Lot of calendars this year from the likes of Blank Label and the Ryans but I don't think I've seen anything like this. Don't ever go away Chex!

Does anyone else get pretty overwhelmed by webcomics drama overload? We've had some monster threads on the forums this month. Or is it just long-ish articles? I saw T Campbell wrote a modest complaint about the roundtable discussion in this month's magazine. I hope it wasn't too long -- but in any event I think it's a great read regardless. It's a discussion amongst critics (alright some of them are also webcomic creators but they are all folks who have spent a lot of time writing about webcomics) which actually is something relatively new in "webcomics journalism" as most roundtable articles have been amongst creators.

There's a forum for talking about OhNoRobot.

Eric Burns has a relatively positive snark about Carson Fire's Winger strip. I've already said something pretty similar so I won't repeat myself other then to say if Fire really focuses on funny as opposed to making a point he may have something big there.

Last but not least if you're doing things over on the BETA site and have a few second please post some feedback (you can post in the new forums over there as well). So far I can tell that it doesn't seem to have crashed from the usual Monday morning level of traffic. That's a good start :)

Apparently, Marvel announced the launch of digital comics yesterday according to a post at The Beat. To read the complete comics you need to register, which according to the website is free.

Hot diggety! Apophenia 357 has finally beaten Polly Vs. Tentacle Monster on the Top 100 All Time Webcomics Nation Comics list which ranks WCN comics by pageviews.

I feel much better now that my 3/week serial comic has defeated my one-shot 24 hour comic. Of course it was an inevitability for reasons of volume of pages if nothing else (although Polly still has more pages).

What's interesting is the battle between Eric's The Adventiers of Brigadier General John Starks and Apophenia 357. The two comics often switch places in the Top 100 ranking. What makes it interesting to me is the similarities and differences of the two comics.

Two closely ranked comics, one is entirely illustration with no "writing" and the other is entierly writing with no "illustration". I have expect the two comics to spontainiously combine and form a giant robot that goes on a rampage laying waste to all webcomics in it's path.

Both comics are also probably surfing on the fame of their creator's other projects too. GGC in my case and Websnark in Eric's.

I wonder what will happen at the end of the first chapter when Apophenia gets turned over to the writers in its audience and their versions of the story go up.

The Penny Arcade reports that their Child's Play Charity Dinner were held on December 13 and raised 82 100 USD. The meter on the Child's play site shows that more than 200 000 USD has been raised so far.

The first page of the Sam and Max webcomic has been posted on Telltale games website. Interesting to note is that the page uses rollovers to display narration, sound effects and events in the page.

Official press release here.

Comic Book Resources ponders Marvel Editor in Chief, Joe Quesada recent musings on online distribution.

As with the shift to "exclusive distribution," if Marvel leaps on the Internet distribution bandwagon virtually every other publisher in the business will as well, to "stay competitive," and where that will leave comics shops, already battered by the steady growth of graphic novel sales in general bookstores, is anyone's guess.

The Gigcast #16 is now available. MegaCon Orlando update, a Drunk Duck man on the scene report, and Part 1 of our interview with Jennie Breeden of The Devils Panties.

Come on over and check it out! http://gigcast.nightgig.com