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5/16/06

Whoops. I alluded yesterday to "the novel version of AKOTAS" (which is really a misnomer), thinking I'd mentioned it in this space before. But I've only mentioned that in drafts of future newsposts and a message board poster called me on it. The evolutionary steps between my fanfiction and the present project go like this: Fanfiction crossovers on Usenet and my ISP member website. Global replacement of the franchises' proper nouns, to create new versions of the same stories which are not fanfiction crossovers but King Arthur stories set in space, on Usenet and the fanfiction website. Given the umbrella title King Arthur in Time and Space. Fanfiction daily gags on the website. KAITAS daily gags on the website alternating with the fanfiction gags. The first draft of a KAITAS novel The Grail Project, derived from but not quite the same as the fanfiction-based material, on Usenet and my website. The webcomic Arthur, King of Time and Space at its own domain. All the previous material except the novel you can still find among the fanfiction pages at the link on the AKOTAS main page. Attempting a KAITAS novel taught me several things. The most valuable: my medium is the daily cartoon, not the novel. Then I got Megatokyo Chapter 0 for Father's Day and discovered mainstream webcomics, I decided to launch a King Arthur webcomic and not to confine it to only Star Trek pastiche, and my wife suggested Arthur, King of Time and Space was a better description of the webcomic. The rest you know.

Webcomics I read mornings: Peanuts, General Protection Fault, Achewood, Scary Go Round, Tux & Bunny, College Roommates from Hell!!!, Real Life, Kevin & Kell

Webcomics I read M-W-F mornings: El Goonish Shive, Theater Hopper, Nukees, Newshounds, Girl Genius, Todd and Penguin, Pibgorn, Ctrl+Alt+Del

Webcomics I read Tu-Th-Sa mornings: Crap I Drew On My Lunch Break, AppleGeeks, Orneryboy, Something Happens, Striptease, Taking Up Space, Digger

Webcomics I read middays: Calvin & Hobbes, Least I Could Do, User Friendly, Anywhere But Here, Starslip Crisis, Questionable Content, Biggest Webcomic Loser, Schlock Mercenary, Narbonic

Webcomics I read evenings: LuAnn, Count Your Sheep, Goats, Pearls Before Swine, For Better Or For Worse, Help Desk, American Elf, Loserz, Dandy & Company, Irregular Comic, Bruno, Shortpacked, Boxjam's Doodle, Sluggy Freelance

Webcomics I read M-W-F evenings: Reasoned Cognition, Two Lumps, Zortic, Order of the Stick, Home on the Strange, Penny Arcade

Webcomics I read Tu-Th-Sa evenings: Casey & Andy, Girls With Slingshots, The Green Avenger, Get Out of My Head, Megatokyo

Webcomics I read bedtimes: B.C., Something Positive, The Angriest Rice Cooker In The World, Medium Large, Station V3, Dinosaur Comics, Wapsi Square, Little Dee, PvP

Webcomics I read Sundays: Butternut Squash, Dr. Devious vs Lincoln High, Checkerboard Nightmare, Nemesis, Smithson, Journey Into History, Tailsteak, No Room for Magic, 13 Seconds, Li'l Mell, The Whovian Observer, Gossamer Commons Ctrl+Alt+Del, Perry Bible Fellowship

See also The Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge, Talk About Comics, Online Comics Day, The Belfry Comics Index, The Webcomic List, Mister Bloo, Nth Degree, 100% Originality Theatre, Comixpedia, The Living Comic and Websnark.

Arthuriana sources I use or recommend:
Arthurian Legend
Arthuriana - the Journal of Arthurian Studies; the website of the quarterly journal of the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society.
The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester.
Camelot In Four Colors: A Survey of the Arthurian Legend in Comics
Mystical-WWW - The Arthurian A2Z knowledge Bank which has encyclopedically-arranged entries on the characters of the Arthurian legends.
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1 and Volume 2.