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June 20, 2006-- Author/artist Scott McCloud discusses his new book and fields questions about his previous ones in a major new interview conducted by Joe Zabel. The feature commemorates the second anniversary of The Webcomics Examiner, a weekly forum of reviews, interviews, and critical articles eva...

February 07, 2006-- A contentious roundtable about the use and abuse of experimentation is featured in this week's edition of The Webcomics Examiner. Titled "Gunfight at the Experimental Webcomics Corral -or- The Shroud of Tarquin," the roundtable discussion is moderated by Neal Von Flue, with Cat G...

January 3rd, 2006– The Webcomics Examiner has converted to a new format, and beginning today will publish on a weekly schedule. Says editor Joe Zabel, “The quarterly magazine format served us well, but we decided to change to a new look that showcases each individual article to the max.” The Webcomi...

December 05, 2005-- The Best Webcomics of 2005 are featured in the special end-of-year issue of The Webcomics Examiner. The editorial advisory board surveyed the field and debated to come up with a list of the most noteworthy series and completed works. Says editor Joe Zabel, "Everyone has their own...

September 30, 2005-- In celebration of the tenth anniversary of webcomics as an artform, The Webcomics Examiner is conducting a roundtable on the Artistic History of Webcomics. In part one of a two-part series, T Campbell, Eric Millikin, Shaenon Garrity, William G., Mike Meginnis, Bob Stevenson, Eri...

June 13, 2005-- The search for a Grand Theory of Webcomics prompts essay contestants Alexander Danner, Brandy Danner, Steven Withrow, Tym Godek, Eric Burns, Shaenon Garrity, Rob Balder, Welton Colbert, Ryan Estrada, and Joe Zabel to consider 27 webcomics from uniquely skewed perspectives, in the lat...

June 14, 2004-- The Webcomics Examiner premieres today as a monthly forum of reviews, interviews, and critical articles evaluating webcomics as a fine art. The free-access website is at http://webcomicsreview.com. The Examiner was born out of a need for more serious and persistent attention to the p...

Your support and endorsement of Modern Tales really means a lot to us, Scott!:)

I hope everybody will check out the site at http://www.moderntales.com (premiering very late on March 1...)

Thanks, folks! REM, aka 'Rapid Eye Movement,' is an online graphic novel at http://amazingmontage.tripod.com/trespassers . Gaz, I checked out your site-- some really bold, experimental work you're doing. Your main feature strip started out kind of weak, but kept getting better and better, and by the...

Folks-- Before I did my graphic novel Rapid Eye Movement (now completed, by the way) I experimented with an infinite canvas comic titled Dilemma. After realizing how long it would take me to complete a comic in this style, and resigning myself to the clunky, slow loading time of most browsers, I put...

The following news story is copied from comicon.com's SPLASH page. I wanted to point it out because I think it represents a milestone-- it's a new method of 'selling eyeballs' that I think even Scott McCloud didn't anticipate. Also, it says something to those who still have doubts that readers will ...

Wow, very nice experimental work, Jack! Funny take on the smoking 'indie' guy!

' I'm about as anti-smoking as it gets.'

Very glad to hear that!

Great style on that strip, Jason! Liked the 'frame' that makes it look like a minicomic, too. Terrific use of a 2nd color as well.

Keep it up! And please remember that smoking causes lung cancer!:)

Actually, for those of us writing the shameless plugs, it's better to be mixed in with other topics. We're more likely to get noticed! I will try to be back to actually discuss something. Unfortunately I've trapped myself in a series of daunting deadlines by putting this thing out in serialized form.

Hi! This is my first message posted here. I don't know if you look kindly on 'hype,' but I wanted to tell everybody about my new website and my graphic novel, Rapid Eye Movement, which will be presented in 8 parts weekly in November and December 2001. Anyway, the website is http://amazingmontage.tri...