I stayed up a few extra hours today, mostly due to internet problems, to provide you with some new Saturday morning goodness! You can see the new pages HERE http://www.webcomicsnation.com/draven/draven/series.php?view=archive&cha...

It just keeps getting better. >:)

Once again I will be attending Trinoc*coN as a guest.  If you're in the Raleigh area from August 3 - August 5, come by and say hello!Trinoc*coN is an annual speculative fiction conference held in...

Hi all,

I am Hope, known as Elfkin in most of my webcomic haunts.  I'm an average, everyday artist, just raising her kids and creating things along the way.  I work primarily as a freelance illustrator, and sculptor.  But I do other arts as well, when the opportunity arises.

Trinoc*coN is an annual speculative fiction conference held in North Carolina and covers many aspects of the science fiction/fantasy genre including literature, art, comics, real science, gaming, costuming and much more.

An interesting article in the NY Times talking about a new book by Andrsew Keen called The Cult of the Amateur. It sounds like the book covers a lot of territory but one point of interest to webcomics was the notion that free content is killing content:

"What you may not realize is that what is free is actually costing us a fortune,” Mr. Keen writes. “The new winners — Google, YouTube, MySpace, Craigslist, and the hundreds of start-ups hungry for a piece of the Web 2.0 pie — are unlikely to fill the shoes of the industries they are helping to undermine, in terms of products produced, jobs created, revenue generated or benefits conferred. By stealing away our eyeballs, the blogs and wikis are decimating the publishing, music and news-gathering industries that created the original content those Web sites ‘aggregate.’ Our culture is essentially cannibalizing its young, destroying the very sources of the content they crave."

Otakon - Baltimore, MD - July 20-22, 2007

Well, not so much a frontier as a comic. We've had fun (and not a little embarrassment!) over at Broken Voice Comics, revisiting the comics I made back when I still needed both hands to hold a ball-point pen but, sadly or otherwise, those visits will soon be at an end.

Don't Spok the Afflicted is the last of the comics I made in my mis-spent youth which we'll be subjecting to the glare of public scrutiny on the worldwide wonder-web. As the title suggests, it's a spoof of Star Trek proving that, even in its heyday, we fans were not exactly blind to the show's shortcomings. In fact, we might even have loved it because of its shortcomings!

You can see the first few pages of this comic at BVC today and we'll be posting additional pages every Friday. If you can't wait that long to extend your trip down our Memory Lane, however, you can always visit these other comics from this dark but formative period of my youth:

Live near Cambridge and looking for something to do Saturday?