Drawn from sources all over the world…

• Hero By Night publication suspended due to lack of payment. Not a good mark for Platinum Studios and The Comic Book Challenge. Good luck to DJ Coffman!
• EV1 server outage hits the webcomics world.
• ComixTalk catches up with John Allison.
• If you haven’t seen The Process it is super cool.
• A new comic ranking site joins, well, the ranks. Good luck!
• Masked Retriever talks about a recent panel on monetizing webcomics.
• Optimum Wound Comics thinks Freak Angels is a webcomic done right.

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• C0nt1nu1ty posts a nice piece about abandoned webcomic efforts called the Dead Webcomcis Society.
• Creator of A Girl and Her Fed has a good post with some advice about starting a webcomic.
• Heidi MacDonald has some great coverage of the Tokyo Pop’s contract written for their Manga Pilot program. Here is more as well. Aaaand still more.
• Stripshow 1.6 for Wordpress is now available.
• Webcomics Weekly episode 34 deals with IP farmer and what to look out for when dealing with the farmers.
• Websnark has a State of the (Web)Cartoonist post, this time about User Friendly creator J.D. Frazer.
• Dear Pirate Creator Darren Gendron blogs about his impressions of Halpixel’s podcast the Webcomics Weekly.
• John Freeman from ROK Comics says that Crumb, no not that one, by David Fletcher is being translated into Chinese. Check him out at his blog.
• CBR reports about the new anthology from the Chemistry Set called No Formula: Stories from the Chemistry Set, Vol. 1.
• SoulGeek, a dating agency, has just started a webcomics portal, which will be presenting Legend of Bill and will soon be sporting Starslip Crisis as well.

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Drawn from sources all over the known universe…

• XKCD in the New York Times.
• Geeks Next Door is on a brief pause due to marriage. Congratulations Jesse and Matt!
• 2008 Friends of Lulu nominees.
• Draw yourself as a teen.
• Websnark posts about the state of (Web)Cartoonist Scott Kurtz.
• Cartoonist J. Rowland brings Wigu back to the web MWF.
• D.J. Coffman is working on a new project called the Flobots.
• Brandon Carr is taking a break from Weird Adventures in Unemployment.
• The Scienteers review Rival Angels and have a new IRC channel.
• Gawker posts Why The Internet Ruins Humor: A Sophisticated Theory.
• Aaron Frey joins Prism Comics.
• David Malki posts about how to win an advanced copy of his upcoming book Beards of our Forefathers and an advanced review of it as well.
• TuneZone.com talks with Dan Davis who has, among many other things, a new cartoon on Zuda.
• Top Ten Funniest Webcomics from Listanity.
• What is the deal with this blog-not-about-webcomics thing? Here are some examples 1 2.
• News-a-rama points us to a new webcomics site created by a crew of animators called Dumm Comics.

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Drawn from sources all over the deep blue sea…

• Journalista! reports that ComicShout script has SQL injection vulnerabilities that are un-patched. That does sound bad.
• Xerexes wants to know if you want to shift to phpBB3 based forums at ComixTalk.
• Stendec joins Transplant Comics.
• The Scienteers report that ‘Menage a 3’ is joining Keenspot.
• Japanese cartoon offends Muslims.
• Kiel Phegley gets booted from Wizard Magazine where he co-wrote the Indie Jones column for Wizard.com and did a lot of their convention coverage. Good luck Kiel!
• The Daily Read gives a brief review of Local Heroes.
• OregonLive.com has an interview with cartoonist Brandon Bolt, creator of Nobody Scores!
• Scott Kurtz reports that the initial print run of How To Make Webcomics is almost sold out.
• The Comic Book Bin has a post about The Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards.
• Ken Levine to be the keynote speaker at PAX 2008.
• Webcomics Weekly Episode 33 is all about Emerald City Comic Con and more.

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