Hi all,

Well, I'm VERY enthused: over a dozen participants within 24 hours of the Event "going live," and I'm still spreading the word via message boards and public forums.

Randomization is turning out to spread things more evenly than one might expect, which is a sign of either incredible luck or the favour of some Supreme Being.

We have some pretty high-profile entrants, too, which is very cool...

I'm hoping for 30-60 participants in all, giving us between 3-6 comics per day for the ten days leading up to Hallowe'en.

Actually this is another story about Disney vs the Air Pirates and the subsequent Mouse Liberation Front. But it does shed some light on why comics have struggled to enjoy the full protection of that the First Amendment provides to other mediums of expression.

Comixpedia is hosting its first-ever EVENT, and we're inviting all webtoonists to join us!

THE CHALLENGE: Draw a thirteen-panel scary story starting from a randomly assigned panel drawn by some of webcomics' most fiendish minds!

THE DEADLINE: Send us the URL for your twisted masterpiece by OCTOBER 17, 2003. Comics will run from OCTOBER 20 to HALLOWE'EN.

THE REWARDS: The entry judged best for each starter-panel category will be awarded the panel itself, signed and sent by the artist in question! Plus, you know, glory.

THE DETAILS: We even have our own venerable URL for this: www.frightnight.org!

SHARE THE FUN! SHARE THE FEAR! Visit www.frightnight.org and sign up TODAY!

Bailey of END TIMES took Al Schroeder, the creator of MINDMISTRESS, up on his request for other webcomic artists to redraw one of his pages. You can see the results here. (please note there is a link both on the page, and if you click on the picture it will take you to END TIMES also.)

It's fan art with a difference, and a quite delightful way to see other artist's takes on some of the original characters. On his Alternative Pages Al Schroeder invites any other interested and talented artists to similarly take one of the MINDMISTRESS pages and redraw it in his or her own style.

As we as webcartoonists struggle for recognition and appreciation, it's always interesting to see how our predecessors had to deal with some of the same issues we do.

So I was stunned to run across this story. It describes a proposed first-class, A-list Batman movie to be done by cinematic legend Orson Wells (yes, of Citizen Kane and War of the Worlds) in the mid '40's. And check out the list of actors signed to play the villians!!!

It also describes the difficulties in the mainstream perception of comics, not only in completing the movie, but also in keeping the extensive archive of preproduction work from the public for so long.

Namir Deiter's 500th strip will run this Sunday! Namir Deiter, which began on November 28th, 1999, will reach the 500 mark after nearly four years.

Hey all,

I'm doing a pin-up for a new company called www.rivalcomics.com for one of their flagship titles. This preview is far from finished, but I thought I'd post it and see what ya thought. It should, and I really mean SHOULD, look more like something Tim Bradstreet draws when done. Lemme know what ya think and if you wanna know more about the comic I'm doing this for go check out thier site, it's really pretty cool. Oh and check mine out too www.gutterflycomix.com it aint bad either :-)

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has been running a series on the history of comic strips in newspapers this week. Today's focus is on the 70's (but there are links to all of the week's stories on the page).

The whole series wraps up Sunday with a vote on both currently published and potential candidates comics for that newspaper. Presumably this might lead to some changes to their comics pages. Why do newspapers use this approach to determining what comics to publish? How odd would it be if television ran a few sample shows and than held an Internet poll to determine which shows to run that season. On the other hand, I suppose some television channels might have better programming if they tried that approach.

Fastest concluding trilogy ever? Check out the trailer for Matrix Revolutions here.

September 25th marked the 3rd anniversery for Silly Cone V, and while he's not getting any richer, SCV creator Brandon "Scrubbo" Sonderegger IS getting older, as is his comic.