Events

The Montreal Comix Jam is holding another session this Wednesday, March 26th. This is a pretty cool idea – any other cities holding regular comic-making sessions like this? More info from Max of the Montreal Comix Jam is below… Continue Reading →

Jim writes:

For those of you who remember the Web Comics Awareness thing we did for the last two years, it's that time of year again. If anyone wants to get involved, or just wants to know what it's about, you can still check out the FAQ page that Russ put up last year.

Like the last two years, the actual date of the thing will be May 5th. (I believe the hub pages from the first two years are also still up: WCA 2001 and WCA 2002.)

Anyone and everyone can participate. Contributions can be any size: a small, single panel; some written text; a photo; a 42,000 page book — whatever you'd like to do. We had around 50 participants last year, and would like to do better this year. Also, please feel free to pass the word to anyone else you know who may be interested.

If you'd like to participate, email me with the appropriate info (your name, the name of your strip, and the URL where the strip will appear on May 5th).

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Meet Up Dot Com is a site that helps groups self-organize meetings. A date is picked and it’s up to interested individuals to make it work (or not). Webcomics now has such a date: the first Wednesday of every month is for local artists to meet. The first such day is set for April 2nd at 7:00 PM (local time) and already 45 individuals have signed up from various geographic locations.

Let us know how any such meetings go in your local town or hamlet. Continue Reading →

The Great April Fools’ Webcomic Swap is arguably the oldest “community” event amongst webcomics. First held in 1999, the 2000 edition was also widely participated in. After these first two editions there was considerable debate over continuing the project (and some argued that with the event now lacking the element of surprise it was simply not much of an “April Fool” anymore).

The Nice, however, picked up the project and organized the Comic Swap for both 2001 and 2002. Syke announced recently that cartoonists associated with The Nice were planning on having the April Fools swap again this year (a tuesday if you’re curious). Continue Reading →