Where to begin with of first official newspost… How about we dig into the e-mail and see what’s shown up?

Our first bit of news comes from a Mister David Gallaher writer of the werewolf slash western comic HIGH MOON which is currently running on Zuda comics, which apparently updates fortnightly. David would also like me to direct you to the production blog for the comic. Here you can find more of artist Steve Ellis’s work for the comic. David stressed that he and Steve are available for interviews, so we may just take him up on that. Then again he also used the word fortnightly in his e-mail so I can already tell he’s a character and a half.

Be sure to check out some of the posts that concern the creation of the comic. It’s always nice to glean a thing or two from others!

Next in our inbox is a message from the creator of Lucky and Guy. I’m just going to quote what she said:

Lucky and Guy? They’re pretty cool. They just graduated and they’re still
looking for work, so my heart goes out to them. They talk politics a lot,
but their opinions aren’t always the most informed, but their bleeding
liberal hearts are in the right place, bless their souls. I’ve been telling
their stories in comics since I first got them published in my middle school
newspaper. If you check out my website, http://www.luckyandguy.com/, you’ll
be able to see all the comics that have been published in my high school
and college newspapers (Warning: quality varies), and beyond. Who knows?
You might like it.

So go ahead and give them a visit, afterall, you might like it.

And our final bit of news from the inbox is from Geoffrey Thorne who wants me to direct everyone to his comic GEOFFREY THORNE’S DREAMNASIUM which can be found at Webcomics Nation. He also mentions that he’ll be wrapping up his second issue within the next couple of weeks. So Geoffrey? Congrats on the milestone. I can’t wait to hear about issue number fifty.

If you have any news to send us, you can e-mail us, or use our handy on-site form! So keep the news coming people, don’t make us search you guys out!

First off, our friends at The Gigcast have posted their 127th episode, so go snag it for your iPod or other portable device. This episode features an interview with the newly married Evil Emperor Nick and Amelius as well as much of the other content that’s normally delivered on the Gigcast.

Other things found on the news-o-blogs, apparently Anne Thalheimer over at Fleen is seeking reading recommendations. Be sure to throw a few her way that you read, or possibly suggest your own, you may pick up a new fan.

In more dramatic news, there has been some hullabaloo concerning the removal of genre-awards from the WCCAs. Interesting reading if you’ve got some time to kill, or you’re very annoyed (or not) with the genre-awards removal.

Meanwhile, Tyler Martin earns a little geek-cred for pointing out some LOST references in his comic. Always fun to see authors do things like that. There should be a list somewhere devoted to just that… or maybe a Scienteer feature…

Lastly, if you haven’t read Dean Trippe’s Butterfly, you’re depriving yourself of a truly well done comic. So get to reading!

You know, web instead of print, get it?

Meh. Time for news from the inbox!

First off Allan Clark wants us to direct to your his comic Small Shenanigans, which seems to mix hand-drawn art with photo-backgrounds. So drop by and tell him we sent you.

Next we have another Zuda comic wanting to spread the word about itself, this time courtesy of Bobby Timony. The comic is called “The Night Owls” and is about a couple of supernatural detectives in 1920s New York. Even better, it seems to update every Thursday at five o’clock and it’s a project handled by twins. Bobby draws and Peter writes. So check out a comic run on twin-power!

Unfortunately, that’s all we’ve recieved since the last post, so send us your news dagnabbit!

I’m looking forward to Smash Brothers Brawl, the soundtrack rip should keep me happy until it arrives.

So, how about some news?

First off, the friends to the Scienteers and all around great guys behind No Need for Bushido have done some youtube video tutorials concerning the creation of one of their pages. It’s extremely informitive, so be sure to check it out. Also, expect an interview with the guys later this week.

Next, we’ve slowly started gathering praise and plugs from other bloggers and sites, special thanks to David Gallaher for spreading the word about us, as well as Mangapunksai for her kind plug. We’ve interview with Dave Roman been mentioned on Journalista!

Just got this in from the awesome Skoolmunkee over at Drunk Duck.

My cooker is broken! :[

How are you? Good? That’s good. Good!

OK guys, I’ll tell you something: I’ve been naughty. I’ve had lots of PQs for newsposts for a while now and been too lazy to make the newspost.

I know, I’m a disappointment to us all. :[

So, let’s get to it, shall we? I promise to get to the point! The nominations for the Web Comics Choice Awards are out, and there’s a couple of Drunk Duckers on there! Namely The Dreamer by comic_chic, and Templar Arizona by Spike! If you’re a webcomic creator, you can register on their site to vote- so why not support your co-ducks, eh?

RDraconis is having a contest for More to Life which would be perfect for folks who like clothes and character designs - more details here!

Cake for those who turn 25, namely Organization Infinite by flapjack1995; Legend of Zelda Hyrule is Screwed by zaneeba_slave; Chuck Norris Against the World by Eduds; BLNT: Synchronicity (a prequel to the original BLNT) by blntmaker, featuring recaps and profiles!

Turning 100 are Pokemon Town by Poke Alster (and will be having dramatic changes); Cancerous AIDS by BreakElemental; Philly by Ryan McLelland, featuring a crossover with Rich Bernatovech’s Sentinels!

At 75 is MAG-ISA by kyupol; and Shades by DAJB, featuring major masked-figure plot reveals!

Ultimate X by Frogman is 150 pages old!

Turning 175 is Grin-n-Spirit by ghostrunner!

At an amazing 200 pages is Fred
Peterson The Mighty Warlord - Book 1 by LanceDanger; and The Lost Chapters of Megaman by Cryosis!

And finishing up (no more updates!) is the once-featured Commedia dell’Arte by Litindir, who has new projects on the way according to the creator comments…

Thanks Skoolmunkee! I should mention she is the duly elected DD reperesentive to The Scienteers, so we’ll be sharing their news and milestones here, so expect frequent DD updates!

Next, we have a couple of things from the inbox!

We’ve had a couple of people eager to submit their comics, so once again I’d like to direct you guys to the guidelines. In case your submissions don’t meet them. We’d like to direct you to his comics Crazy Duck and Billy Johnson and his Duck are Explorers! The comics that Crazyduck (I wonder if he likes ducks??) sent in didn’t quite match the guidelines, but we’ll plug him anyway! That’s just the sort of folks we are around here!

While we’re at it, we better promote Brynn’s deviantART page. His submission didn’t quite meet the guidelines, but his art deserves a look and I hope to see some comics of his show up!

Directly from the site, the nominees this year are:

OUTSTANDING COMIC FINALISTS:
Achewood by Chris Onstaad
Girl Genius by Phil and Kaja Foglio
Gunnerkrigg Court by Tom Siddell
Perry Bible Fellowship by Nicholas Gurewitch
The Phoenix Requiem by Sarah Ellerton

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“Black_Kitty” wrote:

But the snow was definitely not delightful.
Anyhow, I’m slipping in with some PQs from my ever full PQ box! Let’s begin with milestones shall we? Shall we? Yes we shall!

Timmy And The Bleach and Growth managed to put two and five together to form 25! (Pages that is~)

A belated happy 50th pages goes to Beyond Human! (Who, might I add, has nice art!)

Avatar of Fire meanwhile should have 75 pages posted by…yesterday. >.> Guess who else reached 75 pages?

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Antcomics is fast approaching it’s 75th milestone, and to celebrate I’m doing a cameoextravaganza! Starting with strip #72, and going through to #75, cameos of my faithful fans’ characters will be appearing in the Ants’ current story arc!

If you guessed FIGHT 2 or Basketcase then you are absolutely wrong! (But have nice taste~) Please read the above again because Antcomics is doing something super cool! …Oh. I kinda gave that away. >.>

Hey! 75 times 2 is 150 and if you minus 25 you get 125 which is the milestone that Warriors of the Night reached!

Now normally we don’t announce chapters so that would mean I couldn’t say that page 37 of Tales of the Traveling Gnome is the conclusion of chapter 1. However this is actually about Matt Summers and Michelle Mayo working together for three whole years! Holy partnership Batman! <3

And welcome back For God’s Sake! Welcome back from your hiatus~ <3

Did you miss the opportunity to contribute to Fowl Play the first time around? Fear not! You can do one of two things:
1. Go buy a copy of Fowl Play!
2. Go contribute to the second issue of Fowl Play by PQing Aussie Kid

Finally we end our beloved night with one last piece of news from Will~

sIRC has reached 100th pages! <3

Will also want to stress to everyone that the #drunkduck chatroom is always welcoming people. Their goal has always been to get more people into the #drunkduck chatroom. There might have been some misunderstanding and banning due to misconduct so:

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I just want to stress this: our ops are in no way banhappy, they enforce the rules to the best of their abilities, and are generally good natured and fun people. if you get banned, there is always a reason, first time bans are always temporary.

Drunk Duck rolled out a new layout today, and there are two major problems I have with it. One, it just doesn’t look that good and two, there are still a lot of problems with it. The header has a huge gap in it for example. That being said, the large icons are nice, and I like the collapsible sidebar. Too bad you can’t seem to make a sidebar category stay open once you decide you want to keep it open. Also, lack of site news on the main-page is a bit annoying. News can be found in the collapsible sidebar, only once again, it keeps closing between pages of the site. Overall, it feels a bit like a step in the WRONG direction. Essentially, a couple of good ideas completely overwritten by a clunky and incomplete layout, hopefully some changes will be made soon.

However, there is some other news, first of all, Scienteer Rémi Perron wants me to mention that SCUD is back. Not entirely webcomic-related from what I can tell, but it’s still a comic and we’re all about the art form around here.

Finally, we have this:

The two-pronged trident of historical buffoonery at www.ftg-comic.com known
as The Count and Geoff, would like the world to know that they have managed
to produce 100 full episodes of farcical time-travelical foppery.

As of February 7th 2008, “Frederick the Great: A Most Lamentable Comedy
Breaching Time and Space” has joined the ranks of the triple-digited.

Since Frederick updates on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the 100th episode will
be on the main page all weekend long.

–Geoff

So, as we lead into the weekend, maybe we’ll get some more happenings to report?

First off, we have some DD news!

First of all, an apology for not having a new featured comic up. Something about the new main page design isn’t bringing up the comics we’ve put in, so… I suppose a new comic will be up as soon as it’s fixed, or whenever
we can pester Volte enough so he’ll do it manually. Meanwhile, have you checked out the ones already featured?

Secondly, about the new main page design - there’s a thread in the forums about it, so if you’ve something to say about it, you can do so there!

Thirdly, a bit of an oversight by me in my previous newspost - Crowfeathers is also on Drunk Duck, and is up for two WCCAs! Good luck to all DDers!

There’s not a feed up on the main page right now for The Gigcast, but just so you guys know, our very own SuperFogeys have been interviewed on Feb 7th, and on Feb 1 they interviewed Amelius of Charby the Vampirate and her husband, Evil Emperor Nick of a bunch of stuff! You can catch both of them on the Gigcast’s page!

Also, NightGig is putting out a book!

Seelinkrun11’s comic Mystery World has reached 100 pages! Congratulations!

MOSAIC by SomaX turned 1 year old today!

Chernobog’s comic Schizophrenia Bloom has reached 50 pages!

Mr Mustard Seed wrote:

Nothing like crossing a milestone to help work up a thirst. Twenty-five postings ago the comic strip TWITCH! began taking shape on Twonks & Plonkers. Hoist a pint of your favorite brew as you follow the adventures of Goffer, Albie A. Mann, Munch, and Mr. Tally while they turn and burn their way through new laughs on their way to #50 and
beyond.

Thanks Skoolmunkee! You’re a credit to educated simians everywhere!

Next, David Gallaher is frequently become the BEST FRIEND SCIENCE CAN EVER ASK FOR.

Let’s read his latest e-mail shall we?

Dear Awesome The Scienteers,

I thought I would take a moment to direct  you to this post where webcomic author and mastermind behind IN HIS LIKENESS talks about one of his influences:
http://www.inhislikeness.com/2008/02/04/hatton-influence-part-i-henson/#comments

Also, I thought your Drunk Duck post was pretty awesome, and I agree about the interface. It’s a bit of a mess, which is ashame, because they have some solid content. I would be very interested in you thoughts on Zuda’s new February contestants, especially since webcomic ACT-I-VATEr Kevin Colden (the madman behind FISHTOWN) is doing a strip this month.

I’m really a big fan of the site- and totally keen on what you guys will be doing with it!

All the best,
David Gallaher

Keep the news coming folks, we’re doing pretty well now. We’re getting mentions on Fleen, Journalista and Comixtalk! David’s e-mail does make me wonder about doing webcomic reviews on here. Maybe we’ll do a Zuda feature for each new batch. That is, if the site will load for me. I have quite a few complaints with the Zuda site, maybe I should start a series of articles where I complain then, huh?

Two bits of collaborative news today!

First off, a very serious issue brought to our attention from Lindsay Totty:

The Washington Post recently ran a story on a group of syndicated
cartoonists planning a protest this weekend. They’re targeting newspaper
editors who choose not to syndicate one strip created by or featuring
minorities because they’re already publishing another strip — often just
one strip — that meets that “diversity demand.”

The cartoonists drew strips with similar plot lines — all of which involve
an older, white character lamenting the appearance of “politically correct”
minority-drawn strips on the comics page.

Be sure to check out candorville.com for information on the protest.

I participated in the protest as well. My contribution can be read at
http://www.luckyandguy.com.

We’ll keep an eye out for updates on this situation. I suggest everyone keep an eye out here, this seems pretty important.

Next, Remi has informed me of a crossover that is running on Comicgenesis. It’s about an evil coalition invading other webcomic universes. I am not sure if it’s a private project, or open for people to add to, but check out Evil Overlords United, these things are pretty cool.

It’s been a bit of a slow weekend for news, but be sure to read our two spotlight comics, Jonny Crossbones and Scandal Sheet!