2007
Pete Abrams celebrated 10 years of Sluggy Freelance, and Ellie Deyneka wrote about finding an audience for her webcomic The Paranormals.

2006
Rich Stevens strikes a deal to syndicate Diesel Sweeties to the newspapers (he ended that arrangement in 2008), musician Thomas Dolby wrote about the use of his lyrics in a Wapsi Square comic, and Bryant Paul Johnson was one of the finalists for the Science Idol comic competition.

2005
The Comixpedia.org encyclopedia site was just getting started, and Brad Guigar was organizing a webcomics telethon for Hurricane Katrina relief.

2004
We were in the midst of the first big site overhaul at ComixTalk...

2003
The manga anthology site Wirepop added Eversummer Eve to its lineup, and we recommended readers check out Warren Ellis' Artbomb comic site.

BUSINESS
Blogger/superhero Cory Doctorow writes about his dandelion theory of distributing his stories and why he doesn't like micropayments.

The Beat reports that Elephantman is now available on iPod comic site Clickwheel (full press release after the jump)

JUSTIFY MY HYPE
Comics Worth Reading likes Dennis West's Backyard Frontier: the story of a boy and his alien.

REVIEWS
Chris Mauter posts a review of the Penny Arcade collection: Attack of the Bacon Robots! that originally ran in TCJ.  Interesting but a few quibbles - I'm not much of a videogame player and I don't think it's true such knowledge is needed for every PA strip (a few yes, but far from most) and clearly this book was intended for the PA fan (i.e, the completist), not to attract new readers. (I almost forgot that Modern Humor Authority ran the definite review of this book - check it out here.)

Bring your favorite beverage and see you this evening at 10PM EST on Talkshoe.com. Here are some of the topics of interest we'll be talking about in our 8th episode:

The September meeting of the NCWCCC will be at The Design Box on Saturday, September 13th in Raleigh, NC.  Thanks to Paul Friedrich for getting us the space.

DARK HORSE PRESENTS
Wow - The Dark Horse presents on MySpace this month kicks all kinds of sass: Nothing Nice to Say by Mitch Clem, Achewood by Chris Onstand, Beanworld by Larry Marder, and new stuff from Liz Greenfield: Steak and Kidney Punch.

INTERVIEWS
Jennifer Contino interviews Jessica Hickman the artist on Otis Frampton's Oddly Normal.

Rick Marshall interviews Bernie Hou of Alien Loves Predator -- now working on a new webcomic If You See Something.

Justin Ison's bickering "Birthday Twins," whom I enjoy setting at each others' throats...

I dunno. I kinda like black-n-white. Color is fun, too - but all sorts of time-consuming. Would people really miss the coloring part, if I were to stop doing it? -Krishna

Read from the beginning - archives - home - Start at the beginning of the chapter

Another free association drawing! Have I mentioned how fun this technique is, when it comes to brainstorming new characters? -Krishna

One of my favorite editing jobs.