COMIXTALK MAGAZINE UPDATES

• Lots of articles up this morning to kick off the November issue of Comixtalk: interviews with Howard Tayler, the new Halfpixel crew, comics creator and writer Debbie Ridpath Ohi and comics artist Ramón Pérez; Doctor Haus reviews the webcomic Slackerz, and two feature articles: one from Patric Lewandowski examining the definition of comics, and one from Tim Broderick with advice on writing a query letter to publishers.

BUSINESS

• Todd Allen has an interview with Joey Manley and one of the investors in the new ComicSpace venture.

ZUDA, ZUDA, ZUDA!

• David Gallagher writes about writing for Zuda.
• Brian Hibbs Abhay Khosla writes about the Zuda interface (and something about why webcomics should aim to be more disreputable than the print comics he sells.)
• Paul O'Brien gives Zuda a grade of a C+. Seems early for report cards?
• Highway 62 focuses on the actual webcomics up on Zuda.
• Newsarama has an interview with many of the Zuda creators.
• The Beat has a round-up of posts on Zuda here.

OPINIONATED WEBCOMICS

• The SpinZone webcomics collective picks up its first conservatively-tilted webcomic, Geeks on Caffeine.

JUSTIFY MY HYPE

• What happens on the pirate ship, STAYS on the pirate ship
• Debbie Ridpath Ohi updates her My Life in a Nutshell comic with a bit on her ComixTalk interview.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

• Monkey Law goes silent in support of the Writers Guild strike.
• Panels and Pixels has an extended interview with Monte Schulz on the recent biography on his dad Charles Schulz, the creator of Peanuts.
• Nightwish, heavymetal umlauters from Europe, rock out at Onezumi Studios.
• Seven Camels blog has scans of the "Comic Strip Artist's Kit" created by Carson Van Osten, a famous Disney artist who did many of the Disney comic books.