When the Internet first burst into creation, there was about 25 seconds of awe before someone thought to themselves “Hey, I bet I could use this to make money.” 4.3 seconds before that, someone thought, “Hey I bet we could use this for pornography!” Fortunately, eventually people realized that the Net could be a great distribution method for some rocking comic strips. Making money has remained in the backs of peoples mind, and rightfully so. People invest a lot of time and effort into building a site and a comic, there’s nothing wrong with trying to get a little bit back for their effort.

There are many ways that cartoonists have tried to raise some money from their strips. These are just two of the more recent and interesting ones that I’ve come across.

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I’m going to begin with an apology, not for the fact that this is the first you’ve heard from me for a couple weeks, but for the story not really being about Web comics. It is however about comics and about the Web so I hope you’ll forgive me.

I found this Washington Post article about Gary Trudeau, the man behind Doonesbury, and this new book he’s helped but together. It’s called The Sandbox: Dispatches from Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and is basically what it’s title proclaims it to be. For a year now, Doonesbury’s Web site has had a section that lets soldiers currently serving in Iraq post their thoughts, experiences and stories about what they’re going through. The book collects many of these stories and puts them all in an off line presentation more comfortable for many.

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If you read gaming comics and haven’t seen this yet, you’ll get a kick out of it. Everyone’s favorite crackpot Jack Thompson is fighting with another Web Cartoonist. This time it’s Scott Johnson of ExtraLife for his Make-Fun-of-Jack contest.  Aparently Blog post comments are the hip new way lawyers are putting out cease and desist letters.

Plenty of other sites have tried to summaries the happenings, but I recommend reading it from Scott’s own keyboard here.

Say what you will about Internet Drama, you can’t make up stuff this entertaining.

Web comics are sexy. Podcasting is also sexy. Podcasting about Web comics is super sexy. Scott Kurtz, Kris Straub and Dave Kellett are now officially super sexy. Along with Brad Guiger (who was already super sexy) they have started a new podcast, Webcomics Weekly.

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 In our latest Digital Strips Update (which can be found with all it’s updatey goodness below) it was brought to my attention that there are Web comics on MySpace. I also tried to bring it to the Internet’s attention that MySpace sucks. It’s not the idea of social networking sites that bothers me. It’s the idea of really dumb ones with nothing but really ugly layouts and pictures of teenagers taking their picture in the mirror that bothers me.

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Computer games and Web comics have been intertwine since the get go, we all know this. It’s neither a secret nor an interesting way to start an article. What is interesting is that it looks like the relationship has finally advance to the point where computer games are starting to pay for a date once in a while. ‘Bout freaking time I say.

As part of the big kick off for the expansion pack for Civ IV, Beyond the Sword, 2K games and Fraxis have hired a bunch of the top names in video game comics to do a series of strips about the game. The series will be release over the next few days, ending on August 10^th. The knew site Civilization Daydreams has been set up as a hub for all the comics the project creates so those interested don’t have to traipse all over the Web.

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I’ve recently entered the real world. The world where people have careers, offices and even their own staplers. It’s a beautiful thing. However, as I sit a my desk and try and figure out what it is I’m supposed to be doing, I get a lot of great ideas for comics. Ideas that, knowing me, will never see the light of day.

So while I may not be drawing as many comics as I would like, I have been able to listen to a few more Web comics podcasts, which is nice. A relatively new show (three episodes to date) that I’ve really enjoyed and would like to share with everyone is Comics Coast to Coast.

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