Wired has a story called The Incredible Shrinking Comic about the trend towards putting comics onto cell phones for viewing. While this story is generally positive note the following paragraphs oh knwledgeable and sage 24 Hour Pixel People reader and wonder aloud why someone should pay 2 dollars a month for tiny comics on a celll phone when it is still unclear how many people will pay 2 dollars a month to read comics on a full size monitor.

Later this summer, an aggregation site called GoComics will expand to include offerings of strips like Doonesbury and La Cucaracha, all available to mobile-phone users willing to shell out $2 or $3 a month for access.

GoComics, which works with a number of comic-strip distributors and hopes to strike deals with comic-book makers like DC and Marvel, reports making 1 million sales in 2003. Nearly two-thirds of the customers are women, perhaps because they like the ability to personalize greetings, said co-managing director Chris Pizey.

Ultimately, GoComics hopes to convince cell-phone users to pay to see about 150 comic strips, many of which are now offered on the Internet for free. It's been a challenge to "reteach or retrain" Web users to pay for content, said Pizey, who also works in the online side of the comics business.

Pulse has a roundtable interview entitled THE WORLD of WEBS - Lien, Bryant, & Barr Talkin' Webcomics.
Mike W. Barr is the veteran of the three with acclaimed work such as Camelot 3000. He is curently writing Sorcerer of fortune published on Modern Tales sister site Graphic Smash.
Barb Lien-Cooper writes Gun street girl, also on Graphic Smash.
Steve Bryant is one of the artist on Athena Voltaire, published on Modern Tales.

The roundtable is an interesting read, even though the title is somewhat misleading as it has very little to do with webcomic in particular.

When Scott McCloud tries to explain Understanding Comics to people, he invariably gets asked if it is a "how-to" book because the overview "[a] comic book about comics that explains the inner workings of the medium and examines many aspects of visual communication along the way" may not resonate with too many people not already interested in the inner workings of comics.

Since the release of his first book, McCloud has kept busy in the lecture circuit, with seminars and workshops on comics & technology and the art of comics storytelling. These visual lectures have culminated in a new book, Making Comics, his answer to the "how-to" manual for creating comics.

The 2004 Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards were announced July 25th. Big congratulations are in order for newcomer Adrian Ramos who picked up 6 awards for Count Your Sheep. Penny Arcade remains a favorite with 5 more awards to put on their mantle, including Outstanding Website Design. Both these titles share the coveted Outstanding Comic award this year.

The full list of categories and winners follows below: