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I’ve been meaning to post about BASH! – a new, free, all comics monthly newspaper that’s being distributed through newsboxes in the Washington DC area.  I think it’s a great idea and I’m glad someone is trying it. 

But… (always something right?) this isn’t how I would do it. They are using a large variety of formats and differing length comics in it with most of it having an "indy" vibe and a looser feel to it.  There is also no real thematic or sectional organization to the paper.  I would think you’d want some organizational separation of gag, story and editorial comics with a mix of more commercial, accessible work amongst more challenging work.  Still there’s good stuff in there and they seem to have ads to run.

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Interesting – Panel Flow is a CMS (content management system) that uses FLASH to present your comics.  There’s a free version you can download and use on your own site with your own comic.  So – flash-based alternative to Comicpress/Wordpress and other webcomic cms out there.

The website lists a number of comics using the Panel Flow CMS.

The site appears to be owned by Outland Entertainment which also has a mobile phone content/comic site called Outland Mobile.

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Newsarama rounds up about as much on Platinum’s woes as one could want to read I suppose… 

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DJ Coffman opines on why flash-based webcomics are not the best way to go.

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Sarah Palin in Tales From the Crypt.

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Daily Cartoonist reports that Clear Blue Water, which was dropped by Universal Press Syndicate last month, has been relaunched as a daily webcomic on Karen Montague-Reyes’ new web site.

Daily Cartoonist also reported the Universal Press Syndicate released an iGoogle gadget that lets you put their comics on an iGoogle homepage.

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I’ve had Frightnight.org for many years now although it’s been a few years since I’ve had the time to organize an event for October.  It’s probably too late again this year (although if you want to volunteer to run something let me know – I’ll be happy to help you get started).  In any event I have been blogging about Halloween-related comics and a few other interesting Halloween style stuff over there this month.

The site does get some traffic – especially this month – so I’ve opened it up to blogging with automatic front page posting.  Just log in over there with your ComixTalk id and password and post away about anything Halloween-related you’re up to.

And if you want you can buy a PW ad too – going dirt cheap right now.

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This is harder then it looks!  It’s a game where you try to fix parallelograms, right angles, etc.

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After comments and some email dialogue, I realize I should have been clearer in the recent MOST READ story that almost certainly both The Order of the Stick and Erfworld are on that list somewhere. 

I’ve emailed back and forth with Rob Balder of Erfworld and Rich Burlew of The Order of the Stick and they state that based on their server stats that Erfworld has approximately 65% of the audience that The Order of the Stick has.  Another way to put it is that about 65% of The Order of the Stick readers also read Erfworld.  That would put The Order of the Stick between the #5 and #6 spots and Erfworld between the # 8 and #9 spots.

Also you may be interested in a recent FLEEN thread where Project Wonderful head honcho Ryan North and others have been discussing the pros and cons of using Project Wonderful data for the Most Read list.

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The winners of the first annual Webcomic Readers Choice Awards were announced this weekend.  This award was organized by the website frumph.net.  After voting at frumph.net, the webcomics in each category with the most votes were nominated.  The winner of each award were determined by a panel of judges comprised of Philip M. Hofer, (frumph.net), J.T. Shea, (The Gigacast), Kurt Sasso (Two Guys Talkin’ Webcomics), John Hernadez (The Rampage Network), and Steve Hamaker (contributor to several of the Flight anthologies and colorist for the Bone graphic novel series by Jeff Smith).

Winners listed after the break:

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Deb Aoki has an interview with Wendy Pini, the creator of Elfquest.  Lot of stuff on her new project Masque of the Red Death but I thought this nugget on the website was interesting:

It’s available on Elfquest.com. We opened it up in mid-March 2008 and as of October 2008 we’ve received close to 57 million hits and over twenty million individual page views. Can you believe it? The importance of what Richard did for Elfquest this year with his brilliant idea to put everything online can’t be overstated. An entire new generation of online readers is evolving as a result.

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