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End of 2006 Coming Soon

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on November 17, 2006 - 12:39

December is traditionally a "year in review" kind of issue at Comixpedia and that's the goal this time around. As we get closer to the end of 2006 it's revealing to look at what folks were writing about webcomics at the end of 2005: The 2005 Webcomics Roundtable.

For the last two years we've also ran a special "25 People Of Webcomics" list article. Here's a link to the 2005 POW List article. Who do you think should be on this year's list? Post a comment with your nominations.

FRIDAY

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on November 17, 2006 - 11:19

NEWS

Gene Yang's American Born Chinese did not win the National Book award it was nominated for but in this case it truly was an amazing achievement just to be nominated. (List of winners available here). The Beat has a report with pictures.

COMIXPEDIA

A few new site features if you're interested:

INTERVIEWS

Adam York from The Flowfield Unity posted two interviews to our blogs section:

REVIEWS

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

Thursday

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on November 9, 2006 - 12:40

It's been an exhausting week but all worth it! Let's get back to the webcomics!

NEWS & VIEWS

  • Neil CohnNeil Cohn checks out what's available in "comics making" software and concludes: they all suck. (Never having used any of them myself I don't have an opinion to offer on them.)

EVENTS

INTERVIEWS

  • I may have linked to this before but Sequential Tart has three webcomic-related interviews this month: Gene Yang, Batton Lash, and Onezumi.

REVIEWS

DEAD TREES

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

Gene Yang at the Cartoon Museum

  • What: Visitors will have a chance to watch American Born Chinese author and National Book Award nominee Gene Yang at work and chat with him about cartooning.
  • Where: Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, CA.
  • Cost: Admission is free. Details here.

Friday

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on November 3, 2006 - 12:48

November's cover is from Shaenon Garrity, the creator of Narbonic (and several other comics). We will have the first stories for the November issue up this Sunday so check for those on Monday morning.

We have a new sponsor this week - a design competition from the website My Favorite Mirror. We'd also like to thank continuing sponsors, the books, The Physics of Superheroes and An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, the 8 Films to Die For film festival, TBS' Very Funny Ads, and the webcomics Alma Mater, Things Change, A Pirate's Life For Me, O''Deer, I See You, Gunnerkrigg Court, Devil Water, Family Bones, and The Flowfield Unity.

INTERVIEWS

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

Wednesday Morning Update

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on October 25, 2006 - 10:13

COMIXPEDIA LAND

The new managed server can't handled the load of all of Comixpedia Land. So I've turned the top list at comixpedia.net off (I warned via email all of the top list comics earlier this week). For at least this week, comixpedia.net is NOT going to work (later I'll redirect it to comixpedia.com). I'd like to have a "portal" to webcomics-type of site to round out the news at dot com and the wiki at dot org, but for my own sanity it'll have to wait until another day. Luckily there are lots of good top lists and portal-like sites already out there (feel free to post suggestions in the comments).

NEWS & VIEWS

Tis The Season

RESOURCES

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

I had no idea Scott Adams (Dilbert) could no longer speak because of a rare condition called Spasmodic Dysphonia but he couldn't. Now, however, apparently he's better. (Link from The Comics Reporter)

American Born Chinese nominated for National Book Award

Submitted by Joey Manley on October 11, 2006 - 16:58

The book collection of American Born Chinese, (one of the original Modern Tales strips), by Gene Yang, has been nominated for the National Book Award in the category of "Young People's Literature."

This is a very big deal. It's probably the most prestigious American literary award. When I was in creative writing school, anyway, everybody I knew (teachers and students alike) all paid a lot more attention to the National Book Award than, for example, the Pulitzer. Congrats, Gene! Good luck!

Gene Yang

First Second Books to Publish Gene Yang's American Born Chinese

Submitted by Erik Melander on March 8, 2006 - 07:48

Industry site ICv2 takes a look at the lineup of graphic novel publisher First Second Books.

It includes Gene Yang's American Born Chinese, which has been published online by Modern Tales.

An Incomplete List of Webcomics in Print, Collated by Kelly J. Cooper

June 26, 2005 - 23:00

Many MANY of our webcomicking friends have published print versions of their work. I've tried to find, track down, and remember as many as possible. But given the thousands (tens of thousands?) of webcomics out there, this was a daunting task. If I missed your comic, I apologize profusely and profoundly. Please add it via a comment.