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ITEM!<\/strong> So this Zuda thing, it’s just another way for a multinational corporation to separate you from your Intellectual Property without them paying you what that’s worth. Right? I mean, I’m not missing something? Other than the always-entertaining arguments that a) I can do whatever I want and you don’t know better than me, grandpa! or b) I KNOW WHAT I’M DOING AND I CAN ALWAYS COME UP WITH NEW IDEAS EVEN AFTER I GIVE THESE ONES AWAY. and my favourite c) You’re A Douche. I mean, sure, submit<\/em> to the will of AOL\/Time-Warner if you want to, I guess, but it’s not like the road to webcomics stardom is particularly hidden, or difficult to travel, or without lots of clear guideposts along the way.<\/p>\n“Enjoy new comics every week with Ragni<\/strong><\/a> on Mondays and Karl Kerschl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s The Abominable Charles Christopher<\/a><\/strong> on Wednesdays, followed by Andy B\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Raising Hell<\/a><\/strong> on Fridays, along with Scott Hepburn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s The Port<\/a><\/strong> and Cameron Stewart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Sin Titulo<\/a><\/strong> Rounding out the weekend on Saturdays and Sundays respectively.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Oh, and as I’ve already mentioned a couple of ways in which I’m biased regarding this issue, I’ll add one more to the pile: The next two comics in the TRANSMISSION-X stable are going to launch at The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, August 18th and 19th. Get ready for Arthur Dela Cruz’s KISSING CHAOS and Ramon Perez’ KUKUBURI too. Yay TCAF! Yay Toronto cartoonists!<\/p>\n From The Internet:<\/strong> Danielle “Girls With Slingshots” Corsetto, Chris “Dr. McNinja” Hastings, Jason “BlogTO” Kieffer, and Roxanne “Torontoist.com” Bielskis. I’m pretty excited about all of this, I think it’s gonna be a great show (but then you’ve heard me mention that already), and there are more… many more… plans on the way. You should book some plane tickets.<\/p>\n – Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s some things! ITEM! So this Zuda thing, it’s just another way for a multinational corporation to separate you from your Intellectual Property without them paying you what that’s worth. Right? I mean, I’m not missing something? Other than the always-entertaining arguments that a) I can do whatever I want and you don’t know better … <\/p>\n![\"sin-titulo.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/sin-titulo.jpg\" "\\"sin-titulo.jpg\\"")
ITEM! <\/strong>Speaking of the road to webcomics stardom, a bunch of my friends and associates here in Toronto launched their own webcomics community a few weeks ago. One of their members, Cameron Stewart, finally got around to asking why I hadn’t mentioned <\/em>that yet on the blog, which is fair, because I really should have as soon as they launched. Honestly, it’s because when I got the “WE’VE LAUNCHED” e-mail the site wasn’t ready yet… Nothing updated, some broken code, all that stuff. I figured I’d wait until they told me<\/em> to talk about it. I’m every PR-man-or-woman’s dream! So let me introduce TRANSMISSION-X<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.transmission-x.com\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/header-ragni.jpg\")
I can see why Cameron poked me today, the site’s looking great and all of the currently-updating features have at least a couple of pages ready to read, if not significantly more. Everything there is looking sharp, and, dare I say it? Commercial. I know that commerciality is the enemy of art and all that, but there’s no feeling reading the site that any of these guys–or these comics–aren’t ready for prime time. Let that be today’s lesson: Professional quality comics on the web don’t need to involve AOL\/Time-Warner.<\/p>\n![\"Comics](\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/fcbd-mal-cvr.thumbnail.jpg\" "\\"Comics")
<\/a>ITEM! <\/strong>Uh, speaking of The Toronto Comic Arts Festival<\/strong><\/a>, heh, uh, I’ve been doing a lot of work on that. It’s getting to be the exciting time, and we’ve been adding guests to the show left-right-and-centre. A great mix of locals and international guests, guys and gals, print comics, web-comix, and self-published work. Since the last time I mentioned it, check out some of the folks we’ve added:<\/p>\n
\nFrom Toronto:<\/strong> Clayton Hamner, Dave Lapp, Peter Thompson, Steve Wilson, and Tara Tallan.
\nFrom Art-Comix:<\/strong> Kevin Huizenga, Brian Chippendale, Frank Santoro, James Sturm, and Matthew Thurber.
\nFrom “The Mainstream”:<\/strong> Mike Huddleston and Adrian Alphona.
\nPublishers and Speakers too!:<\/strong> Peter (Little Nemo: So Many Splendid Sundays) Maresca, Dan (PictureBox) Nadel, and Jason (Shonen Jump, MANGA: THE COMPLETE GUIDE) Thompson.<\/p>\n