I just did an interview with Jack of Jack of Jack's Webcomic Reviews and Gothy McGee. In it, he poses some good, scary, hard-hitting questions about me and my comic, The Nineteenth-Century Industrialist!

Tremble with excitement and concern as I attempt to answer them! But don't have a stroke or nothin'! Read it here.

What can you say in a first blog that isn't already trite or cliché? Not much I guess.

A pretty funny spin on the "I'm a PC and I'm a Mac" ads featuring the Man of Steel and Spidey talking about their respective companies' movie efforts. (Best line from Supes: "I might even get to fight a supervillain next time!")

Interubes pundit Clay Shirky posted about Scott McCloud's decision to re-release The Right Number for free (formerly it had been available for purchase via the just recently discontinued Bitpass payments system).

Another monthly meeting of the Washington Webtoonists, this time north of the Potomac River at the Savory Cafe in Takoma Park, Maryland.

WHERE: 7071 Carroll Avenue (Savory Cafe)

When: Monday, May 7, 8:00pm

Hi all,

Not sure if this is the right place to ask (apologies if it doesn't sit here) but I'm keen to get some promo ideas/feedback from some savvy online comic folks:

Find a comic book shop where you can make with the free pamphlets comic books this Saturday!

Derik Badman has a review of the second collected volume of James Kochalka's webcomic American Elf in print. (I wrote a review of the first volume of American Elf which you can read here)

We don't write as much about Kochalka as we did in the earlier years of Comixpedia, but that is really no reflection on the creativity and importance of his work (instead I tend to think it shows the growth of webcomics as a whole). I think Kochalka is important to webcomics for a couple of reasons. Kochalka's self-enforced construct for American Elf (one comic a day capturing a moment therein, without any compulsion to build an overarching storyline), turned out to be such a natural fit for the web that he both inverted his entire publishing strategy for the comic (he now publishes everyday on the web and then collects the work for print in these large volumes), and he also inspired a whole movement of "journal webcomics" that roughly followed his construct.

Online Comics Day 2007

You know what's been missing from Shades recently? We haven't seen nearly enough of our old friend Doug!

Well, that's about to be rectified - skip on over to the latest instalment at Broken Voice Comics and you might just catch Stan as he starts to relive WW2!