WirePop is now almost a year old! The first and only subscription site to offer nothing but great Manga-styled comics is opening its doors to new talent once again.

Who gets tattoos? Well, according to this website, awesome people! The creator of Daily Dinosaur Comics has put together a page with "the express purpose ... to encourage more people to get crazy drawings burned into their skin." If you have any pictures of webcomics tattoos, you might consider telling this guy about it.

Neil Cohn has started a forum on visual arts theory. Just getting underway so it might be a few days before the place is humming but I suspect it will indeed hum.

In fact, I already found a link there to a blog on visual arts that may be of interest when it too begins to hum. Visual Culture and Language is Professor Kevin Brooks new blog.

Okay, my wonderful (sometimes) service provider gives me a great, huge list of usage statistics, updated daily and archived monthly. Now, while these are pretty nice at keeping up with trends, noticing when we're having spikes, tracking down people who link in to us (and thanking them) and what not, I'd still like to know roughly how many READERS we have; how many people come by to read our comic. Now, I could probably got through and count the number of different IP addresses, assuming that similar IP addresses refer to a single dial-up user at different times, and guesstimate, but that's a heck of alot of work for not much return.

Do any season professionals have a rule-of-thumb regarding translating daily visit and page request numbers into a "I have roughly this many readers!" number?

Gutterflycomix.com has gone through many changes in the four years since its inception, but Gutterfly's founders are letting us know that those changes are only the beginning. Video games, a public comics listing, and a new server are all in the works for this pop-culture comics hub.