It’s December Already? UPDATED

COMIXTALK

• Check out this month’s cover art from Ryan Estrada!
• First up is our year-in-headlines review of webcomic news from 2007. Still to come later this week is our annual critics roundtable and the People of Webcomics list.
• Dr. Haus reviews another webcomic, this time The Prime of Ambition by Naomi Craig and Alyssa Follansbee.
• We also have another article in Tim Broderick’s review of his path to publishing his graphic novel: this time he covers writing the synopis.
• And we have the second installment in Patric Lewandowskis look at the definition of "comic"; this month he explains the idea of applying four criteria to defining comics.

BUSINESS

• Bill Barnes, the artist on the webcomic Unshelved has left his "day job" at Microsoft to go work full time on the webcomic. (more at FLEEN)
• Potentially interesting item: FLEEN posted about a My Fridj website owned by a Dawn Douglass. Douglass countered that the My Fridj site was not really intended to be public (although she did blog about it in October without such reservations) and whatever "social media cartoon syndicate" she’s working on is still to be revealed. It’s clear from her website that she’s engaged in a lot of research and thinking about the "digital comics" space (to put it in MBA-speak). And hey, she’s a cartoonist herself.
• The Comics Reporter reported that Marvel will stop publishing DVDs of its comics, supposedly because of the new DCU website service.

MILESTONES

• Joe Dunn hits 300 episodes of Joe Loves Crappy Movies. This ongoing comic/review series is not just a funny comic, but Joe is a pretty good reviewer of movies as well.

AWARDS

• Just for completeness’ sake, the winner of this year’s Weblog Award for a comic strip site was xkcd by Randall Munroe.

INTERVIEWS

• Scott Kurtz interviews Tyler Martin – not a bad start to what Kurtz says will be a regular podcast called Webcomic Confidential.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

• Comics I Don’t Understand has finally entered the 21st Century – moving to a blog format at a new URL.
• The 24 Hour Comics Day project is looking for new blood to organize future editions. More information here.
• Daily Cross Hatch reviews Captain Estar Goes To Heaven by Winston Rowntree.
• Cartoonist Ben Boxer and sums up about 14 hours of opera in one webcomic. (h/t The Beat).
• The Comics Reporter links to this funny "50 Answers" comic.