FRIDAY

NEWS

Gene Yang's American Born Chinese did not win the National Book award it was nominated for but in this case it truly was an amazing achievement just to be nominated. (List of winners available here). The Beat has a report with pictures.

COMIXPEDIA

A few new site features if you're interested:

• Keep up with all recent posts from all over the site;
• Find out which Comixpedia stories everyone else is reading;
• Guide pages with different ways to find posts for articles (Magazine), stories (News), blog posts and forum posts;
• See which topic tags are the most frequent with our "tag cloud".

INTERVIEWS

Adam York from The Flowfield Unity posted two interviews to our blogs section:

• Bethan Price, creator of Rasberrry Soda; and
• Jimmy Gardner, creator of Web-O-Vision.

REVIEWS

• In the latest DS podast, Digital Strips guest co-host Reva Sharp reviews Malfunction Junction.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

• Part 3 of Derik Badman's series on panel transitions. (Part 1, Part 2).
• Part 4 of JohnK's series on composition (written for animation but useful generally).
• Max Riffner checks out the new free version of WebcomicsNation.
• A really late SPX report from the creators of The Dada Detective.