Howard Tayler, creator of popular webcomic, Schlock Mercenary let slip two big news items recently. The first being that Tayler has quit his day job and will give full-time webcomicing a go.

Tayler also noted in the comments to his post that he is not doing a book with Keenspot. If and with what publisher he didn't mention but hopefully there'll still be a Schlock Mercanary collection in print at some point.

Jon Rosenberg has a message for makers of webcomic ripper programs, "You All Suck." I think Jon is also recommending that Comixpedia (and others) stop linking to examples of this trend. It's something to think about as we're not trying to promote the use of them per se (just wanted to meet my lawyer word quota for the day). However just to take the other side, as far as I can recall everytime Comixpedia has highlighted a particular program readers have convinced the creators of said programs to rethink their functionality and try to work with creators.

But I"ll definitely think about it some more. I will hopefully run into Jon at the upcoming SPXPo so maybe I can talk to him about it some more.