From a news post on the Penny Arcade site it appears that this years Child's Play charity event will commence on November 1st and expand to a global scale.

Epoch Mach is still modest in all respects but I had someone approach me about doing a storyline about living and growing up in the Monastery, an organization featured in Epoch Mach.

I came to this forum looking to see if there was an artist interested in the project since I wanted Epoch Mach projects to be done by people other than myself. If interested, please contact me @

. I have a writer who has a treatment prepared and we are looking for an artist. Its not a huge project, looking probably at 12 pgs. give or take.

Lulu.com has announced The Lulu Blooker Prize. It is described as the worlds first literary prize devoted to "blooks", books based on blogs and websites. The winner in each of the tree categories, fiction, non-fiction and comic, will each receive $1000 and the overall winner will get an additional $1000.

The entire press release reprinted below the fold.

01Comics.Com announces that it has named A.P. Furtado as Creative Director for its web and print comic line.

"We're really excited to have A.P. join our team," said 01comics.com President Barry Gregory. "We were honored just to have a comic from him in our lineup of titles. Having him working alongside us as Creative Director is a huge coup for us."