Previously: riding the public bus admiring a teenager, something i wanted desperately to be. This week: thou shalt not covet false idols read it now and leave a comment later.

The end of the year is coming and I'm working on getting in place articles for the site for December. One thing we've done for a few years running now that I'm trying to set up again is a roundtable discussion of the year that was. Participants in past roundtables have been mainly bloggers and journalists writing about (web)comics although there's no hard and fast rules about it. If anyone has any suggestions on commentators to invite to participate (I'm always interested in adding new voices to the mix for these roundtable articles) post a comment here.

Another thing we've done annually is our annual People Of Webcomics article listing the top 25 contributors to webcomics during the past year. We'll have another edition of that next month. I'm looking for as broad as input as possible and webcomics is a tremendously wide field to cover. If you have ideas about who has contributed significantly to webcomics in 2007 post a comment here with the name and some discussion of what merits their recognition. The point of the list is not really to be an "award" but a way to talk about the exciting developments of the last year and put a spotlight on the people involved with them. Check out past editions of the list to see who we've included previously (and why): 2006; 2005; and 2004.

on a particularly rainy afternoon, your weary body slumped in a chair, you stare blankly at the computer screen. it gives you no information, no comfort. you click randomly, right, left, crawling through portals appearing to have no end. suddenly you find yourself at a website, a site that invites you to become involved, by choosing where you go next, how you get there and even creating directions of your own. you, the intrepid adventurer, navigate from comic to comic through links embedded within, hidden in shared objects or frames. you are at the tangent pageant.

tangent pageant encourages viewers to switch their role from "observer" to "participant." cartoonists of any skill and experience level are invited to submit comics for the site, inspired by objects, characters or ideas within the site's current comics. tangent pageant's roster of participants already includes a wide array of talent, from a middle school teacher to a puppet designer, from seasoned webcartoonists to people who have drawn the first comic they have ever drawn for this site. tangent pageant is the brain child of chicago-based collaborators timothy breen and neil brideau. your adventure is waiting for you at http://www.tangentpageant.com !

The Gigcast interviews T. Campbell and Gisele Lagace. We talked about their working relationship, Penny and Aggie, Coolcat Studio and their new Webcomics Supersite Webcomics.com.

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JT

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I'm sure you'll find this comic strip funny, but maybe I'm projecting a bit.

PROJECTION

It's the last day of our Karas the Revelation DVD contest and I still have 5 DVDs to give away. So a slight modification of the rules for this last mega-round. The first FIVE registered and logged-in members of ComixTalk to post a comment to this thread that includes "Viva La Revolution!" gets a free copy of the DVD.

These five ComixTalk members have already won (you can only win once!): Shishio; CyberLord; Litazia; Twentyfour; and Lifesabluff. All winners need to send me their name and address for mailing purposes (you can use my contact form by clicking on "xerexes" here on the site).