Drawn from resources that are trying to get into the holiday spirit…

• 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!

Reported by Michael Moss.