Kevin Pease, creator of the webcomic Absurd Notions, pens the start of the next great intertubes meme with these scenes from Pulp Fiction filtered through Will Shakespeare.

UPDATE - and now there is the Pulp Bard wiki devoted to "the reconstruction of William Shakespeare's play A Slurry Tale, which curiously resembles Quentin Tarantino's film Pulp Fiction. There is no way to stop this from happening, so this wiki exists to ensure that it is done well, or as well as it can be."

Cartoonist Jesse Reklaw, creator of the online strip Slow Wave, is playing himself as a central character in new film premiering this month. Compound Eye, directed and produced by Yahn Soon for John Balquist Productions, tells the fictional story of how the controversy over one strip affects him and his roommate's lives.

The first screenings of Compound Eye will be on Sunday October 7th and Saturday October 13th at the Mill Valley Film Festival:

WEBCOMICS

• Now that you mention it Tom Brazelton's webcomic alter ego does look a hell of a lot like Bart Simpson.
• The latest installment of Goblins? Surprisingly violent last panel... even if it doesn't show a lot of blood.
• A webcomic named The Happy Penis is one of the silliest goofiest comics I've read this summer. It's so happy it's just barely NSFW. (But still definitely NSFW for most of you)
• Long time webcomic creator Sylvan Migdal has (new to me anyhow) some comics up under his "Spork" label. They're about a teenage girl named Rho and it kind of alternates between real angsty-life and fantasy interludes. Not a lot up but pretty interesting. Rho is not an obviously sympathetic character but she is an interesting sketch of a character so far.

IN SWAG I JUST MIGHT BUY:

• Dr. McNinja's Shark & Gorilla t-shirt is high-five-tacular!

NOT WEBCOMICS

• With all of the other videogames they've turned into movies why not... Minesweeper? Check out the preview trailer here.

Alas, it appears it won't happen as "anti-video game activist" Jack Thompson did not agree to Penny Arcade's reported offer to a debate at Penny Arcade's PAX convention this August.

I've got two invites to the Joost beta I can give away. Joost is a video service from the guys who created Skype and one of those filesharing thingees (can't remember which now).

Let me know if you're interested by posting a comment here and I'll send 'em out tonight.

February Update Hello web denizens, Genericon was a blast as always and I bid the new people on this list a friendly welcome. I was invited to attend Katsucon in the middle of February, which will be a fun chance to check out this con. You can find me in Artist’s Alley. I started a new shop on printfection.com all about politics.

Friday afternoon at the DC Comics area, Bryan Singer meets with comic con attendees. Singer was surrounded by two security guards and freely spoke to fans answering any questions they had. Many took advantage of the situation by posing with him for photographs.

One fan didn't ask Singer about his last movie venture Superman but instead asked him why he left the directing duties of the third installment of X-Men.

Bomb Shelter Comics is having a contest - to enter you need be a member of their forums and send in your version of the BSC logo. Winners get a Leftville t-shirt.

Clickwheel has a post on the "sound of art" which considers the question of music in comics. Didn't we have an issue on that recently? :)

Sparkneedle archives are now free (formerly only available to Girlamatic subscribers).

Digital Strips looks at the rotating cast of artists on the webcomic Pet Professional. Are there really four artists on that strip now? Wow...

It's been one year since the founding of Blank Label Comics.

New Peter Bagge webcomic on the "war on drugs" at Reason magazine. Cranky middle-age libertarian goodness!

Kris Straub is working on a second Starslip Crisis book and his webcomic has just hit the one year mark as well.

Fleen checks into Owen Dunne's My New Mommy webcomic. It's ending. And Fleen thinks Dunne's website navigation is confusing. Most of what Dunne has done is pretty hilarious IMO.

Tom Spurgeon rounds up reports on the recent BookExpo America event in Washington DC.

Gluemeat celebrates various Canadian holidays. I wish we had Muffin Day in the states too...

The Bone website has been redone and now features a blog from creator Jeff Smith.

And in notwebcomics news: Dorothy Gambrell's band is playing at the WYSIWYG Talent Show this evening.

A script that never got made: Superman by Kevin "Clerks" Smith.

I read part of it - a lot more use of existing villians/characters than probably most superhero movie adaptions jam into one movie. Some of the early scenes I read were a nice twist on expectations though - like Superman/Kent meeting up with Lois late at the Daily Whatever office.

Don't forget to check out Comixpedia's interviews with Tom Brazelton (Theater Hopper) and Gordon McAlpin (Multiplex).

Elsewhere around the internets Gilead reviews a webcomic called Killer Robots from Space.

Combustible Orange joins the new collective Bomb Shelter Comics. This is shaping up to be a great group of webcomics.

Webcomics In Print blog talks about the latest book from the webcomic Bob The Squirrel. 

Gary Tyrrell writes more about IndieKarma, the so-called "noclick" alternative to micropayments. 

And in notwebcomics dept: the Drawn blog catches that Bibi has compiled a collection of links to vintage animated shorts in the public domain.  They include 27 Betty Boop cartoons, 11 Felix the Cat cartoons, and 3 Krazy Kat cartoons.