News & Views for Wednesday, May 9, 2007

INTERVIEWS

• Broken Frontier has an audio interview with Narbonic creator and Modern Tales editor Shaenon Garrity.

AWARDS

• The Comics Reporter covers the Xeric grant winners for this year.

DEAD TREES

• Webcomics In Print covers D. Richard Scannell's book For the Hermits.

REVIEWS

• Broken Frontier looks at Bobby Crosby's and Remy Mokhtar's Marry Me.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

• Scott Kurtz points out the new revamped Image Comics website. Pretty cool and a good reminder that they do have online comics posted there.
• Bookslut has an interview with this year's Eisner awards judges.
• Journalista! notes that the 28th Yomiuri International Cartoon Contest is open for submissions.
• 9 Chickweed Lane creator Brooke McEldowney announced that Pibgorn (recently departed from Comics.com) will take up residence at Gocomics.com, beginning May 14. (Link from Journalista!)
• Reinder Dijkhuis writes a post called Reconceptualising Micropayments about Joel Fagin's Reinventing Micropayments article at Comixpedia.
• Broken Frontier has a nice write-up of the triple comics holiday that was May 5th: Cartoonists' Day, FCBD and Webcomics Awareness Online Comics Day.