Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Blank label macabre

So it seems there was something, more than coincidence, going on with the Keenspot exodus. All six creators have bandied together to create a new collective - Blank Label Comics. In todays announcement, they state that they are not going to be competing with the online syndicates like Keenspot or Modern Tales; they're essentially just going to be a cooperative like Dayfree Press. There'll probably be alot of talk about it, maybe even some controversy but in the end, it's really just a natural progression for industry - if we can even call it that.

On any other day in webcomics, this would probably have been the burning issue. But with the aforementioned news, it kind of got overshadowed. Randy milholland has started a spin-off to Something Positive. The new comic is Midnight Macabre. At Comixpedia he is quoted as saying with regards donations - "I'm launching the strip a few weeks early because you guys have been very kind to me ($22,000 last year and, hell, $6,000 last week!)." Now that's impressive.