First of all, thank you to everyone for showing up for the launch of Comixpedia and our first issue. In our first month, we've had well over 50,000 pages served and over 250 readers register with the site. Counting our features, reviews, interviews and our daily news posts, we posted approximately 150 stories to Comixpedia in February. We've also already posted 60 links in our Useful Links directory which is becoming a very useful guide to finding all things webcomic.

Our second issue rolls out next Monday on March 3rd. In week one, we will be examining in more detail the aspects of online community that make reading webcomics such a unique experience compared to other forms of comics. We also have a great interview with Dorothy Gambrell, creator of Cat and Girl, among other cool comics. And other stuff, but you'll have to wait until Monday to find out the rest.

Christopher Mills, the editor of Adventure Strips dot com, has relaunched his personal comics site, Supernatural Crime, which features online comics such as Femme Noir, Brother Grim, and Nightmark. The first new feature is scheduled to be a new issue of Femme Noir to debut March 7th.

K. Dreger has an article on the demise of Wowcomics dot com, a defunct company started to publish comics online that left its site running long after the company seems to have collapsed. Although the article is scant on the details of the wowcomics business plan (there must have originally been some promise there as they do appear to have signed up several creators and obtained rights to their work), it does show how messy cleaning up a failed online venture can be if the owners don't do the responsible thing in winding it down.

K. Dreger has an interview with Aaron Urbina, the creator of Beamable, a software package designed to support online viewing of comics, a frame at a time.

This is probably of much interest to the many webcartoonists (including yours truly) obsessed with GARFIELD as kids. I'm glad the fat orange tabby cat's finally getting a movie, but the casting makes me feel strange.

Staff Contributor