In 2006, webcomics portal Modern Tales will change its business model drastically, offering 80% of the site's featured webcomic series to readers for free. In addition, the site will publish three or four times more series than there are now.

Jeff Rowland ponders changes to his webcomic WIGU for 2006. Is OverCompensating really more popular than WIGU now? I like them both for the record.

Kristofer Straub returns to the pages of Comixpedia with a new column based o­n his long-running Checkerboard Nightmare webcomic.  As always, Chex and crew will be taking aim at the state of webcomics, and making you laugh while making you think.  This month's installment was so topical that we couldn't wait until the rest of the issue hits to bring it to you.  So here it is.

Eric Burns, the creator and co-writer of Websnark as well as the writer of Gossamer Commons and The Adventures of Brigadier General John Stark, has been named the new editor of Modern Tales, taking over from Joey Manley at the webcomics collective. Manley will continue as owner and publisher of Modern Tales.

Ever wonder what it takes to set up a print-on-demand business? Webcomic publisher 01comics has a blog detailing the ongoing troubles and tribulations of setting up their POD business Ka-Blam.

A Scott McCloud update plus more on how creators can plug themselves through the new Comixpedia Library.

The Eisner Awards announced a call for nominations, including a Best Webcomic category. The definition of the category seems to be slightly different from last year's Best Digital Comic category, which included comics distributed by any digital media.

Keenspot launches Keentoons Video Podcast Network.

Kurtz clarifies; Rosenberg speaks; Straub shows and meet the new Comixpedia forums moderator: Tim Demeter.

New blog on comixpedia.org and webcomics; a new holiday webcomic from Jon Morris; Websnark discusses Troop's reboot of Melonpool; and some non-webcomic linky goodness.