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A little whining first – after seemingly getting my server issues resolved my home router dies last Friday.  I’ve tried a couple but both have had issues with the equipment I need to connect to it.  Anyone have a good experience with a recent brand/model of wireless/wired router?

Today’s the 4th British Webcomic Piss-up which is probably best described as Webcomics Awareness Day for UK webcomics.  Be sure to check out the participating comics.

Culture Pulp has an interview with Jeff Smith, creator of Bone, in comic format. 

The Kea’s Nest notes that Neil Gaiman might be joining Warren Ellis in the webcomics’ admiration (er, or at least begrudging acceptance) club. 

Comixpedia member Compugasm writes a blog post about liking the webcomic I Am A Rocket Builder. 

Looks like the first Beaver and Steve book is finally out. 

Make Comics Forever recommends a book called The Secrets of Professional Cartooning by Ken Muse.

Patrick McDonnell (creator of Mutts) has a children’s book out.

Onezumi.com is doing a podcast now (you have to sign up for their mailing list to get it though) 

Joystiq is still doing it’s weekly webcomic roundup which focuses on gaming webcomics. 

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Friday News and Stuff

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Part 2 of a preview of the Flight 3 anthology is up.

A fan did a partial animation of the first Something Positive strip. The voices sound right to me (isn’t that what throws you off the most when someone makes a movie out of a
comic?).

Raina Telgemeier gets profiled. With her Babysitters Club graphic novel she’s going to be big in 2006. 

Bunny has a book – they’re taking preorders now. 

Comics Worth Reading likes the most recent Pearls Before Swine storyline.  PBS and Get Fuzzy are two of the few newspaper strips I seek out.

Lore and I agree: PartiallyClips sums up the Chuck Norris fad – put that strip in the time capsule.

Too Much Coffee Man the opera. Not the usual derivative work for a comic…

Sssh… Jon Rosenberg has a livejournal now.

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Thursday News

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Over at comixpedia dot net the top list has a new number one today: Multiplex by Gordon McAlpin. (btw one of my favorite recurring characters in McAlpin’s webcomic is blogger critic guy – last seen here.)

New BLC podcast wherein Dave and Kris ramble about webcomic book collections.  Listen up!

Penny and Aggie Co-creator T Campbell announced that there will be a  book: The Best of Enemies: A Penny and Aggie Collection. Campbell and co-creator Gisele Lagace are holding a "Fanstuff" contest and will award a signed copy of the book and sketch to the creator of the best Penny and Aggie-derived "games, icons, fanart, Photoshoppery, fanficiton, novelization, poems, filks, essays, mp3s, audio performance, video performance, animation, sculpture, cosplay, clubs, conventions, humor, MiSTing, origami…"

The DC Conspiracy is another group of DC-based cartoonists.  It’s members are more print-oriented, but they have set up shop with a webcomics nation account. The most recent update there – to Ataxia Overdrive, a webcomic by Evan Keeling – looks good.

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Monday News Alert!

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The Writer Response Theory blog has a link to a couple of interesting methods of presenting a book online.  Neither is a comic but there’s no reason someone couldn’t apply these approaches to a webcomic.

I still don’t know enough about this but if you’re interested the next Worldwide Sketchcrawl day is this Saturday. 

Piro (Megatokyo) mentions today that "my deadline to finish everything for book 4 is thursday, so i’m going to have to miss a few comics in order to even have a hope of hitting it. I’m knee deep in the ‘rewound’ version of ‘circuity’, and here is a preview of what some of it is looking like."  And here is that preview.

Fleen points out a new webcomics blog called The Kea’s Nest.  Since it’s just started all I can say is check out the first couple of posts.

This post from the Technorati guy Dave Sifry is an snapshot of the blogosphere based on data from that site.  Basically it’s the kind of data I wish I could track for webcomics but for lots of reasons it’s not as easy to do that for webcomics as it is for blogs.

Also, thanks to the folks who did email me about the server mess yesterday.  As far as I can tell right now it went down for no reason and came back up for no reason.  Someone suggested a DOS attack as a possibility.  If I can grab a few minutes as lunch I’ll email more details to the kind folks who contacted me and see if they have any better ideas on what happened.

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Friday’s Good News

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Salon reviewed Hope Larson’s latest book, Gray Horses.  Larson and husband Bryan Lee O’Malley are holding a book signing today at Page 45 in Nottingham, England from 4-7pm.

Tom Spurgeon has a writeup of a controversy over a book on the history of manga comicbook available at a local library.  It’s your basic hysteria over "kids can see it" which sadly seems like a never ending source of hysteria for about 29% of the American population.

Spurgeon Bart Beaty has a column up at The Comics Reporter entitled "What SPX Can Learn from Fumetto." Worth a read to see what folks like about the european Fumetto convention and how some of it could be adapted to SPX.

Jon Morris (creator of Jeremy) is posting his versions of several superheroes at his blog – good stuff!

And last but not least, Flight anthology contributor Erika Moen has an exhibition of her senior project, a graphic novella titled Dominion.  It runs until April 16th at McConnell Center, the Dining Hall, Pitzer College.

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Wednesday News

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi has another great post, this one about useful online tools for freelance writers who work from home many of which will be useful to webcomic creators as well.  She also has another update to her webcomic Will Write For Chocolate.

Joe Zabel has a review of the fantasy webcomic Gunnerkrigg Court.

This blog is solely devoted to examining how "each and every day a comic strip abuses the use of the silent second-to-last panel.  If you like snarky commentary on newspaper strips – this should go on your reading list.

Ryan North reports that he is taking pre-orders for a Dinosaur Comics book.  The book entitled Your Whole Family Is Made Out Of Meat has a clever cover.  The pre-orders are at Quack Media which I’ve never heard of but is apparently coming soon!

The Webcomics List reports that it has new webcomic wallpaper for your mobile phone available.  Check them out here.

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Monday News

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John Allison drops that he’s working on the fourth SGR book.  It’s also guest week at Scary Go Round.

URL Fan is kind of a cool site.  You can ego-surf it, check out related sites, and compare competitors.

I don’t know if Jeph Jacques is cool with this or not, but these are nifty little QC icons. 

And I hope I’m not interpreting this post out of context (I don’t read Ironychan’s LJ) but just all by itself it’s a pretty funny (yet sadly true) comment on the webcomic experience.

Speaking of Live Journals, blogs, etc., the primary way I keep up with webcomic news (other than a few search engines) is through RSS feeds.  If you’re writing about webcomics (even just hyping your own) and you have an RSS feed I’d be happy to add it to my morning list.  Post it here if you want and I’ll check it out. 

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Wednesday News Update

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Zach Miller wins the first Blooker prize for comics for his Joe and Monkey book, "Totally Boned."  Congrats to Zach!

Actually there’s a lot of book-related news today: 

  • Over at Blank Label Comics, Howard Tayler is taking pre-orders for the first Schlock Mercenary book, "Under New Management".  There is a four page PDF preview here.
  • AP Furtado has new books for sale: a two volume collection filled with 48 pages of Tween called "Tween: The Collected Bad Mojo."  Also available is "The Underground Pop Anthology" which features 32 pages of different Furtado stories.  (There are more details and cover art in Furtado’s blog post on this here.)
  • Chris Baldwin announced that a book collecting his Little Dee series should be out sometime this month.
  • Butternutsquash has a new update.  These guys got hit by the Speakeasy shutdown and are now working on how to publish and sell the comic book series version of Butternutsquash.  Artist Ramon Perez is also part of a new group blog on comics called Transmission X.

I may have posted this before, but you may be interested in Debbie Ridpath Ohi’s tax tips for freelancers.  We’re almost on top of the 2005 year tax filing deadline so if you’re not already done with your paperwork get to it already!

Peter Hayward writes a bit about Alexander Danner’s Panel One series on the Weekly Webcomics Review blog.  Speaking of Alexander Danner, he wrote a short review of Hope Larson’s Salamander Dreams for this week’s Webcomics Examiner.

And, have I mentioned Chopping Block is back?  Lee Adam Herold’s creepy-funny webcomic about a serial killer named Butch is back.

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It’s Friday And I Am Out Of Here…

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A few housecleaning, self-promotional details first:  we added one more article to the March issue this week: Kelly Cooper’s column, The Webcomics Reader, which this month examines aspects of comics criticism, including noted critic R.C. Harvey.  You can check out the entire March issue by clicking here.

I moved Comixpedia.net over to the new server last night.  A few things got garbled in the move and it looks like it’s not entirely functional today.  My apologies to the toplist members – I will be working on it tonight and I’m pretty confident I’ll have it fixed.

Also don’t forget that there are two conventions this weekend (at least that I’m aware of): Technicon and Fluke – if you’re exhibiting or hanging out at either feel free to post a comment to the note for each convention to let folks know you’ll be there.

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