ComiXology has a two part interview with Dorothy Gambrell, creator of Cat and Girl, in which she talks about making a living and reminisces about the olden days:

In 1999 I wasn’t even aware that programs like Dreamweaver existed. When Cat and Girl began everything on the website had to be sloppily hand-coded through telnet. Everything was harder then and we lived for three weeks on hard tack

And we liked it!

Wendy and Richard Pini are the latest old skool comics creators to jump on the digital bus: They will be putting all of the Elfquest backlist online starting next Friday. (Via Journalista, who got it from Fleen.)

I haven’t had time to look at this yet—expect some commentary when I do—but 741.5 Comics blogs about Steve Ditko’s Avenging World, which is available for download here.

There’s some great news I just picked up from the faux muck-rakers at Fleen! It looks like the Jess Fink/Hot Topic debacle has been resolved!

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Just waiting until the jump, so I don’t screw up the flow of the front page.

A bit longer…  There!  Now we can…

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At Webcomics.com, T Campbell lists webcomic articles he’d like to see. There’s plenty of blog fodder there—go take a look.

David Welsh reviews the print version of Louis Trondheim’s Little Nothings, which looks on track to be one of the outstanding comics of the year. If you read French, the original is here, and for Anglophones, publisher NBM has a good-sized sample on its site.

Jonathan Callan wraps up his interview with Kristopher Straub at Comic Book Resources.

Not really webcomics, but related to the general concept of giving stuff away for free in order to increase sales: Neil Gaiman responds to a bookseller who complained that he put an audiobook up for free download. (Via Comics212.)

If you’re planning to go to New York Comic-Con (I am!), check out their magazine, which you can download for free.

Figures that as soon as we decide to cover this crazy train called Zuda (3:10 to Zuda jokes, strip forthcoming), someone who has planted their feet firmly in the fertile grounds of webcomics decides to give it a go.

Via ComixTalk (seriously, change the name), I’ve found that Wes Molebash of You’ll Have That fame has thrown his hat into the ring with The Litterbox Chronicles. Check out the eight strip run over on the Zuda site, sign up with the Zuda service (upper-right-hand corner, don’t worry, it’s painless), and bump good ol’ Wes even further into superstardom! And stay tuned for our March Zuda wrap-up, which we will cleverly title in the near future!

Ginger Mayerson interviews William Lidwell, the founder of WOWIO, for the Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society, and he talks real dollars and cents:

In terms of compensation, I believe we are leading the digital world. In the fourth quarter of 2007 alone, we paid out more than $500,000 in royalties. We regularly hear from our content partners that they make more through WOWIO than through any of their other digital channels of distribution—in some cases, more than all of their digital channels combined. The 2008 royalty rates are fifty-cents per download for books, and 25-cents per download for comics. These rates will be adjusted downward as the number of users grows, but the net effect will continue to be a significant opportunity for creators and publishers to receive incredible exposure and compensation for their work.

People unclear on the concept: If you haven’t heard of manga publisher Infinity Studios, don’t feel bad; it’s been a while since they last published anything, and their books were hard to find to begin with. Continue reading →