September 1st, 2010 – Planes of Eldlor is celebrating their comic’s 1-year anniversary today! Come join them for a bonus update, which also marks the end of Chapter 2!

More news as it comes!

August 28 is READ COMICS IN PUBLIC DAY!!  That’s right you have an excuse (like you need one) to go out into the world with your comic collection and proudly read your favorites for all to see!

Get a picture of yourself enjoying your comics in public! If you have a copy of a SpiderForest  comic, (or ANY comic!) please send me your pic! Or head over to your favorite hot-spot and pull up this site or a comic on your laptop or phone and show me (and the world!) that you are a comic lover and proud of it!

Just send in your pic and we’ll post it here and on the official site! Have fun and ENJOY your COMICS!!

Here is the official list of new members who have accepted their invitation to join our network! Please welcome the most awesome:

Nicoli Gonnella of Keys

J Gray and Keith Wood of Mysteries of the Arcana

Lorne Archer of Omega

Heather Meade of dream*scar

Joumana Medlej of Malaak

Mella Hopper of Mellapants

Robin of Real Life Fiction

Hopefully there are a few more to announce soon. Sorry for the wait!

Hello everyone! SpiderForest is pleased to announce the opening of the July 2010 application season! If you have a webcomic that meets some simple criteria and are looking for an AWESOME web-home, please check out our apply page. Applications accepted until July 24th!

Sarrah and Robbie of Planes of Eldlor are also pleased to announce their first big milestone of 50 pages! The 50th update will be up as of Monday, June 28th. We look forward to sharing many more milestones with our readers. Come visit Eldlor today!

Hello everyone! Those of you eager to apply to SpiderForest during our normal admissions month, we apologize, but we are moving application season to JULY. Since so many of our members are busy out of their minds during December, we’ve decided to move our bi-annual application season ahead a month to January and July. It is very late notice, we only just decided ourselves, but no worries–applications will be accepted as normal starting July 1st.

Anyone who has sent in an application already will not be penalized, but applications will not be considered until NEXT month. We do ask that if you’re interested in applying you hold off in sending your application until next month as well. Thanks!

Here is the updated information on how to apply to SpiderForest.

And here’s our member news!

“Cetiya” is celebrating its second birthday! Erm… second official internet birthday! Today! I.e. June 15th! Specifically, it is celebrating by not posting any special content until next Monday. Because its illustrious creator forgot about it. Again. We can celebrate that part, too.

Between Places celebrates two years online on June 17th.

Well, it’s that season of the year when most people in academia are either panicking as the semester ends, or rejoicing because the semester has FINALLY ended. Either or–congrats!

From Dutch of School Spirit, we have:

Made 850 regular strips at the start of May.

Will reach six years in the middle of June.

And it’s another rough spot for Nahast; Al-X is swamped with work, even if a part of said work was working on the awesomeness that is Green Ronin‘s DC Adventures project, writing the official RPG stats of many DC superheroes like a certain member of the Green Lantern Corps and two former Teen Titans. Add to that the beginning of summer storm season and the subsequent power outages coupled with some weird electricians’ union political crazyness, and a week-long visit from his mom (who is also awesome, but still takes up time ).

Al-X is mad that he hasn’t been able to fully enjoy his shiny new pen tablet because of all of this.

Lastly, Kez would like to announce she has survived her first year of grad school (yippie!) and her newest comic, What it Takes (rated R) has reached thirty pages. The first issue is even for sale!

That’s all for the news so far. Remember that in June, SF starts to accept applications for new members! If you’re interested, application season is fast approaching!

Happy Spring/Fall, depending on your hemisphere!

So sorry this is late!

Samantha from Life’s a Witch will be at STAPLE! in Austin, Texas on Saturday, March 6! Be sure to come by her table and say hi!!

Net of TTG is EXTREMELY HAPPY about sumfin-sumfin but he’s not yet ready to announce it. Check out his comic anyhow!

Kinnari acknowledges one year of web comiking this March!. This does not in any way mean that I started Kinnari one year ago. The concept is more than 3 years old, I started to draw, write and even created the web site long before last march. March simply marks a mile stone, a rhythm to the changing scenery. I have come so far in one year, and I look forward to more fun in the next!

KEZ’s long-running fantasy story The War of Winds returns from a one-month hiatus as of March 1st. Come check out the brand new chapter!

Going straight to the news! This post to be updated as events come along.

From mvmarcz of Avernyght: In February Whisp’s Journey begins and the new site design is up. The archive has been split and now the entire site has all content up.

Simon would like to remind everyone his new comic Sakana No Sadness starts February 1!

Chris Wall reports that Fuzznuts and Nonsense are both actively updating once a week and the sites have been overhauled!

From Net: TTG’s update, though a day late due to Michelle and Vort’s honeymoon/anniversary, marked our 5 year and 50th comic page. Also,  Net would like to announce that his toenails are now sufficiently clipped enough so that he no longer catches on the sheets when he goes to bed at night.

February 2 was HOURLY COMIC DAY! Comickers are invited to do a comic each waking hour about something that happened the previous hour. Spider Forest member Samantha Wikan (Life’s a Witch) tried her hand at Hourly Comics for the first time this year and here is the result. She said it was great fun and will definitely participate next year… and try to be doing some more interesting stuff, too!

On February 9th, Between Places hits 200 updates! And Tiana  would like to announce that she is now eating a chicken sandwich prior to beginning to paint her next update.

Two SFC members have been involved in staging The Webcomic List Awards 2009 . The award ceremony goes live on Febuary 7th. Find out who the internet voted the best webcomics of 2009.

Chirault will be hitting the milestone of five sketchbooks filled, along with sixty markers and twenty-eight ink cartridges disposed of at some point during the month of February!

Dranxis adds: “What Nonsense will have its second year anniversary on Feb. 8th. Or at least, that’s roughly when I started the comic… Close enough!”

Jaygee regrets to announce that his new project, “The Spicer-Peppermint-Rothborough-Ultimatum. An Ultimative Webcomic Ultimatum.” will have to be put on hold for the foreseeable future. He has been hit by a milestone and is currently recovering in the Edward-Cullen-Hospital in Oxbridge, South London.

Briana would like to remind everyone that for the time being, RMTOADS will only be updating on Monday.

KEZ also has a reminder, that her newest comic What it Takes started up January 20, and is updating Wednesday/Friday with new strips! Also, her long-running fantasy epic The War of Winds starts a new chapter February 1!

Happy New Year! We had a great turn out for applications during the December 2009 application month. Thank you to everyone who applied! There were some VERY difficult choices, but in the end we all agreed to invite these five wonderful comics to join us!

Planes of Eldlor

Smyzer and Blyde

Freelance

Lint

Scattered Leaves

There is also a lot of member news this month, so let’s get to it!

Michelle announces that Tales of the Traveling Gnome turns 5 as of this month, will finally (hopefully) hit 50 pages too!

Next, after two great years, The Artiste Manquee will conclude and retire this month. Thank you to everyone who read and enjoyed it! Watch for a new comic series by the same author in the near future.”

Mvmarcz of Avernyght says, “My current story is slated to end in January and the new one starts Feb 1st. there will be teasers to bridge the gap.”

From Chris, “After ringing in the new year, you now have an excuse to keep partying! Precocious turns one year old on January 1st, and everyone’s invited to join the celebration!”

Wolfy of The Gods Pack announces a return from hiatus near the beginning of January, and her other comic Beyond Rapture sometime in mid-January!

From Nick Perkins, Cooties returns from hiatus on January 4th! Don’t miss the alien-ninja-superheroey conclusion to “Infestation”!

Dutch of School Spirit says, “I’ll just be quietly continuing on my way in January…”  by which he REALLY means that he just passed 800 strips and you should go check it out right now.

Lastly for SF news, KEZ’s new post-apocalyptic adventure story What it Takes starts January 18! Come check out the website and see the previews until then! The story is rated R for language and violence, and will update 2-3X weekly.

Finally, we had quite a few members here submit artwork for the Comic Creators’ Alliance against human trafficking! Donations for a wallpaper featuring all the submitted characters will be accepted starting on January 11, which is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day in the US. Spread the word!