Author: Xaviar Xerexes

Just in time for Halloween, the spooky and hilarious comic The Deadlys turns one year old! To celebrate, creator Chris Cantrell is holding contests and offering special content during the month of October.  He's kicked off things with a special Halloween story.

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The ninth and final issue of IN MAPS & LEGENDS, a digital-only comic illustrated by Niki Smith and written by Michael Jasper, is now available.  The comic which began life in 2009 on the now defunct DC Comics webcomic label, Zuda Comics, and then went independent, reaches its explosive, mind-bending conclusion after 200 pages.  A collected digital version of all nine issue launches next week on October 12th.

In Maps & Legends mixes together urban fantasy, science fiction, and steampunk.  Thanks to her grandfather, Kaitlin Grayson knows maps and legends. But Kait never would've dreamed that she would one day attempt to save two worlds at the same time, becoming both a map and a legend in the explosive conclusion to this storyline. You can read a free preview of Issue 1.

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Congrats to Jennie Breeden (she gave the engagement away in a video blog awhile ago but here it is in comic form)!

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I don't read MTV Geek regularly so I kind of lost track of it but Sean Kleefeld is up to 31 installments in his column on webcomics over there.  As the kids don't actually say anymore, "props" for a nice run there "holmes".

WE NEVER CLOSE: How many folks won at 24 Hour Comic Day this year?  Well not me, that's for sure.  Check out Derik Badman's effort here (while he says he's not happy with it, it's interesting nevertheless) and ComicAlliance has a round-up of more of the day's activities.

FRIGHT NIGHT: Robot6 links to Emily Carroll's new scary webcomic Margot’s Room (last year Carroll debuted His Face All Red).

BOOK 'EM DANNO: I had no idea, but apparently Dick Tracey has undergone a soft reboot this year with a new writer and artist.  The art reminds me of Funky Wienerbean actually.

EVERYBODY WAS ART FIGHTIN': Super Art Fight returns to Washington DC in November — the fight takes place 11/5/11 at The Red Palace.

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BEATONMANIA: NPR interviews Kate Beaton about her new book. And it's a pretty good interview too!

iWEBCOMIC: ICv2 covers Amazon's announcement of $9.99 digital comic books for the Amazon Fire.

DEAD TREES TELL NO TALES: Chuck Whelon writes that he has a new book out, Drain of Chaos — the fourth collection of his webcomic Pewfell. The world's most irresponsible wizard, is about to face his greatest challenge yet… fatherhood!  His wife pregnant and his home collapsing, Pewfell takes a job with the city sewer patrol. But with a zombie-mad dictator running the government and a bloodthirsty army of chaos outside the gates, this may not be the best time to start a family. The story features over 500 individual strips, revised and expanded from it's original appearance as a webcomic on ModernTales.com. Presented in a large-format, deluxe hard-cover edition with 160 full-color pages.

CAPTAIN CRUNCHTASTIC: Ed Piskor wrote that his recently completed Wizzywig graphic novel is still online for free, but will be going away when Top Shelf publishes it as a book in 2012.  It's an interesting tale through the worlds of hacking and phone phreaking.

HOLY KAW!: I got a press release on Frank Miller's Holy Terror comic book from publisher Legendary Comics. The book follows hard-boiled hero "The Fixer" and his cat burglar love interest, Natalie Stack, as they try to save Empire City from zealots determined to commit a horrific crime against humanity. The 120-page hardcover is Miller's provocative commentary on how society views its heroes in the era of modern terrorism.  You can catch Legendary Comics Editor-in-Chief Chief, Bob Schreck, and Frank Miller at the Union Square Barnes & Noble in New York City on Friday, October 14 from 7-9pm for a signing and discussion. 

MAILBOX:  Rick Brooks writes that he's launched a new weekly webcomic, Mr. Morris, which follows the misadventures of a first year teacher and his students.  Brooks added that he is literally drawing upon his many years of experience as a classroom teacher to create this strip. Only a couple of strips in the archives so far, but not bad. Brooks' challenge will be to develop an authentic teacher's voice in the webcomic and get past the cliches of the classroom scenario.

HYPE: Robot6 flagged Little Guardians as a new webcomic to check out.  I would second that.

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iWEBCOMIC: Sometime today Amazon is going to introduce a new color Kindle.  While earlier rumors speculated that it would be an ipad competitor, it now sounds like it'll be much closer to existing Kindle functionality.  I'm very curious as to how well it will support web/comics.

52 CARD PICKUP: I haven't paid a ton of attention to the DC reboot beyond some of the digital stuff because I don't buy monthlies (at least not on any regular basis).  But it is interesting to see that they've hired Nielsen to survey their readership.

Also, go buy Kate Beaton's book Hark! A Vagrant.  She cleverly skewers history, the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew equally well — if you're the last person to discover her comics please check them out.

HYPETY HYPE: Justin Hall is drawing webcomics about webcomics for Slacktory —  How Artists Draw Themselves is kind of funny.  I also saw another funny comic there called Grandpa's Guide to the Computer with art by Monica Ekabutr who has an awesome tumblr blog (see above for one of my favorites).

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The Last Mortician is coming to Tor.com in October.  Great story concept – looks like something Haspiel is going to knock out of the park too.

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Jim Zubkavich is dropping all kinds of hints that a reboot/remake/re-something of his Makeshift Miracle comic is on the way next week.

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