Drawn from sources that want a Cintique but cant afford one…

• 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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We talk with Lucas Turnbloom of Imagine This, a Shallow Thought by Christiana Ellis and Promos for 7th Son Obsidian and The Parsec Awards.

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• http://pablowapsi.livejournal.com/100929.html
• http://davidgallaher1.livejournal.com/434985.html
• Penny-Arcade Game is out
• http://www.legendofbill.com/
• http://theconjurers.com/ Brian Anderson
• http://www.drunkduck.com/Devoid_of_Life/
• www.comicbookchallenge.com

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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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Rumor has it that today is Ugly Hills 3rd anniversary. Congratulations on an incredible 3 years and some of the best reading on the internet.

I just found out from Box Brown that Bellen is also celebrating his 2 year anniversary. Holy crap on the milestones.

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JT and Scott talk Webcomics,  Christian Ellis Shallow Thoughts

LInks:

• DJ Coffman Blog
• Girls With SlingShots
• Webcomic Secret Summer
• Dog eat Doug ( by that B#%@$@rd Anderson) Exhibited in Pittsburgh
• Eyeskream Magazine
• Gisele Lagace’s Manage a 3
• JC Hutchins Obsidian
  

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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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Drawn from sources all over the known universe…

• The Flowfield Unity book is now available.
• Webcomic Secret Summer 2008 is now accepting participants. It’s just like Webcomic Secret Santa but for summer.
• Rene Engstrom, creator of Anders Loves Maria, is back from hiatus.
• Hudson Phillips runs a ‘women in comics’ roundtable.
• Lines and Colors has a post about the Orphan Works Act of 2008 and how it affects visual artists.
• Just found The Floating Lightbulb, a site devoted to webcomics; and through them another collective that I’ve not heard of before, the Flavorwhip webcomics collective. Also, a list or portal site of some sort called Psychedelic Treehouse. How did I miss all this?
• Floating Lightbulb reviews Chloroville, another webcomic I’ve never heard of. It’s a big big world of webcomics out there.
• ROK Mobile Comics is running a membership driving contest. Get five new creators to try out ROK Comics and you will be entered into a drawing to win a copy of the new deluxe edition of The Killing Joke re-colored by Brian Bolland. You also get a chance to win something if you are a new creator signing up on ROK Comics; you could win a copy of Ruth Modam’s Exit Wounds. Once they sign up and have created content in the ROK system then have them email John.freeman@rokmedialtd.com saying who suggested they try out ROK Comics.

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Drawn from sources that are enjoying the heat wave…

• King Features launch a way for newspapers to add comic pages to their on-line sites.
• Will Elder, cartoonist for Mad Magazine, has passed away.
• SF Weekly talks about webcomics as does the Guelph Mercury.
• Photostream of Emerald City Comic Con Panel on Webcomics.
• Top Shelf launches WebComics site, Top Shelf 2.0.
• Scott Kurtz gives his first impressions of Cintiq. Lea Hernandez has more. Still too rich for my blood.
• T. Campbell has some open letters to Scott Kurtz, Kris Straub, Ryan Sohmer, R. Stevens and himself about bad meta.
• How to get your indie comic book into comic shops.

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 The Gigcast 142: Ziraxian T-Shirts [0:01] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We talk with Ziraxia T-Shirts, and Mike Whitmir of Pinkerton Park, and DD news with Bk and Spang

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Drawn from sources all over the world…

• Some more superdickery, I wish this was not true but it appears that copyright comes with the cape instead of courage. Warner Bros. aught to know better; shame on them. Heidi MacDonald has more.
• Webcomic Asylum reviews Of Noobs And Men.
• ROK Comics turns one year old. Congratulations!
• The Rampage Network, a webcomic hosting site, is planning a re-launch promising bi-monthly contests in addition to free hosting for webcomic artists.
• Bill Holbrook releases his 13^th book. That’s quite an achievement, congratulations!
• Order Of The Stick wins Favorite Web-Based Comic category of the Eagle Awards. Congratulations OOTS!
• The Webcomic Watchman reviews Your Fantasy Here!
• The Webcomic Overlook has an interesting post entitled John Campbell vs. Kate Beaton: War of the Webcomics.
• An interview at News-A-Rama with Diesel Sweeties creator R. Stevens.
• Here’s a forum thread over at WebcomicZ called What Makes a Good Webcomic?
• The Scienteers ask Josh Lesnick ten questions.
• Three-Way Comic gets revived with v 2.0. I wonder when everyone will collectively decide that we’re on to v 3? Don’t mind my web 2.0 snark.

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