What's On My Monitor for Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on August 21, 2007 - 10:12

Sore Thumbs - come for the cheesecake, stay for the political slapstick...

INTERVIEWS

• Boing Boing linked to a 1997 Charlie Rose interview with Charles Schluz, the creator of the alltime classic newspaper strip Peanuts.

MILESTONES

• 10 years of Sluggy Freelance this Saturday. A decade of niftiness!
• Beaver & Steve hits 300 episodes. Creator James Turner makes a special guest appearance and dark hilarious secrets are revealed!
• The Chemistry Set webcomic collective hits its first year anniversary and adds Dwight MacPherson (Edgar Allen Poo) as a member.

JUSTIFY MY HYPE

• Yeah... but who's buying? (um, everyone?) (um - riffing off the title of the comic here more than the Mrs. Robinson bit in it)
• Normally I love Wapsi Square but dang if I didn't think I was reading Apt. 3G or something on this update.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

• The Ferret talks about the StumbleUpon browser plug-in and how it works well with gag-a-day webcomics. (The Ferret says that StumbleUpon has become one of his best refers)
• Brian Roney reviews webcomics: Evil, Inc.; Partially Clips; Inverloch; The Order of the Stick; and more. Good stuff.
• Check out the new webcomic collective International History Club. A great concept and some talented folks involved.
• Panel And Pixel is a new comics creator forum

• Chemistry Set
• Sluggy Freelance
• Wapsi Square