About iank

Ian has studied Latin, German, Classical Greek, French, Linguistics, and Theater. When he was a kid he wanted to be a dinosaur and, later, an English teacher. At some point, this proved unfeasible and so he went on to be a juggler, a musician, a bartender, an inventory manager, and, once, an efficiency consultant. He has loved comics since he wanted to be a dinosaur and his love continues to this very day, from Alan Moore\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Miracle Man (nee Marvel Man) to the Far Side. He even makes some of his own.

Everything Happens To Webcomics and It Is Amazing!

Comixpedia entreats aid assembling a list of the best webcomics in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, strip individable, or poem unlimited: Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the liberty, you are the only ones.

Congratulations are in order:Detective Comics is to publish Megatokyo and our favorite late night sneaky uncle, Uncle Ghastly. It is astounding.

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Welcome To the News… Also the Olds…

These, right here, are the notes I found scrawled in my back pocket–

*In a flagrant declaration of open war against Zampzon & Daku, Keenspot launches Keencast. Punks! This aggression will not stand! Or something…
*Comixpedia has an RSS Feed. Tell no one.
*Reprographics, a semi-autobiographical photocomic by Chris Yates, has arrived. In just over 1 year, this is how Chris makes his living… unless Chris simply fills his news section with mendacities in which case: shame on you, Chris Yates.

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Webcomics Examined; Words Pressed

the Webcomics Examiner, bastion of incisive commentary and, dare I say, examination is changing its format from quarterly to weekly… Joe Zabel says so and I believe him.

Propinquitous to the format change are new features arriving in a quantity best described as “multifarious,” including a site search engine, a comments section, and archive indexing.

New format by that cockroach guy.

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Out With the Old, In With the Venables… Wait…

Gossamer Commons kicks off the new year with new artist, Peter Venables, who is doing a bang up job with Trudy and I am in suspense as I want to see his take on the other characters I have come to love.

Jon Goatsenberg has started a webcomics blob community that appears to be equal to “t3h win.” It is called Fleen.

Eric Burns is the new editor for Modern Tales, an event propinquitous with the partial liberation of some of MT’s enslaved periodical pictographs… by which I mean the site will be mostly free, though it will continue to retain a subscription backbone… I think.

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Wowzers! A Wonderful Week of Welton!

Welton Colbert is enjoying some time off but his guest week has begun in earnest. In the old days, Welton would never have taken time off; perhaps time is catching up with the old coot.

Publisher’s Weekly, where the elite meet to eat, has an article on webcomics providing both recognition and a pretty thorough overview of our fecund medium.

The second December issue of Comixpedia is out and I urge you all to check it out.

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Here Comes Trouble. Hey, Mr. Wilson!

I trust that you fans (I’m going to call you “Digital Strippers” from now on) recall that Joey Manley has a regular column at El Pulse and that some people even claim it is good.

Most recently, real estate mogul Manley has writ on the subject of the Top 5 Troublemakers in Webcomics, essentially a gossip column… I prefer to call it Because the Stakes Are So Small.

Scott Kurtz, who has asked to remain anonymous, had this to say.

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