ROLLING HUMPDAY NEWS UPDATES

ALT COMIX PAPER DEBUTS IN DC
A new all comics monthly called Bash is debuting in Washington DC this August 1st.

INTERVIEWS
Dave Ferraro reviews Demons of Sherwood by Robert Tinnell and Bo Hampton. (h/t Journalista!)

JUSTIFY MY HYPE
Pop Candy Twitter Comics — comics based on Pop Candy columnist Whitney Metheson’s twitter posts.  Cool interface too. (h/t Journalista!)

TOOLS
Cartoon Snap has a story on how to read comics on your iPhone 3G. (h/t Journalista!)

Amazon now has a program (Checkout by Amazon) for other websites to use Amazon’s one-click ordering system.  It looks like it’s meant to be a competitor to Google Checkout and to some extent, Paypal.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

Snarkoleptics are a bit put off by the recent parody of Family Circus in PvP calling it "childishly mean-spirited".  I don’t know if it’s all that mean-spirited — parodying Family Circus has a longer history on the web than the more recent plethora of Garfield mashups.  From the Dysfunctional Family Circus to the Nietzsche Family Circus.

Hey Webcomic Finds is back.  Author Ping Teo wrote a column at ComixTalk in the early years and her blog was a fun way to find new webcomics.

John "Scary Go Round" Allison posts a sketch page of his character Shelley.

 

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Xaviar Xerexes

Wandering webcomic ronin. Created Comixpedia (2002-2005) and ComixTalk (2006-2012; 2016-?). Made a lot of unfinished comics and novels.