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Alexander Danner announced today the launch of Full Story , an index of completed webcomics. The internet is, in many ways, a cult of the new. An exciting new idea can propagate through blogs, and forums, and e-mail seemingly instantaneously, such that it appears everywhere almost at once. And just ...

To celebrate the beginning of our new story, "Young Love vs. The Shambling Monster," which begin in earnest Wednesday, September, 6, Bill and I have decided to make a full 20 new pages of Picture Story Theatre free to non-subscribers. The free content includes the entire sixteen-page story, "Lucky K...

Five Ways to Love a Cockroach , a new short comic written by Alexander Danner ( The Discovery of Spoons , Picture Story Theatre ) and illustrated by Neal Von Flue ( The Jerk , 10:30 to 12 ) is now online at TwentySevenLetters.com. This experiment in cynicism and infinite canvas takes a dispassionat...

Authors explore the tools and techniques behind today?s best online comics. PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Barron?s Education Series, in collaboration with The Ilex Press, will release Webcomics: Tools & Techniques for Digital Cartooning by Steven Withrow and John Barber on August 1, 2005. Webcomics is an intr...

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Just realized I never hyped my new site 'round these parts. It's been a while since I was a regular here; I should probably come by more often. Anyway, my new site is www.TwentySevenLetters.com . It includes my comics/theatre blog, along with my comics work. Here are some highlights: The Discovery o...

The Graphic Novel Review, a new journal devoted to the review and discussion of graphic novels in print has just issued its first call for submissions. For detailed writer's guidelines, please visit www.graphicnovelreview.com . The submission deadline for the first issue is September 1. Contributors...

What I'd like to see the Tarquin Engine used for is a comic where the different paths show different locations or perspectives. ... I'd really like to see effects like these used in a long form dramatic comic - used correctly, I think it could be great. I was thinking much the same thing. I do thin...

I really thought this one was going to go on a while longer. I was anticipating more divergences, and some threads broken off from the divergences.

Still, pretty cool.

Whether in the main thread or in a soon to be revealed alternate, I anticipate the waitress will indeed be revealed to be Mimi--and that a gun will be revealed from within Leslie's purse (answering the question, "who shot Marcel?"). Mimi's last coffee here being the last she poured, as Greg suggeste...

I don't see how this first statement meshes with the one to which I was offering a critique. You had originally suggested that 'the "actors" are into their roles enogh to convey the thoughts and emotions required in each panel.' So does this original comment mean anything if the material (in your o...

Greg Stephens wrote:Today's update is rather chilling.

Indeed.

I'm wondering if that bridge is on the Esplenade, or if it's one of the Harvard "foot bridges"...it looks like they walked for a while to get there--they could be in Cambridge, now. I've spent about a total of about 5 days of my life in Boston, icluding one Saturaday afternoon-evening of drinking i...

Seems like it taps into the whole "possibly yet another improv about death" phenom. Ah, whereas I saw this as the starting point for a story about employer/employee dynamics and office politics. But then again, that's what *I* write about. Of course, a lot of my favorite improvs have been death imp...

On the other hand, "Whose Mind is it Anyway?" and "Hotel Infinity" both sounded pretty good to me, so I didn't bother voting at all -- I was perfectly happy with either of the front runners. I did vote in the previous one -- I don't remember what for. really cast *against* "Bucket Full O'Kittens," w...

The nicest thing I can think of to say about baseball is that it's marginally more interesting the golf.

Of course, that's also the nicest thing I can think of to say about soccer.

Speaking of interesting linguistic evolutions, here's one I find fascinating -- the history and correct usage of "ain't" and "hain't."

http://www.elp-blink.com/WofW-aint.htm

The question that we need to ask is this, will our children be able to understand a letter or diary written by their great grandparent? Will they be able to read the declaration of independence? Will they choose the "lovely poetry of NSYNC" because Walt Whitman, "Like, makes no sense dawg". I don't...

While it's not quite as democratic as that, I have considered, at some future date, having a round where ten of my *favorite* rejected titles were given a second chance. There have been some where I had a good idea for how I might handle them but they were passed over. I know it's been asked before...

Actually, I haven't seen one of their adds in a while. I'm trying to remember...was it Comack that showed the couple in the giant, heart shaped, bubble-filled Love Tub ? I don't recall the ads, honestly. But the Theme Rooms page does reveal a heart-shaped Love Tub, so yeah, that's gotta be them. Al...

Cathy and Stephen already have made reservations for an evening at the Comack Motor Inn . Wow. I didn't know the Comack Motor Inn was world famous. I actually grew up not far from there. "Our rooms are available for short stays OR overnight at a variety of affordable rates." Short stays OR overnigh...

I wholeheartedly agree, and I suspect it's the pace of *updates* that's the primary cause of it. "Walrus" is a slow strip by its nature, but I'm guessing it wouldn't be as torturous if you were getting 2 or 3 panels per day as you ordinarily would be. Actually, since this is really a story about ag...

New study on Walrus handedness: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3207912.stm

as well as my thoughts on falling for the cliche. Going for the cliche isn't always a mistake. Certainly, when you're trying to pass a cliche off as original wit, that's a problem. In this case, it's more along the lines of parody. We're watching a typical office comedy minidrama unfolding. But tha...