This week the daily comic strip "Algernon's Dilemma" celebrates 200 weeks (1400 strips) online. And on Sunday, August 24th, the strip starts its 201st week with the opening of the new syndicate building (in place of the one previously destroyed by publishing magnate H.R. Beck in December 2001).

Beck (who's been conspicuously absent from the strip for the better part of two years) also returns, only to find that his boss has recently hired a major media sensation for the syndicate's all-news network. The two are likely to clash heads, making way for even more mayhem and destruction in their wake.

Ninth Art has a good interview with Peter Bagge, former indy-comic demi-god. Lately Bagge seems to have spent a lot of time trying to get his comic creations made into animated series. With his self-professed short attention span and the continued maturation of a webcomics "industry" someone ought to pitch him a project for a webcomic.

I'd read it anyhow.

Sometimes BoxJam reminds me of James Thurber, an early to mid 20th century American author who created the Walter Mitty character. He was also a bit of a cartoonist, whose work often appeared in the New Yorker.

A NY Times review of the recent publication of a collection of his letters (NY Times requires registration but it's free) is interesting not so much as a review but as a discussion of what part, if any, of Thurber's work will be remembered by future generations. In other words, was he a writer or a cartoonist?

A bunch of new features are now posted at SUPERNATURAL CRIME: Digital Comics & Pulp.

FEMME NOIR MEETS BROTHER GRIM! The special super-short (2-pages) SUPERNATURAL CRIME strip by Mills and Dario Carrasco (aided and abetted by Jim Keplinger & Sebastian Lamirand), "Crossover," is now (re-)posted in the "Comics" section. This brief tale chronicles the explosive first meeting between Port Nocturne's Blonde Justice and the Undead Avenger. Check it out!

NEW & IMPROVED NOIR! While Mills waits for new episodes of "An Eye For A Spy" to be completed, Mills has been continuing to re-letter and slightly revise the first FEMME NOIR comic story, "Cold, Dead Fingers." Now, the first TWENTY-TWO episodes have been "remastered" and are ready to be reviewed by our ravenous readers.

Hi,

According to a popular computer science book, the last thing one does before going to bed is always a mistake, and the solution is not to do that last thing, and just go to bed. So, I'm officially calling cleaning my kitchen to be the last thing that I'm not doing, and introducing myself on this web forum being the second to the last thing.

Anyway, I'm kim. I'm hooked on reading web comics (especially when things aren't going well at work) and I'm involved in an online web comic (a science fiction story with spaceships and AI's) called Death and Transfiguration. http://www.studioantithesis.com/dnt/

Okay, now it's bedtime.