Over at the Engine, Warren Ellis asks

I know that some of the webcomics people here have formed into groups, of various degrees of looseness.

What has that achieved for you?

Not much of a response yet. Maybe Dumbrella should offer an honorary membership to the guy...

Preparations have begun for the UK Web & Mini Comix Thing 2006. The convention will take place on March 11 2006 and is currently looking for volunteers and is accepting bookings for exhibitors. New for this year is that there will be an anthology book published.

September 27th's edition of GSI.

Submitted without comment.

Welton Colbert, the world self-renowned comic reviewer, and retired cartoonist, is having a guest week.

Have you ever wanted Welton to review your work? Here's your chance. Draw a comic about Welton reviewing your comic. That's right, you get to review your own strip.

Part of the new publishing platform I'll be rolling out for the new Comixpedia site makes it a lot easier to publish the monthly magazine. Now all contributors will have one biography attached to all stories they write for us. This makes it easier for us (no need to retype each time a new story is published) and better for the contributor (no matter when someone reads a story they see your current biography).

If you've contributed to Comixpedia and want to submit a new bio go ahead and email me. Also, all contributors may now have a 100 x 100 pixel image to go with their stories. If you want to submit one, include it on an email to me.

I just finished loading in all of the stories published in 2003. Click read more for a list of contributors from that year. (One of the nice new features will be the ability to easily see all of the articles each contributor has written for Comixpedia.)

Wednesday White snarks Alien Loves Predator today, but in a good way. Anyhoo it's a very funny webcomic and today is no exception.

D.J. Coffman's writing partner on Yirmumah up and quits but Coffman says he will keep the webcomic going by himself.

Remember the Smurfs? UNICEF bombed the @#%% out of their village.

In not news dept: I must have missed this but Bryant Paul Johnson did a special Teaching Baby Paranoia about Modern Tales when he first joined that subscription site way back in 2002. Dig that Joey Manley as J. Jonah Jameson!

And in the random-funny dept: Doctor Doom's top 10 EUPHEMISMS FOR SEX.

Boxcar is proud to announce the formation of the Boxcar Comics store, Hoboutique. The store currently features shirts from comics such as Beaver and Steve, Nothing Nice To Say, and Rob and Elliot. More shirts will be available soon.

Also in the store is the Boxcar Calendar, a 12 month calendar featuring 12 members from Boxcar. Pre-order yours today!