Archive - Jan 8, 2007 - Story
News For Monday, January 8, 2007
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on January 8, 2007 - 16:53
MAGAZINE
HEADLINES
- Bomb Shelter's Webcomic Idol shuts down due to voting fraud.
- A good round-up of links about the bankruptcy of Advanced Marketing Services (AMS), the distribution and wholesale company responsible for circulating books between giant chain stores and smaller publishers, just declared bankruptcy.
- For Better Or For Worse is going to do some kind of quasi-classic Peanuts-style rerun after it ends, thereby keeping its more than 2000 newspaper slots tied up into the indefinite future.
BUSINESS
- Someone started an unofficial message board and blog about the Project Wonderful advertising service.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
- Webcomics In Print has its weekly round-up of webcomic books.
- Joey Manley thinks the webcomic Behind the Blue Door is something.
- TalkAboutComics links to Scott McCloud's Ten American Comics to read.
- Journalista! mucks around in the selling of the print version of the comic Cowboys & Aliens.
- It was Vera Brosgol who did the webcomic Enchanted Office for the new version of Microsoft Office
