Comixpedia is an online magazine that provides coverage of the new medium of webcomics. Comixpedia is published by Xaviar Xerexes. Its first issue premiered in February of 2003 and provides updates every week. Comixpedia has featured cover art from leading creators including Scott McCloud, Cayetano "Cat" Garza, Jeff Rowland, Mike Krahulik, Bill Mudron, Christopher Baldwin, Jon Morris, and Kazu Kibuishi. A collection of magazines A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles, generally financed by advertising and/or purchase by readers. ... An episode of Diesel Sweeties Webcomics, also known as online comics and web comics, are comics that are available on the Internet. ... Xaviar Xerexes is the founder and publisher of Comixpedia. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The cartoon Scott McCloud as he appears when narrating his own works such as Understanding Comics, and Reinventing Comics. ... Cayetano Cat Garza is a comic artist, cartoonist, illustrator, and musician in the United States. ... Jeffrey Rowland is an author and artist responsible for Wigu and Overcompensating, two reasonably popular webcomics. ... Mike Krahulik is the artist who draws the popular webcomic Penny Arcade. ... Christopher Baldwin (born 1973) is an American illustrator and author of several webcomics, the most regular currently being Bruno, a look at the life of a introspective young woman set in the real world. ... Kazu Kibuishi is a graphic novel author. ...

Editorial board

• Publisher: Xaviar Xerexes
• Editor in Chief: Kelly J. Cooper
• Executive Editor: Al Schroeder
• Art Director: Bill Duncan
• Associate Editor: Wednesday White
• Associate Editor: Matt Shepherd
• News Editor: Erik Melander

A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ...

External links

• Comixpedia

Comixpedia.org

Comixpedia.org, also known simply as Comixpedia, is a sister project to the Comixpedia online magazine. Comixpedia.org is a wiki dedicated to building an online encyclopedia for webcomics. Image File history File links Comixpedia_Logo. ... A wiki (IPA: <WICK-ee> or <WEE-kee>[1]) is a type of website that allows visitors easily to add, remove, or otherwise edit and change some available content, sometimes without the need for registration. ...

Comixpedia.org was launched in early September of 2005. As of March 18, 2006, Comixpedia.org has over 1300 encyclopedia articles.

Comixpedia.org was created at the suggestion of Eric Burns, who was inspired by concerns regarding the varying interpretations of Wikipedia's rules for deletion, and that several webcomic entries being added to Wikipedia were being deleted soon afterward. Burns said that while a wiki would be an excellent resource for the growing webcomics field, Wikipedia seemed unwilling to accommodate all the information desired by avid fans. Eric Alfred Burns (born January 27, 1968) is a critic, writer, poet, columnist and Role Playing Game developer who lives in New Hampshire. ...

Because Comixpedia.org is devoted to becoming a complete webcomic encyclopedia, its rules for inclusion and notability are more relaxed than those at Wikipedia. Wikipedia (pronounced We-key-pee-de-ah) (IPA: , or , else ) is a Web-based free-content multilingual encyclopedia project. ...

In early March 2006, the site returned from a short downtime, following a Mediawiki software update and server movement. MediaWiki is a wiki software package licensed under the GNU General Public License. ...

External links

• Comixpedia.org The Free Webcomics Encyclopedia
• Eric Burns' suggestion to create a webcomic-only wiki