webcomics started.
• Calamities of Nature is having their first ever caption contest. Find out more here.
• Readers of ZergWatch, a video game fanzine, have picked ‘Let This Mask Hide the Tears’ as the best webcomic.
• Robot 6 points out that IDW is bringing back GrimJack and other ComicMix titles back into print.
• Alone in a Crowd has a nice Webcomics Weekend wrap up post and COmixTalk has Webcomics Weekend Part 2.

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• Joey Manley is looking for your tshirt designs.
• The Webcomic Overlook has a review of Evil Diva.
• ComixTalk has a review of the Webcomics Weekend.
• Xerexes has an interview with Brian Babendererde, creator of Soul Chaser Betty.
• Palace in the Sky Webcomic News has an interview with Nathan Bonner of Indavo.
• Some photos of the Webcomic Weekend.
• Webcomic Finds has a review of Seek and Destroy from Anarchy Comics.
• The Examiner has a review of the webcomic Traitor.
• Storming the Tower has a review of Of Bears and Men.
• PVP offers a tshirt with the slogan ‘You’re Killing Newspapers by Reading Webcomics’ on it in time for the Webcomics Weekend.
• UCLICK offers free Dramacon Comic App through Apple.
• Carmine Magazine talks about The Create a Comic Project.
• GeekDad has his second anniversary and revisits Ten Great Webcomics.
• Coyote Trax’s Webcomics Critique reviews Surviving Retail.
• C.B. Cebulski shares his tips on how to break into comics.
• CBR spotlights Jim Mahfood’s Los Angeles Ink Stains as a webcomic to watch.
• The Cartoon Art Museum is lookin for professional cartoonists to take part in their Cartoonist-in-Residence Program. If you fit the bill and are interested please contact membership@cartoonart.org.
• Wellon’s Weblog has an post entitled ‘Why Web Comics are Better.’
• Johnny Saturn joins ComixsXP.

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• Andrew Farago announced the passing of Rod Gilchrist, Executive Director of the Cartoon Art Museum. Our heartfelt condolences to Gilchrist’s family and friends for their loss.
• Palace in the Sky Webcomic News has an interview with J Gray, creator of Mysteries of the Arcana.
• ComixTalk links to a printable DIY comic on how to make mini comics.
• The New England Webcomics Weekend 2009 reaches capacity.
• Maria Walters asks ‘What’s up with webcomics?’
• Gaming Aisle has some picks for their segment Webcomic of the Week.
• Mashable has their list of the 20 best webcomics.
• The Webcomic Overlook reviews Nedroid’s Picture Diary.
• PR.com has a press release about a 50-year-old video editor named Byron Wilkins who changed careers to become a webcomic artist.
• The Floating Lightbulb posts about some newer webcomics.
• Comix 411 has an interview with Larry Latham.
• God’s Playing Poker moves from Thursday to Friday.
• Coyote Trax’s Webcomic Critique has a review of Boxes o’ FOxes.
• Issue #19 of Creative Characters has an interview with Cyrus Highsmith.
• News-a-rama has the nominees for the LA Times Book Prize which were announced on the 3rd.

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• Ryan Estrada applies for his dream job as Caretaker of the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef. Best of luck Ryan!
• Applegeeks reaches 500 episodes. Congratulations Hawk and Ananth!
• Todd & Penguin are back.
• Karen Ellis faces a disastrous fire. For the latest go read her blog. Right now she needs the Mac version of Photoshop.
• Palace in the Sky Webcomic News has an interview with Jamie Jennings of Emerald Winter.
• Creator Interview with Greg Kinman at Zuda Fan.
• The Christian Science Monitor asks, are your comic books really at risk?
• Strip News details some cool stuff in happening in webcomics.
• The Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is still looking for that special someone.
• The Webcomic Overlook takes a gander at Anders Loves Maria.
• Shepard, Lessig and Steven Johnson in NYC Feb. 26th – Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy.
• WonderCon is coming!
• Crappy economy and Diamond de-listing hit Viz hard, company announces restructuring. Good luck!
• The Harvey Award nominations are open.
• Digital_Femme has a post entitled Black Women in Comics: Part 1.
• News-a-rama has an interview with Stuart and Kathryn Immonen.
• Quitting Time will now publish on Monday and Wednesday. That’s right! Twice as much wacky retail antics as before!
• The ComicSpace T-shirt Store Beta is open for business.
• Video of the webcomics panel at Katsucaon 15.

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• Uclick seems to be leading the pack in distributing comics to the iPhone.
• DJ Coffman has a video tutorial on drawing comics with Cintiq.
• Webcomic Finds explains their comic categories.
• An interview on ComixTalk with Grant Thomas.
• Publisher’s Weekly has an article about the good turnout to NYCC 2009.
• Freelance Switch has 10 tax deductions that freelancers can make.
• A new website for sharing sketches called Sketchory.
• New Curator has a post called Museums and Webcomics.
• CBR has their thoughts on which webcomics we should be watching.
• The Washington Post has an article called ‘Which Webcomic Are You Ready to Rally Behind?’
• CBR has a piece about Dark Horse continuing to print webcomic titles.
• Switched says Marvel Comics are coming to the iTunes Store.
• ComixTalk has an interview with Greg Dean, creator of Real Life.
• Fried Fish Comcs is one year old. Congratulations!
• The Examiner has a piece about webcomics.
• The Daily Star has an article called ‘Teen Talk: Weekend Reviews: My time to judge more webcomics.’

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• News-a-rama has a post about the NYCC Dark Horse Comics Panel and Marvel Digital Panel.
• The Webcomic Overlook reviews SPQR Blues.
• The Express Buzz has a piece about the economy and comics.
• Webcomic Finds reviews Jovian Luck.
• Blambot’s Nate Piekos has a great post about comic-book lettering.

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• The Independant has a good piece called ‘How Cartoons Joined the 21st Century.’
• Sony Pictures Animation and Platinum Studios, Inc. team up to develop an animated feature.
• The Cartoon Art Museum in SF is having a benefit screening of Watchmen on March 5th. If you want to volunteer for thier wondercon party give a shout to Andrew (gallery@cartoonart.org).
• Ka-Blam has started ComicsMonkey, a distribution network for print-on-demand comics to comic shops.
• Union of Heroes reaches 100 pages. Congratulations!
• An update on what’s going on with ComicSpace, LLC.
• A new Scott McCloud graphic novel in the works.
• An interestin post in defense of the webcomics business model.
• Da Blog has part one of a series called ‘Webcomics’ Identity Crisis.
• Ars Technica talks about the Infinite Canvas.
• The Weekly Webcomic Spotlight is HotShot and Mighty Girl by Fred Van Lente.
• The Webcomic Overlook has a post questioning the value of negative reviews.

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• Gizmodo has a piece about Monty Python and the benefits of giving away content for free.
• The Beat asks What’s up with Nick Gurewich?
• ComixTalk has an update to Project Wonderful. Tougher to get in and stay in.
• The Webcomic Beacon episode 62 is about Hobbyists vs Professionalists.Brad Guigar posts a wrapup of his appearance at Harvard.
• The Webcomic Overlook takes a gander at Femmegasm.
• Xerexes has a draft of the 100 Greatest webcomics lists for Comedy and Drama.
• Kris Straub talks about his re-branding of Starslip Crisis on Webcomics.com.
• The lawsuit against Mike Peters has been dropped by the Columbian Coffee Growers Federation.
• Video of Illustrator Charlene Chua doing her thing using Adobe Illustrator.
• Boom! Studios launches a new blog called MarkWaid.com which is a how-to source for writing comics.
• An interview with Goats creator Jon Rosenberg on CBR.

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• Comixpedia celebrates three years. Congratulations Xerexes!
• Webcomix-blog promises a new webcomic featured every day.
• Hello Mic Test has a post about the how to produce and popularize your webcomics.
• PinkRaygun.com has a post titled Making Our Way: Pimping Webcomics.
• Palace in the Sky Webcomic News has an interview with Devon Legacy creator Keith Taylor.
• Prism Comics announces new episodes of The Werewif on Wednesday.
• News-A-Rama has discovered Zuda’s interesting use of Twitter.
• The Exchange Magazine has a post, and video of Scott McCloud’s TED talk.
• This Week in Webcomics recommends Hijinks Ensue to readers.
• Sean Kleefeld’s thoughts about comics and webcomics.
• Ben Huh posts tips about developing community.
• The Escapist Magazine has an a post about a new writing aid called ‘Write or Die.’ I can’t wait for the Adobe plug-in version to keep me in line while drawing.
• Halo 3 webcomics has a post about making good text balloons.
• MT Interview with Alexander Danner and Edward J. Grug III.

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• The Guest Strip Project is in dire need of strips, so if you haven’t done one please go on over and get involved.
• The economy claims another victim, this times it’s Young American Comics. Their final news letter announced their going-out-of-business sale.  Sad to see you guys go!
• The Webcomic Junkie has a part 1 of a series of posts about made up webcomic terminology.
• James Sime from Isotope Comics in San Francsico and other shop owners talk to CBR about the effect of webcomics on traditional comic sales.
• This Week in Webcomics has the first have of an interview with Calamities of Nature creator Tony Piro.
• The Independent of Southwestern Minnesota has a piece about Jamie Haram, creator of Picatrix.
• Xerexes is looking for some new and cool webcomics to read.
• The Montreal Mirror has an interview with Karl Kerschl, creator of The Abominable Charles Christopher.
• Webcomics have made it back onto Instructables.
• Adam Susskind has a webcomic tutorial in PDF form.

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• Correction: Tony Piro was kind enough to write and correct the post about his guest strip contest.There were actually three winners (1, 2 and 3) and he also points out that Calamities of Nature, along with others like Dilbert, XKCD and Jesus and Mo, is up for the 2008 Web Blog Awards: Best Comic Strip catgory. Voting is still on. A hearty congratulations to all three winners and best of luck Tony
• Frumph.net has started a contest of sorts called the 2009 Webcomic Promotion Wars wherein you promote yourself in various ways, earn points for that and then do battle.
• AfterElton.com has a post called ‘It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Gay Webcomics!’
• Your Anti-Snark has a review of Out There and takes some swipes in a Year-In-Review post.  The new YWIBAYSFB?  Let’s hope not.
• David Malki interviews on The Sound of Young America.
• 500 episodes without poop jokes? Harder than you might think (via ComixTalk) Congratulations Evan!
• ComixTalk also has an announcement from ComicBrush.com that they have fixed some problems with their program.

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• Happy New Year everyone!
• Frumph.net releases QuickFrumph, like QuickKeen but with more Frumph. They’ve also introduced
• WebComicPlanet, Free hosting for webcomics using Comipress MU.
• NewsARama has an interview with Matthew Forsythe, creator of Ojingogo.
• ComixTalk has a post about Howard Tayler’s presentation on Making Money By Giving Webcomics Away.
• The Webcomic Overlook has gleened some answers to the Heidi MacDonald’s question about what the biggest story of 2008 was, and what stories in 2009 will be big.
• Derik Badman’s best webcomics of 2008 list.
• Chris Onstad, creator of Achewood at Googleplex.
• Tony Piro clues us in to an interview with Chris Anderson, the author of The Long Tail book and blog.
• He also has posted the winner of his Guest Strip contest. Congratulations Stephanie!
• Zuda Fan has an interview with creator Spencer Platt.
• If you haven’t heard about reader oriented podcast TGT Webcomics, go and have a listen.

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• Sarah Jaffe posts about the possibility of doing a weekly webcomic column on Newsarama. I say go for it!
• Delos reviews Battlegate.
• The New York Times has a piece about comics ‘Feeling the Pain of Print.’
• The SF Examiner has a post from Joystiq, the second part of ‘Readers Pick Best Webcomic: How the King Stole Christmas.’
• The Village Voice has a piece about webcomics that features Achewood, Bodyworld and Templar, Arizona.
• CBR has a chat with Jamaica Dyer, creator of Wierd Fishes.
• This Week in Webcomics has a three part list of his favorite webcomics.
• MadScott pointed out this handy comic tools blog over on Twitter.
• The Floating Lightbulb has an interesting post about the search engine Mooter.
• Webcomics Inc has a flash hangman game where you guess the titles of webcomics.
• FLEEN talks about Sam Jain, and eFront.
• Brigid Alverson reports that TokyoPop is reviving their manga pilot program.
• Creator the Marvelous Patric announces that Freaks N Squeeks returns with all new comics over on ComixTalk.
• Zuda Fan has an interview with creator Spencer Platt.

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• The School Library Journal has an interview with Sarah Ellerton, creator of Inverloch.
• Check out the Webcomic Holiday Postcard Fundraiser.
• iFanboy has a post about webcomics.
• Spike posts about Zuda contracts over at PopCultureShock.com.
• Webcomics.com has a tutorial about creating word balloons in Photoshop.
• Quitting Time, my webcomic, has teamed up with FoolishGadgets.com to bring you Products That Never Made It.
• What do you think about Webcomicsworld.com? The Floating Lightbulb doesn’t hold back as usual. Here is some more reaction.

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• The Washington Post has an interview with Darrin Bell, the creator of Candorville.
• Tony Piro, creator of Calamities of Nature has a great tutorial called Flatting Your Comic.
• Instructables is starting a series of how-to posts on webcomics. Here is the first one about scanning, cleaning adn publishing line art.
• Also, if you haven’t heard about Webcomics Collage, check it out!
• Fleen has a good review of some interesting and candid posts about Zuda contracts.
• NY Comic Con has made the arts section of Staten Island’s own silive.com.
• We the Robots joins Pibgorn in the New Uclick webcomics lineup for iPhone, iPod Touch and whatever other buzzwords they can throw in there. Congratulations to Chris Harding and Scott Meyer!
• The Beat has a nice post about ADSDAQ and new ad services offered by Joey manley and ComicSpace.
• A comic contest from Saad Akhtar, creator of Fly, You Fools!

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• Twyla Tharp on motivation, creativity and the usefulness of failure. Great advice for all creative fields.
• Check out new webcomic rating site IsItFunnyToday.com.
• InkBlot 1.0, the latest webcomic wordpress plugin.
• A Webcomic Gift-Giving Guide.
• The Floating Lightbulb has a post about making your comic archive search friendly.
• Algeya has an article on Webcomics.com about creating backgrounds.
• Fleen talks about the purge of webcomics from ADSDAQ. Take a look at the comments section where people layout who has been dropped and the excuses taht ADSDAQ has given them.
• The Beat has a nice piece about making money in comics.
• Palace In The Sky Webcomic News has an interview with Brian Brock of Reaper 7.
• Congrats to the Webcomic Beacon on reaching one year!
• Bomb Shelter Webcomic Idol winner is Simulated Comic Product. Congratulations!

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• Emily the Strange is a rip off of a 1978 book character.
• Des Moines Register sacks Editorial Cartoonist Brian Duffy.
• Book of Biff, and more cartoons like Questionble Content, have been dumped by ADSDAQ for “…a high volume of graphics and images such as anime or comic strips.”
• TalkShoe announces Instant Talkcasting.
• The Floating Lightbulb talks about getting international traffic for your comic.
• Good post over at Webcomics.com about inking with your natural hand movement.
• UCLICK and IDW to bring Clive Barker’s The Thief of Always to the iPhone.
• Patrick Scullin, creator of Super Siblings, blogs about meeting the legendary Stan Lee.
• Brad Guigar talks about what he thinks is and isn’t newsworthy to follow up on his earlier tips about writing press releases.
• NYT has a piece about Alison Bechdel and her series Dykes to Watch Out For.
• The Webcomic Overlook #60 features Fey Winds.
• Comic Foundry Magazine is closing its doors.
• Next episode of the Webcomic Beacon is the one year special. 
• Skitzo Man has a post about Scott Kurtz’ video: Breaking Bad habits.

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• Ryan Estrada does a Neatorama Comic and promotes his Cartoon Commune.
• The Tribune-Review has a piece about Lora Biondi Innes, creator of the webcomic The Dreamer.
• Bomb Shelter Comics extends the voting for the Webcomic Idol contest to today.
• Xerexes strikes again with an interview with the creator of Earthsong, Crystal Yates on ComixTalk.
• The first Macedonian webcomics; welcome Vlado’s World to the webcomics scene.
• Entry level webcomic creator and his internet buddy promise four new webomics.
• Joel Watson, of HIJINKS Ensue documents his digital cartooning process.
• WebcomicPlanet.com, a new site from the good people at Coswell Productions, MindFaucet and Frumph Agencies, is live with an alpha release.
• The Floating Lightbulb posts about Google Sitelinks.
• D. Michael Moore talks about The Problem with Webcomics on his blog One Gamer’s Opinion…

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• Jiffy Burke offers 10 tips for webcomic creators over on Sequential Tart.
• ROK Comics is being run as a ‘scaled down service’ until further notice. This means there are no employed staff to deal with problems should they arise. ROK isn’t finished yet though, not by a long shot; however, it sounds like they have done what is prudent for now. Best of luck!
• The San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum is looking for volunteers for events on 12/4, 12/6, and 12/ 16. For more information check out their website.
• The National Post has a piece about webcomics. I will withhold commenting on the title of the article.
• Check out RackaFracka by Fritz! Published five days a week plus he has a large archive.
• Palace in the Sky Webcomic News has an interview with Rachel Keslensky of Last Resort!
• The Webcomic Overlook has a post entitled ‘Neal Stephenson vs. xkcd’ which is an interesting read.
• Xerexes interviews Hans Tseng, creator of Directions of Destiny on ComixTalk.
• The Floating Lightbulb has a rather sad post about a Drunk Duck poser. This isn’t the first that I’ve heard of a story like this either. If true, I wonder what Sean’s motivation for doing something like that is?
• Comic Fencing picks on Amazing Superteam for a round of sword play.

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• Calamities of Nature has announced its first guest strip contest. The 3 best strips submitted by December 22nd will have their comics featured as the December 28th, December 31st, and January 2nd updates. In addition, each winner will receive a signed copy of the Calamities of Nature Volume 1 collection. If you don’t win, it’s still all good. All other submissions will be featured in the blog individually on Tuesdays and Thursdays and have their comics saved in the gallery. For further details, see www.calamitiesofnature.com
• John Lynch reviews Beaver & Steve by James Turner over on ComixTalk.
• The Comics Reporter has an interview with James Kochalka.
• Webcomics Inc. is offering some exclusive desktop images.
• A nice round-up of slice-of-life comics.
• An interesting post at ComixTalk entitled ‘Your Webcomic Is Not As Good As You Think It Is.’
• MediaShift has a piece about advertising.
• Skitzo Man points us to an interesting article about the changing face of comics publication from Kieth Drury.
• Welcome new webcomic SCAPULA by Aidan Casserly into the frey.

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• Platinum announces that Cowboys & Aliens is on the Dreamworks priority list according to The Hollywood Reporter.
• The Gazette has a piece about how the internet is liberating comic book artists. Here’s one more from The Gazette.
• Fleen covers Platinum’s possible creation of a Hero By Night television series. Heidi MacDonald has more.
• Xerexes interviews Michael May, creator of Eros, Inc., on ComixTalk.  Also, an interview with Phil Foglio on ComixTalk.

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• ComxTalk has an interview with Abby L. of The Green Avenger.
• Creepy returns to MySpace DHP.
• Hereville creator Barry Deutsch has signed a book deal with Harry N. Abrams to publish Hereville as a graphic novel.
• Johas Diego talks tools of the trade on Webcomics.com.
• Michael Schlosky, creator of Mikey’s Life, reviews Li’l Nyet.
• The Freelancer’s Union has announced the creation of the Freelancer’s Insurance Company.
• Tony Piro has a review of the various print-on-demand options there are currently.
• Kevin Colden talks Fishtown over at CBR.
• ComixTalk is shutting down their forums for lack of use.
• Chris Yates covers the Alternative Press Expo.
• The Weekly Webcomic Wrapup ponders it’s own branding.

• TigerCon brings art, music and anime to Towson University in Maryland.
• The Globe and Mail has a piece about XKCD.
• A new blog about animation backgrounds.
• Blogger and former webcomic creator Ess Dee ponders about webcomics in this post.
• New webcomic, The Werewif, started on Wednesday this week. Best of luck!
• PCWeenies ventures out into other languages with the help of some friends. Also, the winner of the caption contest is Mike Perron, who’s caption is now published with the 10th anniversary strip of PCWeenies.
• Paramount Studios has aquired the screen rights to Agnes Quill: An anthology of Mystery, by Dave Roman.
• A Keith Knight cartoon causing a stir in New Jersey.
• The Cartoon Commune v.2.0 is here and offering custom stuff.
• Skitzo Man posts what he’s learned from his lack of success in webcomics.
• Theater Hopper has suffered a catastrophic computer failure and needs your help to recover the lost data from a corrupt drive.
• Here’s a video of Emmanuel Guibert’s interesting drawing style with ink and water.
• From Chris Anderson’s blog, The Long Tail, two interesting posts (1 & 2) about revised free business models and pricing sweet spots.

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• Newsarama.com has a post about a new webcomic project that remembers those Transgendered persons who are victims of violence. The Transgender Day of Rememberance is requesting submissions for their project.
• Chuck Rozakis posts about archives on ComicMix.
• A review of Mitch Clem’s new book ‘Nothing Nice To Say,’ a foray into the dirty underbelly of print comics.
• Xerexes has an interview with Chris Hazelton, creator of the webcomic Misfile.
• If you didn’t know, APE2008 is coming to San Francisco soon!
• Bomb Shelter Comics ‘Webcomic Idol’ contest has been whittled down to the top ten competitors.

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• Elf ‘n Troll ends. Sad news!
• News-a-rama.com has a post about Platinum’s employee pay cuts. That’s sad!
• ROK Comics are now on the iPhone. Watch out Clickwheel!
• Webcomics.com has been purchased by HalfPixel, possibly with the aid of their friends at Penny Arcade. They’re looking for articles, tips and other knowledge sharing stuff from those interested in contributing.
• The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco will be holding a party in celebration of the Alternative Press Expo and Keith Knight’s new book on Saturday, November 1, 2008 from 8:00-11:00 pm.
• SoreThumbs takes on Platinum/Wowio situation in a comic by guest artist DJ Coffman.
• Bound By Law? The ‘Understanding Comics’ of copyright has a new edition out.
• Neatorama posts about the comic Products That Never Made It.

Reported by Michael Moss.

• The winners of the 2008 Webcomic Readers Choice Awards have been announced. Congratulations to all the winners!
• ComixTalk posts about Panel Flow, a Flash based alternative to Comicpress. DJ Coffman gives his opinion about using Flash for webcomics.
• An interesting post about Twitter on Comic Book Bin.
• Crackwalker has some thoughts on how to make it as a webcomic creator. ComicMix has more in their post ‘The Theory of Webcomics: The Daily Grind.’
• First real big challenge to Protect Act is the case of Iowa comic book and manga collector Christopher Handly who faces 20 years for possession of a few Hentai books.
• After ten years away, Tubularman is back.
• SonicWall thinks XKCD is internet porn.
• Wondermark! has suspended publishing at Modern Tales and now can only be seen on the newly redesigned Wondermark.com.
• A nice roundup of 24 Hour Comic Day from The Beat.
• Krishna reveals his top secret project. Congratulation on reaching Ten years!
• SkitZo MaN posts about proper file maintenance.

• The Cartoon Lounge over at the New Yorker has a post about a Cartoon-Off with XKCD and Farley Katz.
• I don’t know if it’s the season for arguments or if drama gets you viewers, but there is a lot of arguing going on these days (Exhibit 1 & 2).
• The Daily Cartoonist column ‘Webcomics Weekly News Roundup’ has an interesting roundup of links and news bits from this week.
• The Comics Reporter has an interview with DHP’s Mike Richardson about Webcomics among other topics.
• Prism Comics launches a new webcomic ‘The Catty Corner’ by Joe Carr. Best wishes Joe!
• Platinum Studios announced today that Equiti-trend Advisors has put together a 6-page analysis of PS, which can be viewed here, which is overall pretty dry but does blame their current stock price on the mortgage meltdown. “At its 12-month low currently, largely due to macroeconomic problems and the mortgage meltdown of 2008, PDOS is a bargain currently at less than$.10 per share”Well, .10 cents per share is a bargain, but so are Hatian penny stocks. The Beat has a post about Platinum’s new advisory board.
• Fes of the Webcomic Beacon prepares for his attempt to broadcast his 24 hour lego Webomic. Check it out on Friday from 3pm Eastern time. Best of luck Fes!
• Skitzo Man Dot Com’s Webcomic of the Week is M.I.M.E.S.

Reported by Michael Moss.

]]> http://gigcast.nightgig.com/archives/507/feed 0 http://gigcast.nightgig.com/archives/504 http://gigcast.nightgig.com/archives/504#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:15:58 +0000 DarthMike http://gigcast.nightgig.com/?p=701 Drawn from sources trying to avoid work today…

• The Washington Post has an article called ‘Five Webcomics to Keep Your Eye On.’
• Xerexes has an interesting post following up on the ‘Most Read’ series of articles comparing the audiences for various webcomics.
• I can’t remember if I’ve posted Bloody and Brutal Reviews before, but here it is. The unvarnished and more than slightly profane (NSFW) Red Right Hand.
• Great Hera! It’s Wonder Woman Day III!
• Randall Munroe and Cory Doctrow talk work habits at 3PiCon.
• 24 Hour Comic Book Day in San Francisco.
• PC Weenies made PC Advisor Magazine’s ‘Top 10 Humorous Websites’ chosen by their readers. Congratulations Krishna!
• Just in case you didn’t know XKCD spurred a new feature from YouTube. Good work Randall!
• An interview with Gordon McAlpin, creator of Multiplex on ComixTalk.
• Heidi MacDonald of The Beat has a nice roundup of the further adventures in Wowio/Platinum.

Reported by Michael Moss.

• The Rampage Network has a caption contest for October with some awesome prizes donated by Brad Guigar.
• Francesco Marciuliano, writer of Sally Forth, has some good thoughts about comic strip writing.
• The Daily Cross Hatch has an interview with Art Spiegelman.
• Indy Comic News has posted, from their Flashback Series of Interviews, an interview with Phil Foglio.
• The Webcomic Beacon this week covers the 10 commandments of production.
• The School Library Journal clues us into some Good Webcomics for Kids.
• The Floating Lightbulb posts about an opt-in reader email listing service called Ezine Directory.
• Publishers Weekly has a recap of SPX 2008.
• The Beat reports that Ambrosia Publishing is going on hiatus.
• Berkeley Breathed’s Opus is ending, what will his fate be?

• Bob Staake shows us how he illustrated his most recent cover piece for the New Yorker.
• Fleen and The Floating Lightbulb exchange posts (1 & 2) over critical analysis of How To Make Webcomics. AmalgametedArtists.com has more.
• Achewood wins this year’s Ignatz award in the category of Outstanding Online Comic. Congratulations!
• Chris Anderson has a revisualization of the four kinds of free business models and reminds us of who has made a fortune giving away content for free.

Reported by Michael Moss.

• The Daily Cartoonist played host to a spirited debate started by an analysis of the business model for webcomic creators described in the Halfpixel book ‘How To Make Webcomics’ by Ben Gordon. Fleen has more.
• io9.com has a sneak peak at the new Hulk webcomic.
• This Week in Webcomics is reporting that Goblins creator Thunt turns pro. Congratulations!
• ComixTalk posts about Comicbrush.com, a free web-based software for creating webcomics from the Clickwheel folks.
• ROK Comics announces the winner of their ROK and a Hard Place competition.
• The Webcomic Overlook is slowing down for a while to get married. Congratulations and come back soon!
• Zortic returns to webcomics. Welcome back!
• Xerexes of ComxTalk fame will be covering SPX on Sunday.
• 10 years sees the end of Cigarro & Cerveja.
• Orphan Works bill was quietly killed in the House.
• Li’l Nyet posts it’s 100^th episode! Congratulations Bengo and Pug!
• Is your webcomic collective spread all over the universe? Hard to get together to plan stuff? Try DabbleBoard, a shared whiteboard for planning and strategy sessions.
• Lifehacker also posts that GIMP 2.6 has been released with some new goodness.
• Clone Wars webcomics are a go!

Reported by Michael Moss.

• Congratulations to Nicholas Gurewitch who won two Harvey Awards!
• St. Paul has declared October 4^th to be Comic Book Day!
• Next Comic Fencing has their review of Calamities of Nature posted as well they announce that their next review will be of Night Owls.
• Xavier Xerexes interviews Pokey The Penguin in honor of his 10^th anniversary of being on the web.
• XKCD is on BoingBoing.net again with his log-scale map of the observable universe.
• Ponoko’s Photomake could lead to some interesting products from saavy webcartoonists.
• Baltimore Webcomics Panel as covered by CBR.
• The Floating Lightbulb has an interesting post entitled ‘Are More Webcomics Better?’.
• PCNA Graphic Novel Showcase wants you to join them for the third annual 24 Hour Comics Day challenge if you can make it to Portland.
• Bomb Shelter Comics has announced the judges for their Webcomic Idol contest and that they will start accepting submissions October 1^st.

Reported by Michael Moss.

]]> http://gigcast.nightgig.com/archives/498/feed 0 http://gigcast.nightgig.com/archives/497 http://gigcast.nightgig.com/archives/497#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:49:27 +0000 DarthMike http://gigcast.nightgig.com/?p=692 Drawn from sources all over the strange but wonderful series of tubes…

• The Night Owls, a series based on a comic strip from Zuda Comics, is about to start a second season.
• Nicu has a how-to post about working in Inkscape.
• CBR reports that Shadowline is expanding Image’s new webcomic line.  News-A-Rama and ComicBitsOnline.com have more.
• This Week in Webcomics has a review of Untrue Tales.
• Another list of 5 great webcomics that you should read by MakeUseOf.com.
• PopMatters has a post about Achewood: The Great Outdoor Fight.
•  On a note unrelated to webcomics Dr. Horrible: League of Evil is now accepting applications.

• Tokyopop revamps the Manga Pilot program.
• ComicPress: The Technical Guide parts 2 and 3 are out.
• This Week in Webcomics outlines the top ten Strong Bad Emails.
• Webcomic Weekly #47 features a visit from Mike Krahulik of Penny-Arcade.
• King Features has signed a deal with ROK Comics to deliver strips to cell phones.
• The Floating Lightbulb talks about different styles of humor in this post and talks about metrics in this one.
• EyeSkream adds three new webcomics, Little Terrors, Gamer Candy and Somewhere in SF.
• Comics Worth Reading has a list of New Webcomics Worth Reading.
• ComicMix has an interesting post about webcomics and DRM.
• A post from Cameotracker on LiveJournal about when crossovers break up.
• Sandeep Kamath treats us to a list of webcomics created by Indians.

Reported by Michael Moss.

• CBR has a piece about work-for-hire agreements.
• ROK Comics announces that you can now create webcomics for mobile phones from your mobile phone using their new comic creator.
• Lone Star Press has a ‘Wowio: Countdown to Payment’ clock posted on their site. Currently at 33 days, 13 hours, 24 minutes and 36 seconds.
• The Floating Lightbulb has a short list of great webcomics you may be missing.
• Hope Larson talks to CBR.
• ICv2.com is reporting that Marvel is launching original webcomics for Iron Man and the Hulk.
• Dr. McNinja now in color.
• Cantrip the Magic Rabbit launches, the newest member of the Scienteers. Congratulations and best of luck!
• Gods Playing Poker turns one year old and rolls out an art upgrade in next week’s episode.

Reported by Michael Moss.

• The Floating Lightbulb has a few articles (1 and 2) pointing out some recent additions to the ranks of comic listing sites.
• ROK Comics will be changing things up a bit by offering their content free to view on the web. They also have announced a new contest called ‘Between a ROK and a Hard Place,’ detailed here, in partnership with the Birmingham International Comic Show.
• If you haven’t heard of the Freelancers Union then you’ll want to follow this link. They’re now offering two new seminars about website building and marketing during the economic downturn.
• JDDennis blogs ‘In Defense of Webcomics’ a response to an essay entitled ‘Webcomics Suck.
• The Webcomic Overlook has a review of Jump Leads.
• This Week in Webcomics has an interview with Multiplex creator Gordon McAlpin.

Reported by Michael Moss.

• Entrepreneur.com has a profile of Chris Onstad’s comic Achewood and webcomics as business model.
• News-a-rama has a story about micropayments.
• Webcomic Overlook gives Chainsawsuit a One Punch Review.
• CBR interviews Danielle Corsetto.
• ComixTalk reports about the new site design of the webcomic Stupid and Insane Defenders Against Chaos. Xerexes also has a nice roundup of the Platinum/Wowio news and Publishers Weekly has a good article about it too.
• Free file hosting until 2038, you have to sign up for this promo offer by Sept. 15^th.
• Want to put money away for a short term goal like buying a Cintique? SmartyPig allows you to open a savings account to do just that and it’s FDIC insured. 
• Steake and Kidney-Punch by Liz Greenfield is the latest to appear on Dark Horse’s online spotlight for new talent.
• The Floating Lightbulb has a post about your morale and putting the polish on yoru webcomic.
• Brinkerhoff – Pocket Full of Brink – Volume 2 is now available on Lulu. 

 Reported by Michael Moss.

• The Long Tail has a post about the different kinds of free and a great talk about the weird things that happen when things suddenly become abundant.
• Users are remixing the Chrome comic.
• CBR reports that a company called iVerse media is bringing digital comics to the iPhone/iPod Touch and that comics will be sold along with this app. Through the iTunes stores.  Creators will be able to set price and will be encouraged to give away the first issue of their series for free as an enticement to readers. iVerse is looking for established publishers now.
• CBR interviews Dresden Codak creator Aaron Diaz.
• Monkeyangst wants to know if you use Stripshow for your comic.
• The Webcomic Idol contest is gearing up and will start taking submissions October first.

• Locus Magazine has an article by Cory Doctrow entitled ‘Macropayments: Why I don’t take tips for my books.’
• Do Ebooks, legal or not, make you buy real books?
• Krishna announces ’The Sequential Artists’ Pub tonight on Talkshoe.com at 10pm.
• Moberemk wants to know what webcomics your reading over at Suburban Conspiracy.
• The Webcomic Overlook posts about three things to improve on The Frog Pond.
• An interesting post over at The Floating Lightbulb.

• CBR reports about the Wowio late payment issue. DJ Coffman posts about the situation and leads us to these posts (1 and 2)by Brian Altounian about DJ and Wowio.
• Publishers Weekly has an analysis on comics blogs.
• ComicNewsi.com has an interview with Brad Guigar.
• Frumph.net has announced the judges for their new awards the Webcomic Readers Choice Awards and is accepting nominations now.
• ComixTalk has a review of Zombies Calling by Faith Erin Hicks.
• Comic Fencing has posted that The Wannabe Pirates will be their first review in September.
• Quitting Time is pleased to announce that, beginning today, our Customers of the Week will be inspired by the weird, hilarious, real-life adventures of retail survival from (The Customer Is) Not Always Right.

• Scott McCloud introduces new Chrome browser from Google with comics the language he knows so well.
• Xerexes has a review of the second Crying Macho Man collection.
• Wes Molebash has updated the YHT website.
• A little late to the party on this one but Kris Straub started another strip called F-Chords. Best of luck Chris!
• TechRadar.com has a bio of Scott McCloud.
• John Bintz has some advice about ComicPress in a three part series. Here is part one.

• Wired covers PAX.
• Wowioes, not your father’s breakfast cereal. Here’s what T Campbell is saying and Comics Worth Reading as well.  Platinum and Wowio as yet have not responded to my inquiry.
• Eric Burns posts about criticism on websnark.
• The Webcomic Overlook has part three of their ‘Joy of Webcomics’ series.
• Newly minted Scienteer P. Gibson’s comic Nestor the Greek starts today.  Congratulations!
• Cartoonist Seth has written an essay for The Walrus about the quiet art of cartooning.  Check it out.

• The Webcomic Overlook gives a One Punch Review of Ding!.
• Apple bans the comic Murderdome from distribution through iTunes, Wowio does something similar.
• In more Wowio-woes, they might be late on second quarter payments to creators.
• Wizard Universe has posted the transcript from a roundtable discussion about webcomics.
• The Scienteers review Jump Leads.
• Paul Levitz talks about digital comics over at Publishers Weekly.
• Webcomics Weekly gets a sponsor and Endicia has a postage meter starter kit deal offered to Webcomics Weekly listeners.
• The Floating Lightbulb has some PW advertising tips and tricks.
• Another top 5 webcomic list and a top 10 list for geeks.

• Boy on a Stick and Slither are featured in this post over at Boing Boing for an episode they did about surveillance.
• The Seattle Times has an article about PAX.
• A blog that I’ve never heard of ‘This Week in Webcomics.’ Happy to finally have found it!
• Jump Leads and Nightmare World join SoulGeek Webcomics. Congrats!
• ComicSpace is hiring, a Software Engineer and HTML/CSS Coder, both in NYC.
• An interview with Danielle Corsetto.
• An interview with Barry T. Smith, creator of Return to Angst.
• Brad Guigar is offering his strip, Evil, Inc., to college newspapers for free.
• The Floating Lightbulb interviews Katya and Louisa, the creators of ‘Best Band in the Universe’ and also talks about how to improve your webcomic.

• ACT-I-VATE has a write up in the Los Angeles Times.
• Koltreg has some mini reviews posted in his blog.
• Another forum thread asking for your favorite webcomics on Whitechapel.
• BOOM! Studios has a review of the webcomic Zombie Tales.
• The Webcomic Overlook has a post about the Webcomics Weekly and their various opinions of critics.
• The Webcomic Overlook reviews Erfworld.

• Wired blogger geekdad had a post called ’10 Great Webcomics You Should Not Share With Your Kids.’
• PAX is coming to Seattle late in August if you haven’t already made plans.
• ‘A People’s History of the United States’ by Howard Zinn has now been made into a graphic novel called ‘A People’s History of the American Empire.’
• Publishers Weekly takes a look at the future of publishing comics and the variety of methods for digital delivery.
• The Escapist asks you the reader what webcomics you like.
• MakeUseOf.com has a list of 5 webcomics they think you should read. At least it isn’t the same old list.
• A collective from Mexico has started up called ‘!Ka-Boom! Estudio.’ Best of luck!
• ComixTalk has an interesting interview with the creators of Pear Pear.
• Aaron Diaz, of Dresden Codak fame, is recovering from a terrible bicycle wreck. Get better soon!
• Zhi talks about Raising Hell.
• The Webcomic Overlook has something to say about Scott Kurts’ posts regarding webcomic review sites.
• A review of the new Buzz Comics and critique of voting sites in general.
• C. Bastet MacKinnon joins the Scienteers. Congratulations!

• Comic Book Legal Defense Fund benefit with Cory Doctorow and DJ Spooky in NYC on August 21st.
• A post entitled ‘Webcomics: The New Frontier.”
• ROK Comics is having a competition to win a Nokia 9500.
• CBR has a piece about Gunnerkrigg Court.
• Blip.tv talks about webcomics In a Handful of Minutes.
• MT Interview: Stephen Geigen-Miller and Patrick Heinicke.
• Xerexes talks with the founder of BuzzComix about the reboot.
• An interview with Tom Braselton, creator of Theater Hopper which is celebrating its sixth year. Congratulations Tom!
• How to Make Webcomics review by CBR and a response by Scott Kurtz.
• The Floating Lightbulb has an interesting post about the myth of webcomic readership being on the decline and another one about webcomic collectives and their management styles.
• PAX to come to the East Coast in 2010.

• Newsarama has an article called Diggle: Bringing Bionic Commando to Webcomics.
• Wowio news from The Beat, looks like Platinum has succeeded in its bid to purchase Wowio.
• Slave Labor Graphics will be starting a webcomic effort starting on July 24th here.
• Comic Book Bin has an interview with David Malki.
• Theater Hopper creator Tom Brazelton interviewed on ComixTalk and will be 6 years old on Aug. 2nd. Congratulations Tom! That’s quite an accomplishment.
• The Floating Lightbulb has a Project Wonderful tip.

• Mindpollution.org has a post called ‘Wizard Entertainment: Fear and Loathing and Webcomics.’
• FoxTrot does webcomics?
• BOOM! Studios launches a webcomic site.
• Heidi MacDonald digs up some Platinum hype. The Floating Lightbulb has also has interesting PS stuff.
• The Scienteers have some sad news about the robbery of D4K Studios and how you can help.
• Comic Fencing tackles No Need For Bushido.

• Official Japanese Anime Ambassador Doraimon visits Thailand.
• Audio of the Webcomics panel at Heroes Con with Nicholas Gurewitch, David Malki, Julia Wertz, Chris Harding, and Danielle Corsetto.
• Revealed! The new and improved Belfry Webcomics Index.
• Wizard interviews Chris Hastings of The Adventures of Dr. McNinja and Phil Foglio of Girl Genius.
• Joey Manley posts a screenshot of the new Comicspace.
• T Campbell is selling the domain webcomics.com. Good luck doing what you love, we look forward to seeing more quirky side projects!
• The Floating Lightbulb reviews Road Crew by Tommie Kelly.

• An interview with Warren Ellis on Freak Angels, Webcomics and Doctor Who over at Mindpollution.org.
• PopCultureZoo has a chat with David Malki, creator of Wondermark.
• Pink Kryptonite has a ‘Webcomic Spotlight’ and this time he spotlights the webcomic Minus again. I think Minus is worth a second look for sure. Speaking of Minus, Ryan Armand announced that he is ending the comic. Thanks for the great comic Ryan!
• The Floating Lightbulb has an interesting post about IP farms and big money being poured into webcomics.
• Zero Punctuation! Show number 108 is about webcomics.
• The Webcomics Digest has a post about writing transcripts for Odd-Fish.

• Documentary about Creative Commons business models.
• Jorge Cham of PhD Comics shows us the vicious cycle of staying up late.
• Platinum Studios announces their top 50 for this years Comic Book Challenge. Good luck to you all! And just for the record PS paid DJ Coffman the money they owed him according to his blog. Xerexes has a good post which nicely puts PS’s negotiations with Wowio in perspective.
• Let KC Green teach you how to draw.
• R. Stevens, Meredith Gran, Scott Kurtz, Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar on Googleplex talking about webcomics.
• The Floating Lightbulb has a post about how to promote your T-shirts.
• Robbie Allen, or Pembroke W. Korgi if you’re cool, has started a new webcomic called Femmegasm. Best of luck Pembroke!

• Platinum Studios in negotiations to aquire WOWIO, LLC. Still no response to my press inquiries about DJ Coffman’s contract issues.
• R. Stevens is ending his syndication arrangement with United Media.
• The Webcomic Watchmen review Happiness is a Warm Gun.
• Some cool stuff from the Floating Lightbulb including a post about John Solomon and a shotgun interview with Liesl Adams of On the Edge.
• An interview with Drunk Duck Founder Dylan Squires who is moving on from Platinum.
• An interesting post entitled ‘What happened to Comics 2.0?’
• Webcomics Inc. blog has moved to a networked community site called ning.
• CBR has an interesting post about MySpace and Comics.
• Red Eyed Johnny, America’s first nationwide webcomic rehab program.
• Comic Fencing has a review of Multiplex.
• Two Hearts author is working on a video game.