Yesterday DrunkDuck released a new feature for the site: genre pages. The feature is still not fully complete as not all the genres are represented yet but so far users can view the genre pages for horror and manga webcomics.

This is a bit of old news but interviews with DrunkDuck creators have been posted in the forums for quite some time by administrator Skoolmunkee. The latest one was with KC Green of Rumblo.com but previous interviewees also include Hawk of Culture Shock and Carrollhach of Clench and Cheese.

Speaking of the talented KC Green, he released a video of his creative process a while back. It's done in a very KC Green-style so it's hilarious to watch.

Sad that Lost is almost over? Want Battlestar back? Wondering what comes after Heroes?

Well, give Titans a try over at http://www.imaginaryworlds.net/titans. (Daily comic with audio readings, complete soundtrack, "director commentary" and podcast). Titans is a reimagining of the superhero genre for the webcomic age.

Webcomics in Print writer Mike Rouse-Deane has begun his most largest charity project yet - The Kid's Book Project. Featuring 58 webcomic artists, the Kid's Book Project is all in aid of the Make-A-Wish Foundation and they need 200 pre-orders to get it into print and help raise money!

Left 'Toon Lane is a new cartoon collective for political cartoons by the undiscovered, the unemployed, and the unknown. It is a place for political cartoons and artistic political satire. All cartoonists are invited to play. More important, Left 'Toon Lane is a resource for publications and blogs looking for illustrations and cartoons.

Featured cartoons include Hypnocrites, A Town Called Dobson, Monkey Law, Rock Garden Comics, Drunken Philosophy, and Happiechappie and Suriegirlie.

Left 'Toon Lane is open to requests to post, and looks for new cartoonists every week.

I set up a webcam in my studio and created an account at Operator 11. So now you can watch me work on my comic strip live and in episodic format. Just check out my profile to try and catch me live. If I’m not currently drawing, you can watch the pre-recorded episodes to get your voyueristic fix.

Chapter 3 of Weregeek has now begun, and things look a whole lot grittier.

Some interesting coverage of Platinum Studios as of late starting with PW Comics Week's general overview of Platinum circa mid 2007:

These comics are part of the company's overall plan to put characters into as many media as possible. In addition to its film and TV projects, Platinum has a mobile-device division; an apparel company called Number Zero Ltd., which sells reversible T-shirts; a comics news site, Broken Frontier; an online store; and Web comics site DrunkDuck.com. It also hosts the Comic Book Challenge, a talent contest held at Comic-Con International in San Diego for comics creators, now in its second year.

In addition, the Beat has a short bit about Platinum publishing some of it's "library" of comic material on Drunkduck as webcomics; apparently a Dave Roman-penned never-published comic for Platinum is now appearing as Alien Circus at Drunkduck.com without crediting Roman or the other creators. Obviously work-for-hire material (which Alien Circus is) is the property of the copyright owner (which isn't the creators by definition in a work-for-hire situation) but it's not good manners and I'd say not good business sense as well to not credit the creators. Not good manners because it costs Platinum nothing to credit Roman and others who worked on the comic and so Platinum is needlessly creating bad blood with these and other creators. Not good business sense because Dave Roman is a budding star in comics and while there's never a guarantee of success in any creative business (triply so in comics) Roman has a very commercially appealing sensibility and I wouldn't be shocked if he created a story and/or characters that might be successfully translated to television or film. There's just no reason to strip the credit of any creator but it seems even more foolish when the creator's name in question has some odds of actually becoming commercially valuable.

UPDATE: Dave Roman and Luke Weber are now credited on Alien Circus.

We made it through Kawaii-Kon 2007, and what a great time we had! It was really wonderful to meet so many people who've read our webcomic and to also make many new friends too.... and now it's time to introduce some nemu*nemu cuteness to the rest of the world!

After our first year of webcomics, we're proud to show off our first compilation in our brand new book, simply titled nemu nemu Volume 1. The book collects 12 chapters (one years worth) of content and includes commentary, new drawings and a peek into Kyubikitsy's sketchbook too!

The book is available via nemu-nemu.com as well as Lulu.com, Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com and Borders.com!

Character Design for Graphic Novels not only showcases the best in character design from the world's leading artists on-screen and on the printed page but also provides a hardworking guide to the process behind the evolution and development of character design, the key milestones of the art, the genre busters, and the genre definers.

I know, I know ... you've been enjoying yourself wallowing in Doug's wartime reminiscences over in Shades but it's time to move on.

We return to the present in this week's instalment at Broken Voice Comics but don't worry ... there's more to learn about Doug and we'll be revisting his past in a later chapter!