Odd comic of the day: Exploding Head Man, which is worth a look for the interface as well as for the comic itself. (Found via The Comics Reporter.)

With Fishtown getting ready to go into print soon, The Daily Crosshatch talks to Kevin Colden about where the story came from and why he turned down a Xeric grant in order to keep the comic online. (Found via The Beat.)

A Maine newspaper talks to new neighbors Joey Manley and Josh Roberts about their plans for a new, comprehensive webcomics space. Related: ComicSpace is looking for a senior web designer.

The march of print comics to web distribution continues; the latest defection is Brian Wood, who put his Public Domain: A Channel Zero Designbook up for free download. He has quite an assortment of other comics and samples up at the site as well.

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You’d be amazed by the kind of news you stumble on with a handy Google Alert in place. Here are just some of those stories, mixed liberally with my own Interest Piquers, and seasoned to taste.

-Scott DeWitt has announced with his January 28 update that F@NB0Y$, his gaming-centric webcomic, will be taking February off, returning in March. Here’s hoping it brings with it a more typographically-favorable title.

-By way of USA Today, it appears the New York Times bestseller, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, started out as a webcomic. Available for perusal at Funbrain.com, it’s even more proof for the argument that webcomics can gain you recognition, provided you’re good at it. Check out Wimpy Kid creator, Jeff Kinney’s, work at wimpykid.com.

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A few webcomics links to start off your week:

The Eyeskream collective is looking for new members. Submission information is here. Also, you have until January 31 to cast your ballot in the Skreamie Awards.

The first regularly scheduled webcomic by a Zuda.com winner is up on the site. Check out High Moon, by David Gallaher and Steve Ellis, and get an inside look at how the sausages are made at the creators’ blog.

Purity Brown just doesn’t get Achewood.

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One of the best uses of the web, IMHO, is to post older comics that otherwise would never see the light of day. Today, the always informative Journalista links to this post on Big Boy, the iconic cartoon restaurateur. The post includes photos of a Bob’s Big Boy (it was Azar’s where I grew up), menus, some truly horrible black-and-white photos of salads, and an entire Big Boy comic. Because that was the best thing about Big Boy—the food was pretty good, but you got a comic with it. Of course, the comic was free, only about 16 pages long, and cheaply produced, so most people threw them out; I don’t have any of my copies, which is why I was so tickled to see one on the web. 

The allure of most of these comics is not so much nostalgia as the surreal gloss that the years have given them. That’s certainly the case with two classic Christian comics, Hello I’m Johnny Cash and The Gospel Blimp, Continue reading →

Awards time: WCCA nominations close today. If you’re a webcomics creator and somehow missed the memo, get on over there. We’ll wait. Meanwhile, Xavier Xerxes interviews WCCA chair Frank “Damonk” Cormier at Comix Talk. 

In other awards news, Broken Frontier gives their Best Webcomic Creator award to Ursula Vernon for Digger.

Alexander Danner takes a look at webcomics readers (interfaces, not people) at Webcomics.com.

Will webcomics kill newspaper strips? The McGill Tribune uses that as a teaser for a nice survey of the world of webcomics.

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