Thank you for your patience.

my friend, alice, has always been an inspiration to me. heck, she still is.
i enjoy hanging out with someone so creative! she’s taught me tons of cool things and we’ve had plenty of fun just sitting around working in altered books or other artistic projects as we visit. she has a great eye for art and an excellent sense of design.

she’s as big a geek as i am, too. her fandom is the marvel comic book, Daredevil.
you should see her daredevil quilts! can’t find any current links to them, but they are sooo beautiful!
no, these aren’t your grandmother’s type quilt. they’re gorgeous examples of thread paintings and fabric collage with hand beaded fringe on some of the pieces.
it’s even approved by the joe quesada, the current editor-in-chief over at marvel and david mack, both of whom have seen her work. mack even signed several of the pieces featuring his art.

last year, alice began getting active in a regional chapter for the Foundation for Fighting Blindness (www.blindness.org).
you see, alice has been diagnosed with early onset macular degeneration. that’s right, the most creative person i know, with one of the best eyes for visual art i’ve seen, will lose her sight.

this is a devasting thing, but here’s another reason alice is an inspiration to me. she’s still going and not letting it stop her.
she has started a new business making braille tshirts (www.brailletshirts.com). no, it’s not screenprinted where only the sighted can see it, but she uses metallic studs or swarovski crystals to make actual text that the blind can read!
she can do custom phrases, too.
i have a few of these shirts and they are truly nifty.
she is also planning on going back to school to learn to become a braille transcriber.
truly amazing, isn’t she?

the primary event for a FFB chapter is a VisionWalk, to raise money for research for denegerative eye diseases such as Macular Degeneration, Stargart Disease, Usher Syndrome, Rentintis Pigmentosa, etc., and find cures. This weekend is Memphis’ first VisionWalk and alice has a team. If you can be in Memphis, please come join the team!
Can’t be in memphis? You can donate to the cause. Don’t have much? hey, they’ll accept $5 donations! I believe alice is making tshirts (the design is one her VisionWalk page and giving them to those who make a donation of $25 or higher…
i have volunteered to do face painting at the event, but i plan on walking, too, if time permits.

Please support Alice and the FFB!
Click here to visit my personal page.

Click here to view the team page for Team Darediva

Apparently The Colonel and Company is NOT about a chicken and a talking dog.  Who knew?  (Click to embiggen)

Sorry Quentin!  Live and learn huh?

He blogs about it here.

JT

Search for the Farpoint Media Castle (it’s paired up with Third Life Books). In the front door there is a spot to buy Farpoint media Shirts, including a cool Gigcast T-Shirt.

JT

Lets hope for more of these.

JT

For those of you who know me.. yeah I know…

Lets hope for more of these.

JT

For those of you who know me.. yeah I know…

http://fundingdrive.ckdu.ca/

Pony up and let em know it’s for The Sonic Society and referred from from The Gigcast!

JT

http://fundingdrive.ckdu.ca/

Pony up and let em know it’s for The Sonic Society and referred from from The Gigcast!

JT

Wes has some comics posted on his Flickr account that are really worth checking out. .

Shiver me timbers and hoist the missen-mast, it’s Talk like a Pirate Day!
Please post yer favorite Pirate related Webcomics here, so we can all enjoy the Piratitude and share them on this weeks Gigcast!

JT

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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)

• Rainmaker Entertainment is working with Zeros 2 Heroes to bring back the classic ReBoot television series. As a part of this campaign, Zeros 2 Heroes will be creating a new comic based on ReBoot. The art team will be picked solely from online submissions: essentially users upload a sketch, painting, even lettering work for one of the ReBoot characters. These sketches are then voted on by the ReBoot fans, with the winners being called on to make up the art team. To to www.zeros2heroes.com for more information.
• Outspoken! Interviews Pancha and Elana Diaz of Iceheart.
• Comic creator Mike Wieringo dies at 44.
• British daily newspaper The Times has an article about ROK Comics.Things Change: The Metamorphoses Comic by Derik Badman has finished up Book Two.
• Cigarro & Cerveja has revamped it’s website with ComicPress. Go check it out!The Amazing Superzeroes! Celebrates three years online, congratulations!
• Smack Jeeves is temporarily down for emergency maintenance.

• Joey Manley has an interesting post called ‘There is Nothing New Under the Sun.’
• Kevin Moore has announced that he’s going to rename his strip Sheldon the Pig to avoid confusion with Sheldon by Dave Kellett.
• How to Display Your Art on the Web: Part 3
• Comflix.net releases The Last Sin of Mark Grimm chapter 2.

• The HB Comic Blog returns.
• Fleen picked Ron Perazza’s brain about Zudacomics.com.
• Dilbert creator Scott Adams gives advice to Basic Instructions artist Scott Meyer on how to turn his strip into something that will sell to syndicates. Parts 1 and 2.

• Dorothy, the creator of Cat and Girl, has just completed all the categories in the Schedule C Principal Business or Professional Activity Codes Table.
• Firaxis has joined forces with a handful of webcomics to create strips based on Civ. IV: Beyond the Sword.
• Fight, Cast or Evade by Matt Trepal is coming to an end.Steve Horton is writing what he hopes will be the definitive work on creating, publishing and making money from webcomics called Webcomics 2.0 and will tentatively be released next year at SDCC from Muska & Lipman. Dave Ahn and Sam Romero are two of the artists involved so far.
• Friends of Lulu will celebrate the premiere of its anthology of works by women called The Girls’ Guide to Guys’ Stuff with a party at MoCCA today.
• A new installment of the series How to Display Your Artwork on the Web has been released. An interesting primer for getting your stuff on the web and a dissection of the decisions involved.
• P.O.W.E.R. in Comics is an interesting group dedicated to ‘Promoting: Ownership, Writing & drawing, Editing and Reading’ of women and minorities in comics.
• Cr0wgrrl opines about The Good Ship Chronicles return to webcomics.
• Theater Hopper turned 5 this past Sunday. Congratulations!

Hey Peeps!

The YHT one-shot is featured in this month’s Wizard Magazine (#191) in the Indie Buzz section of the Secret Stash. Here’s what Wizard has to say about my little comic strip:

It’s not often that webcomics make a successful transition from online to the printed page, so it speaks volumes that this heavenly little bastard has become one of the favored comics around the Wizard offices. Spotlighting the hilarious life of newlyweds Andy and Katie, this one-shot collects the best of 2006′s online strips by Wes Molebash, with a brand-new cover from Scott Kurtz (PvP) so easily accessible for new readers it may as well be the first issue. With a precise vision of male geek life and the hotties who love us, YHT will have you cracking up and wondering how Molebash snuck a camera into your life.

Freakin’ rad, eh?

- Wes

Very cool, and be sure to check out our own Madscott’s guest strip form Friday!

JT

• Sam and Max, by Steve Purcell won an Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic.
• Warren Ellis announced his new webcomic project FreakAngels, written by Ellis and featuring artwork by Paul Duffield. It’s slated for release later this year.
• Fleen has a great post-report of the Business of Webcomics panel at ComicCon featuring Robert Khoo and Scott Kurtz.
• Eyeskream extends the deadline for submissions for it’s third anniversary contest to 31^st of August.
• At ComicCon Dark Horse Comics announced Dark Horse Presents will be back via MySpace. Some new talent will be featured from artists found via MySpace. Read More…
• If you couldn’t get out to the SDCC this year you can still live vicariously through Heidi MacDonald’s video blogs.
• Or you could just look over this collection of photos from ComicCon.
• Girl/ robot returns after a brief  break for the wedding and will be returning to MWF schedule.
• Elf ‘n Troll returns today via Web Comics Nation.

The Hype Machine tracks a variety of MP3 blogs. If a post contains MP3 links, it adds those links to its database and displays them on the front page.

Some of the frequently accessed tracks are cached by the Hype Machine server, much like Google Search caches web pages, to reduce load on the bloggers’ servers and protect their bandwidth. Those tracks are NOT available for download, but you can preview them via the “listen” links that are next to each track or using your media player.

The blog that posted a particular track is identified under every track by name and with a “read post” link that leads to the blog post itself. If you enjoyed a track someone posted, stop by and let them know!

You can purchase CDs and individual tracks by using the “amazon” and “itunes” links that appear next to most tracks. Each purchase you make via the Amazon and iTunes links supports both the artists and the Hype Machine. Please buy and enjoy.

• PC Weenies creator Krishna M. Sadasivam was interviewed for Tiffinbox 20/20.
• Webcomics in Print is calling for guest reviewers.
• User Friendly reviewed at the blog Your Webcomic is Bad and You Should Feel Bad.

Working on a Shownotes template here… let me know if there is something we should have in every Gigcast posting and I’ll see if I can fit it in here somewhere.

JT

• Lisa Jonte at TalkAboutComics is ending her sabbatical early to return as Editor of GirlAMatic as of this Friday, July 13. Sadly she’s also ending her webcomic series Arcana Jayne as well.
• Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Doug Marlette, 57, died in an auto accident in Mississippi on Tuesday. He was visiting Mississippi to help a group of HS students with a musical version of his syndicated strip Kudzu.
• Joey Manley blogs about Fleen, DJ Coffman on the subject of Zuda and Platinum contracts.
• Sheldon has a post about San Diego WebComicCon and the strong presence of Webcomics this year.
• Eric Burns has an in depth post about ZudaComics.com on Websnark.
• Wizard Universe Staff Writer Brian Warmoth has started a bi-weekly column about Webcomics.
• Publisher Kodansha will be producing a Japanese version of Megatokyo Volume 1.

“Where drawings are voted to the death and the streets run black with ink.” If you like comics that battle each other to the death, this is a way to get in on the action.

 We will be posting more later with information about a card and flowers.  Please keep her family in your thoughts and remember to hug your Mom and the rest of your family soon.

For now, if you want to help out with the flowers, hit the PayPal donate button at the top of the left side bar of http://www.nightgig.com.

Thanks,
The Gigcast Crew

 We will be posting more later with information about a card and flowers.  Please keep her family in your thoughts and remember to hug your Mom and the rest of your family soon.

For now, if you want to help out with the flowers, hit the PayPal donate button at the top of the left side bar of http://www.nightgig.com.

Thanks,
The Gigcast Crew

Writing Shownotes,
Gathering News Stories,
Writing Articles, for both the Show and the website.

Drop us a line if you wanna get involved, if you want to help The Gigcast entertain, inform and grow.

gigcast@nightgig.com

JT

Who knows what can happen.
http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/203

thank you for your support.
I’ll take ya with me if I win. All of you.

While the interactivity part would be cool, the audio quality lasks big time. Part of the quality issue has to do with not being able to use Skype, for free anyway. Have to use skype out, and that costs $$, we were able to use The Gizmo Project which you can dial a Voip IP address (Not availabel in Skype) but the quality was crap.

I did dial in with what skype minutes I have (Bought long ago to interview people who don’t /can’t use skype) and The quality was much much better.

Here is the question I have for you.

Would an interactive call in Gigcast once a month or so be worth setting up? the quality woul dbe the same as a bad phone call, (Unless someone wants to buy us all Unlimited Skype for 30 bucks each).

Or would you rather have the roundtables be done the non interactive way, but with a bit better quality (Better than last time, with a bit more effort we can make everyone sound purty)

Thoughts? Ideas?

Forum Post about this here.

JT

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.

If you were a Yirmumah Newsletter member you would know this by now!

Greetings Yirmumah Newsletter members! It’s been awhile, but I wanted to let you all know that
Wiz and I have resumed the regularly scheduled chaos that is M-W-F at Yirmumah.net.

Tune in for humor that could be condoned to be oh so wrong, but surely feels oh so right.

YIRMUMAH.NET

anyone know who it was?

If you are subscribed to The Gigcast feed, you may have notices a PDF file in your aggregator this morning. It’s a gift form Scott Sigler and The Gigcast, actually.. it’s a bribe, to get you to help promote, and hopefully buy Ancestor, the new Horror Sci-fi thriller form Scott Sigler, on April 1st(at noon EST), and put this one-time podcast only novel at the top of the charts!

If you are the type who grabs his Gigcast manually you can get the Free PDF HERE

Many of you may have heard the podcast of this novel, and you still can form www.scottsigler.net and PodioBooks.com.

Here is an excerpt from Scotts’ e-mail to The Gigcast…

I’m trying to put myself and Podcasting on the map by making my print novel ANCESTOR hit #1 on Amazon.com. I think this will be a Big Friggin’ Deal if I pull it off, but it won’t be easy. To help make that happen, I’m giving away the whole thing as a tricked-out PDF. If you’ve heard of Corey Doctorow, that’s where I got the idea. I’m taking it one step further by having podcasters put the PDF link in their RSS feeds, and on their show notes.

GOAL:
Get hundreds of thousands of people to see the PDF. Some will read it and be done, some will toss it, and some will be intrigued enough to buy the dang thing in print.

So, help a fellow to make his NightGig his Day Gig, and Download the PDF and Then on April First at Noon EST.. buy the book Ancestor from Amazon.com. Thats APRIL 1st.. at NOON for it to count towards the new stats and make Ancestor #1!

You can use this nifty link HERE….

GO NOW

Just dropping a quick like to say congratulations to Karen on your one year anniversary. Your comic and your style has grown into one of my favorite “slice of life stories”. Here is hoping to see you still updating next year.

I know nothing about Adam Cohen other then he does the website www.mosetoon.com. I will have to do some searching to find out more. I hope he’s not also famous for stomping on small animals or feeding babies glass. That would just spoil it for me. Maybe.

I came across it on my daily blog crawl. So I need to give credit to Drawn.ca and to Diva Lea for reminding me about Drawn.ca.

Audio now posted in The Gigcast feed.
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Presentors included the following:

Mark Mekkes WCCA, Zortic
Jenni Gregory Abby’s Menagerie
JT & Scott Gigcast
Christi Johnson In The Puddle
Tye Bourdony Lighter Side of Sci Fi
Gina Biggs Red String
Greg Carter Abandon: Reborn
Krishna Sadasivam PC Weenies
Kit White Blue Canary
Jennie Breeden The Devil’s Panties
Derrick Fish Dandy & Company
KC Green Rumblo.com

HERO-GRAM ALERT!

Would you like to win some Original Hero By Night artwork? Today only, February 13th– here’s what to do:

1. send 5 of your friends to read the Hero By Night Journals here: http://www.drunkduck.com/Hero_By_Night_Diaries/ 

2. They have to comment on the “latest” comic (February 13th) and say the username of who referred them to the strip.

3. When five different users come in with your referrel name, I’ll private message you through Drunk Duck to get your mailing details.

4. An orignial piece of Hero By Night art will show up at your door!

5. This offer is good WORLDWIDE! (aka ANYWHERE ON THE PLANET!)

So, if you’ve been digging the Hero By Night Journals so far, today is the best day ever to share it with new friends! And hey, it’s

the internet, everyone has a billion friends, right?

This offer is good for a 24 hour period, beginning at 1am – 1am Wednesday.

THE CLOCK IS TICKING. GO!

a couple things.

1) The show will be out this afternoon. We we’re late wrapping it up. You know the drill.
We have a GREAT guest this week and here is a preview of the cover art he was kind enough to provide.

(edit: actually the art is not HIS, but one of the artists HE collaborates with, look for proper um… props on the actual Gigcast Posting. JT)

(I’ll let you guess who he is.)

2) This is what I wake up to this morning:

me: never mind I guess I can’t be that funny yet

In my head it was working

Tim: heh

oh yeah..

Happy B-day

ya old fuck

me: thanks

Can you believe the abuse I take!

Check back often.

a couple things.

1) The show will be out this afternoon. We we’re late wrapping it up. You know the drill.
We have a GREAT guest this week and here is a preview of the cover art he was kind enough to provide.

(edit: actually the art is not HIS, but one of the artists HE collaborates with, look for proper um… props on the actual Gigcast Posting. JT)

(I’ll let you guess who he is.)

2) This is what I wake up to this morning:

me: never mind I guess I can’t be that funny yet

In my head it was working

Tim: heh

oh yeah..

Happy B-day

ya old fuck

me: thanks

Can you believe the abuse I take!

Check back often.

Webcomic News, Drunk Duck Update, Your e-mails, Megacon Updates and the music of The Brobdingnagian Bards and Jonathan Coulton.

As All Ways…. Listen here on TheGigcast.com flash Player, or on MySpace, or the best way.. SUBSCRIBE via RSS!

Crimson Dark:
http://www.cafepress.com/crimsondark

Rumblo:
http://www.nightgig.com/argh/store/index.html

Sweatshop Studios:
http://www.cafepress.com/sweatshopstudio

Subculture:
http://www.cafepress.com/subcultured2004

Gods of Arr-Kelaan:
http://www.rmcomics.com/Store/A_-_Graphic_Novels_and_Collections.html

http://www.cafepress.com/godsofarrkelaan

Studio Blu

http://www.cafepress.com/studio_blu/

Dont Forget To Pimp Your Stuff

Webcomic News, Drunk Duck Update, Your e-mails, Megacon Updates and the music of The Brobdingnagian Bards and Jonathan Coulton.

As All Ways…. Listen here on TheGigcast.com flash Player, or on MySpace, or the best way.. SUBSCRIBE via RSS!

Crimson Dark:
http://www.cafepress.com/crimsondark

Rumblo:
http://www.nightgig.com/argh/store/index.html

Sweatshop Studios:
http://www.cafepress.com/sweatshopstudio

Subculture:
http://www.cafepress.com/subcultured2004

Gods of Arr-Kelaan:
http://www.rmcomics.com/Store/A_-_Graphic_Novels_and_Collections.html

http://www.cafepress.com/godsofarrkelaan

Studio Blu

http://www.cafepress.com/studio_blu/

Dont Forget To Pimp Your Stuff

Don’t answer that it only leads me to talking about how I have a short attention span and how I can’t be blamed for things like dogs driving cars and ships sinking….

sorry back on track.

http://www.ccawards.com/2007.htm

The nominations are up. You need to check them out even if your not voting. Nightgig’s favorite Sci-Fi adventure Crimson Dark got a well deserved nomination for OUTSTANDING SCIENCE FICTION COMIC. Go cheer him on.

Look for that interview in this weeks Gigcast.

Imaginaries is a pretty interesting read. The Imaginaries world is the place where all of your imaginary friends go once you forget or give up on them. It does at moments read like a “what if Superman had been in the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit” comic. I like the world he is developing. Not giving to much away but I like how they explain the Teddy Bear Gestapo as not being all there. It seems that because Teddy Bears are not completely fake they can be dragged in and out of the real world and that is causing them to gain multiple personalities. I recomend it, at least for the moment. It has the possibilities to be a great book. The art and story are very strong, I would only fear that a world that loose could easily fall apart without some care.

The Devils Panties (the comic) is exactly what you would think it is. It’s Jennie Breeden in print. You can finally hold on to it and love it and pet it and call it George. That said obviously I’m a fan and asking the guys at the store they say that it sells well. One even mentioned that it brought in a few new regulars. Yea! I’ve can’t really complaine. I’m not sure I would have picked it up had I never read The Devils Panties before but it had all the funny that I get online in a big easy to carry format. It’s got a tough road ahead of it. It sits on the shelf very near classic comics like Captain America and we all know Cap is a no funny business kinda guy. Maybe a little Devils Panties humor will loosen up his red white and blue shorts.

It’s not instore yet but I wanted to point out that DJ Coffman (and Jason Embury) has been posting teasers on the Herobynight.net site. I’m a sucker and I’m hooked and I haven’t even bought issue #1 yet (that reminds me I should preorder). I know that your gonna tell me I’m an idiot and I can handel that, but DJ’s style is starting to remind me of Ron Garney’s style.

Here is DJ’s cover on issue #2

Here is one of my favorite Captain America covers.

Maybe it’s just the feel of the art but that’s the vibe I get.

I’ll cut this off now and see you all again the next time I get by the comic shop.

Even broke the Florida land speed record getting to The local Mall BrightHouse office to swop out my Modem before it closed at 9.. and it didn’t fix the problem.

So…. Gigcast #73 will be up hopefully late tonight if the wi-fi gods keep smiling (with a preview of Kreg Steppes interview of Scott McCloud!!!) and a New Gigcast Drive By AND som cool new podcafe Music!

Hang tight, It will be alright…. I promise.

JT

And I’m in it!

Check it out from out friends at Friends in Tech

Download Lucky Here!

Merry Christmas!

JT

ps. This weeks Gigcast has Reindeer, Contests and Tons of Christmas Merriment! Stand by for a Ho Ho Whole lot of fun! (did i just actually write that.. ugh)

JT

JT

I clicked on Broken Voices links back to their page and left it open as a reminder to read some later on. I can tell you now that I am so hooked on at least one of the comics hosted at BVC, Immortality. They describe it as “Immortality Classic SciFi featuring the richest man in the universe and his faithful android”. I instantly found it cool, Like the first time I saw the Flash Gordon  movie back in the 80′s.  It’s the story of Issac  Emphemer and in classic sci-fi style he’s  a  BASTARD.  just a few pages in and he’s atacking a planet and demanding things! One of the things I like is the narrative is given by the android who almost tells his master what he thinks of him but doesn’t have the programing for it.
I’m such a geek I know.

As you may know I’m an art whore. I judge comic books by the cover. Immortality is good, really good. It has the feel of a 70′s sci-fi comic. I find that the lines are sharper then you would expect out of an old sci-fi book. It gives it a new feel with a classic look. I love the big chunky space suits and the plain rocket shaped ships.

Check it out and say hello to Brokenvoice on comicspace.

We’ve had site problems. It’s not necessarily the host issue it’s not necessarily our issue but together it’s a pain in the ass. I’m sure your all familiar with how we all need to watch bandwidth like a hawk before bandwidth eats us. We’re careful not to go over our bandwidth. We also keep an eye on file and folder sizes. We’re not just a comic community we’re a host. We don’t have a unlimited supply, but we’re good there as well. Our problem is that we’re using to much of the servers CPU.

So we’re pulling back some of the things that we had previously put into place. We’ll have to stop giving out wordpress to everyone and instead look at the multi blog version of word press. I’m also a little worried that a extra bit of code that the host now has us adding to our comic automation (QUACT) may be the problem. If that’s the case then we may have to look to more drastic measures and even ditch quact if we have to.

The other thing we’re doing is turning off any comment system that may be getting spammed to death. Again QUACT is a big victim here. Because there isn’t anyway to notify you of someone commenting on a past comic, there isn’t really a way to keep people from filling it up with spam links for google to look at.

We run things around here like a non-profit. If we need it we put it on next years budget and hope we can get it then.

Ok enough whining.

I want to talk about a few cool things.

Our traffic has gone up. Thank you if your a new visitor. I blame comicspace for some of it. Looking at referal traffic though it’s been from a little here and a little there. We’ver been acting more social and I guess you like us. I’m looking forward to seeing what Comicspaces hosting features will look like. Maybe with luck Comicspace will succeed in bringing comic fans and artists to other comic fans and artists. It’s one thing to know that there are tons of webcomics out there. It’s another to see a list.

In related cool news. Abacus comics friended us on Comicspace and I rushed over to see just what they are. Turns out that they are a new comic book publisher about to open their doors. They are also letting you read a comic called “Lullaby” online and for free. It’s drawn by Hector Sevilla and Mike S. Miller and Ben Avery. It’s well worth checking out. The guys over at Abacus have crazy good skills.

I’ll cut it short there but I should have more to say soon.

Join Up and make NightGig/The Gigcast your friend by adding http://www.comicspace.com/nightgig to your friends list!

Help Nightgig and The Gigcast Help you!

JT

ok so maybe that all didn’t happen. The show will be a day late though because the storm was moving in.. the rest is all lies.

I’m sorry

I read the whole thing and it pointed out something to me. I’m not a very good Fan Boy. I had to look up “All Start Batman and Robin” on Wikipedia to find out that the book came out in July of 2005. I still stop in the comic shop from time to time and buy a few books but it’s been years since I really cared what DC or Marvel do to their titles. Maybe they can somehow spin that statement into a 22 issue crossover series that restarts the Gigcast universe and comes with a nice foil embossed cover….

Oh yea, just cause you can do a thing doesn’t mean you should. I think that was the words I said when I stopped collecting books.

To get back on track. Lea was great enough to quote Our friend Mike Dean:

ST: Lastly, is there something in particular you would like the NAN Grant’s critics to consider? A parting shot, as it were?

LH: I love the self-examination of cartoonist Mike Dean in the comments section of my recent interview at Gigca: “I’ll have to admit, my first thought was much like grotesque mole-man? why should others be bathed in light as I stew in obscurity, but listening to the podcast really plunged some insight on an otherwise unknown world to me (that being the world of pro comics). While I sympathize with the initial feeling of exclusion, I have to applaud the effort as any attempt to promote egalitarian practices between men and women is a good thing”.

“I think the most exciting part of The NAN Grant is the potential fusion between profession practices and the widely amateur driven styles of web comics.”

That’s some insight we could all learn from, and it takes chutzpah to share like that. Mike also allows he gained insight. It’d be great if more people whose knee-jerk reaction to charges of sexism and inequity in comics is “everything is fine” would ask themselves, “If everything’s so awesome, why are so many people saying it’s not?”

So even though we’re now called “Gigca” it’s cool that you thought to link our little site at all.

Thanks Again

Scott (“GOD, THIS IS SHIT!”)

What I’m saying is go check out ICE and read through the archives. When your done go back and read Demonology 101 (Also by Faith) and check out the rest of her site.

http://ccawards.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=199

Well, it looks like the ceremony is running a little behind. However, here are the winner’s announced on schedule!

• Outstanding Comic
  The Perry Bible Fellowship

• Outstanding Newcomer
  Gunnerkrigg Court

• Outstanding Artist
  David Hellman (A Lesson is Learned but the Damage is Irreversible, design for OhNoRobot)

• Outstanding Black and White Art
  Digger

• Outstanding Character Art
  Ugly Hill

• Outstanding New Character Design
  Templar, Arizona

• Outstanding Environment Design
  Copper

• Outstanding Layout
  A Lesson is Learned but the Damage is Irreversible

• Outstanding Use of Color
  A Lesson is Learned but the Damage is Irreversible

• Outstanding Use of Flash
  Alpha Shade

• Outstanding Use of Infinite Canvas
  Five Ways to Love a Cockroach

• Outstanding Web Design
  Applegeeks

• Outstanding Writer
  Ryan North (Dinosaur Comics, Whispered Apologies)

• Outstanding Character Writing
  Templar, Arizona

• Outstanding Dramatic Comic
  Something Positive

• Outstanding Comedic Comic
  The Perry Bible Fellowship

• Outstanding Long Form Comic
  Inverloch

• Outstanding Short Form Comic
  The Perry Bible Fellowship

• Outstanding Single Panel Comic
  Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

• Outstanding Story Concept
  Girl Genius

• Outstanding Anthropomorphic Comic
  Digger

• Outstanding Fantasy Comic
  Order of the Stick

• Outstanding Gaming Comic
  VG Cats

• Outstanding Slice-of-Life Comic
  Devil’s Panties

• Outstanding Romantic Comic
  Questionable Content

• Outstanding Science Fiction Comic
  Nine Planets Without…
  Starslip Crisis

• Outstanding Superhero/Action Comic
  The Green Avenger

Cool Announcement Number the First . . .

I’m finally ready to start selling archival prints of the comic strip. In order for me to purchase the shipping supplies, I’m going to start the selling off with a pre-sale. Basically, I need to sell at least 6 prints in order to purchase the mailing materials. Once I have the materials I can ship the artwork. Unfortunately, the first few customers will have to be “guinea pigs” which means they’ll probably have to wait a few weeks to get their artwork.

All the artwork will be printed on glossy, 8 X 10 photo paper. I’ll ship the artwork flat and double-packaged in a mylar-bag and a cardboard mailing envelope. The archival prints will sell for FIFTEEN BUCKS! That includes shipping.

Almost all of the comic strips are available to be printed, so just e-mail me with your request. Please include the number of the comic (if possible), and/or a description of the comic strip you want to purchase. I’ll send you an invoice via PayPal for the comic strip(s) you ordered. With PayPal, you can make payments through your PayPal account, with a major credit card, or a check through your bank account.

If you have any questions, feel free to drop me an e-mail or give me a shout on the message board.

Cool Announcement Number the Second . . .

As I was drawing my comics last week, I began thinking about all the strips I have laying around in my closet that have never really seen the light of day. I’ve put a few of these strips in the message boards, but most of them are just laying in a box in my closet.

So here’s what I’m gonna do: Starting this weekend, I’m going to publish these old YHT comics every Saturday and Sunday on my website (www.yhtcomic.com ). I’ve got five complete newspaper submissions plus a bunch of strips that were never submitted to anyone accept my mom and dad. Did you know that You’ll Have That was originally about Andy and Steve in high school? It’s true, and you’ll get to see all of those strips starting this Saturday, July 15.

So be sure to stop by the website this Saturday for the first in a series of comics I like to call You’ll Have That: The Lost Episodes. I’ll publish some commentary in the blog, and you’ll see how a lot of the characters have evolved. It’ll be a great time for everyone!

You’ll Have That on Wizard Magazine’s Website . . .

Thanks to my readers, we caught the attention of Wizard Magazine! Rickey Purdin, who draws a comic strip for Wizard called Diary, has mentioned YHT in his strip as well as an awesome rendition of Andy. Go check it out ( www.wizarduniverse.com/_images_/000463/rickey-06-29-06.jpg)

Now we just have to let Wizard know we want YHT in the pages of Wizard Magazine! Keep sending your letters to magicwords@wizarduniverse.com and tell the Wizard peeps that you want to see YHT featured in a future issue of Wizard!

Double Midnight Comics Website
www.dmcomics.com

You’ll Have That Vol. 1
www.vipercomics.com/shop/shop_categories.asp?cat=9

You’ll Have That Comic Strip
www.yhtcomic.com

Thanks!

I have no idea what the song Ralph is singing comes from but I grinned through the whole thing. My 3 year old art critic of a son laughed and clapped when it was over.

Looks great Steve.

found here: http://divalea.livejournal.com/343450.html 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WOMEN WEBCOMICKER GRANT NAN

PURPOSE
In order to foster women publishing independently, with economy, and as owners of what they create, I will award FOUR grants annually, of a year’s free hosting at WebComicsNation.com, to women making a regularly-updating new or existing webcomic of any genre or style.
The recipients will have unlimited data storage and bandwidth, the ability to choose to support their work with ads, and a storefront for selling merchandise.

The name of the grant is “Nan”, after the “digital person” Nan 11 from Rumble Girls: Silky Warrior Tansie. In RG, Nan agitates, comments on, and works behind the scenes to help the heroine, Raven, come to the understanding that being her own girl is the key to her strength.

I believe the Web already has what women wanting to make comics need, and that it has and continues to transform American comics from a work-for-hire Boy’s Club to a stage for everyone to perform on and be seen. The Web is living up to its promise, and comics can, too.

DEADLINE
Submissions are now open. Deadline for submissions is FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2006, 6PM Central.ANNOUNCEMENT OF GRANTS
NAN Grant recipients will be notified WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2006, via email. A press release will be sent out concurrently. (Because, dadgum, we all need good news by Wednesday.)

ELIGIBILITY
1. Persons applying MUST be female. You will have to provide me with a document such as a driver’s license, birth certificate, military I.D., etc. stating you are female. In the case of team comics (no more than three persons on a team), the entire team MUST be female, and remain so for the period of the grant.
2. Applicants must be at least 18 years old.
3. The work submitted must be free of contractural obligation for web publication, must be the property of the applicant(s), must not infringe on other’s rights, nor be libelous or slanderous.
4. I am kindly disposed towards manga and Oni-like comics, but good comics most of all.
5. Previous experience a plus, but not neccessary.
6. The NAN Grant is open to ALL female webcomickers, regardless of experience. This includes young, brand-new comickers, older brand-new comickers, experienced comickers now paying a success tax for bandwidth use, professionals from other fields. You have to either already be making a comic that needs hosting, or want to host a new one.
7. Applicant bears sole responsibility for following these guidelines. Failure to comply with items 1.-3. will result in revocation of awarded grant.

RIGHTS
1. Applicants retain ALL rights to their work. Submissions are the sole property of their creator(s), period.
2. Comics published with a NAN Grant that are later collected for print are requested to add “Originally published in (year) on Webcomicsnation.com, with the aid of Women Webcomicker Grant Nan” to their indicia.
3. I reserve the right to use applicant’s names and representative art to publicize NAN without further compensation. (This means I will tell people who’s applied, who’s won, and point the inquiring to their work.)
4. NAN Grant recipients are encouraged to crow as soon as they recieve notification emails.

GUIDELINES
1. Ideally, BEFORE YOU SEND ME YOUR PROPOSAL, BUY or BORROW and READ “How To Write a Book Proposal” by Michael Larsen. (Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1582972516/qid=1066192984/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/103-7710080-8024610)
While it is geared towards non-fiction proposals, it does teach everything you need to know about crafting a readable proposal.
What I do not want to see is your entire story written out in a single-spaced block in email. Have mercy.

2. Show me you already know how to put a comic/images online. I want to see clean presentation (which means learning how to use an image editing program to take out grays from scans), good lettering (many decent free fonts available at blambot.com, so there’s no excuse for lettering in Times New Roman), and basic HTML (which will greatly enhance your experience in hosting with WebComicsNation.com).
Excellent proposals by Lynn Lau and Leigh Dragoon that won their creators contracts at GirlAMatic.com can be found here:

http://tentative.net/jupiter/

And here:

http://www.spidric.com/proposal/default.asp

3. Email me at nanoneone@gmail.com, subject line “NAN: (title)”, otherwise my spam filters will eat it.
To this address, send me the URL of your submission, and attach a scan of a document that verifies your gender.
Don’t tell me it isn’t your best work. If it’s not, why should I look at it?
If you do things like use “u” for “you”, “4″ for “four” and “LOL” for punctuation, don’t when you write me. I expect to see a command of conventional English. Also, sell yourself without resorting to emoticons. They’re for casual correspondence, which a proposal is not, at least not to me.

4. It’s okay to be disappointed if I feel your comic isn’t right for Nan Grant, because no one enjoys rejection. I regret I will be unable to provide detailed guidance or critiques of submitted material. I hope you will submit again.

5. I and grateful to you for submitting, no matter what my answer is.

 JT

From:

http://www.puddlejumpart.com/thehotness

We are a social community of Web Comic artists and writers sharing a space at the Baltimore ComicCon. We are also a convenient way to find some of your favorite webcomic creators all in one place.

Come on by. Feel the hotness.

Sincerely yours,

Dan Forcey

Marketing and Communications Manager

Platinum Studios, LLC.

Link to Commercial:  http://www.platinumstudios.com/Platinum_NBC_Challenge.wmv

Full Press relese Here

When you mouse over the title of a comic in a Smack Jeeves comic archive you get a small thumbnail of the comic itself. Granted it’s to small to read it in that fashion but it certainly is bit enough to get an idea of what is going on.

See an example of it on Jack Magic’s Archives

Scott

Should the Gigcast Drive-By have it’s own feed, or should we keep it on the same feed as The Gigcast?

 If we move it to it’s own Feed, it will cost 5 bucks a month. As is hosting for Nightgig and The Podcasts is running a (small but) pretty penny each month.

So.. what do ya think?

Should the Gigcast Drive-By have it’s own feed, or should we keep it on the same feed as The Gigcast?

 If we move it to it’s own Feed, it will cost 5 bucks a month. As is hosting for Nightgig and The Podcasts is running a (small but) pretty penny each month.

So.. what do ya think?

 So, yeah, the next Drive-by is on Monday.

Meanwhile, Don’t forget to check out Davepage5000.

oh.. and anyone have any ideas for a Drive-By Monday Logo?

 JT