Not really much else to add to this story, so here’s the press release:

Viper Comics is Looking for a Brand New Webcomic

September 19, 2006 ' Viper Comics has announced they will now be accepting open submissions for a webcomic to join the company's existing strips You'll Have That and The Horrible Pirates.

'Viper is always on the lookout for the newest talent in comics and hopefully this opportunity will allow us to showcase a great unknown to a world-wide audience,' said Viper President Jessie Garza.

Creators will need to provide sample pages/strips of their webcomic (with finished art) and a full pitch regarding the characters and content. Only submissions from complete creative teams will be accepted. All submissions should be sent to info@vipercomics.com.

The chosen webcomic will launch on the Viper Comics website alongside Viper's You'll Have That by Wes Molebash and The Horrible Pirates by Patrick Bussey.

You'll Have That is a comic-strip about a young married couple updated every weekday. It has received one print collection with a second due in December.

The Horrible Pirates launched in late 2005 and has since been thrilling readers with the adventures of the world's nastiest pirate crew and their evil monkey rivals. A print collection of the weekly comic is expected for 2007.

So what’re you waiting for? Submit your heinously overlooked webcomic today! I know I already did.

Greetings, DS loyalists! The entirety of my week has been spent working my way through T Campbell’s A History of Webcomics, which I just finished last night. While I’m still gathering my thoughts for the impending review, I can tell you that my main focus will be this: the book is unnecessary.

A history, huh? Of something that, by Campbell’s own definition and admission, is no older than a decade, if THAT. And someone thought it necessary for us to look back and see where we’ve come from ALREADY? It’s a self-servicing idea that does nothing to advance the medium that is still too young to HAVE a history. I’ll save any more lambasting for the review, which will be coming sometime early next week!

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Many webcomickers often wonder if, or where, the comic book hardcore crowd crosses over with the webcomic crowd. Well, the fellas over at Comic Geek Speak, the biggest and best name in comic book podcasts, have answered this challenge by dedicating an entire episode to our beloved art form!

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What a week! So much news, so little time! The world of printed books is being invaded by webcomics, with several collections and printed editions seeing release this week. Of course, the biggest salvo fired in this onslaught is Richard Stevens’ news of a syndication deal with United Feature Syndicate. But just what are the catches, if there are any, to this deal so sweet, it must have been made with the devil himself? And last, but certainly not least, we’ve rallied the troops to help Lea Hernandez recover from the fire that claimed her house and countless possessions on Wednesday. Recap… GO!

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Yes, this is all OVER the Interweb already, but in the spirit of gathering as much assistance as we can, I must post it again.

Lea Hernandez, the co-founder and original editor of Girl-A-Matic (among many other achievements) suffered unimaginable tragedy Wednesday morning when her home caught fire, ruining half of the house and severely damaging the rest. The remainder of the details and e-mail address to which you can send your aid are contained in this post from Gail Simone, Lea’s friend and lead force behind this call to arms, after you “read on”. If you support the webcomics movement as readily as I do, you’ll go and donate what you can.

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If you enjoy yourself some web news in the morn as much as I do, then you’ve probably already come across the news item detailing Richard Stevens’ recent deal to have the angst-ridden pop-culture-fest, Diesel Sweeties, printed in countless newspapers via the United Feature Syndicate. In the press release/blog post, Stevens details that, while this is the achievement of a lifelong dream, he won’t forget who brought him to the awesomely kickass party.

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So I’ve been “in” webcomics for about two years now, and an avid reader for four. In this time, I’ve learned that, in a medium where anyone and everyone can take an active role in a matter of minutes, you have to learn to take the good with a LOT of the bad. I’ve found several sites that talk about webcomics not in search of personal gain but for love of the medium. I count many of the must-reads as my favorites as well as some more obscure strips that could use a good review or two to get their traffic up. But what it boils down to is, I know what webcomics are, and that puts me ahead of a great sampling of the population.

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Week 3 of Interest Piquers finds a few more strips jumping on my already-overflowing pull list, all, as usual, courtesy of Digital Strips (have you heard of the site? I hear it’s pretty good). The first and most exciting is the subject of the most recent podcast: The Dreamland Chronicles. Not far behind that is Sequential Art, a strip reviewed back in Podcast #74, which I’ve fallen behind on keeping up with due to lack of RSS feed or compatability with my bookmarking service. And finally, a quick thought or two on webcomic merchandise. Ready? Here we go!

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Chris Cantrell, the great craftsman behind the webcomic, Please Rewind, is proud to announce the long-anticipated release of the first issue of Please Rewind: The Comic Book! Featuring full-color, digitally restored strips previously found only on the Internet, the 16-page, full-color goodness can be yours for only 3 bones! That’s right, 3 bucks (plus shipping and handling, some additional fees may be included, void in states that don’t matter) and this gem can be yours! Pop on over to the Comixpress store now and pick up your copy! Or two! Maybe even three!

And it’s FULL-COLOR!

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No news in the queue, a fairly quiet week in the world of webcomics, so it must be time for another installment of Interest Piquers! I have no idea if you read the strips I do or even care what I have to say about what went down in my weekly world of webcomics, but hopefully this time around I can elicit at least one reaction, good or bad, from you guys. This week on the docket, we have Red Dahlia, Crimson Dark, Penny Arcade, Ctrl-Alt-Delete, and PvP. Yeah, the last three are staples to most of your pull-lists, but let’s see if we can’t put a different spin on them. Ready?

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