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I was listening to Tall Tales Radio this morning and heard the interview with Norm Feuti who does a comic called Retail and another one called Gill.

I need to tell you that Gill is one of the best comics I have read. If a paper can’t take a risk and print that then they are blind as well as stupid. Gill is a great and humorous look at how real people live. Yes kids do play with trash. Yes parents get divorced. Live with it and print it you idiots.

While you wait for papers to wake up or die go read Gill at Gillcomic.com

BY JENNIFER M. CONTINO
Late yesterday, Platinum Studios sent out a press release announcing they’d teamed with IM Global to create a Hero By Night TV series. DJ Coffman’s Hero By Night was the 2006 winner of Platinum’s Comic Book Challenge. Coffman wasn’t informed of the deal. He woke up to dozens of phone messages and emails about the PR. Coffman’s a long time friend of THE PULSE, so we wanted to get a few comments from him about the potential live-action Hero By Night series and find out about his involvement with the musical group, Flobots.

Hey Gigcasters…
Just a quick shout out that Capes & Babes is officially one year old today. I had my online debut November 12th of last year and it’s been a fun and exciting 365 days since that first strip.

-Chris

We interview Phil Hofer aka Frumph of frumph.net and JT and Scott talk Webcomics,  Christian Ellis Shallow Thoughts and The TB-BA Spotlight form Brian Anderson.

Guest:

Philip Hofer of Frumph.net and the WCRCAs

News

• Platinum plan…
• Webcomics.com Relaunched by Halfpixel:

Full Shownotes After the break!

E-mail

Danny Burleson here from “Oy” at oycomics.com…

2) I’m sure others have mentioned it already, but in case not, the Half Pixel crew has acquired and relaunched http://www.webcomics.com as a hub for the webcomics community.

3) Found out about a fairly new webcomic with promise called “Backyard Frontier” by cartoonist Dennis West. From the write-up on his site: “Backyard Frontier is a comic strip about a boy and his alien and their adventures as they try to make sense of this crazy world. Come back every weekday to see what they keep getting themselves into!”

4) ExtraLife Radio over at http://www.myextralife.com is soon to record its 200th episode. I think they’ll be doing it next Monday evening (not sure on the time), and they usually have a live uStream chat: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/extralife-radio

5) And in other news, Brian Anderson is apparently still a bastard.

That’s it!

~Danny, out

Hi,

Anyway, thanks again!

Sincerely,
Diana Nock

Twitter Bits

• kncomics @JTShea Of Snakes & Apples celebrates 1 year online this Saturday (the 25th) Denise Guinn
• Frumph @JTShea I’ve only got 2nd Shift Comic http://2ndshiftcomic.com/ is doing a tribute to lewis carroll’s poem “the Jabberwocky” oh yeah one more, the North Carolina Webcomics Coffee Clatch http://www.ncwccc.com/ on oct 25 from 2-4pm  at Padgett’s Station in Carrboro, NC
• http://www.thinksynch.com wedcomics.com
• kms007 @JTShea Caption Contest at PC Weenies – get your entries in before Sunday!

TB-BA Spotlight

• @JTShea Great comic for this week. Love the concept and the art: http://www.capesnbabes.com/
• @JTShea I sent you two so far right? Here’s a great third: http://www.rabbitsagainstmagic.com/
• @JTShea Here’s one of my fav’s from Zuda: http://www.twincomics.com/nightowls.html

The Gigcast
A Nightgig Studios Production – http://www.nightgig.com
www.thegigcast.com
Have News or a Comment?  Want to tell JT and Scott they are full of it?
E-mail: gigcast@nightgig.com


One of the Farpoint Media family of shows – www.farpointmedia.net,
Released under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial No-Derivs 2.5 license

We Talk with Tanya Higgins of Beta Pwned, A Better Way Merchandising and The Webcomics Beacon.  Christian Ellis Shallow though and the TB-BA Spotlight

LInks:

http://www.abetterwaymerch.com


News

Shortpacked Creator hits 11 years comicing
http://shortpacked.livejournal.com/409576.html


E-mails

Lou Graziani

Hi Guys,
I just heard the Gigcast for the first time.  I’ve been doing my webcomic since 05, and I’ve heard of your podcast a number of times, but this was the first time I’ve listened.  I bookmarked it and I’ll be back.

I checked out that “Union of Heroes”.  Its not that far along yet, but I like it.  I look forward to seeing how far they can take that super hero concept.  WIll it mostly be regular 2o somethings talking, or will it be full out “xmen” style action?  This is a style that is surprisingly rare and they seem to be off to a pretty good start…

If you are looking for more material to review, you could check out my comic: www.cy-boar.com
That’s what I’m busy coloring now while I listen…

Ingress and Egress, the new Split Lip horror comic

Ingress and Egress, the new Split Lip horror comic, has just gone live in its entirety at the Split Lip website. You can read the story at http://www.webcomicsnation.com/splitlip Ingress and Egress was written by Sam Costello and drawn by Jason Ho.  Ingress and Egress is the 19th Split Lip story, bringing the site to over 235 pages of free comics

TB-BA Spotlight

The Gigcast
A Nightgig Studios Production – http://www.nightgig.com
www.thegigcast.com
Have News or a Comment?  Want to tell JT and Scott they are full of it?
E-mail: gigcast@nightgig.com


One of the Farpoint Media family of shows – www.farpointmedia.net,
Released under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial No-Derivs 2.5 license

JT and Scott talk Webcomics, Christian Ellis Shallow Thoughts and Music from The Fump

LInks:

The Gigcast
A Nightgig Studios Production – http://www.nightgig.com
www.thegigcast.com
Have News or a Comment? Want to tell JT and Scott they are full of it?
E-mail: gigcast@nightgig.com


One of the Farpoint Media family of shows – www.farpointmedia.net,
Released under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial No-Derivs 2.5 license

I just found out from Box Brown that Bellen is also celebrating his 2 year anniversary. Holy crap on the milestones.

Interview with David Gallaher of High Moon on Zuda and we talk with Krishna of PC Weenies about Tooncastiong, all that and the DD report form Black Kitty and Spang.

The Gigcast A Nightgig Studios Production – http://www.nightgig.com www.thegigcast.com Have News or a Comment? Want to tell JT and Scott they are full of it? E-mail: gigcast@nightgig.com One of the Farpoint Media family of shows – www.farpointmedia.net, Released under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial No-Derivs 2.5 license

It’s all true people.. now go give my favorite keenspotter a big hug

It’s all true people.. now go give my favorite keenspotter a big hug

RACHEL NABORS NEEDS TEAM COMICS!
Rachel Nabors needs some serious dosh for dental surgery. She’s got no insurance (oh, don’t we know how much fun that is), and she must have the surgery. Rachel is a hardworking young manga-ka who’s created hundreds of pages of manga, and self-published her work.  Rachel also educates and supports other cartoonists through her site, MangaPunk and is a member of the women cartoonists collective Women’s Work.

Here’s her post, with pictures and an explanation of her needs and the PayPal button:
http://crowhen.livejournal.com/131452.html

HOW TO BE HELPFUL:
Send whatever you can.
Post your support at her LJ.
Either. Both.
REPOST the URL above and explain what she needs and why. Feel free to copy and paste this post.
Many people giving a tiny bit makes a LOT. Send what you can. When King gets his next check, we’re sending some.

HOW TO BE UNHELPFUL:
Suggesting ANYTHING. Rachel has exhausted avenues for dental school (she doesn’t have one that does surgery), loans (come ON, why is that the default suggestion?),  Hero Initiative, a move to another country (how unbelievably loutish), etc.

Bottom line, Rachel deserves the help. She works hard, she’s worked to make the business better, she’s trustworthy.

Away, my monkeys! Help Rachel! FLY!

A Hot Topix rep had little to say.

“It is my poiicy to encourage freelancers to use the free Getty photo images as reference points & we also use sketches from the Japanese free clip art books, which have inanimate objects with cute faces & legs etc. which are also very similar to the soap.”

Remember Todd Goldman.

Perri finds himself in the clutches of the mysterious stranger who has been following our heroes and seems to have some bad intentions in store for them.  Also, Angus has what appears to be a revealing dream, or is it more of a message for the good-natured Troll.

Check it out, spread the love, share the joy…er…whatever.

AP. Furtado

Perri finds himself in the clutches of the mysterious stranger who has been following our heroes and seems to have some bad intentions in store for them.  Also, Angus has what appears to be a revealing dream, or is it more of a message for the good-natured Troll.

Check it out, spread the love, share the joy…er…whatever.

AP. Furtado

My first writing credit for Marvel Comics was solicited today so I can publically talk about it! SPIDER-MAN FAMILY 8 features a story by yours truly called “WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE” featuring Iceman! Art by Zach Howard.

~N

Congratulations to Nate. the Spiderman Family line is a great read.

Go say happy birthday to Nate and tell him the gigcast sent you.

I’ve kept you here to long. Go check it out.

here’s a reference list of some of the talent Zuda is going to showcase.

• Pop Mhan
• Howard Shum
• David Gallaher
• Sho Murase
• Corey Lewis
• Fernando Ruiz
• Tim Smith III

That should give you an idea where Zuda is going with it’s talent search. Bring the A games guys, I know you got what it takes.

I’ve joined THE LEAGUE OF ARCH VILLAINS and you can to. The L.A.V. is looking for viscious vixens and muscle-bond man-mutants to join our ranks and control the world…nay, the UNIVERSE! If you fit those catagories or if you have a secret formula that can make an army of zombies. You may just have what it takes to be a member of The League of Arch Villans!

(evil laugh goes here)

Devils Panties is usually my first read of the morning. Not that it’s my favorite but my list is alphabetical  and D is the top of my list. If you haven’t read Devils Panties your blind and I have no pity for you. Devils Panties is a must read slice of life comic and is the inspiration of many comics that have come after it. Including mine.

The Errant Apprentice -  Even if I didn’t talk to Kevin often I would love this comic. Here is the short description “In a world where fantasy and magic are reborn, only one man stands for the ideals of knighthood. He is Terry Lingal, the Errant Apprentice”. The idea behind this is that in the mid 1970′s magic returns to Earth and with it magical creatures and those who would use magic to their own ends. I like the story because it’s about a guy who’s trying to do the right thing because it’s what you should do and not for some greater reward.

Girls With Slingshots – Someone needs to hire Danielle Corsetto and force her to write network TV shows. The pacing is great the whole cast have style and the art rocks. Danielle Corsetto is taking her comic daily now so please check it out. She put tons of work into it.

Malfunction Junction – Another slice of life comic that I think should find it’s way into magazines. I also dig Matt Milby art style. A big part of why I think I like it is in Matt’s statement “I do not write a journal comic because I think anyone particularly cares about my life, but because I am most inspired by everyday stuff that happens to me”.

My lunch break is almost over with so I will pick this list up next time.

On a recent Girls With Slingshots update Danielle Corsetto posted a “How I Do Comics” tutorial. This strikes me as exciting on a few levels.

1. Danielle kicks ass (everything else I wrote before was the product of sugar and wishful thinking. I have NOT met Danielle YET!)
2. GWS is one of my favorite comics and any glimpse of how it’s done makes me happy. I’m not going to look a gift horse in the mouth. It’s not a ground breaking tutorial that makes me say “THAT”S THE TRICK!”. I am a process junkie seeing how she roughs, then she moves on makes me excited to draw. She does do something I don’t and it might be something I change. She adds the word balloons and then the art. I’m the other way.
3. Like her comic her tutorial is clean well done and presented in a professional fashion. It’s a giant reminder that there are some basic steps I keep skipping that derail my process every time.

So yea I recommend you hop over and check it out. I’m personally going to try her method out and see if it helps me stay on top of updates.

Gibson Twist is the creator of a few webcomics. Pictures of You, Cheap Shots, and The Whiskey Devils. I’m going to start right out with one of his comics.

I most certainly laughed my ass off thank you very much.

I started writing this to praise the webcomic Pictures of You, which attracted my attention with images of likely my favorite Cure song. Pictures of You is very well written. The self narration moves the story quickly enough to not get dull. There is plenty of soul searching and the main character Peter. You will please forgive me as I have only just started reading it but the short of it is that Pictures of You is like a reflective memory of Peters life in college. Gibson Twist doesn’t take short cuts on the art either. Honestly it’s one of the better Black and White comics I have read. More people need to be talking about Gibson’s work.

I’ll cut this off here. Check out Gibson Twist’s work. you will honestly love it.

Scott

Go check it out for yourself. Me it’s made it to my DD favorites.

Todays Bad Fan is about Dinosaur Comics. Your saying to me now “Scott you don’t read Dinosaur comics?” and I then say “no I usually avoid clip art comic.” You then beat me with a stick I point to a few really really bad clip art strips that have ruined me. We then both feel bad and go out and drink beer.

Let’s just skip to the beer part.

So today I noticed that we have a new ad in Project Wonderful. You guessed it, it’s Dinosaur Comics. I figure I will make an effort to read any comic advertised on the site. I’m here to tell you that Ryan North may have me hooked with the first strip I read.

http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=945

I so very VERY much want to read a alternate universe story where no matter what Superman does EVERYONE DIES. I don’t care if at the end you make him wake up from a bad dream and all this time it was Luthor messing with him.

Ok, back to the why I don’t like clip art comics / why I like this one.

1. I’m an art whore. I will keep reading bad books just to look at the way an artist does backgrounds. A story has to be very bad before I give up on an artist I like. This is also why I don’t read some book. If everyone looks the same why should I care. This is that part that bothers me most about clip art comics. Yes having a dinosaur say these lines is funnier then having a Mario Bros Sprite say them but it’s the same joke.
2. It takes longer for me to become a fan of writers. I’ll go years reading a book before I discover who writes it (that’s why I’m a bad fan). Ryan seems to have a good handle on writing but it took an out of ordinary event to get me reading. Normally that event is the art. Ryan if you read this don’t feel bad the same thing happened with the book Stranger in a Strange Land had it been cheaper to buy batteries then it was to buy a paperback book in that airport I would never have read anything by Robert A. Heinlein.
3. I still don’t like clip art comics very much. To often their the tool of those of us (myself included) that want to take shortcuts on a creative process. Often that leads to not only repetitious art but repetitious stories and humor. I haven’t made my way through the full archive. Trust me I probably won’t get the chance but it seems to me that Ryan has been keeping the strips fresh.

So there in a Nutshell is why I’m a bad fan. I recommend you check out Dinosaur Comics. No I won’t be going out of my way to read others like it unless some extraordinary event brings one to my attention.

(So is this where I would put I give it 30 stars out of 30 or would that just sound stupid? Really like I could actually give out a star. Do you know hot those things are?)

Scott (The Bad Fan)