I'm giving out free pdf copies of my new book of OPTICAL ILLUSIONS.

Why optical illusions? Well, I wanted to show everyone that I'm capable of doing more than cheap gags. Webcartoonists in general need to move beyond their borders!

Well they were all great actually! Today's Blind Date II comics come from:

• The very last one is from Liz Walsh (Tao of Geek) and Andy Floyd (Eat The Roses). Damn you autocomplete!!!
  
• The one before that is from Ben Bittner (Cooking With Anne) and Alina Pete (Weregeek). I got more dates then my man Zombie Chuck Woolery!
• And the one before that is from Eric Millikin (Fetus-X) and Nicholaus Ivan Ladendorf (NILgravity). Eric was nominated for Outstanding Romantic Comic twice !

Thanks to everyone who played this year. I always forget how much admin. work these things entail but they're also kind of fun -- I hope others enjoyed reading the resulting comics as much as I did.

Joey Manley interviews Columbia College business professor Todd Allen, whose 2003 study "The Economics of Webcomics" will be released in a heavily-revised second edition in a few weeks.

I've been procrastinating on signing up here, but, well, here I am.

I started my comic, We Couldn't Sing, in the middle of last year, originally updating twice weekly, now once a week. Sort of a slice-of-life comedish dramaish surrealish... thing. Populated by nutbars.

* The last batch of Blind Date II updates will go up tonight.

The official Nomination Ballot for this year's Harvey Awards are available here. I've copied in the official press release below (click read more) but first a comment - the Harveys seem to be nominated and final awards granted in the same way as the WCCAs - through a vote of creators in the comics field (webcomics field for the WCCAs). Might there be something the WCCA could learn from the Harveys? Conversations between the respective Executive committees might be productive.

We all do things we regret when we're young. In my case it was making comics like Laughter in Cold Blood, crudely drawn in ballpoint pen on the pages of a school exercise book.

If you're interested in rare and possibly unpleasant archaeological finds you may already be following the comics I was making back in the days before PCs ruled the Earth. If that's the case, you can now read the latest three pages in the "Memory Lane" section of the workshop at Broken Voice Comics. Alternatively, if this is all new to you, you might want to use that link in the previous paragraph to start from the beginning. But do take a paper bag!