Thanks to everyone for making Fright Night 8 a success. Check out the comics if you haven't already. There were a lot of other cool Halloween-related posts in the blogs so check 'em all out!

MILESTONES

• Concerned has wrapped up. This really is a hilarious parody of the video game Half-Life 2. Much like Tom Stoppard's famous play Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead zeroes in on minor characters from Hamlet, Concerned follows the adventures of a new, seemingly minor character, Gordon Frohman, who weaves through the plot of Half Life 2 without disturbing the official narrative of the game. Creator Christopher Livingston put in a year and a half into this project and within what he set out to do, I'd say he succeeded fantastically.

LEGAL

• Creator Neil Gaiman has some advice for creators on how to handle their work in their wills.

INTERVIEW

• Webcomics In Print has an interview with Ali Graham, creator of Housd.
• UGO has an interview with Dan Goldman, member of the collective, Act-I-Vate.

CONVENTIONS

• Flight has a round-up of Portland, OR's Stumptown Comics Fest reports and photos.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

• Wax Intellectual delves into the funny-ha-ha old school webcomic Absurd Notions.
• Anyone want to work for DC Comics, possibly handling some of their online efforts? Don't forget us at Comixpedia when you make it to the Show.
• Former Comixpedia contributor T Campbell has a new site called One Simple Ad which is really just that simple. Read more about it and why T started it here.
• Websnark and Scrubbo take Wikipedia to task for more dumb decisions regarding which webcomics make the cut for inclusion in the Wikipedia.
• The Comics Reporter links to a story about a Harvard University student cartoonist who was fired from the paper for plagerism. This looks like a pretty clear cut case of copying. It's not always that clear though - see this recent post from Tom Tomorrow about similarities between one of his comics and a recent Fox Trot.

(Greenville, PA) A shocking and controversial discovery, which threatens to overturn generations of blind herd-like belief, has recently been made in a sleepy small town in northwest Pennsylvania, where the clip-clop of Amish horse and buggies vies with the sound of farmers' tractors.

First, there were the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library, and more recently, the Gospel of Judas. Now, threatening to overturn the last shred of orthodoxy, comes The Gospel of The Sacred Cows.

The discoverer of the Gospel, himself a former conservative evangelical minister, says “I am shocked. This goes against everything I had been taught to believe. The Gospel of The Sacred Cows questions long established beliefs and encourages independent thinking. Why, that alone makes it heretical!”Not only that, but the very form of the gospel makes it controversial. “There's never been a gospel in cartoon form discovered before,” says Rev. T.W.L., just one of many to comment on this paradigm-shattering discovery, “it's unclear just how seriously God wants us to take this.”

Hey guys, the first chain, the halloween one was a success, so we're doing sign ups for our next one.

You're welcome to join.

Wes Molebash, the creator of You'll Have That, has just recorded the sixth episode of his podcast, The WesCast. You can listen to the latest episode on his website, his Myspace page, or his Gcast account.

First off, a big Happy Halloween to all of you out there who love the holiday as much as I do. There is a reason it is the second most commercially successful holiday only behind Christmas. If I could make it Halloween all year, you better believe I'd do it.

This also marks the very day that The Asylumantics splashed onto the world wide web.

Hey everyone all of us at Studio Shonen thank you very much for the support you have shown to our little comic Oleander Kingdom.

It Halloween and we wanted to give you a little bonus for all the love you have shown us. Go take a look at our heroes as they get ready for All Hallow's Eve.

http://www.studioshonen.com/

 

Halloween cuteness at COTC! Yes, actual cuteness. (Tragedy and despair continue tomorrow per usual.) For today, stop by and check out two Halloween themed comics.

Graphic Smash ad sales are now open for business, and are powered by the aptly named, Project Wonderful.

What does this mean? It means that there are ad slots for sale on the Graphic Smash home page, as well as ads that run on every free comics page. They all run on the Project Wonderful auction model, meaning the highest bidding ad runs in the slot until it expires, or is out bid.

If you want to talk about the comics for Fright Night 8 here's the place.

I thought it was cool how people took "remix" differently - some of them were similar enough in size and format that I set them up as a mouseover to see the remixed version. Others were fairly different from the original.

 

I'm really happy with the way Fright Night 8 turned out - go check out all of the spooky-remixed webcomics at Fright Night dot org now!

We didn't put any limits on what "remix" meant and our 18 participants all approached it in their own way. I think this idea is a good one (I've gotten good feedback from the participants) so we'll probably use it again for FN9 next year.