Drawn from sources that are cranky as ‘H’-'E’-double-hockey-sticks…

• Barry Smith is returning to webcomics with Inktank.
• Keenspot will be discontinuing their premium service as of 5/1/2008. 
• Ice will be on hiatus until June.
• Villnard Publishing, a part of the Random House Publishing Group via Ballantine Books, announced that they will be publishing a graphic novel based on Platinum Studios’ ‘Unique’ series.
• Drawn! The Illustration & Cartooning Blog has a post about the new Halfpixel book How to Make Webcomics. The comment thread below has a discussion about making money with your webcomic.
• The Scream Factory is going to be publishing books via Wowio.com.
• Carrie Stetler from the Star-Ledger reviews The Nietzsche Family Circus.
• Keith Knight, creator of The K-Chronicles, has a new strip called Knight Life, which will be daily. Good luck Keith! 
• New York Anime Festival announces new dates and will now be held in September 26-28 and that will put it up against Baltimore Comic-Con.
• Shaenon K. Garrity gives her opinion on John Stanley’s Little Lulu. 
• Broken Frontier talks to Bobby Crosby about Marry Me.
• The Webcomic Beacon has posted their schedule for April.

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Drawn from sources that are all up in the grill of the world wide web…

• The Boxcar gang posts their very first Jam, My Favorite Superhero.
• Neil Gaiman reads at the NYCC to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. 
• Heidi MacDonald posts about backstage at the Too Much Coffee Man Opera.
• Neil Cohn has a newly posted essay about navigating comics. 
• Webcomic Overlook gives a One Punch Review of Much the Miller’s Son.
• The Comic Curmudgeon reviews SPQR as the Geek Comic of the Week for ITworld. 
• Webcomics.com has an interview with Starline Hodge.
• Sidebar, a podcast about comics, art and pop culture, has posted a show with Gina Biggs of Strawberry Comics and Greg Carter of UpDown Studios.
• Caught Stealing Brains has a review with Caribbean Blue.
• The Daily Cartoonist has a post about Brad Guigar’s new book for Evil, Inc. 
• Sam & Max will be coming to the Wii.
• The Greeks love them some webcomics. Take a sec to visit Webcomics.gr and see how others in the world make webcomics. 
• Xuenay continues posting about copyright.
• Joel Watson blogs about his experience doing a guest strip for PVP. 
• The Trolls Strike Back via Encyclopaedia Dramatica. NSFW and don’t blame me for the content which is worse than the YWIBAYSFB blog. It exists and so I’m pointing it out. You’re welcome to have at them; however, beware that it’s pointless.

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Drawn from sources that didn’t get a lot of sleep last night…

• Interesting post in the blog Making Mistakes Making Games called I, for one, welcome our new webcomics overlords.
• Max Riffner gives us his take on the book How To Make Webcomics. 
• ComixTalk interviews Chris Crosby of Keenspot.
• School Spirit talks about his traffic numbers.
• Comixtalk interviews T. Campbell and if you haven’t noticed Comixtalk also has a new look.
• Marvel Comics starting their webcomics foray with some viral marketing.

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