Thomas K Dye's graphic novel Manifestations is now rerunning as a free-to-view feature, at three pages a week on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The Prologue was posted on Saturday 21 June, and the first main page will appear on Tuesday 24 June. Tim Tylor, artist on later sections of the comic, plans to redraw part of his original artwork over the rerun.

J Rowland has restarted his webcomic Wigu, with a Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule and an initial three strips in the archive. The strip is at a new site (still in progress), but the old Wigu pages and archives can be found through the "Extras" link.

The Ursa Major Awards 2007, given for excellence in anthropomorphic arts, were announced on Saturday, May 17at the Morphicon convention. 

Voting for the Ursa Major Awards 2007 is now open and will continue to April 20. Known more formally as the Annual Anthropomorphic Literature and Arts Award, these are presented annually for works involving anthropomorphic characters.

(Update: Emergency over. Ms Blackford's now been found and seems okay.)

Animation director Chris Sanders, who collaborated with Dean DeBlois to write and direct Disney's Lilo and Stitch, has started a webcomic, Kiskaloo. The new strip started on December 31st and will run weekly in Sanders' blog. Ryan Estrada gives some more background information on the comic.

Andy Weir has posted issue 4 of his comic-fantasy comicbook series Cheshire Crossing.

Each issue of the series is put online when complete, and can be read directly on the site or downloaded as an ebook which can be viewed with the free CDisplay Comic Reader program.

Shaenon K Garrity, creator of Narbonic, has started a new daily webcomic, drawn by her and co-written by her and Jeffrey Channing Wells. Skin Horse began on December 31st, 2007, and will run six days a week with sketches on Sunday. Jeffrey Wells includes some more detail in his blog.

Two webcomics have made it into Time Magazine's 2007 Top Ten list of graphic novels. Selected by Time's Nerd-World blogger Lev Grossman, the list includes Chris Onstad's Achewood in first place and Rob Balder's Erfworld at 6th place.

Artist Ursula Vernon, creator of the webcomic Digger, has an illustrated children's book due to be published by the mainstream publishers Harcourt. Nurk: The Strange, Surprising Adventures of a (Somewhat) Brave Shrew is due out in June 2008, and can be pre-ordered from Amazon.