I usually find VG Cats funny even if I have no idea what it's parodying. But the current one is totally "Comics I Don't Understand".

I don't do this often enough, but I really am grateful to everyone who advertises with Comixpedia - because of them we've been able to cover hosting costs and shell out some cash to our contributors.

Our current advertisers include the webcomics Kitty Litter, Front Beat, Misfit's Journey, Framed: North Carolina, Astronaut Elementary and Onezumi.com - their site not only features their webcomics but some really great forums - check them out after the Comixpedia forums :)

And our latest advertiser is D.J. Coffman, who has a new monthly Yirmumah! comic book coming out.

Be sure to check them all out!

Otakon is the first con to announce a "no fanart" policy for their Artist Alley, which outlaws the selling of commissions or prints that utilize any depictions of copyrighted material, even though the artwork involved is original and not a reproduction of any actual existing images (think Inuyasha on a Chocobo).

The issues relevant to webcomics relate to the possible banning of "sprite comics" or any comics that utilize depictions of copyrighted properties to tell their stories. If "fanart" is banned, then these most certainly fall under that distinction.

Copyright is a very important area, but Otakon's absolute position will now prohibit many of the usual activities of a con that are expected by the attendees in regard to artists (such as being able to commission original artwork of their favorite characters), along with setting up a precedent that threatens Anime Music Videos, Cosplay competitions, and the appearance of many webcomics.

Starting Febuary 1st, No Stereotypes will update daily for 100 straight days, the last day marking the completion of the story.

Advertising is our only revenue source (right now anyway) -- which helped me pay the writers of Comixpedia some cash last year and hopefully will let us do so again. We have two options right now - the vertical sponsor ads on the right which run for set periods of time (one week, two weeks, etc) and the horizontal banner ads which run for a set number of impressions (everytime a banner loads on the site it is an impression).

I posted the new rate card for banner ads at Comixpedia. Although I took away the $5 option (it's just too much hassle unfortunately) I bumped up the impressions for the other options.

Also, if anyone else has any ideas for Comixpedia to make some more money gracefully (I don't want to turn the site into the million dollar homepage or anything) please post/email your suggestions.

The articles won't be dropping until next weekend, but the new cover art by R Stevens was too tempting not to post.

UpDown Studio creators Greg Carter (No Frailty) and Elliot Dombo (Legend of Terrar) will be in the Artist Alley at the Atlanta Comic Convention on Super Bowl Sunday, February 5, 2006, from 11am-5pm.

Comic-con.org's The Pulse interviews Amber "glych" Greenlee about her contribution "Polarity" for the Narwain Publishing sci-fi Anthology, "Tales of a Forgotten Planet."

Hans Bjordahl's Bugbash links to Off Panel Productions which proclaims that it "is dedicated to helping niche comic artists publish their work online and make money doing it. We aim to bring comics to communities that have never had them, all while giving the artist unprecedented ownership and creative control."

Today, Keenspot launched their webcomics podcast, Keencast with hosts Chris Layfield and Chris Daily. The first show features an interview with Starline Hodge, creator of Candi.