This Day In Comix Talk — April 9th

A lot of chatter over this year's Eisner nominations around the webtubes as everyone winds down for the weekend.  Here's a look back at webcomics' permanent record:

2009

• Last year's Eisner nominees for Best Digital Comic were: Bodyworld by Dash Shaw, Finder by Carla Speed McNeil, The Lady's Murder by Eliza Frye, Speak No Evil by Elan Trinidad, and Vs. by Alexis Sottile & Joe Infurnari.

2008

• After a lengthy hiatus, Barry Smith returned to webcomics with a new project Inktank.

2007

• Johnny Hart, creator of long-running comic strip B.C. dies.

2006

• The nomination of an unfinished webcomic provoked a lot of discussion over the Eisner's treatment of its Best Digital Comic category.

2005

• Everything Jake by Mike Rosenzweig hit its five year anniversary — I guess that makes it 10 years in 2010.

2004

• We gave a plug to the website Comics By Email.  It looks like it's still in operation.

2003

• The web is an often fragile beast — Jen Contino's story about Iain Hamp's Darwin's Complex (and the webcomic itself) is entirely lost to broken linkage.
• Greg Stephens not only created the webcomic Zwol but created one of better publication systems — conceptually at least – for his site zwol.org.