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Mix March Madness 2014 Championship: Paranatural vs. Grrl Power!

You’ve followed the contest for a month, and now… the grand finale!

Into the Final Mix March Madness 2014 Webcomics Tournament Thunderdome… it’s Paranatural vs. Grrl Power!

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(To see the previous brackets, go back to Round 4.)

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As usual, we’re letting you support your favorite strips by paying for additional votes, with your money going to charity. Simply click on the Donate button below, and during checkout, click on “Which comic are you donating for?” and tell us who you’re voting for. For the final round, we’re raising the price a bit to 50¢ a vote, with a minimum of two votes purchased at a time. All proceeds from paid votes will go to the Hero Initiative, an organization that helps comic book creators in need. At the close of the round, we’ll add the paid votes to the totals and announce the winners who move on to the brackets. (And yes, your donations to Hero are tax deductible.)

So far, we’ve raised over $538 for creators in need, let’s see how far we can go!




Voting ends at midnight Eastern Time on Friday night! Good luck to everyone!

Final Four of Mix March Madness 2014 Webcomics Tournament! Vote now!

UPDATE 4/9: Round 6 has ended. Vote in the championship now!

UPDATE 4/5: After conversing with some of the contestants, we decided to extend voting til Tuesday, to give a fairer chance rather than run the thing on a quiet weekend. So you may still have time! Tell your friends!

It’s getting down to the wire! Round 5 is over, and we’ve raised another $42 for the Hero Initiative. Now we’re down to the Final Four! This round Mix March Madness 2014 Webcomics Tournament starts now, and lasts until Tuesday!

We’re down from over 300 nominees to four final contenders— Ava’s Demon, Paranatural, Grrl Power, and Monsterkind! Congratulations to the division winners! And now… the brackets.

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(To see the previous brackets, go back to Round 4.)

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As usual, we’re letting you support your favorite strips by paying for additional votes, with your money going to charity. Simply click on the Donate button below, and during checkout, click on “Which comic are you donating for?” and tell us who you’re voting for. We’re getting down to the wire, so we’re raising the price a bit to 25¢ a vote, with a minimum of four votes purchased at a time, split any way you want. All proceeds from paid votes will go to the Hero Initiative, an organization that helps comic book creators in need. At the close of the round, we’ll add the paid votes to the totals and announce the winners who move on to the brackets. (And yes, your donations to Hero are tax deductible.)




Again, voting ends at midnight Eastern Time on Tuesday night! Good luck to everyone!

It’s the Mix March Madness 2014 Webcomics Tournament Sweet 16! Vote now!

UPDATE 3/31: Round 4 is over. Vote in the Elite 8 round now!

UPDATE 3/28 Midnight: We swear, we don’t know how it happened. But we screwed up the totals from Round 3 on a few of the contests, and reported the wrong winners in some contests.

First, our apologies to Grrl Power and Awkward Zombie for misreporting their results, and our apologies to Order Of The Stick and Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal for getting their hopes up. Sorry, folks.

Now, how we’re going to solve the problem: we’re going to replace the strips in the contests, and ComicMix is buying votes to match the current votes for Widdershins (72) and Monsterkind (143), effectively setting the contests at dead even. This allows us to start a new poll right now, which makes the contest even again.

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Because of the late start, we’ll extend the voting time for this contest to Sunday at midnight.

Again, our apologies to all concerned.

Round 3 is over, and we’ve raised another $153 for the Hero Initiative. Now we’re down to the webcomics Sweet 16! Round 4 of the Mix March Madness 2014 Webcomics Tournament starts now!

People are now beginning to buy the winning votes, making the difference for Dick Ruby and Widdershins— so get your votes in early and get your friends in too.

In deference to the folks at Emerald City Comic Con voting lasts until Midnight Pacific Time on Saturday, March 29! Here are the latest standings…

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It’s Round 3 of the Mix March Madness 2014 Webcomics Tournament!

UPDATE 3/27: Round 3 is over– vote in the Sweet 16 now!

Congratulations to everyone who made it through Round 2, and we’ve raised another $50 for the Hero Initiative. But now it gets even tougher, as we’re down to only 32 webcomics… and this is after the tightest round in Mix March Madness history, with three contests decided by two votes or less, and our first ever tie that required a run-off election!  So we now know that every vote counts, from you and all your friends, so make sure to share and tweet about it, because Round 3 of the Mix March Madness 2014 Webcomics Tournament starts now! Voting lasts until Midnight EDT on Wednesday, March 26! Here are the latest standings…

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Round Two Runoff—Paranatural vs. Everblue!

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This is a first– in all the years we’ve been running the Mix March Madness Webcomics Tournamant, this is the first time we’ve had a tie in a round!

So, while we wait for the final funds tally to come in from the Hero Initiative so we can determine the winners and who goes on to Round 3, we’re having a one day runoff between Paranatural and Everblue!

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Place your votes now! Voting ends in 18 hours, midnight Eastern time!

And yes, we’re still letting you support your favorite strips by paying for additional votes, with your money going to charity. Simply click on the Donate button below, and during checkout, click on “Which comic are you donating for?” and tell us. The price is 20¢ a vote, with a minimum of five votes purchased at a time, split any way you want. All proceeds from paid votes will go to the Hero Initiative, an organization that helps comic book creators in need. At the close of the round, we’ll add the paid votes to the totals and announce the winners who move on to the brackets. (Your donations to Hero Initiative are tax deductible.)




Again, voting ends at midnight Eastern Time on Sunday night! Good luck to everyone!

Vote Now in Mix March Madness 2014 Webcomics Tournament Round 2!

UPDATE 3/24: Round 2 is over… vote in Round 3 now!

Round 2 of the Mix March Madness 2014 Webcomics Tournament starts now! Voting lasts until Midnight EDT on Saturday, March 22!

Congratulations to everyone who made it through Round 1! We’re down to 64 webcomics, and we’ve raised another $118 for the Hero Initiative. And we’ve listened to you and put splits between the polls to make it easier to see who’s going head to head when you vote.

We’ve had a few surprise upsets– Camp Weedonwatcha pulling ahead, as did Sinfest, while Derelict beat Axe Cop in a squeaker. How will they do this time around? Here are the latest standings!

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Martha Thomases: Female Pros and Cons, Part 3

Martha Thomases: Female Pros and Cons, Part 3

If you’ve been following my columns this month here and here, you know I’m on a tirade.  I don’t like it that women are still considered an afterthought in the comics industry, especially as our industry is represented at comics and pop culture conventions.

And so, I want to shine a spotlight on various shows, and discuss what they’re doing wrong, and what they’re doing right.

In my last column here, I wrote a lot about ReedPop, the folks who put on big shows in New York and Chicago, among other things.  They only had women creators as about ten percent of their featured comics guests.  Since then, several people have alerted me to the fact that C2E2 is highlighting their female guests in their advertising.  This is a great thing.  I commend them for it.

However ….

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