E-Line is currently accepting applications for a limited number of Summer, 2010 internships for exceptional high school and undergraduate students interested in learning about the videogame business and game design. Information on the program and application process can be found in this guide. Please remember that your completed application must be received by May 14th, 2010.

The latest major work from Silly Daddy cartoonist and Xeric Award winner, Joe Chiappetta (that’s me),  is not a comic book. It’s a 67,000 word science fiction novel called “Star Chosen.” The book took over five years to write and is a cross between Battlestar Galactica, Narnia, and of course, Silly Daddy.

While the sci-fi novel contains not even one cartoon, long-time  readers of Silly Daddy might be surprised at how many elements from Joe’s autobiographical comic have been woven into some of the all-out space battles of Star Chosen.

To read the full press release,  click here.

I have 25 invitations to the new ComicSpace closed beta available. Here are the requirements:

• You must be a current ComicSpace member, and your account must have been active for at least one full year. This is because we need people experienced with the current system to tell us what’s wrong with the new one, not because we don’t love our new members.
• You must be willing to report bugs. The ComicSpace closed beta is not a replacement for your current ComicSpace account: anything and everything you do in there will disappear once we go out of beta. So you have to be willing to try a bunch of stuff just for the trying, and not just because you’re looking to get moved onto the better version more quickly than others. The better version will come to all someday.
• You must respond to this thread with your current ComicSpace username. Emails, phone calls, etc., don’t count and won’t get you in the beta.
• Added this in the correction: You must befriend my ComicSpace account (jmanley) so that I can send your log in information to you.

Once we’ve hit twenty-five, I’ll close it off.

Indie developer PixelJam and James Kochalka of American Elf webcomic fame are using Kickstarter to fund a new videogame:

A long time ago (maybe about four years) James Kochalka had an idea for a game. It started with a doodle of a goofy looking alien and his laser backpack. That doodle sprang magically to life, and begged to be the star of his own video game. Kochalka tinkered with gameplay ideas in ink on paper… working out the perfect combination of elements to make a really fun, entertaining game.

They need to raise $10K by mid-March to make this happen — ten dollars at a time. I don’t know if you’ve ever used Kickstarter, but I think it’s really awesome: fans of independent artists help make the stuff they love possible by pledging small amounts of money. In this case, it’s more of a pre-order, since your $10 gets you a copy of the game at the end of the day.

Go now!

Dont forget that the third Friday of every month, ComicSpace’s doors are open — and we’re serving free pizza! That’s tonight! 5:30 pm, 363 7th Avenue, 20th Floor, Manhattan.

Join Porter Square Books and the Boston Comics Roundtable for an evening with contributors to Inbound #4, A Comic History of Boston. Writers and Artists will be presenting their process and research from the individual stories. Signed copies will be available for purchase.

Location:
Porter Square Books (map)
25 White St
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140-1413

Just a reminder: open house tonight at ComicSpace’s offices. Stop by, have pizza, meet the team and your fellow ComicSpacers, and etc. We’re at 363 7th Avenue, 20th Floor, New York, NY. Doors will be open from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. Hope to see you there!

Gingerbread Houses begins its fourth chapter tomorrow at its brand new home on the web, <a href=”http://www.picturestorytheater.com/”>PictureStoryTheater.com</a>.  2010 promises many new trials for the unfortunate family, as we enter into the next phase of our story.  Gingerbread Houses is a self-contained graphic novel, and is now halfway through its two-year run in online serialization.

PictureStoryTheater.com will serve as the primary home for Alexander Danner’s comics inspired by fairy tales, fables, and children’s literature, and is aimed at a young adult to adult audience.  In addition to Gingerbread Houses, PictureStoryTheater.com will serve as the archive for the original Picture Story Theater comics, which were illustrated by Bill Duncan and originally published on ModernTales.com.  Danner’s more experimental, mainstream literary, and workplace-themed works will continue to reside at <a href=”http://www.twentysevenletters.com/”>TwentySevenLetters.com</a>.

Gingerbread Houses will continue to update at ModernTales.com and in Grug’s livejournal, in addition to on the PictureStoryTheater.com website.

In addition, the first two chapters of Gingerbread Houses are now available as a print mini, and can be purchased via PictureStoryTheater.com.

Gingerbread Houses is written by Alexander Danner (“The Discovery of Spoons,” “Five Ways to Love a Cockroach,” “Panel One”) and illustrated by Edward J. Grug III (“Love Puppets,” “Glorious Bounty,” “The Bizarre Life of Charlie Red Eye”).

A new page appears every Thursday at:
<a href=”http://www.picturestorytheater.com/”>http://www.picturestorytheater.com</a>
<a href=”http://www.moderntales.com/comics/gingerbread.php”>http://www.moderntales.com/comics/gingerbread.php</a>

Contact Info
Alexander Danner
alexander@twentysevenletters.com
http://www.picturestorytheater.com
http://www.twentysevenletters.com

Edward J. Grug III
tedprior@yahoo.com
http://tedprior.livejournal.com/

After enduring famine, parental abandonment, forced labor, compelled gluttony, and the brutal death of their wicked captor, Hansel and Gretel made their way home, to the loving embrace of the parents who sent them out to die in the first place.  Now, all that remains is to restore that feel-good familial harmony…

This Thursday, December 10^th concludes the third chapter of Gingerbread Houses, and brings to a close the first year of our somber retelling of Grimms’ “Hansel and Gretel.”  What’s more, this brings us to the halfway point in our story; the witch is dead, the children are home, and there’s a bag full of witch’s pearls hidden in the cookie jar.  But what do you do with a deranged little boy who’s terrified of food?

From the start, Gingerbread Houses has been a self-contained graphic novel, with a definite end in sight.  The coming year will bring the conclusion of our story, approximately on the series’ second anniversary.

Gingerbread Houses will resume regular updates on Thursday, January 7, 2010, with the beginning of Chapter Four.

Gingerbread Houses is written by Alexander Danner (“The Discovery of Spoons,” “Five Ways to Love a Cockroach,” “Panel One”) and illustrated by Edward J. Grug III (“Love Puppets,” “Glorious Bounty,” “The Bizarre Life of Charlie Red Eye”).

A new page appears every Thursday at ModernTales.com.
http://www.moderntales.com/comics/gingerbread.php

Well, well, well. What have we here? Just in time for the seasonal shopping frenzy, I suppose, Black Friday, or whatever you call it in your culture and religion, the gang at Buttersafe.com have teamed up with us to make some new t-shirt designs available. Right over here.

Ensemble: Nobody likes to wear a shirt that’s covered in the likenesses of horrible, ugly people, and if you wear this shirt you won’t have to! Here you will find only characters you know and love, ready for action and looking beautiful. Go, look!

You thought you were the only one out there? Join the club, stand (or recline) proudly with your brothers and sisters, and tell the world, “I… am… a… slow… animal!” We’re waiting for you here.

Sure, wearing this shirt will provide your skeleton with some extra protection, but that’s not really something you need to worry about in the first place. Everyone knows that you’re safe with Skeleton Harvester, right? Right?

Photos by Photo by Sean-Michael Rau