News

- Tastefully Done: 2010 a calendar featuring various webcomic characters in the nude, is available for purchase. All proceeds go to Cancer Research.
- Webcomic Overlook ranks the Top 10 Best Webcomics of the Decade.
El Santo also just celebrated his 100th review.
- Another webcomic top 10: this time, The Telegraph looks at the 10 Best Webcomics.
- Ryan Sohmer of Least I Could Do has started the Rayne Summers Webcomic Scholarship at the Center for Cartoon Studies, in Vermont.

Review
Amazing Super Powers.

Discussion
- 6 ways to tell readers all about your character without saying a word.

News:
- The Scienteer's November workshop has started. This month's workshop is shading by hand.
- Comic Book Resources has an article about webcomic endings.
- Onezumi Studios has begun offering a free service, providing webcomic creators their own branded iPhone apps. More information, including how to apply for the beta, can be found here.
- The first Dallas Webcomic Expo is this Saturday, November 14.
- Amazon's Comic Strip Superstar contest has come to an end. The winner is Dana Simpson, for her comic strip, Girl. Dana is also the creator of webcomics Ozy and Millie, and Raine Dog.
- The 2009 Weblog Awards are now accepting nominations. years. 
- Scott McCloud urges us to look at our comics-to-controls-to-crap ratio.
- The L.A. Times interviews Randall Munroe about his unusual publishing strategy for xkcd: Volume 0.

Recent Milestones:
Machinegun Angel - 100 pages (Nov. 9)

Review:
Shadow Girls

Discussion:
Bad artistery

Note: You may noticed some Internet Explorer click sounds during the podcast.  Before I upgraded to windows 7, those noises were omitted from the podcast.  I could still hear them but they wouldn't appear in the final production.  Since having to dual boot into XP to get the drivers to work, I noticed that the sounds carry though.  A tad annoying but it should be the last time it happens.

News:
- NaNoWriMo 2009 takes place this month.
- Webcomic Secret Santa, a MAX-like fanart exchange held during the month of December, has started accepting participants for the 2009 event.
- Amazon has announced the 10 finalists in their Comic Strip Superstar contest. Voting is open until November 6th.
- Rachel Keslensky of the webcomic Last Res0rt provides 10 reasons you should draw a guest strip for someone.
- Voting for the 2009 Webcomic Reader's Choice Awards has begun.
- Sign-ups are now closed for the 30 Characters Challenge

Recent Milestones:
Odori Park - 100 strips (Oct 30)
Silly Daddy - 500 strips (Nov 9)

Review:

Blue Eden

Discussion:

 Furry/Anthro Comics
Top 10 Furry Comics

Hey everyone. The dish is on a two week vacation due to my work schedule conflicting with our recording time. While I was considering recording something quick just to fill the time, Jason Torchia did it for me! So a big thanks to him. I listened to it ahead of time to make sure that he didn't just record this to make fun of me and I got a good laugh out of it. So thanks to Jason, and enjoy the show!

News
- Comic Dish's other podcast, The Plate, has come to an end.
- A new book called Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and his Revolutionary Comic Strip is set to be released on October 1st.
- 24 Hour Comics Day is this Saturday, October 3rd.
- A movie based on the comic strip Marmaduke is being developed by 20th Century Fox.
- The 2009 Ignatz winners have been announced. The award for Outstanding Online Comic went to Year of the Rat by Cayetano Garza. A full list of all the award winners can be found here.

Recent Milestones
Amazing Super Powers - 2 years (Sept 24)
SuperFogeys - 3 years (Week of Sept 24)

Review
Zom-Ben

News
- The first monthly workshop has begun in the Scienteers section of the Comic Dish forums.

- Japanese cartoonist Yoshito Usui, best known for the series Crayon Shin-chan, has been found dead.

- Jack Kirby's estate sues to regain ownership of Kirby's characters.

- School Library Journal compares various webcomics to popular teen's and children's novels.
- Since it's just around the corner, Webcomics.com talks about 24-Hour Comics Day, which will take place on October 3.
- The first ever xkcd book, "xkcd: volume 0" has been released.

Recent Milestones
Red String - 1000 pages (Sept 14)
Gods Playing Poker - 2 years (Sept 18 )

Review:

Alembic Grimoire

News

- Robert Downey Jr. set to star in movie adaptation of the comic Cowboys and Aliens.  Is this Platinum's big break?
- Publishers Weekly looks at print editions of webcomics.
- At Comic Book Resources, Brigid Alverson looks at the 2009 Ignatz nominees for Best Online Comic.
- Bad Idea Goggles has posted part 1 of a 5 part series called How Not To Make It In Webcomics.
- Kleefield on Comics talks about the problems with Zuda's flash comic-viewer interface.
- The blog Hey! Look! Comics! has a sarcastic list of 20 tips for webcomic beginners.

Interview:

Lar De Souza of Least I could Do and Looking for Group.

 

 

News:

- Droakir has posted a nice mockup of his continued work on Comic Dish 2.0 in the forums.
- Disney has purchased Marvel for $4 billion.
- Mainstream news continues to notice the existence of webcomics, as evidenced by yet another article.
- io9 has an interview with Spike Trotman of Templar, AZ.
- The ToonSeum, a Pittsburgh museum dedicated to the cartoon arts, is moving to a larger location.
- 12-year-old Alexa Kitchen, the "world's youngest professional cartoonist" has a new book called "Grown-Ups are Dumb! (No Offense)". Alexa completed her first book, "Drawing Comics is Easy! (Except When It's Hard)" at the age of 7, and was nominated for a Harvey award and an Eisner award in 2007.

Review:

Woohooligans

Discussion:

Disney/Marvel aquisition.

News
- Cat Boxes, a Comic Dish hosted webcomic by Michael Yuan, is one year old as of August 25th.
- Digital comic publisher Wowio is no longer owned by Platinum Studios.
- Marvel's Digital Comics application is coming to the PSP.
- Amazon.com is hosting a contest to find the next "Comic Strip Superstar."  Brad Guigar at Webcomics.com translate the rules from legalese to plain English.
- Scene Point Blank has an interview with John Campbell, creator of the webcomic Pictures for Sad Children.
- TechRadar.com has an article about [url=http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/the-rise-of-the-web-comic-626765]the rise of webcomics[/url].
- Webcomics.com has launched a new video series called Webcomics.com University. The pilot episode has already been recorded, and can be found here.
- Comedy.com has a list of the 11 Greatest Sex Jokes in Webcomics.