That's the working theory as to why I am the ONLY PERSON IN NORTH AMERICA THAT CAN NEITHER SEE NOR FTP TO FRIGHT NIGHT.

Or my beloved Man-Man, come to think of it.

So I've sent the crucial October 31 files to XX (again... thanks a million, my hero and saviour) to upload and get it up and running. I have no idea why my DNS can't handle XX-hosted sites except for Comixpedia, but this only seems to happen to me.

Sigh.

- Matt

Hello. I wandered over here due to the frightnight thing, and I thought I would introduce myself. My name is Ben, and I draw comics. Um. That doesn't really make me special around these parts. Specifically, I do a comic about cooking. And the apocalypse. Mainly cooking. Or it will be about cooking anyway. At some point in the future.

Also I draw and encourage others to draw 1-hour comics. Which are basically comics drawn in an hour. (You can see all the ones I have drawn on my archives page. And you can see other peoples efforts in this thread at zwol.org.)

I live in Seattle, and I am debating whether or not I want to go to A.P.E. this year.

Ben

As someone who works on a weekly web comic, I often find myself wondering how other people manage to pull off their weeklies, let alone daily strips...

How much time do you spend on drawing a page? What size are you working at?

As someone with a fairly naturalistic style, I've trapped myself into spending a considerable amount of time per page: usually between 10 and 16 hours to pencil, ink and letter a page (a few have taken as much as 20 hours, a couple have taken only 8 hours). Of course, it probably doesn't help matters that I work at 11" x 17."

...then my colorist takes between 6 and 8 hours as well.

I'm not complaining—I'm pretty happy with the end result. I'm just looking to commiserate.

How long does it take you?

--Steve

We've got a thread going on in our forums for suggestions for Comixpedia from you, the readers. We're getting some good feedback but it would be very helpful to hear from lots more of you.

Why do you visit the site? What are we doing well and what are we doing not-so-well? What would you like to see added to Comixpedia.com?

What areas of webcomics have we not covered yet that you'd like to see stories on?

As we come up on the end of 2003 and the one-year mark for the 'Pedia, it's a good time to give us feedback so that we can build on your suggestions.

Click here for the thread

Good post and comments from Kiro5hin on Patrick Farley's E-Sheep.

The Pulse has the story on Insight Studio's Halloween webcomics.

Wheatley also said, “There may be some more surprises (even for us). The event will go "live" at www.sunnyfundays.com at 12:01AM on October 31. Visitors will be treated with a spooky new interface, and all the guest artists and guest strips will run through the weekend only. On Monday, November 3, the ISG world will return to normal (well, as normal as we get around here, anyway).”

I'm not sure where I first saw links leading to a forum post announcing the official end of Savant, a webzine advocating "comics advocacy." The website for Savant itself still proclaims that Savant is coming back. But from forum posts such as this one it's clear the Savanters have thrown in the towel.

As a fan and advocate of webcomics I have a mixed reaction to this development. It's always a bummer to see a site for good discussion leave the online blog-o-comicsphere (And Savant was good for 103 issues!) but on the other hand I think efforts aimed squarely at pushing people to read "comic books" bought from the "direct market" on a "monthly basis" to be misguided. To the contrary, promoting the "comic medium" today means routing around the legacy of negative perception created by the "comic book industry."

I'm a big dork, first of all, because it took me a few minutes to figure out the ending. I'm not hip to the new games that all the young people are playin'.

Once I "got it," though, I went back through and found the whole thing really danged charming.

- Matt
www.man-man.org

Here's an article about Mark Fiore, an editorial cartoonist who has shifted to making regular short animations for the web. Fiore's own website is at http://www.markfiore.com.

Another "Boney's panel is just a movie" approach but another great webcomic from Burke.