"The Silver Age" is back. Mulligan's Run, a sci-fi serial, meets 70s Marvel cosmic, meets DC showcase premiers today on webcomics nation. Updating every Monday, Mulligan's Run follows the adventures of a band of space explorers as they comb the galaxy looking for a mystical orb which will break a curse, cast upon their captain. If you like classic sci-fi, monsters, or just a good chuckle, check it out at:Â

Anybody going to be there? Stop by and say "hi!"

I'll be at table 3135B in Artist's Alley, right next to fellow movie webcomickers Tom Brazelton and Joe Dunn.

I'll be bringing:

• A 48-page portfolio of Multiplex strips (not for sale); it's just printed out on a laser printer, but I figured I should at least bring some for people to read, even though I don't have any comics to sell this year. I just read through it to check for any errors, and I love that you can see every little detail in the print-outs, as opposed to them being on the web.

Struggling comic book publisher Claypool Comics is transitioning into something of a webcomics publisher, apparantly. Here are two tasty excerpts from The Beat:

After almost fourteen years and more than 300 issues — one of the longest runs in the history of independent comics — publisher Claypool Comics is telling the world of print, “Thank you and farewell.” After ELVIRA, MISTRESS OF THE DARK #166 (shipping in February 2007), SOULSEARCHERS AND COMPANY #82 (also shipping in February), and DEADBEATS #82 (shipping in March), Claypool will cut back its line to DEADBEATS alone and put new adventures of that series’ vampire-haunted world on the Internet. Claypool’s trade-paperback comics collections (under the Boffin Books imprint) and back issues will remain available as long as supplies last.

Hi folks. Been reading webcomics and collecting them for a long time. I was wondering if there's a program that will collect them for me. There are a lot for linux but i have windows xp. any ideas? Please be kind as i am a noob on this site.Â

 Kristofer Straub is the man.

I am working with Warren Ellis to launch a free webcomics portal using the new Webcomics Nation Collective Edition Engine. This latest addition to the Modern Tales family will be all free, all the time, and defined by "Warren Likes This Stuff." He'll be making a call for submissions soon. Gary Chaloner will be designing the site. This is the first new (as opposed to pre-existing) site to launch with the beta version of the WCN Collective Edition engine, soon to be a commercial product available to anybody who wants to launch a multi-creator webcomics portal (your own Keenspot or Modern Tales, in other words) inexpensively and with ease. The name of Warren's new site, and its URL, will be announced soon, probably at The Engine.

I just got my copy of TCJ # 277, the oversized 30th anniversary issue, and it has:

-- an interview with Chris Onstad (Achewood) on page 202

-- an interview with Fred Gallagher (MegaTokyo) on page 210

-- and an interview with the most pompous jerkoff from the webcomics world on page 258 (um, me).

I haven't read the whole issue yet (it's a big one), but am looking forward to it. As for my interview, I've apologized to Kurtz for what I said -- it was kind of silly and mean -- but I still mean what I said about Jon Rosenberg.

There's a lot of good webcomic tracking sites/services out there but today I want to flag the one I've been using this summer to catch up on many series I had slipped on reading.

It's called Piperka and it's pretty handy. Create an account there and check off the comics you want to watch and it tells you how many episodes of the comic you haven't read yet (you can tell it to start at the begining or end of the archives when you start). As comics update you see that you have more to read. If you're reading the archives you can tell the site where you stopped so you can pick up where you left off.

It doesn't have every webcomic listed of course, but anyone can submit a comic to it. (It will only take webcomics that have fully accessible archives though). It only takes a few seconds to submit something so go do it! (that way I don't have to submit as many of your webcomics myself!...)

The COTC CDis here.  Check it out!

I read this NYTimes magazine article on small indy t-shirt makers and while it's long and the writer's hook is how these guys are the children of Andy Warhol, it seemed to me that this kind of coverage is a kind of validation of the way in which some webcomic creators have built a brand around their webcomics by selling t-shirts and other items.

("A kind of validation" doesn't mean that's the only way to be a successful webcomic creator either so let's hold off on the drama.)

It was a busy week over at BVC last week, with not one but two new titles launched! Not that you'll need reminding, of course, but - for those who missed it - the first was E.C. Nickel's The Long Vigil which launched on Monday. So, one week on and you're thinking it must be time for a new instalment, right? Well, as luck would have it, that's exactly what's waiting for you over at Broken Voice Comics now!