Drawn from sources under my bed…

• Wizard interviews Little Gamers creator Pontus Madsen.
• Diary of a Ninja-bot has an interesting critique of Café Press.
• Xerxes posts that he’s looking to get together a roundtable discussion going to recap the year.
• Steven Notley, creator of Bob the Angry Flower, is interviewed on ComixTalk.
• Perry Bible Fellowship creator Nicholas Gurewitch is interviewed by the New Yorker.
• A good history of the work-for-hire agreement in comics.
• Platinum in the NYT.
• Project Rooftop has a contest to redesign Wonder Woman’s costume.
• Gunnerkrigg Court, Soul Diver and Gun Street Girl Presents join Graphic Smash.
• A great video of an ambidextrous cartoonist.
• Sketch Up for dummies tutorial video.

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• Remember to check out Webcomics.com
• Also visit Penny and Aggie and Cool Cat Studio
• Happy Birthday Jenny (Black Kitty)
• Cosmic Dash has gone Mobile.
• Penny-Arcade’s Child’s Play charity is starting up again for the year.
• Comic Space and Webcomic’s Nation merge.
• We look in on the Daily Grind (I’m rooting for Brad).
• Brian Anderson recommends Family Man byDylan Meconis.
• Project Rooftop and Zeus Comics are having a contest.

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I have to be honest with you. I’m writing this post mostly for myself. I need to link this page fast before I forget how I found it. Ramón Pérez of butternut squash fame has a new comic project called Kukuburi and it’s BEAUTIFUL! Kukuburi is a story about a girl (Nadia) and her lizard (Mr. Bojangles) as the find themselves suddenly in a wild and beautiful world filled with flying whales and dragons and beings of all imagination. Honestly folks it screams PLEASE LET ME TAKE YOU HOME!

I’ve kept you here to long. Go check it out.

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Drawn from sources inside the iron curtain…

• Heidi MacDonald over at TheBeat from Publishers Weekly gives some reactions to ZUDA.
• iFanboy has some more on new corporate money being put into webcomics. 
• Tim Broderick’s comic ODD JOBS has been optioned to Warner Brothers Television. Congratulations!
• Todd Allen at Comic Book Resources has a good interview with Joey, Josh and Alan Gershenfeld about the merger ComicSpace with other webcomic related portal sites and investment by E-Line Ventures. 
• The Webcomic Idol is down to four, Grumps, Lucid TV, Simulated Comic Product and Templar, Arizona.

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Incase you missed it we interviewed Mike Witmer of pinkertonpark.com. I’m here today to remind you to stop by and check him out at his newly launced GoComics site.

http://www.gocomics.com/pinkerton/

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Drawn from seven seconds into the future…

• Dave Kellett, Kris Straub and Brad Guigar are leaving Blank Label Comics to form the new HalfPixel, previously a hub for Straub and Kurtz’s joint efforts. Good luck guys! ComixTalk has an interview with Howard Tayler about this week’s changes to BLC and the future for the collective. Best of wishes to BLC too!
• Crohn’s comic from 24 Hour Comic day.More about the Wikipedia deletions as they relate to webcomics and the resulting protests.  Slashdot has more. The Inquirer UK chimes in too. 
• CBR recaps the ZUDA launch party.
• Ian Gibson joins ROK Comics with his comic strip Annie Droid.

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About two years ago, Steve Troop very publicly announced his retirement from webcomics.

“Apparently, my retirement was greatly exaggerated,” Steve writes, “because Melonpool is back on a four-day-a-week schedule. There’s something about these characters that just won’t go away, and I’ve been thinking about this revival for the past year or so. ”

When poked for more information, Steve elaborated.

“In a way it was Brad, Kris, Dave and Scott that inspired me to come back — but not in the way you might think. I’m an rabid listener of the Webcomics Weekly podcast and by about week 7, I was chomping at the bit to get back to the drawing board.”

So, for those of you new to Melonpool, this is a good place to start. Steve has also revived the New Reader Guide which outlines the first seven years of the strip.

Show Notes

• Platinum Goes Mobil.
• BLC breaks up without any screaming.
• Zuda comics goes live.
• Errant Apprentice is reviewed on “The Dish”
  

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Just a bit of interesting news out of the power house that is Blank Label. Will this mean a new talent search to fill the hits void that this will leave? Or will this mean a much less active group?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media contact:
Brad Guigar
bguigar@yahoo.com
267-207-1078

THREE CARTOONISTS LEAVE BLANK LABEL TO FORM NEW
HALFPIXEL

Three members of Blank Label Comics are ending their
partnership with Blank Label Comics to form a new
collective, Halfpixel, along with the creator of PvP
(pvponline.com), Scott Kurtz.

Dave Kellett (sheldoncomics.com), Kris Straub
(starslip.com) and Brad Guigar (evil-comic.com) will
become members of the new Halfpixel — previously a hub
for Straub and Kurtz’s joint efforts. The site will
now become a hub for all four artists and the projects
the four of them are collaborating on — such as the
popular Webcartoonist Weekly podcast and the upcoming
“How To Make Webcomics” book being published by Image
Comics.

“The four of us are finding ourselves working on more
and more projects together, and Dave, Kris and I
decided it wouldn’t be fair to try to split our
energies between the two groups,” said Guigar. “We
told our BLC partners about this a few weeks ago, and,
true to BLC form, we’re doing this without the
requisite Webcomics Drama. Those looking for sour
grapes or angry sentiments are going to be
disappointed. We’re all still very much friends and
fans of one another’s work.”

All of the artists will retain control over their
respective creations and Web sites. “In the broadest
sense, the name ‘Halfpixel’ will be what we’ll
organize under any time we do a project together,”
said Kellett. “Things like the podcast, book,
convention appearances, content for the hub site, any
joint animations or second strips we do
together…that sort of thing.  Any time two or more
are gathered together for a project, we’ll probably do
it under the Halfpixel banner.”

“I started the old Halfpixel out of a desire to really
push myself creatively and see if I could come up with
the next big thing” said Straub. “That philosophy
stuck when Halfpixel became me and Scott, and it’ll be
a driver for the four of us now.”

“I think that Webcomic collectives are the new garage
bands,” said Kurtz. “Everyone plays an instrument and
you look for people to develop a sound with. We all
got together and started jamming one a week and
realized, ‘holy crap, guys… this sounds GOOD. We
should take this on the road.’”

The Webcomics Weekly podcast can be found at
halfpixel.com/ww. “How To Make Webcomics” is in the
January issue of Previews magazine (Page 143).

• My daily comic strip: http://www.evil-comic.com
• My weekly sex comic: http://www.courting-disaster.com
• My bi-weekly comic about Philly: http://www.phables.com
• My old comic strip: http://www.GreystoneInn.net
• My cartooning Web-site: http://www.everythingcartooning.com
• My online portfolio: http://www.guigar.com

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