The Washington Post recently ran a story on a group of syndicated cartoonists who planned a protest for today. They targeted newspaper editors who choose not to syndicate one strip created by or featuring minorities because they're already publishing another strip -- often just one strip that meets that "diversity demand." The cartoonists drew strips with similar plot lines -- all of which involve an older, white character lamenting the appearance of "politically correct" minority-drawn strips on the comics page.

Or, more accurately, the end of several errors. Yes - Where the Buffalo Rome, the ancient Roman relic I made by rubbing two biros together when I was just a lad, has finally reached its conclusion.

Caesar and Antony are safely back in Rome and ... oh well, you can see for yourself in the final instalment posted today at Broken Voice Comics. Just be careful you don't break anything. Some of the jokes we unearthed for this comic are very, very old!

Nick Percival started the first online comic subscription site (I haven't found anything earlier) Cool Beans (url was coolbeansworld.com but it's long since become a spam site) back in 2001 (2000?) but I can find almost nothing on how and when it went away.

On Monday, Fleen published a review of T. Campbell's A History of Webcomics.

Yesterday, Campbell responded.

So I finally carved out a couple of hours last week to sit down and read T. Campbell's History of Webcomics. I knew the book had been the subject of some controversy. Some had postulated that writing the history of something that was less than a decade old seemed a bit superfluous and that perhaps one should wait until a bit more history has occurred before the history is written.

I might have been inclined to agree with that supposition had I not written an article for Sketch magazine a year or so back detailing my quest to uncover the indentity of the first Photoshop colored comic book. It turned out to be a surprisingly difficult task even though it was certainly a comic published sometime in the early 1990s. It's undeniable that Adobe Photoshop has ushered in a new era in both comics production and comics aesthetics, yet no one (at least no one I was able to find) had bothered to document when exactly this phenomenon began.

This is a great list of graphic novels focused on ones that would appeal to people who think they don't like comic books (i.e., superheroes)

Comics Worth Reading says nice things about Dicebox. Comixpedia has reviewed Dicebox twice before - it's a great read

David Willis reports that T Cambbell's History of Webcomics is in stores. Our archives are still a little wonky but this search pulls up most of the series T wrote at Comixpedia that the book is based on. The book has updated and expanded on the original series so if you like the articles here at Comixpedia there's plenty of new material in the book to check out.

Wow - a soccer team has adopted the Toothpaste For Dinner webcomic as its namesake. Maybe a whole new market for webcomic t-shirts!

Tom Spurgeon catches an article on an Indian comics-on-cell phones company.

And in notwebcomic news, the next Muppet movie: The Bear Wit Project!

The entry for webcomics at the Wikipedia is getting longer. I have a few questions about the entry though that I wanted to see if the Comixpedia community knows the answers to:

Was the Polymer City Chronicles the "first regularly published webcomic"? The entry grants that Where the Buffalo Roam was the first comic online and that Doctor Fun was the first comic on the World Wide Web so I'm not even sure what "first" is being claimed for Polymer City Chronicles.

Was Bob and George the first "sprite comic" on the web?

Questions not answered at all: What was the first "infinite canvas" webcomic? What was the first "multimedia" webcomic? What was the first flash-driven webcomic? Others?

T Campbell is updating and reworking the online installments of the History of Webcomics series as he gets it into shape for the book version planned for later this year. Over at his blog, Campbell has been asking for specific feedback on certain chapter - now's your chance to tell T what's what about what was.

Creator Charley Parker notes that today is the 10th anniversary of his webcomic Argon Zark!

The first page was posted on June 27, 1995. As of June 27, 2005 the strip has been on the Web continuously for 10 years! Argon Zark! was the first comic created specifically to be published on the Web, and still the longest running. By extension, this makes the medium of webcomics 10 years old as well.

Antarctic Press has agreed to publish a print version of T Campbell's "History of Online Comics" series first publshed here at Comixpedia. Retitled "The History of Webcomics", the book will feature expansions and revisions of its current material as well as new chapters.