Wow Comixpedia looks so Web 2.0 now!

I love how EVERY SINGLE WEB SITE IN EXISTENCE now lets you publish a "blog". Seriously, I have about 15 of these things now, and I have enough trouble updating one...

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Also a big thanks to our current sponsors: the webcomics hosting and services site: Webcomics Nation, and the webcomics Nothing Better, Local Heroes, Fish Tank, Misfits Journey, Framed: North Carolina, Astronaut Elementary, Brinkerhoff, and O'deer.

Interesting. I didn't really need a new forum for self-expression, but knowing myself, I won't be able to avoid it.

What's happening? Um...

I'm putting together the Sinister Bedfellows: Anthology, still waiting on stories from Colleen of Fluff in Brooklyn and Eric of Websnark.

I'll be at MomoCon in two weeks. I might even have a place to sleep :)

I'm #8 on the Comixpedia Top List, which makes me question the methodology.

I keep callling people by the wrong names, due, I hope, to the medication I've been on and NOT brain damage from the high fevers.

Later...

Creating your own hilarious Chick tract, or rewriting the dialogue for an existing one, rarely ever works as well as you think it might. It's difficult to come up with effective subjects that haven't been worn smooth by uncreative teenaged Discordians. And, if you're going to roll your own, which of the art styles do you use? (There's at least three main ones.) Which lettering phase seems just right?

Why not fall back on the Random Chick Tract Generator to get a feel for the formula? Some results are better than others, as with any Random $EXISTING_COMIC Generator, but a few rounds will quickly give you a feel for things.

Besides, for heaven's sake, it's a Random Chick Tract Generator!

Okay, the new layout for the forums is totally confusing and I much prefered the old sidebar that showed me what threads were recently commented on.

Krishna Sadasivam, cartoonist behind The PC Weenies provides the guest-art for today's edition of Bill Charbonneau's Voices in My Hand. Be sure to check it out!

Jon and Phillip have redone the Goats website.  I really like the evolution of the look and the new layout scheme.  It's the kind of thing I'd do if I had any talent for writing code and doing design.

Jon also talks about dropping the Premium membership feature he's had for the last couple of years.  Paraphrasing a bit, what Jon wrote sounds like he's very excited about the new direction he's taking Goats in and wants to invest more time in it.  Time he'll no longer have to spend on the Patent Pending and other Sunday strips he did for his Premium members. 

A tip of the hat to Jon for being upfront with his fans and striving to do the right thing for them.

I came across this Comixpedia news post today about the beginning of the ongoing Iraq conflict.  That war looms so large over life these days I don't think I'd realized we were edging up on the 3rd anniversary of its start until looking at that post.

An interesting essay by comics writer Neil Gaiman on the relationship of film to comics and how computer-aided effects have altered that relationship somewhat.  It also covers how Alan Moore has taken his name off of all the film projects based on his work in comics, including soon-to-be released V For Vendetta.

Ben Adams is the creator of Misfit's Journey which is an autobiographical tale with 3d art.  He has been placing ads with non-webcomics websites where he thinks the audience would become fans of his webcomic.  In another post, he further explains his thinking about where his webcomic's appeal may lie.

A no-brainer perhaps, but one all creators should think about before spending money on advertising.  I have no data to back it up but it doesn't seem farfetched to believe that there are still a lot more potential readers out there that haven't heard of webcomics at all then are actively reading them today.