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.

News
- Comic Dish forum regular Mad Scientist is restarting his comic and is looking for tips on how to improve it the second time around.
- Comic Book Resources has interviews with each of the August Zuda contestants in their new monthly feature, Zudist Colony.
- Also from Comic Book Resources: an interview with Ryan North, creator of Dinosaur Comics.
- The webcomic Teaching Baby Paranoia by Bryant Paul Johnson celebrated 500 strips on August 14th.
- AppScout has an article about indie comic publisher Top Shelf and their first foray into web-based publishing.

Review:  Ellium

Discussion
Character Design Principles (visual)
Modesty Redesign - Reed Redesign