I'm delighted to announce my new collaboration with Edward J. Grug III, "Gingerbread Houses," a retelling of the classic Grimm's fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel.  Our story begins immediately following the second abandonment of the two children, as the impoverished woodcutter prepares a scant meal for himself and his wife.  This 74-page story will update approximately twice each week, and can be found in Grug's Livejournal.

Brian Daniel's Comics: You want a decsription? Read the comic and write it yourself. What am I, your mom?

Another attempt at a genre podcast! Good thing Fes has  Tanya and Mark helping to keep things off-topic and interesting! Yes, we talk about movies a lot, but what better inspiration than Hollywood? … No? Well listen anyway!

 I was reading a fantasy webcomic a while ago that I really liked. Unfortunately, I got busy and forgot the name of the comic, and because I got a new computer, I can't find it in my web history.

Tom Spurgeon reports that Dark Horse may or may not be pulling a book version of Planet Beer from cartoonist Brian Sendelbach.  Sendelbach apparently sent out an email asking for pre-orders to avert a pull of the book (scheduled for March) by Dark Horse.  Dark Horse in its response doesn't seem to agree exactly. 

Sendelbach's comic is called Smell of Steve and appears online and in some weeklies.  I have no idea about Dark Horse pulling books or whatnot but whatever email Sendelbach wrote was brilliant P.R. -- he's got mentions of the coming book in The Comics Reporter and other sites -- plus a solid plug from Internet Jesus himself.

it hurts until it doesn’t anymore.

After a short December hiatus, Things Change: The Metamorphoses Comic is back with Book Four today. Once again I've switched format to a comic strip four panel format (Book Three was a convention portrait oriented page, while Books One and Two were landscape oriented pages). I've also switched tactics a bit with art style, color, and the way I'm putting panels together. 

Check it out, every Sunday and Wednesday.

Another webcomic creator hits the Googleplex - I finally got to watch through this and it was interesting to hear Chris Onstad talk about his work and the flexibility of the web.

ADVERTS

Let's stick with the advertising theme this week.  I may have been too harsh on BlogAds yesterday - I lowered the prices and had a new ad submitted within hours.  Hmm...   Anyhow, new features for the Project Wonderful advertising platoform -- categories for publishers ad boxes and infinite bids for advertisers.

MILESTONES

The Reboot webcomic is over.  I know nothing about any incarnation of Reboot so someone else will have to tell us if the webcomic did justice to the cartoon or whether there's a big screen remake with Eddie Murphy coming out next year.

NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT

Lyle Masaki has an overview of webcomics with gay themes and characters.  It's a good article which covers a number of really good comics out there. (h/t El Journalista!)

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

Shelly from Scary Go Round meets Dr McNinja as drawn by SGR boy genius creator John Allison.