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.