Hey, did you guys hear that Alternative Comics is going through a money crunch? Quite like Top Shelf and Fantagraphics did last year. Man, these things seem to be becoming a wearying annual occurence, despite hopeful omens of an industry renaissance springing up everywhere. But, like Top Shelf and Fanta before it, Alternative Comics is worth a little financial CPR, business Darwinists be damned.
Also, you should check out Strip Fight. This is a site where every week, cartoonists draw comics based on a loose theme, and then the general public is turned loose upon them in a grisly Thunderdome-like melee. The results are usually entertainingly uneven. Last week they gave a Gameboy to the winner. I really intended to enter, but events of an almost vacation-like nature forestalled that.
I was under the impression that Fantagraphics' big money "crunch" was actually a weak disguise for raising the chunk of money needed to print the first Peanuts collection.
Can't blame 'em. I just think -- if this is true -- that they should have told the public that rather than suggest they were about to go out of business.
I know, this is a completely irrelevant post. I just wanted to say hi, and that your new site design rocks, and once again you glaringly point out how little artistic and cool stuff I have been doing with my time. I'm doing marketing instead. Whee! *grins*
Oh, and Sephira says hi (she has been sitting at my feet).
