I've been thinking a lot about a panel discussion between Douglas Rushkoff and Scott McCloud at NY Comic Con I heard via the Daily Crosshatch blog. (You can download the whole audio file from their site or watch highlights on the YouTube videos embedded into the post.)

After relaunching in December, My Life in Records has been updating the first Sunday of each month with six new pages.

Chapter 2 starts today and tells the story about the boy's obsession with a Christmas record- so obsessed that they listen to it in the middle of July!  You'll also find out in this installment, just how the nativity set was broken.

My Life in Records is back and the second installment is now available for you to read here. (If you missed last month's re-launch it can be found here.) Seven brand new full color pages introduce three brothers and their love for a Fisher Price record player.

After being on hiatus for a year, My Life in Records returns in full color for your reading pleasure. Creator, Grant Thomas, is trying a different method of distributing long format comics and will release each new chapter on the first Sunday of the month, so be sure subcribe to the RSS feed or subscribe to the comic on piperka.

The first chapter starts here and is presented in Markus Muller's Infinite Canvas.

Grant Thomas' new webcomic, A Week in September is an 18 page comic that tells the story of a college student who's early morning routine is interrupted by a radio announcement telling the news of terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

The story weaves through his life for the next week as he is confronted by many individuals each with their own reaction to events of 9/11. Each new person presents their own view of the tragedy and truth and all contribute to his crisis of faith.

Grant Thomas has announced on his blog that the final release date for his forthcoming short story, A Week in September, will be September 1, 2007.

Scott McCloud recently lectured at UIUC (where the first visual web browser was developed.)

Grant Thomas is now selling a 16 page mini comic of Birdsworth for the low price of $1 with free shipping. The mini comic has a hand printed cover and reprints 14 strips written by Webcomicker's Gilead Pellaeon. The Birdsworth Mini also includes character biographies and an advertisement for the infamous Uncle Birdsworth's MS Gee Whiz.

Scott McCloud is coming to the University of Illinois on April 23. Stay tuned to my blog as I am hoping to report on what he had to say and what I thought about it.