The Cartunnel: a comix fluxture looks like fun. A real world comic experience! (I saw this I think from Kip's blog: Long Story, Short Pier)

The artists: established and emerging cartoonists, illustrators, and graphic novelists. The project: create a maze of intersecting paths in the Flux Factory gallery space over which comic book characters will interact and develop. Visitors are invited to walk through the maze and experience a Choose Your Own Adventure story, with side-plots, dead-ends, and parallel narrative universes, created in a collaborative atmosphere. Depending on which directions visitors choose at various junctures along the way, the course of the story will be altered accordingly. A visitor would be able to walk through the maze several times and see different versions and permutations of the narrative each time they do.

And is that a good thing or a bad thing :) - (I'm just looking at Mike_M's icon/avatar on Talkaboutcomics.com - I assume that's what he looks like.)

Webcomics Examiner, for which Mike_M writes is on to its third issue. Interesting stuff and nice to see that WE appears to be sticking around.

I just saw this thread over on the WE forums where Mike_M responds to a webcomic creator's request for a review. I think the tone of the reply is a little harsh but it's a fair point.

On the other hand I've always thought there was a value in publicizing when a webcomic is ready for review. Given the serialized nature and the put it up as its done approach many creators take with webcomics it's not easy to decide what to review, even when we're aware of the webcomic's existence to begin with. Joe Zabel is right that such publicity can be done with a press release. I hope the various means of community expression at Comixpedia provide a platform for webcomic creators to effectively let a large percentage of the "community" know what they're up to - including the editors and staff at Comixpedia.

I suppose what I'm leading up to here is a plea to keep thinking about ways Comixpedia can serve creators and readers well (even better?) as a place to find news about webcomic projects.

Although I think a lot of our regular readers have Comixpedia bookmarked at this point there is always traffic coming from other sites. Here's a look at the cumulative leading referrers for this year and their percentage of referrals to Comixpedia:

3.06 % http:/ / www.itswalky.com/
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1.12 % http:/ / 24hour.comixpedia.com/
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0.62 % http:/ / hardartist.livejournal.com/
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Chris Bishop's birthday is coming up (September 8th) and he's running HER! [Girl vs Pig] strips by guest cartoonists to celebrate!

If you are interested, draw your own HER! strip & send to her@chrisbishop.com by September 4th. Strips will appear on the site the week of September 8th! Also, if you know someone else who might be interested, please pass this on!

See the official invitation!

I have been severely stucken with this....

It's like I have these partial ideas but they never pan out when I try to move them from mind to paper, and I just can't get any significant comic-ing done when I really want to and arrggh....

MUST....DRAW COMICS...but CAN'T..... STUPID WORLD AGGGHHH

BLAHHRHGHHH!

Thank you.

cat garza pointed me to The Center for Cartoon Studies which opens for business this fall. Located in White River Junction in Vermont, this place will provide a two year program of study for aspiring cartoonists that centers on the creation and dissemination of comics, graphic novels and other manifestations of the visual narrative.

Experienced and internationally recognized cartoonists, writers, and designers will teach classes. I'm not sure who the instructors will be but check out the big name advisory board:

Steve Bissette
Will Eisner
Gary Groth
Sammy Harkham
William Horberg
Denis Kitchen
Scott McCloud
Chris Oliveros
Diana Schutz
Seth
Art Spiegelman
Eric Reynolds
R. Sikoryak

Hey, hey! Well...I really should have dropped by Comixpedia looooong before now, but alas alack. Anyhow, greetings all, glad to meet you! Or in some Keenspacer cases, see you again. :wink: