Sylvan Migdal's Extremely Interesting Web Comics is celebrating its 2 year anniversary with a week-long guest comic extravaganza!

The guest week focuses on the site's currently updating epic, the dark comedy Mnemesis, which began in September. Past comics include the complete graphic novel A God's Life and the gag strips Spork and Carface.

A short but glowing mention of Sam Brown's Exploding Dog in this NY Times article.

The award-winning 3-year epic Broken Saints is preparing to launch it's 23rd installment in its cult hit saga. Winner of the Sundance Online Film Festival Audience Award for Animation, Broken Saints contains over 10 hours of original flash storytelling.

Broken Saints follows the paths of four protagonists from different cultures that receive an ominous vision of the future - a vision that is somehow tied to the launching of a global telecommunications network.

Having been seen by over 2 million people worldwide, this free web project will be launching the penultimate episode in the series next week, and will close out its run with a 1 hour finale in June.

The 3-person team from North Vancouver, Canada hopes to release a traditional graphic novel and DVD box set of the series by Christmas 2003. They are also in talks with production companies ranging from HBO to the Sci-Fi Network to do a mini-series adaptation of the epic.

Christian and Pontus over at Little Gamers have started a grass roots web comic peace movement called Gamers For Peace. Their motto is “Make Games, Not War”. They have already gotten the support of quite a few web comic luminaries, including at 8-Bit Theatre and our very own at Lethal Doses plus many other fine comic creators. You can check out the Gamers For Peace section of their site to order a shirt and show your support.

Christopher Mills comic about the Web's favorite lady detective, the mysterious FEMME NOIR, makes another weekly appearance at Supernatural Crime: Free Digital Comics & Pulp, in an tense episode of "An Eye For A Spy," by Christopher Mills and Joe Staton.

Merlin's posted a new hypercomic at E-Merl entitled "Icarus Creeps."

Since I was five years old, all I've ever really wanted to do is to breath radioactive fire on downtown Tokyo. That isn't too much to ask from life, is it?"

ICV2 reports that Book Expo America will feature Graphic Novel Day Saturday, May 31, 2003.

The increase in graphic novel sales has been one of the few bright spots in the firmament of American publishing, so it's not surprising to see that Book Expo America is devoting a day of educational programming to help retailers and libraries to gain a better understanding of how to stock and sell all types of graphic novels. The brainchild of Kuo-Yu Liang of Diamond Book Distributors, Graphic Novel Day was created as a way to raise the profile of all graphic novel publishers and artists, not just those distributed by Diamond. In addition to the seminars and workshops described below, individual publishers are sponsoring events at their booths on Saturday, May 31 to coincide with the overall graphic novel promotion -- Viz, for example, is hosting an appearance of characters from the DBZ manga. Book Expo America will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center from May 28 through June 1.