Bomb Shelter Comics and Transplant are throwing down for no reason! The grudge match without a grudge!

So here's where you all come in. The format for this battle will be randomly assigned "themes". We want those to come from a neutral source. So if you wanna say, "road rage" or "monkey in a washing machine", go for it! We're gonna randomly assign them to the participants, so be creative and challenge us.

The Alternative Press Expo gave me a strong reminder about the usefulness and uselessness of the free table. It's a great resource, found at almost all conventions, a place to put old giveaway issues, business cards, flyers and such.

WHAT: The ninth annual Bristol International Comic Expo.

WHERE: The British Empire & Commonwealth Exhibition Hall coupled with talks at the Ramada Plaza Hotel.

HEADLINES

• Shaenon Garrity may not agree with me that Chris Muir's recent Day By Day comic is offensive but in her blog she entertainingly lays out the argument for why it is "the worst damn comic in the world"!

BUSINESS

• The Silent Penultimate Panel Watch (a pretty funny concept for a blog actually) steps aside from its normal fare of spotting silent comic panels to pitch an all webcomics-in-print alt-alt paper idea. I've heard this idea before but I've never heard rumblings of anyone actually running with it. In a way, however, the parody news newspaper The Onion is, as it expands its paper edition into new markets.

MILESTONES

• Kristy Vs. The Zombie Army hits 100 pages. (link from the Webcomic Collective blog)

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

• Derik Badman "live-cartooned" the Computer In Libraries conference. (link from Yet Another Comics Blog)
• Gilead Pellaeon posts his wish list of webcomics books.
• Comixpedia blogger Robert Anke writes a guest column for FLEEN called "The Good Kind of Stealing".
• Missed this but earlier this month Comixpedia columnist Brigid Alverson posted at Digital Strips about Postmodern Haircut -- a webcomic devoted entirely to the critic Noam Chomsky.
• Obiwan Kirk writes about a year of Knight Quest-Online on its current host and recent updates to Last Chance and The Dark Bane.
• Jonathan Dalton gives good grades to Dylan Meconis' current comic Family Man.
  

This may be it for Comixpedia's April issue: be sure to check out Grant Thomas' primer on mini-comic covers (part 2), Michael Payne's review of Alan Foreman's S.S.D.D., and David Simon's essay on Science Fiction and Fantasy. May's issues will focus on All-Ages Webcomics and we're still looking for folks to review comics for the issue (Comixpedia does pay $10 for a published review). If you're interested please shoot me an email at xerexes AT comixpedia DOT com.

As always a thanks to our current sponsor, the Learn To Draw The Human Anatomy series. We've got three other advertising spots available right now (they appear below the LTDTHA ad) - if you're interested click here to see the low, low rates for placing an ad. (And you can always bid on a PW ad here)

Harknell, the webmaster of the Onezumi.com webcomic site, has launched AWSOM.org which makes it easier for Artists and Webcomic creators to get their art online.