Scott McCloud created 24 Hour Comic Day and it seems to be an event that is growing in participation. This year, participants include a few of the comic pros I keep tabs on. Scott Kurtz of PvP is going to do 24 strips in one sitting. He claims to have gotten some complaints that he’s…

CBG Goes Monthly

…for fraud. He had claimed he was developing face identification software; he was not.

Sorry I was sick April 1st and couldn’t get you the news as it came in; by the time I was cruising the web, all I could find was people confessing to their April Fools pranks and pulling down the original web pages. Crap, we didn’t even do an April Fools joke on Monitor Duty.…

Congratulations to Scott Shaw! for releasing his 1000th issue of Oddball Comics.

Roz Terrill, cover artist for Job Wanted and Fanzing, and a close personal friend, has recently NEVER MIND – THIS LINK IS DEAD –had some financial troubles and needs to raise money fast. She is selling ALL of her remaining original fan art in order to try to raise money to make her house payment.…

Phil Meadows and I are contemplating finding an inker to work with us on our entry for Small Press Idol. NEVER MIND – THIS LINK IS DEAD –We posted this on our forum yesterday; if anyone is interested, please reply or e-mail us. The post about inking prompted Dwight Williams to send me the link…

Okay, ICv2 calls it a retailer calendar, but let’s just call it what it really is: Geek Events for 2004!

Mark Evanier has set up an e-mail address to send “get well” messages to Julius Schwarz. He also has more information on Schwarz’s injury.

The Top 300 Comics for December 2003 have been released. December is when “Job Wanted” was published. Back when I first assembled the team for JW, the numbers on monthly comics were so low that if an independent book could sell 1100 copies it would place amongst the top 300. Even though that’s only 22…