Recently, I took a look at the old printout I have of Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work and I wondered if I might improve my visual storytelling ability by re-drawing all of these 22 panels. As a bonus I would have sometime larger and more colourful to put on my wall.

Anyone who is serious about creating and publishing webcomics probably shares many of the same lists of failed experiments. But the point is to try new ideas. Set those experiments in motion and see what happens. Chances are, it won't break the Internet.

The first webcomic I saw that really inspired me was Steve Conley's Astounding Space Thrills. I was impressed by the professional quality art, the slick formatting and simplicity of the whole effort. His pioneering tooncasting model was all over the Internet by the late 1990's, generating some decent revenue and critical acclaim. The key to his success seemed to be size, format and frequency of publication -- that, and a pretty damned good story.

Grasping for any available molecules of air during an awkward pause in a conversation, I discovered the Art of the Huichol Indians. The suddenly non-animated conversation took place at a sidewalk cafe in Puebla, Mexico. The subject isn't important; words had opened wounds; a subject touched upon prematurely.

It seems like every day SOME webcomic hits 100. Well, now it's our turn! Monday, Feb 19th, the science humor webcomic Lab Bratz has our 100th weekly episode! Booyah!

Episodes from our archive are also published monthly in Lab Manager magazine (which has helped pay the artist's bills!).

Yesterday at MegaCon was the WCCA ceremony. Anyone there want to post on which winners were announced (nothing's up at the WCCA website yet) and other reactions?

I'm listening to the pre-WCCAs MegaCon podcast from the Gigcast now (mp3 link) - I think they were planning on doing a WCCA podcast but it's not up yet.

Ok so it won't be syndicated by King Features or Universal Press, but how many of us are shooting for that anymore anyway?