Dead Trees

According to a note on comics.com Suzie View, a comic strip created by Tauhid Bondia and Eric McCurdy and picked up by comics.com in September 2004, has been discontinued.

The website of Bondia’s webcomic Spells and Whistles appears to be offline, but a poster to Forumopolis dug up the google cache of the site where Bondia explains the situation. Continue Reading →

Fred Gallagher’s Megatokyo Vol. 3 reached the third spot on the BookScan list of graphic novels sold in bookstores for the week ending February 20th, the best showing ever for an American-created manga title as well as a webcomic collection.

Full story at icv2.com. Continue Reading →

This looks interesting. Disposable Parts is an anthology centered around robots; here’s some (but not all) of the webcomic artists planning to participate:

Brian Carroll of Instant Classic
Brian Clevinger of 8-bit Theatre
Meredith Gran of Skirting Danger
Aaron Farber of Men In Hats
Mohammad “Hawk” Haque of Applegeeks
Ian Jones-Quartey of RPG-World
David McGuire of How To Art
Josh Mirman of Punks and Nerds
Jeff Rowland of WIGU
Jon Rosenberg of Goats

The book is scheduled to come out in Spring or Summer of this year and you can already pre-order it. Continue Reading →

from Boing BOING comes this explanation of the process by which you can get your self-publication listed on Amazon.

1 Get an ISBN (for a book), or a UPC (for a CD or DVD). For one book it costs $125, for one CD, $55, for one DVD, $89 (Canadian publishers, including self-publishers, can get ISBNs for free by going to the Library and Archives Canada website).
2 Get a bar code based on the ISBN or UPC. Costs $10, or may be included in UPC.
3 Sign up with Amazon, $30 per year.
4 Duplicate your stuff; include the bar code on the outside.
5 Ship two copies to Amazon.
6 Send cover scan.
7 Track sales.
8 Register it (optional).

More details here. Continue Reading →

Broken Frontier has a two part interview with Otis Frampton, creator of Oddly Normal. Oddly Normal was for a time part of Modern Tales sister site Girlamatic.com and will be released in print as a four part miniseries by Viper Comics starting March. Continue Reading →

Liriel McMahon recently printed the first issue of her webcomic Bad Blood. It can be bought through the Comixpress store.

The first volume of Paul Taylor’s Wapsi Square is available through the Keenswag store. It weighs in at 152 black and white pages. Continue Reading →

Bill Jemas’ 360ep has announced that they have signed with another webcomic, BFX.

360ep will kick off its relationship with Takeshi and Arthur by hosting the BFX Project on its comic and pop culture web site, HeroRealm.com. In addition to securing various licensing rights, 360ep hopes to publish and distribute BFX Project in traditional comic book format.

The entire press release is available at the 360ep website. BFX can be read at Hero Realm. Continue Reading →

Last week, the third Megatokyo collection hit stores. This week, the PopImage roundtable revealed that Amy Kim Ganter has an upcoming series with Tokyopop, entitled Sorcerers and Secretaries. Continue Reading →

PopImage has a roundtable on the upcoming Flight Vol.2 anthology, that will be available in March. Several webcomic creators contribute stories to the anthology and among the participants in the roundtable was Kazu Kibuishi, Amy Kim Ganter, Hope Larson and Kean Soo.

A full list of contributors is available at the Flight website Continue Reading →

Scott Kurtz has announced on his website that, starting April, well known gaming magazine PC Gamer will once again include exclusive PvP strips.

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