Comic Foundry reported that the Independent Film Channel did a documentary on the San Diego Comicon this year and it showing this Saturday. Here's a link for some video from this year's special and here's a link to part of IFC's documentary on last year's Comicon.

Theater Hopper is pleased to announce a partnership agreement for regional syndication through the Central Iowa publication Juice.

Theater Hopper will be printed each week in Juice and will also appear online at http://blogs.dmjuice.com/ every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

This Friday and Saturday, September 22nd and 23rd, Howard Tayler will be speaking at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore Pennsylvania at part of Freeculture.org's lecture series. Tayler will also have Schlock Mercenary books and sketches for sale.

Also appearing are J.D. Frazier, Eric Burns, Wednesday White, Shaenon Garrity, and Rich Burlew.

More details (includding when and where) at Howard's blog.

Lynn Johnston has a "making of" page for For Better Or For Worse. (And a "blog" although it doesn't seem like Johnston herself posts to it...)

Blank Label Comics is auctioning off lots of original art from its member comcis as a fundraiser for member artist Paul Taylor (creator of Wapsi Square):

Paul’s first child was born a month prematurely on Aug. 18, and he has required an extended hospital stay. Paul and his wife have been through quite an ordeal — which continues to this day. Extended hospital stays turn into extended hospital bills...

"Fight! Fight! Fight!" You know, for an action/adventure story, Shades hasn't had too many of those so far. But that's about to change! Well, when a group of armed intruders invade the home of a spirit-walking shaman, what can you expect?

(Hint: nip over to Broken Voice Comics and check out the latest instalment for the answer!)

Viper Comics has announced they will now be accepting open submissions for a webcomic to join the company’s existing strips You’ll Have That and The Horrible Pirates.

“Viper is always on the lookout for the newest talent in comics and hopefully this opportunity will allow us to showcase a great unknown to a world-wide audience,” said Viper President Jessie Garza.