I think the voting on this goes through the weekend so it's still a race to see who goes on and who goes home. Click here to vote. The standing as of late Friday evening are:

• Bear and Kitten (8%)
• Grumps (10%)
• Lucid TV (38%)
• Simulated Comic Product (16%)
• Templar, Arizona (28%)

 King Tractor Press is proud to announce that Tony De Zuniga's wonderful art will be gracing the special edition of Innocent Volume 1 in next month's Diamond Previews NOV073695.   Tony has worked on such classic books as X-Men, Conan, Thor, Incredible Hulk, and Spider-Man.

Tom Spurgeon has an interview with Joey Manley (and a brief appearance by Josh Roberts) on the new ComicSpace company.  There's a bit more details on the expectation of when they will roll out the new "ComicSpace" site (3-5 months) and a bit more on the investor group that is putting money into the new business structure.

Drawn from seven seconds into the future… Dave Kellett, Kris Straub and Brad Guigar are leaving Blank Label Comics to form the new HalfPixel, previously a hub for Straub and Kurtz’s joint efforts. Good luck guys! ComixTalk has an interview with Howard Tayler about this week’s changes to BLC and the future for the collective. Best [...] foo

Drawn from seven seconds into the future… Dave Kellett, Kris Straub and Brad Guigar are leaving Blank Label Comics to form the new HalfPixel, previously a hub for Straub and Kurtz’s joint efforts. Good luck guys! ComixTalk has an interview with Howard Tayler about this week’s changes to BLC and the future for the collective. Best [...] foo

The Gigcast crew interviews Mike Witmer from Pinkerton Park. We talked about Pinkerton getting syndicated by Go Comics, and how he and Scott could be long lost twins. oh and Duct Tape, lots and lots of Duct Tape.

 

Check it out on The gigcast at http://www.thegigcast.com , now a member of FarPoint Media.

 

JT

a huge Yippee for me! Debbie Ohi drew me up just for the eff of it, in relation to another project we both contribute to. She's le awesome!

The illustration I'm talking about is over here, with a full description of "why".

And Shuriken Diaries itself, of course, can be found here. New strip went up yesterday!

I have periodically been getting requests to join Virgin Wines (a wine delivery 'club' here in the UK) in my inbox, each with an offer more generous than the last (first case half price, and comes with a free corkscrew made of diamonds that can predict the future!) and usually they just get deleted automatically. Earlier this week however, I got an email titled 'reasons not to join' which piqued my interest just enough to get me to open it and see just what they were up to. And so it was that I got a chance to read the email's opening pitch:

Dear James

Washington Webtoonists meet again on Wednesday, November 7, 8:00PM - this time in Maryland at The Savory Cafe (7071 Carroll Avenue, Takoma Park, MD).

NOVEMBER ISSUE OF COMIXTALK

• We'll have more stories up this weekend but for now more on the Blank Label Comics/Halfpixel roster shifts announced this week. In addition to our earlier interview with the new members of Halfpixel, we posted today an interview with Howard Tayler of Blank Label Comics. (Speaking of Blank Label Comics, Steve Troop has brought back his webcomic Melonpool with new updates)

CONTEST

• I've got another Karas the Revelation DVD to give away...

REVIEWS

• Playback reviews The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories, Nick Gurewitch's book collection of his webcomic The Perry Bible Fellowship. (h/t Journalista!)

JOURNALISM

• Journalista! writes "Wizard Online Editor Rick Marshall emailed them to announce that he had been relieved of his job. No reason was specified." The Comics Reporter hears that Mike Searle is rumored to be taking over for Marshall. Journalista! also caught that Wizard managed to trash the website for its magazine and as of this morning I see that it's still broken.

ADVERTS

• Joey Manley writes that as an experiment for the month of November, you can now buy via Project Wonderful the top banner spot for all of the major user-generated content sites on the new ComicSpace Network (TalkAboutComics.com, OnlineComics.net, the WebcomicsNation.com, and ComicSpace.com). It looks like Eric Milikin (Fetus X) had the spot this morning for about $45 per day (Project Wonderful works on a real time auction basis).

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

• Comics Worth Reading raves over Sinfest.
• Journalista! found something I wrote interesting enough to lead off today's post with a quote from it.