Comix Talk

The NY Times has a lengthy article on trolling and some of the more high-profile anonymous/pseudonymous trolls on the Internet.  Interesting I guess. 

I think for the first 3-4 years of ComixTalk we didn’t edit anything and then at some point I switched things to a "civility policy".  Under both systems, I’ve never felt particularly obligated to respond to trollish comments although inevitably I’ve had to write to it from time to time.

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August’s cover art is from pear-pear.com and goes along with a number of reviews of how-to books and sites we’ll be posting this month.  (I will have the larger art on the site later today).

BUZZCOMIX
The Buzzcomix beta is live and I still have beta codes to hand out if you’re interested in trying it out before it goes public on August 8th.  Email me at xerexes AT gmail DOT com (first come,first serve)

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This month and this month only the Guest Strip Project is raising money in an August Donationathon!  There will be a new comic every single day of August at the site.

To help out donate something to the Make-A-Wish International Foundation by clicking DONATE or buy the Kid’s Book Project from the store!

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Stay tuned next week — same X time, same X channel!
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WOWIO is back up – comics available for download and now — reading online.  I’ll post my reactions tomorrow probably.

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Tomorrow the beta for the new version of the webcomics toplist site Buzzcomix begins.  If you have an existing account at Buzzcomix and want to get in on the beta I’m handing out beta codes to the first 100 respondents.  Shoot me an email at xerexes AT gmail DOT com.

I’m working on an interview with Buzzcomix creator Andrew "mneonix08" Gomez that I hope to have up on the site later this month.  Click read more to see an excerpt from our conversation:

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CONVENTIONS
Rick Marshall writes up his Comic Con experiences for ComicMix.

TOOLS
Newsarama interviews Clickwheel Editor In Chief Tim Demter about the new Clickwheel Comics Reader.  The reader is available for free from the Apple App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

DEAD TREES
Garfield WIthout Garfield gets a book deal with Ballantine.  I’m actually shocked that Garfield creator Jim Davis is letting this go forward (and wondering if he is getting a cut of anything) but he’s already on record as being a big fan of the comic so it’s pretty cool that he seems to have signed off on this as well.

BUSINESS
Ted Rall offers some thoughts on saving the newspaper business.  I don’t always agree with Rall but I’ve always been a fan of his uncompromising viewpoint he offers in his comics.  But I don’t know what he’s thinking about with advice to newspapers like: don’t be on the web; and charge more for the web than for the print version.  Doesn’t he remember that young people don’t buy the print version of newspapers?  Does he want to accelerate the implosion of the current newspaper business?

Here’s a thought.  Before the web, it made sense to combine everything a city newspaper did into one business.  But today, why aren’t people more seriously questioning the validity of combining (1) an ad agency; (2) content creation; and (3) a printer as a single business?  Maybe that just doesn’t make sense anymore?

JUSTIFY MY HYPE
FLEEN approvingly points to The System, an unusual comic using a limited set of icons (like the men’s room symbol!) for imagery.  It is definitely worth a read.

I had no idea that Rich Stevens sells Diesel Sweeties socks.

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I don’t think I’d actually like to know what it feels like to get punched everywhere all at once.
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