2005 was our first convention and we were impressed. If there is anything about ConnectiCon that I like it’s the treatment they have for Web Comic artists. They are always treated well even if their tier system is a little out of whack. The tier system made a huge fuss last year and I don’t think it changed much.

After being their two years in a row I think they could make it a little easier to get at least entrance. After attending the NY ComicCon the Dealer’s room looked a bit small and could use a few more artist’s but then I walked around the hallway to the side and found the Artist’s Colony. At first I found this to be very annoying but then warmed up to it when I found I didn’t have to deal with the vendors when I wanted to talk to the artists.

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With my interest piqued and my mind sparked by the most recent Yirmumah! story arc, I have a simple question for you all:

Comic book or comic strip?

Those of us who frequent both forms of art are immediately thrown into a frenzy to defend one or the other, but what about everybody else? What of those who know nothing of the differences between these two story-telling techniques? And why should we have to choose between the two? Can’t we have both?

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Bob the Squirrel – It seems there are more and more web comic artists expanding their horizons. Frank Page sent us an email the other day very excited about a new endeavor of his to create a painting every week for the next year. So I think to myself what is so great about an artist painting when they are already drawing a comic? That’s before I looked at his acrylic he has done so far.

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I woke up today for my usual trip through the world of web comics. Juice in one hand and mouse in the other, as soon as I clicked the first bookmark I realized Ah crap it’s the 4th of July, no one is going to be updating.

I was pleasantly surprised though. Even though there were quite a few strips on hiatus, most were updated as normal. A little reading of blog posts, and I was reminded of something I already knew but had sort of forgotten: The Internet covers the whole world.

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