Spiffy "New" Site
Check out the newly-redesigned
Comic
World News: It's a site I occasionally visited in the past,
mainly for a couple of their columnists (including Rich Watson, who
doesn't appear to have made the move to the site's new look, but his "
A
View From The Cheap Seats" column can still be found at the
horrible-to-navigate, extremely ad-heavy UGO (never has an acronym been
more appropriate), as well as
several other sites,
apparently). CWN suffered from sporadic updates (something I can
certainly sympathize with), but from the looks of their line-up of
features and columnists (including upcoming "name" contributors Richard
Starkings and Larry Young) they should have plenty of material to keep
things fresh. And the proposal to offer a "60/40 I/SP
[Independent/Small Press] focus" sounds smart: As CWN's Editor-in-Chief
Dan
Wickline says, "the best chance you have of getting them
[mainstream readers] to look at the Indy titles they might not
otherwise seek out" is by offering some familiar content to lure
fanboys in. I'll be curious to see if CWN can maintain that
balance, as well as what they consider "Independent/Small Press."
(There's a fun classification to argue over.)
Best of luck to CWN on the revamp, congrats on the corporate
sponsorship (as part of
Comicraft's
Active Image network), and a
big thanks to
Ed
Cunard for the heads-up!
