Ubercon, primarily a gaming convention held in New York City, will feature Pete Abrams of Sluggy Freelance as a special guest. Along with Abrams, web comic creators Rob Balder (partiallyclips.com), Randal Milholland (somethingpositive.net), Jon Rosenberg, and Phil Karlsson (Goats) will hold a webcomics panel on Sunday Feb 16th. The panel begins at 11:00 AM and lasts for one hour. Ubercon begins on Friday the 14th at 4:00 PM lasting until Monday the 17th.

Talkaboutcomics, the free forum site for small press and webcomics creators run by Joey Manley, is opening up its 24/7 Nightstar Network IRC chat channel to other cartoonists and creators who wish to host their own live events.

Manley said, "We're hoping it will work sort of like a 24/7 webcomics convention, with press briefings, interviews, panel sessions, book club meetings -- whatever people want to do." The channel will have no sponsorship or membership requirements, according to Manley. "It's just a service. Nightstar was kind enough to grant us use of their servers -- we're extending our invitation in the same spirit of community-building that Nightstar has shown to us."

John Allison's latest bit of brilliance is about to hit print!

Looks, Brains & Everything, the first Scary Go Round collection is now available for pre-order. And as if that weren't good enough, the first 200 people to pre-order will apparently get their names in the back of the book for posterity. It's 128 full-color pages, and packed with creepy goodness (or so rumour has it).

We'll try not to do this too much but seeing as we just started Comixpedia and webcomics have existed for sometime, we may on occasion point you to an old interview or review that we think is worth a look. Given the enormous growth in popularity of webcomics' audience it's also entirely possible that many readers aren't aware of these "ancient news" items.

For starters, here's an 1998 interview with Pete Abrams of Sluggy Freelance, the first (and probably still only) webtoonist to be interviewed by NPR (The interview is in Real Player format).

Brad Guigar is back with the weekly webcomic quiz. This wednesday's edition is all about the stories from this issue of Comixpedia. So read up and test your new webcomic trivia technique!

It's called Methinks the Lass Has a Screw Loose and you can order it here.

Alice, a Keenspot comic by Michael McKay-Fleming, is the story of a young girl with quite an over active imagination. The strip has been running on the web for nearly four years.