Tyler Martin has been updating his Wordpress theme for comics – Comicpress – to take full advantage of the latest update to the Wordpress software and the result — Comicpress 2.5 — is almost out. If you want to poke around at the latest (and probably last) beta click over to the Comicpress forum here.
I saw this post earlier this week that Newsarama is going to reboot itself with a move from vBulletin to Pluck. Two things of interest to me I guess: one I forgot that Newsarama is part of the Imaginova media empire now (wonder how that’s working out?) and two I wonder if the Pluck platform is any good?
Tyler Page needs guest comics for his Nothing Better webcomic. I missed this when he first posted it but it looks like he’ll be taking comics up until June.
The recent ROFLcon brought together a wacky ensemble of Internet-famous folks including a number of webcomickers. Jeffrey Rowland’s OVERCOMPENSATING today details the meeting between himself and Joey Comeau of A Softer World.
Other bittids from the event include an interview with the dudes from Cyanide and Happiness, and a panel on Internet fame-i-ness with Ryan North (Din-O-saur!) and Randal Monroe (kxyz).
GWS creator Danielle Corsetto is looking for guest strips to run during her sojurn to Germany later this month. She’s going to run her favorite 5 on the website the week of May 18th. The deadline is May 11th. More details at Girls With Slingshots.
Voting for the Eisner Awards has started. Who’s eligible to vote, you ask?
The following working comics industry professionals are eligible to vote in the Eisner Awards:
Who is not eligible to vote?
The deadline for voting is midnight, June 13, 2008, Pacific Standard Time. I wrote to the coordinator, Jackie Estrada, to see if I could get any further guidance on what is an "industry professional".
UPDATE: Jackie Estrada wrote with some guidance on eligibility for webcomic creators:
I try to use the criterion currently used for the eligibility for webcomics in the Best Digital Comic category: the webcomic must be "long-form" (comparable to a comic book or graphic novel story as opposed to a being like a daily comic strip), and it should have its own unique URL or be part of a webcomics site (Webcomics Nation, Activate, Girlamatic, Zuda, etc.).
Another milestone — 5 years of Tom Truszkowski’s Station V3.
Scott Kurtz hits 10 years of PvP on the web.
What — it only took 10 years for Brent and Jade to tie the knot?
James Turner picked a guest artist for his webcomic Beaver & Steve today. It was fun to see all of the various interpretations of Turner's script. There were a lot of good entries — some of my favorites didn't even merit runner-up status for Turner, including entries from Danny Burleson, Dave Wright, Jean Thebe, and Scott Wright. If it had been up to me I would have picked Drew Mokris' entry as the winner but Turner's choice from Dan Woodhouse is pretty cool too. (Pictured at right is my entry which, deservedly, DID not win.)
The other guest art event going on is Scary Go Round's Feats Of Strength. Creator John Allison wrote earlier this week that he "had some very creative and inventive entries but don't feel that this thing has been won yet by any means." I did a comic for this, but I felt like I rushed parts of it.
Would you settle for Dresden Codak creator Aaron Diaz’s 100% true tales of Stumptown 2008?
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