HEADLINES

• Christopher Wright of Help Desk is leaving Keenspot to go independent.

BUSINESS

• Comic Screw has an article called Digital Distribution that lays out how the comic book industry has helped fuel the rise of file-trading of illegal scans of comics. In the sense that currently there is no legal alternative currently available it's seems to be part of the same puzzle at issue in Joel Fagin's recent article for Comixpedia titled Reinventing Micropayments.
  

ADVERTISING

• Schlock Mercenary adds Project Wonderful ads. It sounds like the new features at Project Wonderful (like the ability to set a minimum bid price) helped convince Howard Tayler to give it a try. (The Weirdlings webcomic also recently added PW ads)
  

INTERVIEWS

• Wizard talks to David Willis of Shortpacked.
• Pink Raygun interviews Paige Braddock of Jane’s World.
• Daily Cross Hatch has a three part interview with Raina Telgemeier. (part 1, part 2, part 3)
• Gigcast talks to D.J. Coffman.
• Jack Carter interviews Renee Katz of The Nineteenth Century Industrialist.

REVIEWS

• Mr. Myth reviewed Zap! and Abstract Gender.
• Zhi reviewed Zero Hunters.
• Aarin reviewed School Spirit and Bear and Kitten.
• Jack reviewed Annhilicious, Bug Report, and Bear and Kitten.
  
• Time Well Wasted reviewed Real Life.
• The Ferrett reviewed The Mansion of E. (review links from a Talkaboutcomics post)

DEAD TREES

• Pre-orders for the dead tree collection of David Willis' Shortpacked! end this coming Monday.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

• T Campbell muses about the high-webcomics-profile of writer/actor Wesley Crusher Wil Wheaton (with copious linkage to webcomic cameos included).
• Reinder Dijkhuis incorporates the latest Intertubes meme into some nifty advertising buttons for his comic ROCR.
• Toon Brew reproduces what may well be the first episode of the first webcomic: David Farley’s Doctor Fun. (link from Journalista!)
• Shaenon Garrity observes that the Eisner's Digital Comics category "cruelly and unfairly overlooked this year... Templar, Dicebox, Family Man, [and] Grace...."
• FLEEN's Anne Thalheimer muses on webcomic references in random places in a short column.
• Famed videogame designer, Ron Gilbert, to help out with Penny Arcade's forthcoming videogame.