To celebrate the launch of The Dark, we have arranged a very special prize draw, with our esteemed publisher Markosia, to win a signed copy of The Dark. The competition is simple to enter, just tweet our URL “http://www.thedarkcomicbook.com” anytime between now and January 31st. Every tweet will count as an entry, and a winning tweet (and tweeter) will be selected at random on February 1st 2010.
It would be fantastic if we could make The Dark a trending topic on Twitter, but I’ll settle for knowing that we’ve got the …

You can now add a badge, or “Twibbon”, to your Twitter avatar to show your support for the upcoming release of The Dark from Markosia.
Twibbons have been spreading across Twitter for a number of causes, and you can even create your own at twibbon.com.
So, please add our twibbon to your profile and show your support.

Managing an online presence or brand can be a challenge, but it is something that all writers need to do, particularly comic book writers who can reach out to a significant proportion of their fanbase online.
A typical online profile will consist of your own blog, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and possibly a LinkedIn and/or MySpace account as well. You’ll also have at least one email account to manage, more than one if you like to practice a little email partitioning.
If, like me, you were finding that managing your …

I have just lived through a bizarre experience, watching news of Michael Jackson’s death propogate across the Internet in real time.
I saw the news first on Twitter, where microbloggers tweeted and retweeted the news that had been broken on the TMZ website. Whilst traditional media, such as BBC News 24, tried to confirm the story, I was able to watch it metamorphose into something else time and again.
As I write this, the news has just broken on the BBC, the first news source that I trust enough to believe it. …

GeekDad has very kindly selected the top 100 friends that you wish you had on Twitter and provided links so that you can dutifully cyber-stalk them.
And I have obeyed.
I am now following the “100 Geeks You Should Be Following On Twitter” like a good boy, but on my part more as a curious social experiment to compare who tweets more often and more interestingly – the friends I have found or these professional geeks at arms.
So, check them out. I’m following them right now. You should be to.
Go. Follow!

In these days of bloated software that requires multi-gigabyte installs, websites that take an age to load even on a 24 mbit connection, and keyrings that have more storage capacity that it was original thought was required to hold the world’s knowledge … it’s nice to see some standing up for elegant, efficient coding.
Congratulations to all of the #tweetcoding round 1 winners.

Scott from Comic Book Outsiders has set up a Twitter bot that will be re-tweeting any tweets that contain the words “Bristol” and “comic” over this weekend.
Follow the bot here: http://twitter.com/BristolConBot

Looks like I made the cut for the Monkey On My Back Twitter Comic. Check out panel #10 for something typically MWM.
Wasn’t entirely sure how this would work, both practically and in terms of the way the story would break down, but there is certainly something interesting happening.
What I would love to see is this being done on a larger scale now – with every response Tweet getting an illustration and creating a divergent path in the story. That sort of meta-fiction fascinates me, andI think it would be amazing …

The guys at Monkey On My Back are running an interesting experiment. Can the almost infinite monkeys of Twitter create anything near to the works of Shakespeare, or are we all about to SMS ourselves up in flames?
The gambit is simple – start a story, then have people tweet in the next line. Pick the one you like, retweet it, draw a comic book panel for it, then wait for more tweets to come in. Rinse and repeat until story done.
I’ve tossed my hat into the ring, although with my …

It came from nowhere and spread like a virus. Suddenly everybody we knew was on it – telling us what they’d been up to, uploading photos, sending flirtatious messages and logging on as if the site were crack and they were addicts.