HALLO, fellow scienteers and non-scienteers alike! A lot of stuff is happening around my head, but the biggest one right now is MEGACON in Orlando, FL! I’m leaving for Orlando today and will be there all weekend at Artist’s Alley, table Brown 12B!! That’s way back there, but it will be a freakin party you know!!!!! Also with me I will have like 1,000 mini comics for sale! I got one called “PROBLEMS WITH MY BODY” which is a mini containing sketches and lil comics from my sketchbook. I’ve seen others do this before and thought it was really neat, I hope others think the same way!!!  Next, I got a mini version of my 24 hour comic, THE FARM HOUSE) available, then a very special one: GUN SHOW THREE AND A HALF!! A little taste of what the new gun show will bring to everyone, and I think no one will be disappointed.  I’ll also have old issues of Gun Show one and two, and will be sketching in everything I can, for free!! So, if you live in Florida, you have no reason NOT to come down to Megacon and shake my hand!See you there.

Just a quick note folks! Now the comic submissions include promotional posters for your comics instead, much like the River City Mechanical one above.

So, don’t have a chance to do a comic? Send us a nice promotional image, just make sure we can run it exclusively for a bit, and you meet the guidelines specified for the comics.

However, we will be much more selective when it comes to posters, so make them count!

One of my goals with this site was to eventually start workshops on creating comics, as well as discussions on their artistic merits.

Now. I am in no way an expert, but I’ve learned a lot about pacing over time, and I always stress that to all my creator friends. Seriously, if you don’t pace your work well, you run the risk of having a lopsided story, or something that feels too rushed. I know from experience, I’ve had a bad habit of restarting comics because I didn’t page my work properly.

Thus, you should check out this article from the official Star Wars website about comparison of the Star Wars: A New Hope manga and the Marvel comics adaptation. I own one of the New Hope volumes, and it is QUITE an inspiration. I am glad this article was written. Be sure to check it out if you’re serious about your work.

On another note, would you guys be interested in some posts that focus on art, writing and other aspects of creating comics? Would you prefer just focusing on existing webcomics? Maybe you’d like to see how outside materials apply to the art form?

Please, share your thoughts with us.

Prolific Cartoonist KC Green Brings His Comics To KeenspotCresbard, SD, March 21, 2008 - Keenspot is proud to announce that prolific, award-winning cartoonist KC Green has joined Keenspot. He brings his signature comics HORRIBLEVILLE, BEE POWER (formerly DROOP), and others to the popular webcomics network.”I’ve been a fan of KC Green for awhile, and I’m honored that he’s chosen to join Keenspot,” said Keenspot CEO Chris Crosby. “His unique brand of humor and strikingly original art style make him one of the brightest lights shining on the webcomics scene today.”

“Keenspot has been kind of a dream for me since I discovered webcomics as a tiny child on the internet,” said Green. “I started reading webcomics ’cause of some of the talent these guys had back in the day. Now, I’m happy to be a part of that talent. Maybe some kid will discover and start reading webcomics because of me, and then grow to make some of his own. That’s all I can hope for.”

A directory of KC Green’s comics can be found at rumblo.com.

Hopefully KC will post and fill us in a bit on this. The DD news below the cut.

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The newest version of Wordpress has goofed up the arrow-based navigation at the top of the site. I downloaded a fix off of the Comicpress website and I am trying to get it to work. If you want to browse previous comics until the bug is fixed, check the comic-archive.

Hopefully it’s fixed. If not, let us know!

Edit: Tyler lended us a hand, navigation should be working flawlessly now!

Welcome to what I hope to be the first of a weekly series. These weekly wrap-ups will be used to link all of our webcomic updates in the group.

So, without further stalling for time, all the Scienteer updates for this week (and some before then since this seemed like a generally slow week)!

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Brian just showed me something nifty called Yahoo Pipes, even better he did it with all the Scienteer comics so far!

So, check out the global comic feed and subscribe to it with whatever services you like. It gives you our comic updates alone, none of those messy blog updates we like to do all the time. Plus, when a new comic goes up, you’ll be first to know.

Here’s a tip, if you’re using a Google Homepage, click the Google button on the feed to set a gadget on your homepage (or click here), that way you’ll see any news updates as soon as you open your browser.

Also, we’ve got the latest updates displayed on the sidebar as well. So you should be able to access our updates pretty easily now.

PS. We love you.

We have an IRC channel now! We’re looking for people to talk to and some mods to cover for places that are potentially modless!

So please join in, we’d love to see you there.

You can use our applet, of if you’re IRC savvy, point your client to irc.sorcery.net and the channel #scienteers.

See you there!

Are you a livejournal user? Do you enjoy our handy comics feed?

Well, I’ve just put together a livejournal version of that feed to use, so you can get all the Scienteer comics on your friend page as soon as they’re posted. Nice to keep thing together like that, huh?

Anyway, be sure to add it, and don’t forget the other general Scienteer feed.