Just reminding everyone that Soul Chaser Betty Graphic Novel Pre-Orders end thursday, May 10th at midnight (US Central).

Books are 20% off until then. If you'd like to check out the book online, you can read it now on Web Comics Nation, (updates every weekday).

Welp, I participated in Webcomic Battle for the first time recently. I recall a poster on the Comic Genesis forums saying it was like undignified, and, they could be right, BUT . . . it is kinda fun. In other news, I'm winning by 65%! Huzzah!

Alan Gardner wrote just this past Friday that the Universal Press Syndicate has partnered with the print-on-demand company Lulu.com to launch a storefront in efforts to create a new way to produce and distribute their books. The first comics-to-books from Lulu.com will be Karen Montague-Reyes’ Clear Blue Water, J.C. Duffy’s The Fusco Brothers, and Real Life Adventures by Lance Aldrich and Gary Wise.

I'm not sure this means a whole lot in the grand scheme of comics convergence but I suspect this is a good fit for a syndicate's less popular features to get into print. I won't be surprised if the other syndicates ink similar deals.

Delightfully caustic cartoons are now all online at Max Mead Cartoons.com!

http://www.MaxMeadCartoons.com

Check out the brand new site -- which allows you to send them around to friends for FREE ! (and very easily)...

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COMIXPEDIA

Be sure to refresh your browser to see our brand new cover from the talented Gisele Lagace, currently handling art on the webcomic Penny & Aggie. May is our "all ages" issue and we should have a number of reviews of all ages webcomics this month. Our weekend update, however, includes a review of a decidedly not-all ages webcomic, Journey to Mt. Moriah which officially wraps up our April issue and to kick off the May issue, a new piece from Joel Fagin titled Reinventing Micropayments.

MILESTONES

• Man Man, the saga of a man with all the powers of the average man (because he was bitten by a radioactive man, natch) will hit 1000 strips this May 18th.

REVIEWS

• The Damn Good Comics blog reviews Zap!. (The blog is a good source of webcomic reviews: past ones include The Wings of Change, Rêveillerie, and Indavo.)

AWARDS

• Max Riffner’s Quick Step won the 2007 Isotope Award for Excellence in Mini-Comics. (link from Comics Worth Reading blog)
  

JUSTIFY MY HYPE

• Dave Wright's webcomic Todd and Penguin is back.
• The Boids, a new webcomic by Steve Campbell and Larry Merrill takes flight today!
• The webcomic G.A.A.K. gears up to deal with an alien armada plotting to invade the Earth!
• The finale of Chapter 3 of Draven: The Vampire Chronicle is up!

NOT WEBCOMICS

• I saw Hot Fuzz last Friday (funny! if not quite as good as Shaun of the Dead). Spidey 3 made a HUGE amount of money despite mixed buzz. Not sure when I'll see it though... What movies are you definitely planning on seeing this summer?
  

Fans of FAANS and THE RAM, both "retired" comic strips on the Web, might be interested that in MINDMISTRESS today "Union" Jackie of FAANS and the Ram himself make guest cameos.

WHERE: Rock Financial Showplace on Grand River Avenue.

More details at the website.

Starting today at

This week, in anticipation of the upcoming series Chastity Towers, Progressions X begins a series of daily erotic pinups, focusing on a new erotic fascination each week. Face lovers will want to check it out each day this week as the new series of color pics begins on Monday.

I blatantly ripped off this idea from another webcartoonist, but Multiplex: The Soundtrack is now available through iTunes!