Talk Like A Pirate Day - September 19. Tomorrow! I expect many bad pirate-themed comics on Sunday. Hopefully a few good ones though...

The most recent Alice! comic has the girls going to Sore Thumbs video store - which is of course in the Sore Thumbs webcomic. Although it would never work the way the Marvel or DC "universes" do, one thing that I am always surprised Keenspot doesn't do every now and than is cross-overs or even coordinated large-scale storylines. I know why it's hard - Keenspot is a collective of independent creators and not really a unified company per se - but it's not impossible. And if done well it could be fun and expose readers to some new Keenspot comics they might not have given a chance too.

Bugpowder reports that the Web and Mini Comix THING will return next year. The East London event was a success this year in it's initial run.

Modern Tales, the webcomics service that many associate with a solitary business focus on paid subscriptions, is now selling banner ads across its entire network of websites, for the first time in the three-year history of the business.

http://www.moderntales.com/mediakit.php

It appears that it soon will be possible to buy adspace on Modern tales and its sister sites.

Here's the thing. Despite the fact that the Modern Tales family is one of the most successful web comics businesses in existence, we're actually fairly new to the banner ad game: in the past, the primary business model for our websites has been subscription support. Subscription support will continue to bear the most weight in our business model, but we have decided to try to mix it up a bit, especially now that banner advertising seems to be coming out of the post-dotcom-crash doldrums.

The current introductory rates are pretty cheap. The cheapest, 2 USD will buy you 100 impressions and the most expensive, 20 USD, will buy you 15 000 impressions. The reasons given for these low rates are to gather necessary data on various things such as click-through rates, return on investment etc.

The ads will be seen on Graphic novel review and Talk about comics forums, and by non-subscribers on Modern tales, Girlamatic and Graphic smash, apparently not on Serializer though.

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A little about myself:
I use to be a news reporter and interviewer at toonzone.net back when I was in high school, then went off to college and have pitched a few shows to Cartoon Network and am interested in working with them someday. I like Penny Arcade, White Ninja, Achewood, blah, blah blah.