A couple of suggestions for holiday weekend themed webcomics: When Old Nick steals Saint Nick's job, the fate of the world is at stake and it's up to Little Timmy Smithers to save christmas...if he can.  Read Adam White's and Matt Black's Feliz Navidamned!

And the classic Saturnalia by Patrick Farley which is about "paganism, christmas, yule, winter solstice, horned god" and is NSFW.

Post your suggestions in the comments.  Happy holidays to all.

Hopefully this is a good week to finish moving Comixpedia to its new site.  The design for the new site isn't done but should be before the end of the year.Tonight the url Comixpedia.com will be detached to start the process of pointing it to the new site.  So Comixpedia.com will be wonky for awhile.  (Comixpedia.net will continue to get you to the original site and comixpedia.org will continue to point to the Webcomics Encyclopedia).  We'll be serving the news from altertainment.net now until the move is finished - but I've set up Comixpedia.net to get the RSS feed from it in the meantime.

As we head into 2006 I want to pitch everyone on considering writing for Comixpedia. Email me if you're interested in any type of writing for the site. One thing we're always looking for is interesting one-shot column pieces from folks working in webcomics in some capacity. We call these "open soapboxes".

You can check out what we've published before here.

someone who is utterly brilliant propsed a solution to the image woes over here

http://www.comixpedia.org/index.php/%5B%5BComixpedia%5D%5D:Image_Policy_Proposal

My suggestion would be for people to run over there and railroad this policy through.

So, webcomics...

Hot or not?

A late night wrap up of the week that was. And Happy Holidays to everyone around the world. Stay safe and happy out there.

New group blog, FLEEN on webcomics spawned by Jon Rosenberg. Although I don't agree with Rosenberg's categorial rant on creator-written articles about webcomics, I am all in favor of FLEEN's stated mission of using non-webcomics creators to write on webcomics. Because anything that draws in more good writers interested in writing about webcomics is a good thing for webcomics and frankly for Comixpedia. Don't get me wrong, I love our current crew of contributors. It's just given our ridiculously low pay (BUT HEY! COMIXPEDIA DOES PAY FOR CONTRIBUTIONS, if you hadn't heard that) it's not easy to recruit people who don't already love the medium going in.

Also Eric wrote an essay responding to Jon's post. Since Eric is a webcomic creator and critic, it's not surprising he was interested in responding to Jon.

I also got a press release from Powerful Press about new issues of their comic titles, METADAWN and NOCTURNAL ESSENCE. Right now all of the archives at their site are free to readers.

Speaking of writing about comics it's been awhile since I've mentioned it so here's the link to the Comics Blog Update Machine where you can find up-to-the-minute links to a lot of blogs on comics.

And last but not least - here's the latest addition to the new Comixpedia creators library: Kevin Robertson. Robertson's webcomic is Beyond The Punchline.