Hey! Do you know what happens on May 5, 2003? It's Webcomic Awareness Day! Webcomic awareness has been around for 3 years already, providing comic relief to people all around, and spreading the word that web-comics exist!

Jon Towers, the man behind Jonny Axx has started a new comic that challenges the status quo of what a webcomic crossover can be.

With The Nonstandard Assembly, Towers has taken characters from Chopping Block, Diesel Sweeties, the Repository of Dangerous Things, Hotel Grim, and his own Jonny Axx to create an amazing story that redefines webcomic crossovers for all time.

Overat Newsarama, there's a pretty good interview with Chris Claremont, legendary X-Men writer. The bulk of both X-Men movie plots appear to have been lifted from his run on the X-books. Surprisingly, he's gotten no credits for the on-screen versions.

Journalista! points us to a story on the growth in subscribership at U Click's My Comics service after the availability to subscribers of Bloom County repeats.

Time to grab some free comics folks! Click here to find your most local-ist "direct market" shop for comic books.

KeenSpot is once again giving away comic books, both a 2003 Spot Sampler and issues from its A-Bomb line of books.

"Go For It!" a fairly obscure comic on KeenSpace, reaches 200 comics today: 2 Friday, 2003. The series focuses on a teenager with cat ears, the insanity of his life, as well as any strange thought that comes into the creator's (R. L. Peterson's) diseased imagination. The 200th strip is done in an 8-panel format and parodies the author's views of his own work.

A Los Angeles Magazine profile of Jack Chick, the Fundamentalist Christian and and arguably one of the largest publisher of comics in USA. You can read all his treasures online as well.