Archive - Jun 11, 2008

Ataraxia Theatre: New Site, New Look, Same Old Brains


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After many months of procrastination, Ataraxia Theatre has finally moved into its new home at Transplant Comics. The new site can be reached at www.ataraxiatheatre.com. The previous site at ComicGenesis will remain the archive for past strips, but will no longer be updated.

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Those of you who had trouble following Bring Your Daughter to Work Day in Grug’s LiveJournal will be happy to know that the entire story can now be read WCN-style, right here.

Webcomic Wire - 6/11/08


Drawn from sources that know not to mess with the Zohan… The Sequential Artists’ Pub – June 13th, bring your favorite beverage and join in the conversation at TalkShoe show. The Webcomic Overlook gives a Once Punch Review of Crazy Buffet. Occasional Superheroine posts about webcomics at MoCCA. Nicholas Gurewitch is profiled in MPNnow.com. Bill Watterson profiled on Lines and [...]

Eisner Voting Deadline Approaching


Einser Awards

The deadline for voting in the 2008 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards is this Friday, June 13th!

Eligible voters can download a pdf ballot and mail it in (postmarked by June 13), or they can vote online at www.eisnervote.com up until midnight PST on Friday.

To be eligible to vote, one must be a professional working in the comics industry, whether as a creator (writer, artist, cartoonist, colorist, letterer), a publisher or editor, or a retailer (comics store owner or manager).

Four New 'Serenity Tales'


"Serenity Tales" returns with four new installments -- and links to a couple of additional "Firefly"/"Serenity" webcomics.

Remember that great Bill Hicks routine about marketing people? That's how I feel.


[info]tupelo linked up this article from the New York Times in which the revitalization of aging properties is undertaken to get them to appeal to a younger generation.

ComixTalk Talk


Hey sports fans -- Go Lakers!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Congrats to Tyler Page on the birth of his daughter Charlotte.

THE MORE YOU KNOW

I don't know anything about the quality of these courses but Media Bistro has a listing for an online Comic Book and Graphic Novel writing course starting June 16th.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 3 BLOGS

FLEEN has a great round-up of MoCCA news -- especially all the books the webcomickers were hawking.

Nerd World writes about its favorite comic Miracle Man which had runs written by Alan Moore and then by Neil Gaiman.  Talent!

Storm Troopers ridin' dogs.  Oh Internet what will you think of next...

Freaks N Squeeks ends Act II of "Sad Little Life"


In a move that surprised no one and caused others to cower in a closet, praying for the dawn, the Marvelous Patric announced that his year-long story "Sad Little Life" in his comic Freaks N Squeeks has ended its second act.