Three members of Blank Label Comics are ending their partnership with Blank Label Comics to form a new collective, Halfpixel, along with PvP. Scott Kurtz, Dave Kellett, Kris Straub, and Brad Guigar will form the new group, previously a hub for Straub’s and Kurtz’s joint efforts such as their book “How To Make Webcomics” and the Webcartoonist Weekly Podcast. Apparently this has been in the works for a few weeks and true to BLC form there will be no webcomics drama. Brad assures us “Those looking for sour grapes or angry sentiments are going to be disappointed. We’re all still very much friends and fans of one another’s work.”

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Although Too Much Coffee Man has been in my reading queue for quite some time I have never gotten around to reading it. This is likely going to change as Shannon Wheeler has gone beyond animation and puppets to bring you a full blown Opera. That’s down right artistic of him. The press release title does a nice job of summing up my reaction: “Improbable Marriage of Classical Music and Comic Book Characters Gives Birth to Caffeinated Opera”

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There is no real meaning to the name behind the greatest new kid on the block. When the big guns are asked what it takes to succeed at webcomics they usually chuckle and say start before the year 2000. That’s only funny because you can probably name on one hand every comic which has succeed that has started less then four years ago. It’s even taken for granted that every webcomic will not be known the first year and then will barely break even given another year. That was before Randall Munroe laughed in our faces and divided by zero. xkcd is a comic started in Sept of 2005 with literal notebook doodles. I defy you to find anything with less artistic skill behind it!

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It is so much fun being way behind everyone when it comes to reporting the news. Despite being covered already it never hurts to get information out to just a few more people. Todays news is all about the big guys who have only recently discovered the doughy goodness that is webcomics. You may notice a lack of one of the major players, why hasn’t Marvel joined in on the fuss?

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It’s hard to come up with webcomics news from anywhere else unless you’re thinking PAX. Talk about good timing. This seemingly innocent expo to gather fans together was posed just right to take over the gaping hole E3 left behind. I would be surprised if a couple thousand of the attendees didn’t even know what a webcomic was until they attended. According to reports though the reason has to do with a complete plastering of the PA comic everywhere. Now that’s marketing.

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The days have been long and number of posts small but since it has been a few days, not to mention the scathing sarcasm sent my way, I feel compelled to reveal onto the world the product of one Nathan Bramble. The other original host of the show was Zampzon. He was the one with the background in comics who knew what he was talking about while I tried my hand at being the straight man. It was a good combination but there came a time when Zampzon left the empire on his own walk-about to discover himself. In that pursuit he took a page from ever humble Ryan Estrada and create a site that was not so much a webcomic as a collection of webcomics.

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Comixpedia – It was ages ago when news hit us about the mammoth project that is the webcomic wiki was needing some new parents. There was a post and email to all us hosting sites and critics to ask if any of us had the time and energy to absorb such a large administrative project. DS volunteered space but in the end Josh Roberts, the proprietor of ComicSpace and OnlineComics took over the reins of the web comics encyclopedia. Coinciding with the move is also the official re-branding of Comixpedia to ComixTalk. This was done in order to let the encyclopedia use the name Comixpedia without confusion.

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