News For Monday, January 8, 2007

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on January 8, 2007 - 16:53

MAGAZINE

• New comic from Jon Morris and an interview with Case Yorke Mike Lacroix.

HEADLINES

• Bomb Shelter's Webcomic Idol shuts down due to voting fraud.
• A good round-up of links about the bankruptcy of Advanced Marketing Services (AMS), the distribution and wholesale company responsible for circulating books between giant chain stores and smaller publishers, just declared bankruptcy.
• For Better Or For Worse is going to do some kind of quasi-classic Peanuts-style rerun after it ends, thereby keeping its more than 2000 newspaper slots tied up into the indefinite future.

BUSINESS

• Someone started an unofficial message board and blog about the Project Wonderful advertising service.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

• Webcomics In Print has its weekly round-up of webcomic books.
• Joey Manley thinks the webcomic Behind the Blue Door is something.
• TalkAboutComics links to Scott McCloud's Ten American Comics to read.
• Journalista! mucks around in the selling of the print version of the comic Cowboys & Aliens.
• It was Vera Brosgol who did the webcomic Enchanted Office for the new version of Microsoft Office

• Bomb Shelter
• Joey Manley
• Jon Morris
• Scott McCloud
• Vera Brosgol