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New William Bazillion!

www.williambazillion.com

Oh, now, this is just getting silly.

Also, I know I said last week's installment of the Overlooked Manga Festival would be the last one for a while, but then I got this last-minute guest OMF. So here we go...

One more Overlooked Manga Festival!

New William Bazillion!

www.williambazillion.com

Oh, now, this is just getting silly.

Also, I know I said last week's installment of the Overlooked Manga Festival would be the last one for a while, but then I got this last-minute guest OMF. So here we go...

One more Overlooked Manga Festival!

The Compleat OMF

Just for reference, here's a permalinkable list of all the Overlooked Manga Festival entries. Thanks for reading, everyone!

The Compleat OMF

Just for reference, here's a permalinkable list of all the Overlooked Manga Festival entries. Thanks for reading, everyone!

(Note: Some Overlooked Manga scans are mildly NSFW. Exercise caution when viewing manga which may contain nipples or swears. Keep out of reach of children. The Overlooked Manga Festival is not for everyone. If eyeballs continue to bleed, consult your doctor immediately.)

Overlooked Manga Festivities:

Updates On Entries in the Ill-Fated Webcomic Directory Project?

I built a "library" of webcomics and creators back in the fall of 2005 which I put into beta before realizing it was too much editorial work to deal with and the same information could be better provided through the community edited webcomic wiki - COMIXPEDIA.

Nevertheless looking back on the assortment of names collected (some from me, some sent in from you) I wonder if anyone has any significant updates on these creators 18 months later. Maybe we should interview some of them?

Abandoning Micropayments

Joel Fagin follows up his previous article on the selling of webcomics Reinventing Micropayments with another look at how creators could sell digital comics. This time, he further explores the notion of selling comic downloads and examines the initial results of Starline X Hodge's sales of her comic Candi.

Reinventing Micropayments

Just as Bitpass bit the dust and Scott McCloud decided the right number for The Right Number was free, Joel Fagin offers another look at how to make micropayments work for webcomics -- by examining iTunes, the most successful micropayments system in history.

Lessons for Webcomics from Short Stories

Joel Fagin discusses all of the many lessons webcomics can learn from short stories. Concepts such as effective beginnings, efficient storytelling, and showing not telling. All topped off with an examination of David Willis' reworked beginning to It's Walky. I could tell you more but why don't you click "read more" and I'll show you...

WCCA Nominations Out

The full list of nominations for the upcoming WCCAs is out - get the list here or click read more (the WCCA site is slow today so I copied it into this post here).

 

Free Comic Book Day '07 is nigh!

Every year, ComicGenesis in association with Keenspot assembles some of its best comic creators from around the web and gathers them together under a common banner: the Free Comic Book Day book, or FCBD book.