On March 8, 2008, the Create a Comic Project (CCP) will hold the second annual Comic Making Tournament at the New Haven Public Library. The event is open to children ages 6 and up. Scheduled events include a short-form (single page) competition, long-form (multi-page) contest, and "endurance round." Events will use art from many popular webcomics and also have kids creating their own. Prizes will include comics, t-shirts, books, and more.

An interview Mike Witmer of PinkertonPark and The music of Jonathan Coulton. And of course Drunk Duck report with BK and SpANg, and the usual webcomic news reviews and commentary. Contact The Gigcast The Gig-Line, give us a call: 1 (206) 203-3334 e-mail: gigcast@nightgig.com or Comment Here! We missed it on the show but we wanted [...] foo

An interview Mike Witmer of PinkertonPark and The music of Jonathan Coulton. And of course Drunk Duck report with BK and SpANg, and the usual webcomic news reviews and commentary. Contact The Gigcast The Gig-Line, give us a call: 1 (206) 203-3334 e-mail: gigcast@nightgig.com or Comment Here! We missed it on the show but we wanted [...] foo

 Hey Cats. Bad News. My computer is broke. I plan on taking it to get fixed, but I doubt I will get it back before the weekend. Currently I am using my father's computer, but do not have reliable access to it. It has also come to my attention that I need a new computer, but I do not have the funds to get one. So, I am asking you, and forgive me for doing this, to help out. My goal is roughly $1500.00. Sorry to do this,but I am desperate. If you can, please donate.

 Hey Cats. Bad News. My computer is broke. I plan on taking it to get fixed, but I doubt I will get it back before the weekend. Currently I am using my father's computer, but do not have reliable access to it. It has also come to my attention that I need a new computer, but I do not have the funds to get one. So, I am asking you, and forgive me for doing this, to help out.

I don't know much about the Weblog awards for blogs, but this [edit:] is the second year they've included a "comic strip" category. The nominees are:

• Girl Genius - Phil and Kaja Foglio
• Day By Day - Chris Muir
• Extra Life - Scott Johnson
• PvP - Scott Kurtz
• Penny Arcade - Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins
• Attack - John Bergstrom
• Least I Could Do - Ryan Sohmer and Lar Desouza
• Sluggy Freelance - Pete Abrams
• xkcd - Randall Munroe
• Basic Instructions - Scott Meyer
  

And here's a link to the full list of award nominees if you're interested.

UPDATE: I've gone ahead and fixed the list of nominees here to add the creators' names and webcomic URLs. I have no idea about "Attack" though - please post a comment here if you know which comic the nomination is for. As noted in the comments below it appears that the "final nominees" are selected subjectively by someone(s) at the Weblog Awards (from a list of nominations by the public). Last year's winner - Least I Could Do plus Day by Day and Sluggy Freelance are all repeat nominees (they were on the 2006 list of final nominees).  [I guess it's also somewhat interesting that both years two conservatively-slanted opinion comics have been included in the nomination list, but no progressively-slanted comics have been picked for inclusion.]

Welcome to November. We have a cover this month from Debbie Ridpath Ohi who creates a great webcomic on writing called Will Write For Chocolate. No particular theme this month but a lot of good interesting articles are on tap. In December, we will venture into "wrapping up the year that was" territory - stay tuned for more details on that later this month.

HEADLINES

• Halfpixel increases by two and changes name to Quarterpixel.. wait I mean Bipixel -- actually just read the interview with Scott, Kris, Brad and Dave here to find out about their new working partnership under the Halfpixel banner.
• Slashdot picks up on Wikinews' story on Webcomics and Wikipedia. I know this is old news to most readers of ComixTalk but it's in the news again for at least a portion of the intertubes-reading public.

BUSINESS

• Steven Grant tries to apply lessons of the music industry to the comics biz. It's a good think piece and points out the way comics creators can bypass the "labels" like musicisians are doing, but annoyingly Grant knows more about examples of this "new entrepreneurship" in the music industry then he does in his own industry. Grant should at least be aware of the comics equivalents of unsigned new bands - webcomics - and how they use merchandise and other ancilliary activities (sketches, guest shots, downloads) to make money while giving away the comic for free. He could have also pointed to some established professionals ditching their labels to go indy - like Phil and Kaja Foglio or Michael Jantze.

INTERVIEWS

• The U. of Alberta paper has an interview with Faith Erin Hicks on her soon-to-be-released graphic novel Zombies Calling.

MILESTONES

• Congrats to Thomas K Dye who is celebrating the tenth anniversary of his comic tale of canine journalism: Newshounds.

TECHNOLOGY

• An early look from a blog at the comics on Zuda and what's attracting the most votes from the readers. A different blog has a bit more of a focus on the user interface.
• Looks like the Amazon e-reader isn't coming out anytime soon despite earlier announcements to the contrary.

CONTESTS

• I need to start handing these Karas the Revelation DVDs out faster! Gimme (in the comments) the phrase that pays to be the next winner.

Oh, and I forgot to post the last member of the team: Agent 'K'
I'm not sure there's going to be any comic at all this week, not because I have been working on this project though, just because I am useless.

At long last, two Ninja-bots will duel! But that's not to say that Ninja-bots are meanies. Far from it, they actually tend to get along fine with people, particularly LiveJournal people.

http://shurikendiaries.com/2007/11/01/moving-on/

 

Nevermore is a new collection of nine Edgar Allan Poe stories, all given an unusual twist and all adapted for the comic book format.

The artists contributing to this book include Shane Oakley, Steve Pugh and John McCrae. The writers responsible for the adaptations include Leah Moore and John Reppion, Jeremy Slater and Jamie Delano. Oh, yes - and me!

You can read a little more about my contribution in this thread at the BVC Forum. Then, if I were you, I'd just rush out and buy a copy! It should be available in all book shops carrying graphic novels although, if you buy it online at Amazon just now, you can get it for £7.79 instead of the normal RRP of £12.99!