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It's like Jeffrey Rowland is giving a seminar titled "How to Separate T Campbell From His Money." I haven't bought a merchandise shirt in over a year, but you better believe I'm buyin' this one. I was sold before I even knew it was for charity.

Other stuff from all over:

Penny and Aggie on a tablet PC, via Wowio.

I suppose congratulations are in order to Jorge Vega for winning the Platinum Studios Comic Book Challenge, even if the headline "millions of votes received" looks pretty shabby if you know that "voters" were encouraged to "vote as many times as they liked." But Vega's Gunplay does have an interesting pitch and early fragments look promising. Some good may yet come of this. But Jorge, prepare to spend the next year being known as THAT GUY.

Stuff Sucks is ending somewhat awkwardly and abruptly as Liz Greenfield struggles with the slower connections in her new digs. I suppose the transition between this strip, where the lead resolves to stop jumping from relationship to relationship, to the most recent two, where he dives right into a new relationship, is appropriate to the character's aimless pattern. I suppose the fate of the record store is kind of funny. But it's a disappointing ending to a young-relationship strip that looked like it could have grown to give Questionable Content tough competition. I hope Greenfield refines her art a bit and comes back with a brand-new winner in a year or two.

The Paranormals webcomic helps kids learn to read.

A couple days ago, I suggested that nobody made that big a deal about webcomics anniversaries anymore. Then somebody made a huge deal about The Joy of Tech's 1000TH STRIP DING DING DING DING! The universe mocks me.

I've been meaning to link to this quote for a while: "Hello registered user! I am the semigod for this artificial pocket universe. Please select an option." The background of that panel is truly inspired.

Strips that are hilarious, but only if you know the series in question: example one, example two.

I thought this Wordpress plugin was pretty funny too.

Wait-- Sproose can't be "user-powered search!" Mahalo is already "human-powered search!" Unless... USERS ARE NOT HUMANS...

New webcomics magazine. Gisele and I have agreed to be interviewed for issue #2, so I'm totally biased, but it's by Michael Rouse-Deane, who's an old hand at this by now.

I wonder how many cartoonists might benefit from this quick how-to about image optimization for search engines?