UPDATE: Email exchange with Connecticut Staffer at Journey Into History Blog provides further information regarding Connecticut guest policy.

I guess this is one way to take the subjectivity out of deciding who to invite as a guest of a convention. Connecticon has announced a "webcomic tiers" plan that provides greater perks for webcomic creators attending Connecticon depending on the number of daily unique IP addresses the webcomic receives:

1,000+ UIP/Day - free 3-Day membership to ConnectiCon 2005.

5,000+ UIP/Day - free Artist's Colony Space (includes a 3-Day membership).

10,000+ UIP/Day - free Artist's Colony Table (includes two 3-Day memberships)

25,000+ UIP/Day - free Artist's Colony Table, Green Room access and some help with travel expenses (gas, tolls) and depending on available space a place to sleep and shower.

50,000+ UIP/Day - free Dealer's Room Booth, four 3-Day memberships, Green Room access, all travel expenses and 4-Nights hotel accommodations (Thursday - Sunday).

PHPComic 2.0 is a POSTpn module for grabbing comics from the web and displaying them in a POSTpn managed site (Comixpedia is a POSTpn managed site btw).

Although this raises all of the issues debated during the Comictastic news stories, this module, for what it's worth, does seem to include a link to the comic's website. It also has a somewhat active support forum which might provide an opportunity to suggest creator-friendly improvements to the folks behind this piece of code.

Or to learn if there's a way to block it, if you don't want your work displayed via this means of publication.

Round-ups galore. Here's some photos of R Stevens' and Jeph Jacques' recent talk at Boston University; a U.K. Mini and Webcomic Thing report from Ping Teo (even more U.K. Thing-related photos); and some photos from last weekend's MomoCon.

Modern Tales has added two new series to its regular line-up: The Trouble with Igor by Chris Reilly and Sheldon the Pig by Kevin Moore

Joey Manley promises several more new strip launches in the next couple of months. "We're just waiting for contract to come in."