Holy freakin' heck! Keenspot webcomic You •••• Kid* has been optioned by Fox as a possible TV show.

I actually noticed this on yesterday's newsboxes, but I thought it was probably a joke (an April Fool's newbox once touted Life At Bayside as an HBO show), but I didn't realize it was true until I saw the story at Websnark, http://www.websnark.com/archives/2005/09/i_dont_suppose.html

No link to YDK since some strips have featured nudity.

Unbelievable.

* The strip has been syndicated to some papers as You Darn Kid.

Keenspot's homepage has more about the deal.

On November 7, 2005, Steve Troop made his 9 years worth of archives inaccesible to the web, in the belief that his huge archives were scaring away potential readers.

However, last Friday, he re-enabled access to the Melonpool archives.

The KAMics has reached 500 cartoons.

Given the glitches in the nomination process at the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards the 2006 winners should have an asterisk behind them.

Dr. Fun, quite possibly the first webcomic, has ended.

Drunk Duck has been sold to Platinum Studios.

Given the recent deteletionfest of webcomic entries at Wikipedia a recent prank by Kristopher Straub was rather funny.

As if there hasn't been enough stories about Anna Nichol, it turns out a webcomic artist had been commisioned(?) to produce a webcomic for Anna's website. What timing. He has put the finished strips up on his site, (although I don't think they're that funny).

KISS fans might be interested to know that in addition to their KISS 4K comic they have a supplimentary webcomic to it.

Edit: Eeep! Just checked the link & the current cartoon features an image that should stick it in the Mature category rather than the Everybody category they have it listed under. Proceed with caution.

CameoComic, one of the key comics in the Crossover Wars (crossoverwars.dragoneers.com) has lost their artist (she was having some internet trouble, but now the writers can't even contact her) so they need some guest artists, or even one artist, to produce strips for them.

No pay, but if you have a site Hogan will provide a link so people can see more of your work.

You can let me know if you're interested or register at the Dragoneers forum (forum.dragoneers.com) & send Hogan a Private Message.

Drunk Duck changes hands once again.

Wonder if we'll have the same "The sky is falling!" madness the last time this happened? ;-) (I think my favorite part of that were the 'webcomic pundits' offering their take on what it all meant when they clearly didn't have a clue. Scott Kurtz in particular didn't even seem to know what Drunk Duck was, but that didn't stop him acting like a know-it-all. ;-)

On the other hand the corporate shuffling is interesting. Platinum bought DD, then it buys Wowio, then it apparently lets Wowio go (I'm not too sure of the exact situation there), & now Platinum sells DD to Wowio. Okayyyyy...

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By KAM on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 - 1:53 am:

Dr. Fun, quite possibly the first webcomic, has ended.

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Apparently the Washington Post has been having some kind of Best Webcomic poll

The finalists are interesting:

Battlepug - Came across this comic within the last two weeks. Art's nice, but the story didn't grab me.

Black Snow: Two Drink Minimum - Never heard of

Cyanide and Happiness - Bleh

Dresden Codak - Meh

Girl Genius - Good choice

Girls With Slingshots - Don't read

Gunshow - I think there is a webcomic of this name on Keenspot, but I'm not sure if it's the same one. Didn't care for it if it is the one.

Hark! A Vagrant - Bleh, overated

Homestuck - Don't read

Least I Could Do *snicker* People either hate it or love it, so its making the list is amusing.

Muktuk Wolfsbreath, Hard-Boiled Shaman - Never heard of

The Oatmeal Never heard of

Penny Arcade - Don't read usually

Questionable Content - Don't read usually

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bleh

Schlock Mercenary - Don't read usually

Something Positive - Don't read usually

Wapsi Square - Don't read, although I did consider adding to my bookmarks years ago

Wondermark - Uhhhh... is this the one that uses 19th century clipart?

xkcd - Don't read usually

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Now I'm someone who likes webcomics & usually follow links to find new ones so the fact that I never heard of 3 of these & 1 I only discovered shortly before hearing of this contest really makes me wonder where the Washington Post readers are spending their time online.

Hey another Webcomic contest (looks like this one has added suggestions, but I'm not sure how long that will go on.)

So far the list is:

A Distant Soil
A Girl and Her Fed
A Softer World
Abominable Charles Christopher
Achewood
All New Issues - Never heard of
AmazingSuperPowers - Never heard of
American Elf
Atland
Awkward Zombie
Axe Cop
Baby With A Mohawk - Never heard of
Bug
BuzzBoy
Calamities of Nature
Cat and Girl
chainsawsuit
Courting Disaster
Ctrl+Alt+Del
Cucumber Quest - Never heard of
Cyanide & Happiness
Darwin Carmichael Is Going To Hell - Never heard of
Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant - Never heard of
Devil’s Panties
Dicebox Never heard of
Diesel Sweeties
Dinosaur Comics
Doghouse Diaries - Never heard of
Dominic Deegan: Oracle For Hire
Dork Tower
Dr. McNinja
Dream Life - Never heard of
Dreamer
Dreamland Chronicles
Dresden Codak
Drive
Dueling Analogs
Dumbing of Age
Earthsong
El Goonish Shive
Erfworld
Escape From Terra
Evil Diva
Evil Inc.
Family Man - Never heard of
Flipside
Full Frontal Nerdity
Garfield Minus Garfield
Girl Genius
Girls With Slingshots
Goblins
Gods Playing Poker - Never heard of
Gronk
GUComics
Guilded Age
Gunnerkrigg Court
Gunshow
Gutters
Hark, a vagrant
Headtrip
Hijinks Ensue
I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space
In His Likeness - Never heard of
Jesus and Mo
Johnny Wander - Never heard of
Joy Of Tech - Never heard of
K Chronicles
Kawaii Not
Kevin & Kell
Lackadaisy
Lady Sabre and the Pirates of the Ineffable Aether
Least I Could Do
Legend Of Bill
Legostar Galactica
Let’s Be Friends Again - Never heard of
Looking For Group
Maakies
Medium Large - Never heard of & looking at it I dobn't think it's an actual webcomic
MegaTokyo
Monster Pulse - Never heard of
MS Paint Adventures
Multiplex
My Sister, the Freak - Never heard of (although there are some similarly named webcomics)
Nedroid Picture Diary
New Adventures of Queen Victoria - Never heard of
Newton’s Law - Never heard of
No Rest for the Wicked
Non-Adventures of Wonderella
Not Invented Here - Never heard of
Max Overacts
Octopus Pie
Order of the Stick
Overcompensating
Penny Arcade
Pibgorn
Pictures for sad children
Pictures of You - Never heard of this one, although there is a similarly named one
Piled Higher and Deeper
Power Nap
Promises, Promises
PVP
Questionable Content
Ralf the Destroyer - Never heard of
Reptilis Rex - Never heard of
Right About Now - Never heard of
Rosscott, Inc. - Never heard of
Sailor Twain - Never heard of
Sam and Fuzzy
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Savage Chickens
Scandinavia and the World
Scary Go Round
Scenes From A Multiverse
Schlock Mercenary
Sheldon
Shortpacked!
Sinfest
Skin Horse
Skullkickers
Sluggy Freelance
Smash
Snowflakes - Never heard of
So Far Apart - Never heard of
Something Positive
Sore Thumbs
Spacetrawler - Never heard of
Starslip Crisis
Super Frat - Never heard of
SuperFogeys
Templar, Arizona
That Deaf Guy - Never heard of
Theater Hopper
Three Panel Soul
Toothpaste for Dinner
Trenches
Twisted Kaiju Theater
Two Guys and Guy
Unshelved
Unsounded -
UserFriendly
VG Cats
Virtual Shackles - Never heard of
Wapsi Square
Wasted Talent
Wigu
Wondermark
Wormworld Saga - Never heard of
xkcd
XQUZYPHYR & Overboard - Never heard of
Yellow Peril - Never heard of
Zeke is Hungry - Never heard of
Basic Instructions
Battlepug
Bear Nuts
Between Failures
Buttersafe
Commissioned
Crit - Never heard of
d20monkey - Never heard of
Darths & Droids
Dead Winter
Doctor Cat
Errant Story
Goodbye Chains - Never heard of
Hello With Cheese - Never heard of
How To Save The World - Never heard of
Hubris Comics
Little Guardians - Never heard of
Love is in the Blood
Namesake
Nerf This
OpinioNation - Never heard of
Paradigm Shift
Plume - Never heard of
Poorly Drawn Lines - Never hear of
Red String
Shadowbinders
Shounen Fight! - Never heard of
Skin Deep - Never heard of
String Theory
Supermassive Black Hole A*
Sure to be Ban’d - Never heard of
The Breakouts - Never heard of
The Challenges of Zona
The Glass Urchin - Never heard of
The Meek
The Rack - Never heard of
Trying Human - Never heard of
Two Keys - Never heard of
Two Lumps
Weregeek
Ty Templeton’s Bun Toons - Never heard of
Abstruse Goose - Never heard of
Adventures of the 19XX - Never heard of
Amazing Agent Jennifer - Never heard of
Bean - Never hear of
Blade Bunny
Boo Bear & Flo - Never heard of
Candi
Cheap Thrills - Never heard of
Code Name: Hunter
Dream-Scar
Dressed For Success
Drowtales
Eerie Cuties
Exiern
Flaky Pastry
Galaxion
General Protection Fault
Gobukan - Never heard of
Magick Chicks
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things
Misfile
Modest Medusa
Orchard Of Laughs - Never heard of
Princess at Midnight - Never heard of
Sandra and Woo
Selkie - Never heard of
Sorcery 101
Spinnerette
Stardrop - Never heard of
the little tales of Otto & Olive - Never heard of
The Moon Prince - Never heard of
The Oswald Chronicles
Twilight Monk - Never heard of
Vattu - Never heard of
Widdershins

They are now over 300 strips in the aforementioned contest. *snicker*

6-Commando - Never heard of
A Redtail’s Dream - Never heard of
Archipelago - Never heard of
Bittersweet Candy Bowl
Blade of Toshubi
Boxer Hockey - Never heard of
Brental Floss
Buni - Never heard of
Channelate - Never heard of
Charby the Vampirate
City of Reality
Digger
Doomsday, My Dear - Never heard of
Double K - Never heard of
Dubious Company
Erstwhile Tales
Freefall
Fried Chicken and Sushi
GastroPhobia
Grrl Power
Hemlock - Never heard of
Inconsistent Comics
Inhuman
Jolly Jack’s Collected Curios
KhaosKomix
Kimono’s Townhouse - Never heard of
Kiwi Blitz
LaSalle’s Legacy
Last Res0rt
League Of Super Redundant Heroes
Leftover Soup - Never heard of
Life and Death
Little Tales
Marooned
Metalero - Never heard of
Miss Mab - The comic is actually called Dan & Mab's Furry Adventure
Next Town Over - Never heard of
NPC Comic
Out at Home
OzFoxes
Paranatural - Never heard of
Plush and Blood
Prequel
Real Life Comics
reMIND - Never heard of
Requiem
Retail
Romantically Apocalyptic - Never heard of
RuneSpark - Never heard of
Scale Wars - Never heard of
Shi Long Pang
Sister Claire
Slightly Damned
Snow by Night - Never heard of
Springiette - Never heard of
Stupid Snake - Never heard of
Stymie - Never heard of
Subnormality
Tamuran - Never heard of
The Gods of ArrKelaan
The Hero Business
The Oatmeal
The Other Grey Meat
Three Word Phrase - Never heard of
TJ and Amal
Todd Allison & the Petunia Violet - Never heard of
Troops Of Doom - Never heard of
Twit - Never heard of
Twokinds
Voodoo Walrus
Winters in Lavelle
Wolf Wears Wool - Never heard of
WTF Comics
Zap! Online Comic
Zebra Girl

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