A couple of housekeeping notes. First - you have until midnight tonight to enter the DEAD EYES OPEN comic book giveaway contest. I'm a bit shocked I've had only 4 entries so far. With five prizes that makes it great for the current entrants but we've got over a 1000 registered members and more than 10 times that number of casual vistors on most days. Sure to enter you've got to send in something for our ZOMBIE Webcomic JAM but it can be as good or simple a sketch as you want. Just send me a link to a URL to zombie @ comixpedia.com before midnite tonight.

Second our August issue is scheduled to start on August 15th but we'll be providing daily news updates on the site as usual. We have a great piece of cover art for August from Paul Taylor that I'll put up later today.

Third, I've knocked our sponsorship rates back down again (these are the image + text ads that run down the side of the site) so 1 week is $15 and 1 month is $55. Please be sure to check out our current sponsors: Marilith, an action-adventure webcomic by Sean Lindsay and Fantasy Realms, a digital graphic novel of high fantasy by Garnder and Geyer.

UPDATE: Battlegate is also a current sponsor - please check it out! We also love our banner advertisers! On that note, the banner campaign for Sordid City Blues just ended. Great banner and one of the best relationship comics you can read on the web or off.

The Washington Webtoonists are meeting up again, as it's the first Tuesday of the month... and that's kinda their thing. Click "read more" for location and time.


Xerexes: For what it's worth I'll (most likely) be there again as well.

In a move that boggles the mind of most sane people, Sporkman has returned to the web once again, on a Monday through Friday schedule that's likely to kill its creator. All the same, Sporkman's new adventures began on July 25th.

Hi everyone!

Just thought I'd slap down a greeting then scamper back into the shadows... watching...

Uh, I'm grad student that's been doing a webcomic for bout a year now. You can check it out at this link (or my sig... possibly).

I'll probably be around. :shock:

Are there any more horror webcomics out there?

Dayfree Press creators Theater Hopper and Nothing Nice to Say will be making an appearance on Artist's Alley at Wizard World Chicago. The event is being held this Thursday, August 4 to Sunday, August 7 at the Rosemont Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois.

Hi everyone.

I'm starting up a new webcomic over at Poletariat Comics (http://www.proletariatcomics.com/Site%20Revision/welcome.html).
Here's a couple of the pages we have up at the moment. Tell me what you think.

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Well, Webcomics Nation is go. It looks like it's priced at $9.95 a month. (more details in our post below). The launch caught Warren Ellis' eye. Ellis also noted this morning on his Bad Signals mail list that certain media execs have not looked favorably upon the leak, bittorrenting and subsequent cult popularity for the Global Frequency pilot and that "it as dead as dead can get as a TV series."

Also Glych is (literally) having a paper drive to help her keep making comics.

Several years ago, due to my broke-ness, I held the first official paper drive where fans of my work could buy me paper. Just recently, I've run out of the last of those wonderful contributions from those loyal fans (thank you all!). I am still just as "Starving" of an "Artist" as I was those many moons ago. I have a large ammount of work ahead of me, not just with No Stereotypes but also NonPersons, the Experiment, and new Red Dahlia chapters to come...All of which is difficult to produce for me...you know...without paper.

You can find out how to donate paper or just drop some ducats in her tip jar at the site.

And be sure to check out this collaborative gallery of sketches drawn with a ball point pen. It is pretty amazing.

UPDATE:Global Frequency was a television project based on Warren Ellis' popular graphic novel franchise of the same name. A pilot episode was completed and the show was scheduled to premiere in the Spring of 2005 on the WB television network. A change in network management altered the plans for Global Frequency and it seemed that Global Frequency would never be seen on television. In June 2005, however, a digital copy of the Global Frequency pilot episode made its way onto the Internet and a fanbase has developed around it. More details on this website.

Joey Manley, publisher of the leading commercial webcomics site, Modern Tales, announced today that WebcomicsNation.com, a premier hosting and automation service for online cartoonists, has launched today.

Is the archive system good the way it is? I posted this in business since I'm approaching it from the financially viable aspect of it.

If you have 10 years of comics should they just all be there in the archives? There are some webcomics out there that just have too big an archive to catch up with for the average reader. They might read a few oldies but then just start reading from the current one.

Is it a thought to just have a years worth of archives, and anything earlier only be available in books or as a pay part of your site? Or maybe just keep a "best of" sort of archive?

I guess its only a consideration if you are trying to maximize profits from a comic. I think most ad systems are good for maybe 5-10 adviews per visitor before they start not paying or showing default banners. So it seems the archives are just costing bandwidth and possibly cutting book sales.

Maybe archives could have no ads and just be run on a donation basis.

Maybe that's not the case at all, maybe that's a service to the reader to make them stronger fans. It may also depend on if its a story comic or gag comic. Or maybe its a disservice to the reader, because they won't get around to reading them, but won't want to buy a book either since it IS technically available to them when they are ready... I am much more apt to read a lot more in a sitting from a book than on my distracting computer.

Just curious what people's thoughts are on the old archive system and if it's a benefit or detriment to your comics potential earnings.

It's late and apologies if I didn't word this understandably.

-Tyler