Month: September 2004

The most recent Alice! comic has the girls going to Sore Thumbs video store – which is of course in the Sore Thumbs webcomic. Although it would never work the way the Marvel or DC “universes” do, one thing that I am always surprised Keenspot doesn’t do every now and than is cross-overs or even coordinated large-scale storylines. I know why it’s hard – Keenspot is a collective of independent creators and not really a unified company per se – but it’s not impossible. And if done well it could be fun and expose readers to some new Keenspot comics they might not have given a chance too.
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Bugpowder reports that the Web and Mini Comix THING will return next year. The East London event was a success this year in it’s initial run. Continue Reading →

Modern Tales, the webcomics service that many associate with a solitary business focus on paid subscriptions, is now selling banner ads across its entire network of websites, for the first time in the three-year history of the business.

http://www.moderntales.com/mediakit.php

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Jennifer Diane Reitz, the author of Pastel Defender Heliotrope is recovering after suffering a mild heart attack. Continue Reading →

A bit of Comixpedia-promotion here. If you haven’t been checking out the all new weekly webcomic jam here at Comixpedia, please do. The current jam is heading into it’s final installments and will wrap up with the end of September. The most stirring dairy-based heroes and villians since Dorkin’s Milk and Cheese.

Bill Duncan is already organizing another one for the month of October – if you are interested head over to the jam forum. Continue Reading →

Alexander Danner writes a mash note to Narbonic. I’d say something snarky but I happen to agree with Danner’s take on the continuing quality of Garrity’s work. Continue Reading →

A recent story in the Guardian Online tackles the emerging trend of online charity or cyberbegging and includes a couple of paragraphs on R K Millholland’s efforts:

When Randy Milholland set up his online comic, he was updating it nearly every day. But real life inevitably interfered and he didn’t have time to draw as often. His readers started to complain, so he gave them an ultimatum: pay him what he earned last year – around $13,000 – and he would quit his job and work for them.

“It was intended as a way to get people to shut up,” he said. “I assumed they would just grow quiet and let me do my thing. Instead, I got $2,000 in the first day.” The average donation was $5 – but with a lot of regular readers, he raised the total in less than a month. Continue Reading →

Are you up for the 5 Questions of Doom!!!! Mwhahahahahaha!!!!!
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I haven’t had a chance to check this out, but I found the link somewhere this morning–BBC Cult Presents: 2000AD and British Comics Interviews (apologies to whomever I’m not giving credit for first finding this link). Looks promisingly interesting. Continue Reading →