In its latest show On The Media, a radio show broadcast on NPR, covered among other things the current state of newspaper comic strips. The report, entitled Strip Down?, also looks at the impact of the internet on comic strips.

According to a news post by Gabe, the Penny Arcade Expo 2005 website is now online. Due to the succes of the 2004 expo, larger quarters have been secured this year.

In a move of brillance the admins of keenspace decided to try to turn off keenbucks so people don't take what thier comic is worth too seriously. Normally I wouldn't care about things being turned on and off, however in doing this they turned off the passwords into the member areas (so logs are down) and the keenspace admins don't really know how to turn them back on without Gav's help.

PLEASE people train your admins! If your going to give them orders to turn things off and on make sure they know what thier doing! OR If you want them to do one part but you are the only one with access to turning on and off passwords THEN DO IT YOURSELF! Having the member areas down for a few days is cool, but we're pushing 5 days of being down and if someone needed to do member area stuff like change password (or check on thier advertising) then thier SOL!

Oi I really enjoy being on keenspace but sometimes they things they do make my head spin. Wasn't it last year around this time the autoupdater stopped working and they had to completely replace the entire server?

This month's jam is titled "For Better or Worse" and the first installment is from Miguel Estrugo. Read it here!

The February edition of Bookslut, a preeminent web magazine on books and the literary scene, is live, and it includes the third installment of Stripped Books, a semi-regular non-fiction webcomic by Gordon McAlpin.