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I try very hard to keep up with the “new media” trends that were all the rage approximately eight to ten months ago. Having mastered this whole “blogging” thing, I’m now ready to make the leap to podcasts. Blank Label Comics is an independent comics artists collective which produces hilarious and amusing weekly podcast interviews with Internet cartooning luminaries, and they were nice enough to make me their latest audio conquest. So, if you enjoy my writing but always wondered how pinched and nasal my voice sounds, be sure to check out the interview with me. I talk with Dave Kellett (creator of Sheldon) and Kristofer Straub (creator of Starslip Crisis) about blogging, soap opera strips, the state of the modern funny pages, and crystal meth. Quite a lot about crystal meth, actually. Don’t miss it!

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The observant among you may have observed the new favorites icon for this site up there in your address bar. If you can’t tell what it is, here’s an extreme closeup:

This wordless expression of comics curmudgeonry was graciously created and submitted by faithful reader 2fs. The inimitable Doug Mayo-Wells supplied some advice on getting the file in the right format.

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Hey kids, I need to move all my various Web-based enterprises to a new Web host. This will involve some wonkiness for the next few days as the various name servers across the Internet learn that joshreads.com and comicscurmudgeon.com should point to a site hosted by SilverLime Communications rather than a site hosted by Revise Media. To make a long, boring, geeky story short, for a period of a few days following the changeover (which should happen tonight or tomorrow), some computers will see the site hosted by my old host, while others will see the site hosted by the new one. I won’t be updating any content until the changeover is complete (probably next Monday or so), but if you post comments on a post or in the forum on the old site, it won’t be reflected on the new one. All I can say about that is: sorry! Discussion is just going to be a little weird for a few days.