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News!

  • Updating the status of Little Dee, Chris Baldwin informed us yesterday:

    Not much to update really. Little Dee will remain at comics.com until at least June 4th. Everything else remains the same. :)

    Upside: Little Dee remains on comics.com and gets eyeballs from that channel. Downside: The status of the strip vis-a-vis permanent syndication remains up in the air. Hopefully, UM will give Baldwin a definitive answer soon (and more hopefully, it will involve large sums of money spent to promote the strip, resulting in it being placed in 2000 papers by the end of the year and earning Baldwin some well deserved huge canvas sacks of cash money, complete with little dollar signs on the outside).

  • Randall Munroe has a gift for visualizations; following up the rather topological-formalist map of the internet, today he adds a rather Middle Earthy map of online communities (at this scale, Fleen is approximately 0.000327 pixels on your screen). Want to read all the small labels? Pre-order here.
  • Anne Gibson would very much like you to know that Online Comics Day is May 5th (that would be Saturday), which is the same day as Free Comics Book Day:

    The site has a rich tradition, and we invite you to participate on our new site in our new format.

    Past incarnations have essentially been a hub where comic creators all created Online Comics Day comics that linked to the hub, and the hub in turn linked back to randomly-cut lists of the sites. The main goal of having a comic hub site was simply to say, “Hey, look! People are writing comics! And they’re posting them on the internet!”

    Having listened to much of the feedback from last year’s event, we decided to try something *very* different this year. We decided to make the site this year about more than just a hub site. That functionality’s still there, but we also created some stubs — stories that invite you, the comic reader/writer/author/artist/fan, to tell us about how you currently support online comics, and about upcoming events where you will be spreading the word to readers and non-readers alike.

    Please come join us in celebrating online comics on May 5th. Registration is now open and we’re looking forward to seeing you.

Mailbag!

  • One of the better pieces of shameless self-promotion we’ve received lately:

    Dear Sir, Madame, Potential Customer, Potential Advertiser, Web-Comics Professional, Close-Personal-Friend:

    You have been carefully and meticulously selected to receive a sneak peek at The Boids, a hilarious and well-drawn web comic by Larry Merrill (him of Toyzville and Dog Each Day) and Steve Campbell (me of Turn Signals on a Land Raider and Every Nine Minutes) that is set to launch on 7 May, 2007.

    We have contacted you because we have met, IM’d, e-mailed, or otherwise contacted you at some time in the past and we feel like we have a deep, personal connection to whoever you are. Or, if you are in a position of some note within the web comics community, and people who read web comics might be listening to you, and we thought you might want to have a look so that you can tell the masses of your readers to also read The Boids. We will, in turn, be linking to whatever project you have going, and driving huge waves of web traffic to your site from The Boids.

    Link exchanges don’t normally entice me to action, but the Larry & Steve Show sent me a sampler of their new strip, and I gotta say, I liked it. Good joke pacing.

  • Aaron Johnson writes about his webcomic, What The Duck, getting some attention in the regular (albeit special-interest) media:

    Jack Howard, of Popular Photography Magazine, has written one of the more comprehensive articles about What the Duck to date. Check it out on the PopPhoto.com site.

  • Darren Gendron wonders:

    How do you launch a new webcomic? Well, the first thing you need to do is get some nice tunes.

    The Expert’s Guide on How to Kill Things That Go Bump in the Night got together with the Season of Nightmares, a Seattle-based Rockabilly band, to make their album, Monster Mash into the Fifth Dimension the official soundtrack.

    Here’s the result of these two monster-loving creations.

  • Want tools? Check out this press release:

    Harknell, the webmaster of the Onezumi.com webcomic site, has just launched his new website, AWSOM.org, which is devoted to making it easier for Artists and Webcomic creators to get their art online.

    The focus is on news, tutorials, and custom WordPress plugins that make it simpler for non-technical people to set up and maintain their own website. The emphasis is placed on the needs of Artists, but anyone who wants to get a website up and running can benefit from the information presented.

    If you have been having problems getting a website set up, or you know anyone who is, please send them over so they can start on their journey to becoming Internet Famous.

Internet Famous. I like that. See you all tomorrow.

That map needs more clockcrew and newgrounds.

“we have a deep, personal connection to whoever you are” Obviously written just for you!

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