The Webcomic List has announced their winner of the Best Webcomic of 2009. And the winner is… Moon Town!

Thank you, all. I’m honored!

See the complete list of categories and winners HERE.

I’m doing the final tweaks on Rag – here’s the final cover.

After a month or so of sneaking in drawings here and there, I’ve finally completed Rag the Viking! Even though I did the drawing and produced the comic, It’s really a collaboration between myself and Steve – so it’s really our first official Wishtales comic. Steve had the basic idea, from which I wrote the full script. He also had the original Rag design, too. You can see Steve’s original character drawings and direction for me at the Rag page.

The minicomic was made to have available at our SPACE table come April. But I will be making it available to those of you who would like a copy. The cost will be small, probably $2.00 (plus shipping – which should be cheap, it’s small and light.)

All that is left is for me to produce them. I have to make a few small tweaks to the final images, then have them run off and cut and staple them all together. Once they are ready, I’ll put them on the store page.

Rag the Viking is the story of a typical office man who has dreams beyond his mundane daily experience.

All right. Moon Town book #1 is off to the printer. In a few days, they’ll be sending me some proofs, and if everything looks good, they’ll print ‘em up and send ‘em to me, where I can begin selling them to you. If all goes well, delivery is scheduled for FEB 25.

One of the main reasons I draw comics today is Calvin and Hobbes. In fact, I believe if it weren’t for Bill Watterson, I would have gone into animation, or even music. Comics were about the furthest thing from my mind, but C&H struck something with me, lingered in the back of my mind, and like a siren’s song has lured me back time and time again to comics.

To say Watterson is media-shy is to say Michael Phelps does OK in the water, or that Lady Gaga is a little different. I wonder if part of my fascination with Bill is that he has been so rarely interviewed? Maybe I value every nugget of information he gives out simply because he gives out so few. Well, in today’s Cleveland.com, there’s a nice little interview with Watterson, commemorating 15 years since Calvin and Hobbes left the newspapers.

NOTE: Some folks have found that page empty. You’ll need to register for a free account at the site in order to read the interview.

You know it is. You have this Great Idea. You think about it all the time. Sometimes you even work on it. But chances are, you have found it hard, if not impossible, to take your Great Idea from the world of inspiration to the world of existence. Somehow those Great Ideas seem to live just one burst of creativity short of getting finished. Ever wonder why?

There’s an interesting article at ZenHabits which might just help you shut up your Lizard Brain and overcome your own resistance. Let this be the year that you finally, really, get that project done.

There’s a real nice review of Moon Town over at The Webcomic Builder. It’s fun when people “get” what you’re trying to do.

Looks like there are some good resources there, too, for aspiring webcomics folks. If you are so inclined, I would pop over, and see what they’re all about.

I’m pleased to announce that Moon Town has been nominated in the category of Best New Webcomic 2009 over at The Webcomic List. (NOTE: the site has been very slow and/or not loading today. I guess they’re getting a lot of traffic because of the nomination announcements).

Thanks to the nominating committee, and as they say, it’s good just to be nominated.

As people continue to predict the End of Publishing, nee, the End of Reading Itself, the Association of American Publishers have released numbers that indicate an overall rise in book sales of 10.9%. Not too shabby. Read more about it at Shelf Awareness.

See? People still read. People still buy books. Don’t give up yet.