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Saturday, November 5, 2011

Member News for November 2011

Darc Sowers of Code Name Hunter has a couple of original pages of artwork from her comic up for sale for our artist auction. See them here and consider buying! Various non-original prints are also up on Artfire (more prints coming soon!) and all profits will be donated to a SpiderForest member in financial need.

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The first Think Before You Think comic book is out! It includes the first 93 comic pages, as well as some commentary and deleted scenes. Sold at Indy Planet. Details here.

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Cetiya will be on hiatus for the month of November while the multiple-projects-at-once-challenged creator attempts to write a novel in 30 days. Wish her luck, and be sure to come back at the end of the month.

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Chapter 8 of Riven Sol is now available on DriveThru Comics (along with the first seven chapters).

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November 10th is Darwin’s birthday! She would be most grateful for gifts of art…comic related or not! Well wishes will be accepted if the short fuse is too short!

If all goes well (I hope I hope I hope) Plague will hit its 250th page on the 21st of November. Fan Arts are most welcome, and with the bigger readership, Darwin is hoping to have a more successful “Name that Frame” event with the title!

posted by Tiana at 5:23 am  

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Member News for October 2011

SpiderForest is raising money for an artist in financial need by selling prints! Get prints of your favorite webcomics here!

The Only Half Saga will be reaching its 300th official page on October 12th (barring any unforeseen delays)! The readers get the rewards of this milestone! Check the page on October 5th for a breakdown of the “Name that Frame Contest” and to get a first peek at the rules – slated to start on October 13 and run through the 17th! The winner gets a full page/full color piece of art! The following Wednesday, October 19th, there will be a special surprise for readers! Darwin hopes you’ll join her for the fun!

The first chapter of Twilight Lady: The Indwellers is now available in its entirety online! 25 full-color pages filled with otherworldly intrigue involving strange demonic entities, weirdly-shaped horticulture, and the mysterious leader of a goth-rock band. And of course, the death-dealing troubadour from the nether realm known as the Lady in the Hood. Twilight Lady’s readership has nearly doubled since this storyline began… find out why!

Malaak: Angel of Peace is in the official selection of the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d’Algérie, and I’ll be in Algiers next week to present volume 4 at the event. :D

Apple Valley is back! I’m going to spend the next few updates doing a tongue-in-cheek “crappy recap clip episode” and then resume normal comic functions. Also, I’m looking for an artist to do backgrounds for me.

posted by Tiana at 4:54 pm  

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Member News for September 2011

News for the SpiderForest DeviantArt group: I am in process of putting together a Icon contest for the Deviant Art Group for Spiderforest! I need contributors for art, I need people who would like to participate and other details! To give feedback, cast your lot into the participants bin, or you want to help by donating prizes please see the details on the Spiderforest Deviantart Group profile

What it Takes celebrates 150 comics on September 2nd! Our annoyed heroine Colbey must decide if dangerous long-shot is worth the risk to find her fiance Peter. On a personal note, Kez is super excited to have started medical school classes and will be trying as hard as she can to maintain her comic schedule.

Cetiya has launched a brand new site layout this month! Head on over and check it out.

School Spirit doesn’t know if 1050 comics counts as a milestone. Drop on by and tell Dutch you think he’s insane! Of course it does!

Code Name Hunter may have no news this month, but they are still amazing.

posted by Tiana at 12:34 am  

Friday, August 5, 2011

August 2011 Member News

August comes with a lot of updates for the SpiderForest team. Welcome to the Class of July 2011:

The Cyanthian Chronicles by Tiffany Ross
Spare Keys for Strange Doors by Lucy Lyall
Panthera by D.Z. McRoy and Jeffery Kan
The Revolution by Blue and Aze (link to SpiderForest mirror to come as soon as it is available.)

And, in the member news:

Twilight Lady has a new art team and new storyline, “The Indwellers” – a standalone tale that’s a perfect jumping-on point for new readers, as it requires no knowledge of previous events in the series. Twilight Lady is an ongoing webcomic about the exploits of a troubadour/demonslayer, the cult following she inspires, and the enemies she makes… in this life and the next!

School Spirit is entering it’s 87th month of uninterrupted updates? A year and a tad more and that’s 100 months old…

Nahast will be leaving hiatus some time this month!

Volume 5 of Malaak begins this month! A teaser page sketch is up on http://lebanesecomics.blogspot.com in the meanwhile.

Code Name: Hunter started on August 23, 2001. Which means, it’ll be ten years old this month. We’re holding an art contest (with prizes) but the deadline is fast approaching! All entries are due August 14th. For more information, please visit the contest page.

Xander is turning 1 this month.

On August 17th The Only Half Saga will be officially caught up on the archive and will take over as the numero uno site for updates! From 10-14 August, the updates will slow to a single page a day (rather than 10-12 a day), and on Wednesday the 17th of August a brand new page will roll out!

On August 10th, Chromacorps will be starting it’s 6th Episode!

The Cyantian Chronicles is turning 13 this August. I began in 1998. That’s 13 years, right?

(Everyone else: o_____________o)

posted by Tiana at 1:31 am  

Friday, July 1, 2011

July 2011 Network News

It’s July, and that means SpiderForest is once again accepting applications for new members until July 24th. If you have a webcomic with 15 or more pages complete that meets our very simple criteria, and you’re interested in joining a group of committed comic creators, SF may be the place for you! Submit your application to the network, and current members will vote on your inclusion.  Check our apply page for more information.

Member news as it comes!

posted by KEZ at 10:56 pm  

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

May 2011 Member News

We’ve got a monumental announcement from Dutch: May 15th is 1000 strips for School Spirit!  Congratumegalations!

Kat of Sunset Grill had her daughter, Eleanor Rahil, on May 4th. Both mama and daughter are doing well, although comic-making is on a bit of a hold. More details (and the inevitable baby pictures) are up on her personal blog.

From Joumana we have: Malaak part IV: Marked by Fire has reached completion :) Publishing is planned for mid-June, and pre-orders are open with special rewards until May 22!

Show your support by voting for Between Places on Top Webcomics for daily different vote incentives!

Issues 1-5 of KEZ’s What it Takes series is now for sale. Get ‘em while they’re hot!

 

 

posted by KEZ at 4:37 pm  

Monday, April 4, 2011

April 2011 Member News

Here is SpiderForest member news for the month of April!

Requiem does it’s 2000th comic on April 25th.

April will herald Plague’s 5th year as a webcomic! And we’re only halfway through the tale! Another five to go? Perhaps!

March 31st was Number 200 for Apple Valley as far as “In Canon” comics (77 canon from Apple of Discord, 123 dedicated Apple Valley). And, Kallisti (and Kez) will be appearing at Penguicon April 29-May 1st!

Dutch of School Spirit has good news, but it’s the kind he doesn’t want spread around. That’s not vague at all!

Kez of What it Takes wants to invite everyone over on April 6th for a brand new site design to celebrate (albeit a bit late) the start of Book II!

MOAR NOOZ AZ IT COMES.

posted by KEZ at 11:57 am  

Saturday, January 29, 2011

February 2011 Member News

Hello all! Let us welcome our new SF members!

Apple Valley

Code Name: Hunter

Gemutations: Plague

Kyoudaikido Soldier Chromacorps

Riven Sol

Tales from the Middle Kingdom

Think Before You Think

Willow’s Grove

Xander

Threefold news for Malaak: Angel of Peace:
• The comic’s moved to its own domain, www.malaakonline.com. Anyone who had bookmarked links on cedarseed.com/malaak please adjust your bookmarks!
• Malaak is now available as a free iPad app that collects all completed volumes.
• I will be present with Malaak and other work at MEFCC, the Middle East’s first movie and comic con that will take place in Abu Dhabi, on April 29 and 30 :)

Avernyght will be triumphantly returning with full digitally produced comics on February 14th. Since the creator has landed a steady job and been able to upgrade to a cintiq quality has increased and production is smoother. So please, won’t you join us as Whisp embarks on a perilous journey through Avernyght?

February 1st is the one year anniversary of Sakana No Sadness! Simon thanks all his readers for helping make it a fantastic first year for his new comic.

posted by KEZ at 8:48 pm  

Saturday, January 1, 2011

January 2011 Member News

Happy New Year, world!

It’s January again, and that means SpiderForest is once again accepting applications for new members until January 24th. If you have a webcomic with 15 or more pages complete that meets our very simple criteria, and you’re interested in joining a group of committed comic creators, SF may be the place for you! Check our apply page for more information.

In celebration of its upcoming 1 year anniversary, Sakana No Sadness will be holding a fan art competition! Deadline to enter is Jan 26, and all the details can be read here:

http://www.sakanacomic.com/fanart/

What Nonsense recently reached its 100th page. In addition, on the 14th, it will have been three years since the comic began.

posted by KEZ at 3:23 pm  

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

December 2010 Member News

Hello SpiderForest webcomic readers! Here is your monthly dose of network news.

First, SF is scheduled to once again accept applications for new members from January 1st-24th! If you have a webcomic that meets our very simple criteria as outlined on the apply page, please consider applying or telling your friends about the opportunity! Questions not addressed on the apply page should be posted on our forum.

Lora Innes (of The Dreamer) is once more calling for comic creators across the globe to join the Comic Creators Alliance to raise funds for Love146 and Gracehaven, two organizations working to help the victims of sex trafficking. If you are interested or know a comic creator who might be interested, check out http://comicalliance.weebly.com/index.html for more information.

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From School Spirit: Each year around the third week of December, just when the End Of Year Series of larger one offs begins, up goes that year’s End Of Year Report Strip. It’s pretty well one of the characters reading an end of year report about the strip, much like any school report. The trick here is, I rely on readers to send in comments that go into that strip.

In short… if anyone’s reading and wants to contribute… jump in quick and send some commentary about the previous year’s strips and it might make it into that particular strip. :)

Other than that… just finishing off the last storyline of the year before a few holiday stand alones over Christmas before starting again in the new year.

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Planes of Eldlor wants your vote for the holidays! Here’s the deal – we have our sights set on a high ranking on TopWebComics for the month of December. If we’re within the top 60 on December 20th, there will be one extra update on Thursday of that week. If we’re within the top 40, there will be two extra updates that week. And if we reach the top 20 – three extra updates that week!

Do you accept this quest?

(We don’t expect this to be an issue, but we recently saw someone get thrown off of TWC because their voters cheated. So to that effect, there’s only one rule – vote legitimately! Thank you guys!)

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Colbey has been searching for Peter Wolfe for quite sometime in KEZ’s comic What it Takes, and while it may be a long time until she finally finds him, at least you can see them together! This wallpaper featuring Colbey and Peter on a park bench before The End can be purchased for only $1.50 from Chez Kez. It’s gone Dec 15, when a new image becomes available!
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More news as it comes!

posted by KEZ at 8:42 pm  
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