Where will you be when the robots arrive?
This link has been making thr rounds, but it definitely qualifies as MUST-READING: MIT's Henry Jenkins interviews Todd Allen about micropayments. Now we admit, micropayments aren't a very sexy topic, and Allen can get...
Webcomickers react to Platinum deal
Johanna has a great post rounding up reaction to the Platinum Studios piece in the NY Times (Them AGAIN!) about their plan to post their comics on the web via DrunkDuck.com. As you...
Bertozzi’s The Voyage of the James Caird
Over at Activate Nick Bertozzi is recounting a tale of Ernest Shackleton, the English explorer who was trapped in the Antarctic for over a year. Bertozzi has a previous story about Shackleton, Patience Camp,...
Heroes comics – UPDATED with ratings
The first HEROES webcomics are up, this first by Aron Collette, Michael Turner and Koi Turnbull, telling a tale of Suresh's childhood.
UPDATE: HEROES' debut issue was a ratings winner for NBC quoth Variety:
NBC drama...
HEROES debuts tonight
HEROES, the NBC television series about a bunch of ordinary folk who gain mysterious powers that they cannot understand but must learn to live with, airs for the first time on network television tonight...
Platinum goes to DrunkDuck.com
Platinum is joining the stampede to the web, the New York Times reports. Platinum Studios is the long gestating comics publisher run by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg that has been developing hundreds of properties over...
Indies publisher sign up for digital delivery
McCloud was right! Micropayments! Sort of. DriveThruComics.com is a spin off of a very sucessful RPG downloading site that has begun to offer downloads of comics from Dabel Brothers Productions, Shi, About Comics,...
Modern Tales adds four
Naked PR, but informative:
Modern Tales (www.moderntales.com), one of the Web’s premier webcomics sites, is proud to announce the addition of four new comics to its Modern Tales Strip Lounge section. The Strip Lounge...
Supernatural law marks 1-year anniversary on the web
With a press release!
Batton Lashâs online version of his long-running comic book series Supernatural Law celebrates its first anniversary on September 19. It was one year ago that Lash took the plunge to put...
R. Stevens on United Media
Wizard -- yes, I said WIZARD -- has an interview with R. Stevens on his move to United Media, a deal precipitated by Ted Rall who joined United in June to acquire hip, young...
Baltimore promotes Webcomic HOTNESS
We'll be away again this weekend at the Baltimore Comic-con, an old fashioned comics type get together that is always fun. While the show is certainly not indie UN-friendly, we'd say the focus is...