As many have probably found out recently Wizard Entertainment announced the location and dates for Wizard World 2006. If you have been to either of the past ones you can probably know what this means for Atlanta, which only has DragonCon as the closest thing to a comic book convention. To give an idea Wizard World Chicago attracted 54,000 people. So of course I marked this on my calendar. That’s when I noticed something pointed out by an email from Gaijin Studios. Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC occurs on the same date.

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The winner for the brand spanking new Digital Comic category for this year’s Eisner Awards is Mom’s Cancer by Brian Fies. You can find all the winners here.

Keenspot has finally asked Two Lumps to join the shrinking list of Keenspot comics. In a past interview by Eric Burns with Mel and James you can find their feelings about the whole situation. Websnark brings up and interesting point in Keenspot should have approached the strip back with the announcement on Blank Label Comics. Continue reading →

Despite the commanding presence of everything print and movie in the comic industry, there appears to be a soft spot for web comics at Comicon. There is an article at Wired which starts off commenting on Scott Kurtz getting spit on by a passerby. If that’s not enough to get your attention the article was actually pleasant but covered only the typical players of Modern Tales and Scott McCloud. There is great line that our readers might expect in our blog:

Only a few edgy strips, including the ever-controversial The Boondocks and La Cucaracha, appear in the comics pages of mainstream daily newspapers, Continue reading →

The excellent strip Gun Street Girl by Barb Lien has picked up Wicker Man Studios and migrated from Graphic Smash to the new free site Panel2Panel. You may recall not to long ago Amber “Glych” Greenlee moving to this very site with No Stereotypes and Red Dahlia. The archives are now free and restarting with four stories and a new one every month. From the press release:

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Our friend and compadre Wes of You’ll Have That has his lovely contest winding up today. We were more then happy to announce it at the beginning of the month and we can’t wait to see who wins. The concept being used for the winner reminds me of Saturday morning cartoons where some kid would end up in his favorite show helping the heroes defeat the bad guys. Don’t forget that on top of making a cameo in this hilarious strip you also get a bunch of loot from viper comics.

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Nine artists from Pixar have banded together, much like Blank Label Comics, to create comic book titles under one name: E-ville Press. Most of the artists are keeping blogs updated with current strips and the intermediate steps leading up their creation. It looks like some well know artists have accidentally stumble upon one of the potential business models for increasing web comic popularity, using it as a means of eye candy for merchandising. Visit some of these excellent web comics debuting at ComiCon: Continue reading →

If you thought TokyoPop was making a bid to take over the US then you won’t be surprised by yet another mention of the Manga giant in the media. This time it’s in USA Today but at least it’s in conjunction with a web comic artist. Svetlana Chmakova has landed fantastic deal to draw a monthly strip for CosmoGIRL! called The Adventures of CG staring CG, a college sophomore who lives in Tokyo and is a spunky every-girl hipster heroine. From the article:

The new venture also helps boost the profile of the two-page strip’s creator, Svetlana Chmakova, 25. Her two manga-style online comics are ChasingRainbows (girlamatic.com) and Night Silver (wirepop.com). Her first full-length manga, Dramacon, will be published in October.

Last week Howard Taylor lost the love he may have had for Google Ads as he has recently switched from them to using his own ad server. For the past week he has been a successful and has posted some results.

Comixpedia has some great links for those who would like to use Google Ads.