The past few months there’s been a bit of a shake up at Keenspot. I have no idea what started the small exodus but I’m going to guess it was Schlock Mercenary. That’s right, I’m pointing my finger at you Howard, it’s all your fault that people are leaving and making more money without having someone taking a part of your profits, how dare you! All kidding aside Keenspot has lost: Schlock Mercenary, Shortpacked, It’s Walky, Krazy Larry, and Melonpool. Fear not, for Keenspot always comes out the other end and we can see that with the additions of Penny & Aggie, Mad about U, Todd & Penguin, and Down to Earth.

Update: A day after I post this there’s another shakeup. Greystone Inn is evacuating, although it is ending it’s current theme, along with Checkerboard Nightmare and Wapsi Square.

Some of you may recall our review of Greystone Inn from one of our earlier podcasts. We very much enjoyed reading it and so we were shocked that everyone in the strip got canned, fired, sacked, terminated, pink-slipped, 86’ed, downsized, axed, or laid off. Then this quite funny strip was followed by something that was pure genius.

Before anyone asks, we did not pay Brad to make this pure brilliance of a strip. The strip did have the perfect forum to make this point: No one reads the papers. So what’s next? Will you give us a web comic about making web comics?

It looks like the contestants in the Iron Man competition are starting to drop like flies. Yesterday two more contestants, John Campbell and Erik Goldsby, have been booted. That keeps up the pattern of losing one a week by catching up on a week missed in April. Point of note is I read PvP every day. I was shocked to go there today and find the same strip I read yesterday. Say it ain’t so!

Here’s something I can get behind. An award site dedicated to honoring web comics through other web comic artists. Looking through the archives I have to say that many of the winners and nominations were actually pretty good. I’m always one to never listen to critics, yes I realize what I’m saying, but I was pleasant surprised by the quality of strips I found there. So if you’re a web cartoonist be sure to send in your nominations and vote.

After more then six years and being revolutionary in graphic novels when it comes to web comics, the hugely popular strip Fans has come to an end. Fans was one of four strips reviewed by us on our 5^th show and is written by T Campbell and more then a few different artists. We will never forget the extreme fandom portrayed nor the unique layout the strip often took, sometimes taking you half a mile down and then half a mile to the right or simply a single panel. Fear not though as you can catch more work as T Campbell plans to print 'The History of Online Comics' through Antarctic Press as “The History of Webcomics.”