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Webcomic Wire – 3/31/2010

DarthMike — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:51:04 +0000

Drawn from sources all over the micro-verse…

The tragedy of Calvin taking Ritalin.
Charles Lavoie makes the case that practically every New Yorker cartoon can be re-captioned with ‘Christ, what an asshole!’ without loosing the funny.
NH State Rep. Nick Levasseur, massive tool, thinks that anime is a reason that ‘two nukes just wasn’t enough.’ The incredible tool apologizes for his stupidity at least.
Comic books absolved of role in vampire hunting spree in 1954.
NYC Graphic has an interview with Jason Little.
Fleen has a post about PAX East 2010 if you’re curious about how it’s going.
Intervention webcomic convention pre-registration is open.
Platinum and ezprints launch an online store.
Sequential Tart has an interview with Anders Loves Maria creator Rene Engstrom.
WEBCOMIC SPOTLIGHT: Bottlebrush and Slick

Reported by Michael Moss.

Gigcast 173

jtpokie — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:14:29 +0000

JT and Scott Talk Webcomics. Shallow Thought form Christiana Ellis, TB-BA Spotlight from Brian Anderson.

We are joined by Kevin Hayman of Errant Apprentice.

Guest:

Links:

Twitter Bits:

Frumph @JTShea working on a Women in Webcomics pinup site for a mag and webcomic promotions

hijinksensue @JTShea all next week Im running guest comics drawn by my readers (Actuall starting Fri, then Mon and Wed)

TB-BA Spotlight:

Oh yah! Got some good one’s this week: http://www.fritzcartoons.com/

Absolutely hooked on this one. Brilliant, brilliant: http://www.2cowsandachicken…

And a plug for the awesome SF origins storyline: http://tinyurl.com/46vlah

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NightGig/Gigcast Title Theme By Beatnik Turtle

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

Hero By Night to be a TV Hero?

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:04:39 +0000

I just wanted to point you to a good interview that Jennier Contino did with DJ Coffman about the news that Hero By Nights may hit your TV Screens.

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.

Capes and Birthdays

admin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:05:17 +0000

And now a special message:

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.

Anyway, if you want to check out my strip, I can be found every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at http://www.capesnbabes.com.

If you already know about the strip and have checked me out, I appreciate the support. Hopefully, 2009 will be as fun and as exciting as 2008 was!

Thanks everybody!

-Chris

The Gigcast #160, Return of the Super Fogeys!

jtpokie — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:41:01 +0000

We interview Brock Heasley about Super Fogies and Th3rd World Studios new site designs, JT and Scott talk Webcomics, Christian Ellis Shallow Thoughts and The TB-BA Spotlight picks of the week.

GUEST

Brock Heasley
http://www.superfogeys.com

E-Mail

Nicholas Doan

Pray For Death has reached its conclusion on the Zuda website!
Thrills, chills and excitement await you at http://zudacomics.com/pray_for_death

The Night Owls Animated

Untitled Project Productions and the Timony Twins present THE NIGHT OWLS, Episode 1, an animated short based on the popular comic strip published by Zuda Comics! The Night Owls is © Peter Timony and Robert Timony is a Detective Agency set in New York City in the 1920s and specializing in cases that involve the supernatural.

http://www.zudacomics.com/the_night_owls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZX3RaFZx24

Hi, My name is Brian Wilson From the comic Geist Panik.

I recently found the gigcast through the webcomic beacon. I am currently trying to promote the new strip( I ended my other comic of three years to start it) and was looking to get a kind of professional review. I listen to the gigcast and I really dig it, and I would love to either come on the show or see what you think of the new project!

Thanks!

-Brian Wilson

www.geist-panik.com

TWITTER BITS!

BetaPwned @JTShea News: In the spirit of talk like a pirate day everyone should check out Sails of Blood at http://www.sailsofblood.com – by..Jason Brezinski, fellow Squidworks member Ozzy Longoria, Michael Nelson, and Marco A. Najera.

haikubirdie @jtshea what can i pimp now? / my love of these bubble baths/ or my bad haiku? also i’m drawing/ comics about gasstations/ for a future book

haikutwaiku @jtshea what can i pimp now? / my love of these bubble baths/ or my bad haiku?

steppek @JTShea I wanna pump technorama at http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama You can mention our Upcoming Hoover Dam tour! Damnit

TBBA Spotlight

Here’s one for this week: http://is.gd/2F96 and he has his own site at croakersgorge.com. more to come…

Another one for this week: http://www.wirepop.com/ . Don’t want to go crazy on manga but this site is worth it.

Lasy one is a bunch by the same creator. Great, great stuff: http://www.fakerockstar.com/comics/

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Congratulations Uglyhill and Bellen

admin — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:48:02 +0000

Rumor has it that today is Ugly Hills 3rd anniversary. Congratulations on an incredible 3 years and some of the best reading on the internet.

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

Webcomic Wire – 5/5/08

DarthMike — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:36:53 +0000

Drawn from sources inspired by the Maker’s Faire…

A womping 10 years of PVP! Congratulations Scott!
Tim Broderick replies to Chris Wright’s guest column on Fleen.
Webcomics collective Transplant Comics seems to be recovering well from surgery.
Red String celebrates 5 years. Congratulations Gina!
5 years of Station 3V. Congratulations Tom!
The Webcomic Overlook has a one punch review of Wayfarer’s Moon.
Comic Fencing has started with their first reviews of We The Robots.
Voting for the Eisner Awards is open.
I had the chance to meet Craig Schwartz and the other creators of Toonlet at their Maker’s Faire table on Saturday. They seem really energized about their software and had some interesting ideas about how it might be used by existing webcartoonists to enhance their forums by giving fans access to their characters so they can respond to the latest strip and to each other. Commentary through comics? Could be cool.

What’s that you say, KC Green has been SPOTTED?

admin — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:15:08 +0000

http://rumblo.keenspot.com/

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

What’s that you say, KC Green has been SPOTTED?

admin — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:15:08 +0000

http://rumblo.keenspot.com/

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

Web Cartoonist Choice Awards-2008

jtpokie — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:38:37 +0000

Happy Birthday to Ryan Estrada

admin — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:25:59 +0000

Be a good neighbor and wish Ryan a happy birthday. While your there check out his comic. That way it’s like you get a birthday treat.

Happy Birthday to Nate Piekos

admin — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:45:17 +0000

Happy birthday to Nate of Blambot and Atland fame (as well as many other things). We have an interview this week with Nate that should be up tonight or tomorrow. We just need a couple more pieces.

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

Ramón Pérez Newest Comic – Kukuburi

admin — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:39:24 +0000

I have to be honest with you. I’m writing this post mostly for myself. I need to link this page fast before I forget how I found it. Ramón Pérez of butternut squash fame has a new comic project called Kukuburi and it’s BEAUTIFUL! Kukuburi is a story about a girl (Nadia) and her lizard (Mr. Bojangles) as the find themselves suddenly in a wild and beautiful world filled with flying whales and dragons and beings of all imagination. Honestly folks it screams PLEASE LET ME TAKE YOU HOME!

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

Pinkerton on GoComics

admin — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:49:27 +0000

Incase you missed it we interviewed Mike Witmer of pinkertonpark.com. I’m here today to remind you to stop by and check him out at his newly launced GoComics site.

http://www.gocomics.com/pinkerton/

Blank Label Comics Breaks Up?

admin — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:20:22 +0000

Just a bit of interesting news out of the power house that is Blank Label. Will this mean a new talent search to fill the hits void that this will leave? Or will this mean a much less active group?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media contact:
Brad Guigar
bguigar@yahoo.com
267-207-1078

THREE CARTOONISTS LEAVE BLANK LABEL TO FORM NEW
HALFPIXEL

Three members of Blank Label Comics are ending their
partnership with Blank Label Comics to form a new
collective, Halfpixel, along with the creator of PvP
(pvponline.com), Scott Kurtz.

Dave Kellett (sheldoncomics.com), Kris Straub
(starslip.com) and Brad Guigar (evil-comic.com) will
become members of the new Halfpixel — previously a hub
for Straub and Kurtz’s joint efforts. The site will
now become a hub for all four artists and the projects
the four of them are collaborating on — such as the
popular Webcartoonist Weekly podcast and the upcoming
“How To Make Webcomics” book being published by Image
Comics.

“The four of us are finding ourselves working on more
and more projects together, and Dave, Kris and I
decided it wouldn’t be fair to try to split our
energies between the two groups,” said Guigar. “We
told our BLC partners about this a few weeks ago, and,
true to BLC form, we’re doing this without the
requisite Webcomics Drama. Those looking for sour
grapes or angry sentiments are going to be
disappointed. We’re all still very much friends and
fans of one another’s work.”

All of the artists will retain control over their
respective creations and Web sites. “In the broadest
sense, the name ‘Halfpixel’ will be what we’ll
organize under any time we do a project together,”
said Kellett. “Things like the podcast, book,
convention appearances, content for the hub site, any
joint animations or second strips we do
together…that sort of thing. Any time two or more
are gathered together for a project, we’ll probably do
it under the Halfpixel banner.”

“I started the old Halfpixel out of a desire to really
push myself creatively and see if I could come up with
the next big thing” said Straub. “That philosophy
stuck when Halfpixel became me and Scott, and it’ll be
a driver for the four of us now.”

“I think that Webcomic collectives are the new garage
bands,” said Kurtz. “Everyone plays an instrument and
you look for people to develop a sound with. We all
got together and started jamming one a week and
realized, ‘holy crap, guys… this sounds GOOD. We
should take this on the road.’”

The Webcomics Weekly podcast can be found at
halfpixel.com/ww. “How To Make Webcomics” is in the
January issue of Previews magazine (Page 143).

• My daily comic strip: http://www.evil-comic.com
• My weekly sex comic: http://www.courting-disaster.com
• My bi-weekly comic about Philly: http://www.phables.com
• My old comic strip: http://www.GreystoneInn.net
• My cartooning Web-site: http://www.everythingcartooning.com
• My online portfolio: http://www.guigar.com

So you want to be a member of Zuda

admin — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:45:17 +0000

Your interested in just what Zuda Comics is going to offer and you wonder if you have what it takes to be a member. Take a look at Comic Book Resources write up on what Zuda is leaving the gate with. I wouldn’t call these guys powerhouses in the industry but they all have talent. Sharpen your pencils guys Zuda wants to raise the bar.

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

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.

Thursday News!

admin — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:27:17 +0000

Draw Dash and WIN!

Thatâ€™sÂ right,Â theÂ contestÂ isÂ toÂ doÂ theÂ bestÂ drawingÂ ofÂ DashÂ andÂ theÂ winnerÂ getsÂ aÂ brandÂ newÂ MicrosoftÂ Zune. This particular model is the 30 gigabyte model and from personal experience, portable music players are perfect forÂ whenÂ youâ€™re drawing your comics and art. So, all you need to do to get this awesome prize is draw Dash Kameku, the star of Cosmic Dash.

So,Â howÂ exactlyÂ doesÂ theÂ contestÂ work?Â Simple!Â YouÂ justÂ drawÂ yourÂ bestÂ DashÂ KamekuÂ youÂ can.Â You can enter as many times you like with as many drawings as youâ€™d like. You can do black and white, color, 3D models, whatever you want. My favorite rendition of the character gets the Zune as well as the option of me designing a character for them and several of my original sketches for Cosmic Dash pages.

Brian Anderson Wants your art SKILLS!

I’ve got news.

I’m returning to my webcomic roots. Not that I left them, just well…wait…now I’m confused. Right, I’m launching a new webcomic January 1st and I’m looking for artists. The comic will be based on my upcoming novel “The Conjurers.” Yes, it certainly would help promote the book, but the webcomic will launch and continue on regardless of what happens with the book.

Initially it will be updated once a week and I planÂ on having at least three artists working on separate stories. If things go well with the book deal, I plan on self-funding the webcomic. In other words, my goal is to turn it into a paying gig for the artists. I haven’t put the official announcement up yet on the site, but anyone can swing by and get a feel for the world in the novel.

It’s really kind of a new approach to a webcomic. One that I’m excited about and am sure will be fun.

Cheers,
Brian Anderson
http://www.dogeatdoug.com
http://www.theconjurers.com

Comic Book Challenge Winner Announced!

admin — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:58:53 +0000

And The Winner Is! Jorge Vega and Gunplay!

SYS-CON Media has a nice write up.

“This is a dream come true for me!” Vega said. “You only see these things happen to people on TV, and I still can’t believe that Gunplay was selected. Platinum Studios and AT&T have created a tremendous contest that allows aspiring comic creators such as me the opportunity to enter this field, and I’m honored and humbled that hundreds of thousands of people globally in the comic community selected my concept from all of the amazing entries.”

Mike Wieringo has passed away

admin — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:35:14 +0000

From www.comicbookresources.com

This is some sad news. Mike Wieringo was an incredible artist. Currently his web site is down (at about 3:30 central) but when you do get a chance look through his sketches and his “How-To” articles.

The comics industry has lost one of its most respected members this weekend â€“ artist Mike Wieringo has passed away at the age of 44, according to numerous sources speaking with CBR News. Details are unclear right now, but early reports say he experienced a sudden and massive heart. Newsarama is reporting that Sunday afternoon Wieringo experienced chest pains and did call 911, but first responders were unable to reach him in time.

You can see more of his work on Deviantart as well

Crimson Dark – Changes in update schedule

admin — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:20:52 +0000

Found on Comixtalk.

From day one I have taken care to make sure that I never miss an update for Crimson Dark. It didn’t take me long to realise that this was going to become very difficult if I kept to a thrice-weekly update schedule, so i changed to twice-weekly to make sure that I wouldn’t be comprimising the quality of the comic. Since then I’ve been hoping that I might come to the point where I return to my original schedule, and I’m delighted to announce that I have reached that point (for now at least).

I’ve put in a lot of extra hours over these past few weeks and have built up such a sizable buffer that I’ve decided to put up an extra page every week until the end of Chapter 4. As well as satisfying my overwhelming desire to move the story forward, I’m hoping this will complement the story as chapter four approaches its climax and the pace quickens. Therefore expect new pages on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

When Chapter 4 ends there will be the usual week of filler, followed by chapter 5 which will return to the standard Monday/Friday schedule until I’m able to get back on top of things.

Good Luck David

Comic Book Challenge Voting!

admin — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:55:52 +0000

Get over to the comic book challenge and cast your vote for your favorite pitch.

Zack Miller releases “A Sudden Outbreak of Birds”

admin — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:34:18 +0000

Just wanted to say congratulations to Zack Miller of Joe and Monkey fame on his release of “A Sudden Outbreak of Birds“.

From Zack’s Page.

The year three Joe and Monkey collection is now on sale. That’s right! It’s on sale BEFORE the JaM year is even over. If you order now you may receive it in time to see what happens before it happens!

The book contains the entire third year of Joe and Monkey, including strips by Mitch Clem from the Battle of the Bands story arch, plus an introduction by DJ Coffman.

Zack Miller releases “A Sudden Outbreak of Birds”

admin — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:34:18 +0000

Just wanted to say congratulations to Zack Miller of Joe and Monkey fame on his release of “A Sudden Outbreak of Birds“.

From Zack’s Page.

The year three Joe and Monkey collection is now on sale. That’s right! It’s on sale BEFORE the JaM year is even over. If you order now you may receive it in time to see what happens before it happens!

The book contains the entire third year of Joe and Monkey, including strips by Mitch Clem from the Battle of the Bands story arch, plus an introduction by DJ Coffman.

Webcomic Wire

DarthMike — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:09:15 +0000

Drawn from a variety of sources all over the known universe…

Lisa Jonte at TalkAboutComics is ending her sabbatical early to return as Editor of GirlAMatic as of this Friday, July 13. Sadly sheâ€™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.

Webcomic Wire

DarthMike — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:53:58 +0000

Drawn from various sources throughout the known universe…

DC Comics enters the world of webcomics with Zuda.com. They will be accepting submissions. More info from everyone else!
PC World has a small article about more comics providing content for mobile devices. With the current generation of devices and new services to help make this happen like Clickwheel and ROK Comics, small publishers can get into the game too. The Apple Gazette has more on webcomics for mobile devices and the iPhone.
Seven Seaâ€™s â€˜Hollow Fieldsâ€™ creator Madeleine Rosca has won Japanâ€™s first ever International Manga Award. Active Anime has more.
Recently announced partnership between Valve Software and Penny Arcade will result in the popular webcomic coming to Valveâ€™s digital distribution platform Steam.
A brief post about effective fund raising by a webcomic called Exiern by Reinder Dijkhuis of the blog Waffle. Check out some of the things they do there like extra comics if donation levels are met and special wallpapers for donations rewards.
The webcomic Big Pond, founding webcomic of Bomb Shelter Comics, is coming to an end. Creator Dak will still be writing for Way of the Geek and making comics for InnerGeek as well as working on Dakamus and contributing to the Kidâ€™s Book Project.

Webcomic Wire

DarthMike — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:14:52 +0000

Here are the top stories for today…

Heidi MacDonald at The Beat is reporting that another webcomic is going to print form via Image Comics. ACT-I-VATE alumni Dean Haspiel and Michel Fiffe bring their webcomics to a 3 issue limited series entitled BRAWL coming out October 10th.
The Paranormals offer kids, or you, a way to make webcomics.
Christopher Butcher posts an interesting review of Questionable Content on his blog Comics212.
Todd Klein has launched a new site dedicated primarily to logo design and lettering.
Pixel Hero Productions has launched their new webcomics site. They’re main feature is a strip called Ouijia Band; however, they promise more to come in the near future.
ROK Comics has announced a roughly $10K (5K pounds sterling) prize for best original strip or cartoon it receives by now and the end of July. In addition the winner will be advertised under a new section of the website to be called â€˜Hot Talent.â€™

Gigcast 90 – Garbage Gnomes!

jtpokie — Thu, 17 May 2007 04:32:14 +0000

Garbage Gnomes, APE interviews from Dungbeetle Comics, and Webcomic news.

Notes to follow

Matt Boyd of MacHall and 3 panel Soul has troubles that none of us want.

admin — Fri, 04 May 2007 19:14:45 +0000

You have likely read about this on someone’s blog or forum. Matt Boyd, writer of MacHall and Three Panel Soul has lost his job due to talking about guns. Then he wrote about it (as writers will do) and now he gets a visit from his local Bureau of Criminal Investigations.

You can read the interview on Fleen and please go DIGG it.

This disturbs me on many levels.

PinkyTA hits 100 strips

admin — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:32:34 +0000

PinkyTA has reached it’s 100th page today. I want to make sureÂ we tell OzoneOcean (or Michael Morris) congratulations. Michael is a much more skilled artist then I am and deserves any praise I can lump on him. Completing 100 pages of PinkyTAÂ is no small task. His style is profesional and clean and PinkyTA has been a blast to read.

Here’s a small example of what I’m talking about. This image is clipped from his bonus art today.

So a big “Way to go Michael” from all of us.

Panel 2 Panel has News!

admin — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:03:23 +0000

Because I had to be reminded (translates to I’m kinda a dummy head) I forgot to include this news update in the latest Gigcast. Sorry Glych
Here’s a list of new things coming to Panel2Panel to cover on the Gigcast:

—

A FAQ page has been added to the site
(http://www.panel2panel.com/faq.html) where you’ll find a HUGE list of common questions we get and their answers. Questions like “Whatever happened to the original No Stereotypes?” and “Would you be willing to
collaborate on something?” There’s also a question we often get; “How do I get into the comics industry?” which is followed by a very long and thorough list of books that is an excellent jumping off point for
anyone who’s serious about making comics for a living. We feel this list is an important resource for anyone starting out.

2 new columns have joined the site. There was a vote on the forums to pick the new columnist from 2 worthy candidates, Adam Barnett and Jason Brown. Not only was the vote “so” close but their material
covered so different from each other that Glych made the executive decision to have both join. Adam Barnett, blogger for Comics Make No Sense (http://comicsmakenosense.blogspot.com/) will be covering older comics and graphic novels from the main stream with his column “The Procrastinator,” while Jason Brown will be covering independent and small press comics and graphic novels with his column “Shoegazing.” Jason’s been published in many gaming magazines in the UK which, with his addition, officially makes P2P, not only international, but
intercontinental.

—

I am officially a horrid news reported. Good think Tim doesn’t pay me.

Scott

Planet Karen turns 1 year old

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:00:17 +0000

http://planetkaren.girl-wonder.org/

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.

Get Free Hero Gram Artwork.

admin — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:38:18 +0000

I got a HERO GRAM in my email and thought I would share it with you.

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!

I don’t have five friends so If you do go and post, toss in that you heard it from http://www.thegigcast.com If we get anything we’ll use it as a give away for you guys being so damn cool.

WikiWhat?

admin — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:19:30 +0000

I’ll keep it short because I know most of you today are here for the Wiz Rollins interview.

I have happily stayed on the sidelines when it comes to Wikipedia. I think it’s a great idea that is doomed to fail. If your like me you believe that too many cooks spoil the brew. That’s exactly what is going on right now on Wikipedia as it applies to webcomics. What we (I’m including everyone involved in webcomics) are finding is that what we believe to be notable and to have worth is being removed from the mix. It’s like being the guy who wants pineapple on a pizza and everyone else keeps picking it off.

I’m not encouraging anyone to take up the torch and run screaming into the fight. What I would like you to do is go read through the deletion article for Ugly Hill. If your not familiar with Ugly Hill you need to add it to your daily reads. It’s everything a webcomic needs to be. It’s most certainly notable and it’s of a quality that everyone should reach for. It’s honestly one of the strips that I would compare others against. That’s what makes it all the more odd that there’s even the idea that it should be removed from Wikipedia.

I think this is a great example of how to go down fighting. It’s stinks of someone feeling that if their Masters Thesis isn’t good enough then damn it funny comics should be good enough either. Wikipedia is serious business people not a bunch of haha’s. Blow it out your hole wikipedia. Millions of people a day read webcomics. how is that not notable.

This Great Image that you can find on Ugly Hills page sums it all up.

Scott

The Web Cartoonist Choice Awards Nominations

admin — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:19:46 +0000

Have you been paying attention.

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.

Not your cookie cutter Superhero

admin — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:29:22 +0000

I had the great pleasure of stopping in my local comic shop. Sadly I didn’t spend as much money as I have in the past. I don’t get in as often as I used to and my subscriptions have ran out or the books I had been getting have been canceled or turned to crap. There was a couple of happy moments where I jumped up and down and acted like a dork. I picked up issue #2 of The Imaginaries and The Devils Panties 7 & 8.

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.

2007 Web Cartoonist’s Choice Awards!

admin — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:02:53 +0000

Just a note that the nomination rounds of the 2007 Web Cartoonist’s Choice Awards begins on Jan 8th and not today. They had a little technical issue.
If your involved with webcomics it’s time to give back. Use some of your time to take a look at the list of catagories and remember to nominate the comics that you love or just respect.

2007 Web Cartoonist’s Choice Awards!

admin — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:02:53 +0000

Things Found on Comicspace

admin — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:14:45 +0000

Broken Voice Comics

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.

Have you been reading Sam and Max?

admin — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:39:55 +0000

Have you been reading Sam and Max? Neither was I until I spotted a post on Comixpedia that talked about it’s “interactive” format. I am completely sold on it. I’m not always interested in comics who innovate as much as I am comics that put out solid art day after day. This struck me as a obvious blend of Internet meets great art. The whole idea being is that as you mouse over each panel the word bubbles pop up. Each panel is a little surprise I guess. What I found to be the best part is that you get to see how beautiful each panel looks without the speech bubbles in it.

I’m hoping more people have time to do this. I know it may be a ton of extra work for some and a big learning curve for others. The art whore in me loves this though so it has my vote.

PVP Animated – HOLY CRAP!

admin — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:12:28 +0000

I’ve been on vacation and part of it has been avoiding the computer. Tonight though I saw a Comixpedia artical that linked to a Fleen write-up that mentioned a Blamination thingy. You can also go to PVP yourself and read the news. Ok jumping to the meat of the thing.

Oh and a tip of the hat to Scott Kurtz, Kris Straub (who also has a new site www.halfpixel.com) & Blindferret.com Nice job.

The Web Comic Secret Santa

admin — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 05:00:29 +0000

You may not still believe in Santa but you can hook yourself up with a few new friends. Sign up for this years Web Comic Secret Santa over at http://www.taoofgeek.com/ss/

While your there check out the list of who’s joined in before.

and take a look at the deadbeats (my favorite part)

Sheldon is Moving

admin — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:24:08 +0000

From the frontpage of Blank Label Comics

A little known secret of mine is that I really like the comic Sheldon. I don’t read it as often as I would like because I don’t like how comics.com treats my computer. I’m really just not a fan of comics.com honestly. The comics.com site feels like reading ebay ads. So when I read that on tuesday November 7th Sheldon was moving to www.sheldoncomics.com I did a little happy dance. Sheldon honestly on my top list of comics I would ad to my daily paper or daily news site if I was running one. Here is the news as Dave Kellett wrote it. Don’t forget you can read and comment on this news at Blank Labels site.

Sheldon Is Moving!

A heads-up for Sheldon readers…on Tuesday, Nov. 7th, I’ll be moving the strip to a new site at http://www.sheldoncomics.com.

The new site will feature:
- Free access to 5+ years of Sheldon strip archives
- Larger-sized Sunday and daily comics
- Faster loading times
- Free daily delivery of Sheldon by e-mail
- Free RSS feed
- Free “Send This Strip to a Friend” feature
- “Jump to a Random Strip” feature
- No pop-up/pop-under ads
- Daily blog
- Direct links to the forum, store, and more
- … basically, everything the strip didn’t have at comics.com

But here’s my one request: please help get the word out about the new URL: http://www.sheldoncomics.com. The majority of Sheldon readers currently get the strip via “comics.com/comics/sheldon”, or via United Media’s e-mail delivery. And when the strip moves, these readers won’t have any way of know where the strip went to (I tried putting a notice in the strip…it got edited out).

So it’s up to me to get the word out. And you, if you’re willing.

Please, spread the news. And I’ll see you November 7th at the new site!

With thanks,
Dave Kellett

Good Luck Dave!

Hero By Night Diaries

admin — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:48:06 +0000

DJ Coffman announced today that Hero By Night Diaries has gone to M-F update schedule. DJ Coffman only recently launched Hero By Night Diaries on Drunk Duck and put his other comic Yirmumah on a (hell I don’t know what kind of schedule) schedule (on a side note DJ is looking for Guest strips for Yirmumah).

Hero By Night Diaries seems to have gotten a warm welcome and in my opinion looks sharp.

DJ says “I’m excited to be able to flesh out the world of the original Hero By Night via his journals. This is a whole new way of telling a story for me, and I look forward to not just creating a static comic strip, but a world the readers can get immersed in, or dig as deep as they’d like with clues or plots within many of the installments. Over time, I think it will be great when say for example, strip # 50 features something mentioned briefly in a prior strip, and will be a nice payoff for readers that are really paying “.

HBN Diaries is a companion piece to his upcoming comic Hero By Night that will be published by Platinum Studios.

Slingshot the Girl to the UK…

jtpokie — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 23:34:21 +0000

Hello this is a long time listener to the podcast, but first time emailer.

You know Danielle Corsetto of Girls with Slingshots and Batboy, right?

Well, Danielle is trying to go the Birmingham International Comic Show, but she’s not really sure she can pay for the tickets there…

Yeah, her house hasn’t burned down, and she didn’t have a baby, but still…

She’ll be selling a lot of her artwork among other things at Ebay, so a
small mention would be appreciated. Uh.. please?

While you’re at the page, check out the dancing cactii, courtesy of…
well, me!

Anyway, I always come to your show to be informed of what is going on in
the webcomic world, so I thought it would be a could idea to inform you
of this, I hope I’m not burdening you or anything…

Dr.McNinja, 1st year Anniversary Comic

jtpokie — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:29:40 +0000

I had to link to this… I just had to.

I love you Dr.McNinja.

Cowboys and Aliens launches on Drunkduck / World does not end.

admin — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:48:31 +0000

Now there was some grumbling that big shot comic stars would be overshadowing the little guys on Drunkduck. With tonight’s launch of Cowboys and Aliens I was expecting a big POW on the front page of DD. Instead I kinda had to go looking for it. I’m a little surprised but not unhappy to see that life didn’t change much now that Cowboys and Aliens is up. It’s business as usual (if you ignore the forum grumbling).

Seeing as how the earth didn’t stop spinning lets take a first look at Cowboys and Aliens.

At first glance you will notice a very wanted poster style theme. A few small spots where the menu background and the main items don’t look perfect but I’m nitpicking a little, it’s every bit the movie poster I would expect out of a professional book. I will stop you here and remind you that you should check out the trailer. The sound effects really bring it to life.

Here’s a little story background for you that I borrowed from the site.

Cowboys & Aliens was created by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg and written by Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley, both highly respected comics writers. Luciano Lima, whose worked on everything from Wolverine and X-Force to The Mask, did pencils. Inks were done by the team from Magic Eye Studios, who have worked on comics projects like Street Fighter and Stargate, as well as classics like Donald Duck and Kim Possible. The colour (he likes it spelled that way) was done by Andy Elder whose worked on Warhead and Testament. You can find out more about all these folks on their bios page.

Cowboys & Aliens is an alternate history concept. A “what if” story that moves the battle of the Old West from between the Cowboys and Indians to a new invader, one requiring the once battling Cowboys and Indians to team up if they are to have even a hope of surviving.

On a side note Here there be robots is in their recommended list.

I just clicked on the story and I’m loving the look of it so far. I recommend you start from the beginning. I have a bad habit of reading things from latest to first. The story so far draw parallels between early European settlers treatment of native Americans and an alien race that looks to have forcefully resettled another alien race.

That’s all I have so far. I recomend you check out Cowboys and Aliens. If you spot something I missed about it please point it out.

DrunkDuck.com Sale goes Public!

jtpokie — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 05:12:54 +0000

From the New York Times…

September 25, 2006

For One Publisher, the Life of Every Comic Book Starts on the Web

By MICHEL MARRIOTT

For generations of Americans, comic books were the first real page-turners. But the audience for their digital counterpart, called Webcomics, has for the most part been limited to a niche group of comic book creators and their most ardent followers.

Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, the chairman of Platinum Studios, a privately held California entertainment company that develops and adapts comics for other media, wants to change that.

Platinum, a relative newcomer in an industry dominated by Marvel and DC Comics, took the first step last month when it bought DrunkDuck.com, a popular Webcomics site, for an undisclosed sum. It is opening the revamped site today at the same Web address as DrunkDuck 2.0.

Read The rest Here…
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/technology/25comics.html?_r=2&oref=login&oref=slogin

We’ll Get Dylan on The Gigcast Asap.

Scott Edits:

Some interesting links for those of you who are internet blind

The Beat (who I had not heard of before but I doubt they have heard of the gigcast either) has a good discussion going on about Platnium and this new move. Sort of a guessing if it will / won’t it discussion.
Talk about comics does a bit of well wishing.
Cowboys and Aliens now sports a Drunk Duck logo.
Last but never least Drunk Ducks own Dylan speaks up.

Lastly I want to add my congratulations to Dylan and Platnium. I think this is a cool move. I also want to congratulate all you DD members who made Drunk Duck what it is. Without you Drunk Duck would have faded but you guys keep the fires hot.

One late entry PVPonline has a thought on the sale.

and DJ Coffman will likely be seeing his Hero By Night comic hosted on Drunk Duck.

Viper Comics is looking for new Webcomics

admin — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:44:51 +0000

http://www.vipercomics.com/

Found this over at Boxcar Comics but I thought I would let you check it out.

Viper Comics is Looking for a Brand New Webcomic

September 19, 2006 – Viper Comics has announced they will now be accepting open submissions for a webcomic to join the company’s existing strips You’ll Have That and The Horrible Pirates.

“Viper is always on the lookout for the newest talent in comics and hopefully this opportunity will allow us to showcase a great unknown to a world-wide audience,” said Viper President Jessie Garza.

Creators will need to provide sample pages/strips of their webcomic (with finished art) and a full pitch regarding the characters and content. Only submissions from complete creative teams will be accepted. All submissions should be sent to info@vipercomics.com .

The chosen webcomic will launch on the Viper Comics website alongside Viper’s You’ll Have That by Wes Molebash and The Horrible Pirates by Patrick Bussey.

You’ll Have That is a comic-strip about a young married couple updated every weekday. It has received one print collection with a second due in December.

The Horrible Pirates launched in late 2005 and has since been thrilling readers with the adventures of the world’s nastiest pirate crew and their evil monkey rivals. A print collection of the weekly comic is expected for 2007.

Help out Paul Taylor of Wapsi Square

admin — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:57:51 +0000

Wapsi Square is on my top ten favorite webcomic. Plus Paul Taylor and his family are living in Minnesota so they get extra points with me. Paul’s family can use a little help right now and at the same time you can get your hands on some great art. If nothing else please take a moment to look over what’s up for auction and pass the word.

Thank You

http://www.blanklabelcomics.com/?p=92

Taken from the Blank Lable News and repeted here to help get the word out:

Blank Label Comics is announcing a fund-raiser for BLC member Paul Taylor. Paul’s first child was born a month prematurely on Aug. 18, and he has required an extended hospital stay. Paul and his wife have been through quite an ordeal — which continues to this day.

Extended hospital stays turn into extended hospital bills, so we’d like to help our friend. Several BLC members and friends are auctioning off original art and other amazing items over the next two weeks. The money made from these auctions will be donated directly to Paul Taylor and his family.

A full list of auction items appears below. All list items will be linked to the auctions as they go live. Some items may be added to the list as the next two weeks progress, so check back often.

Finally, if you’re not interested in an auction item but would still like to help, feel free to go to http://www.wapsisquare.com and make a donation directly to Paul through his PayPal donation button which appears under the comic on the left-hand side of the screen (look for Monica wearing a “SUPPORT WAPSI” T-shirt.

Auction items:

Ugly Hill original art, by Paul Southworth

Sheldon original art, by Dave Kellett

Melonpool original art by Steve Troop

Original PVP cover art by Scott Kurtz

Shortpacked! original art by David Willis

Numbered sketch edition of Schlock Mercenary: Under New Management by Howard Tayler

Original Checkerboard Nightmare art by Kris Straub

Evil Inc original art, matted and framed, by Brad Guigar

Wapsi Square original art, Golem Girls, by Paul Taylor

Wapsi Square original art, Katherine Gilchrist, by Paul Taylor

Wapsi Square original sketch, Monica, by Paul Taylor

Wapsi Square original art, Shelly with guitar, by Paul Taylor

Wapsi Square original art, Shelly finds hope, by Paul Taylor

Wapsi Square original art, Shelly and Monica jogging, by Paul Taylor

Lea Hernandez Update… Live CAPE Art Show.

jtpokie — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:24:31 +0000

From Richard Neal:

Lea Hernandez is a dear friend and huge supporter of my endeavors in the comic business with Zeus and CAPE.I’ve spoken with CAPE hosts Scott Kurtz of PVP and Scott Hinze of Fanboy Radio and I just got Lea’s approval.

We’re doing a live art show benefitting Lea Hernandez and family.

Its CAPE 2.5
Saturday September 30th
Metro Grill
4425 North Central Expressway
Dallas, TX 75205
(214) 261-6000
9pm-?
No cover.

Come art the night away.

There are still immediate needs so please still donate to paypal.

At a month away I hope the benefit will be secondary needs like art supplies. Plus we’ll get Lea here for a little live art therapy.

All proceedes from the artsale (yes, we’re selling the art) go straight to Lea to help her family recover.

So, we’re having a live art show, Lea will be up to join us. So far, we’ve got Lea Hernandez, Scott Kurtz, James O’Barr, Kristian Donaldson, Brock Rizy, TJ Colligan, and Ben Hall, all agreed to rock hard core artbomb. If anyone is interrested in participating, please let us know, and spread the word, all are welcome. The more artists the better (if you’re interrested in participating, please let Richard or me know), and bring your wallets to buy some of this great one of a kind art and to help Lea through this tough time.

If you missed the artshow after CAPE this year, don’t miss this, it’s gonna be even better.

–
Sean Jackson
http://gilada.textamerica.com

Can’t be there?

Donate (PLEASE) to her paypal account at: divalea@gmail.com

Zortic – Words of Wisdom

admin — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:47:44 +0000

Now it’s not a secret that we at the Gigcast think Mark Mekkes is a nice guy. Today I was a bit suprised at how sneaky he can be. Marks comic Zortic could be described as a wacky romp through space and watch out for falling parody. A few days ago Mark posted a comic that not only fit in well with his story line but for me personally hit home. Reading this strip I had the thought that maybe more of us need to hold up that sign.

Nice job mark. You made me think and it’s to damn early in the morning to think.

Digital Strips one ups the Gigcast

admin — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:04:38 +0000

DAMNIT!

I knew we needed to bring a video camera to Megacon. Just Kidding (OK maybe next year). I should have linked this much earlier but you need to check out the Digital Strips Video interview with Jennie Breeden of Devils Panties fame.

http://www.digitalstrips.com/2006/08/interview-with-jennie-breeden.html

I watched hypnotically through both part one and part two. They cover (as usual) a ton of good ground talking about the how-to’s's of surviving as webcomic artist. When your done watching it you can hop over to Jennies forums and tell her how much that camera loves her. Seriously it was a good interview.

The Gigcast. Year One.

jtpokie — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:36:08 +0000

Hey Folks,

I don’t know if any of you have been counting, but this weeks Gigcast is # 50. Meaning that in 2 weeks we are at the one year mark.

One year.

Actually this week, while numbered 50 is actually the 52nd Gigcast and the 52nd week , BUT the first Gigcast was released on Aug 20 2005, so… Fuzzy math hurts my head. That blows me away. Really. Who would have thought it?

The reason I bring it up is I’d like to thank you who listen, comment and subscribe to the feed. It really makes it worth the time and effort when I see the #’s and get the feedback.

We’ve met some great people, read some great comics, and saw some amazing artwork over our first year, and have no plans to stop, and only hope it continues to grow and get better.

We’ll be doing a “Year One Recap” show next week, so if you want to send us an e-mail or mp3 file for the show, that would be great. Anyway, Thanks for an interesting year!

Spotted Talismen

admin — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:25:42 +0000

Sounds like a charm to ward off chickenpox.

I want to send out a HUGE congratulations to Barb Jacobs and Steve Jones of Talismen on joining the KeenSpot group. Talismen is a great comic that we have gushed on and on about in the gigcast before.

Chris Crosby made the announcement today over at Comixpedia.

Good Luck Barb and Steve!

Transplant Comics looking for Pin-Ups.

jtpokie — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:58:19 +0000

We here at Transplant are putting together an anthology. It will have a loose horror theme, and be a full color 6×9 inch book. Several of our members are involved and are writing an exclusive 3-10 page story for it. With us all being divas, we are all insisting that our stories start on a right hand page.

Which is were you come in.

We need an undetermined amount of pin-up artwork to use as filler, so everyone can start on the same side of the book.

The prize? You get your picture published in our book, if we decide to use it.

The deadline? Arbitrarily, August 31st.

How to enter: Post an image in this thread, or e-mail your image to the Admin. By enetering the contest, you are giving us the one time right to publish your work in our Transplanthology. We will not use your image for any other reason, or alter it in any way.

Things to remeber: Your image should go along with the loose horror theme. This is a wildly interpretable subject, though, so you shouldn’t have any problems.

Who wants to be a Rocket Pirate?

jtpokie — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:16:37 +0000

BAD SIGNAL
warren ellis
Who wants to be a Rocket Pirate?

Joey Manley talked me into curating a mass webcomics site. I’ve known
Joey for getting on for six years now. It’s partly my fault that he
got involved with comics at all. I suspect this is his revenge.

People who want to make webcomics are invited to submit their ideas
to me for membership in the Rocket Pirates, a webcomics collective
which will be housed at http://www.rocketpirates.com.

Rocket Pirates will be the first site to launch with the new Webcomics
Nation Collective Edition technology, which will be available as a
commercial product for people wanting to quickly and cheaply launch their
own
multi-creator webcomics portals sometime in the next few months. Because
we’re all about being quick and cheap, believe me.

Rocket Pirates will be free to all readers, all the time. This means,
of course, that there is no cut of subscription fees to offer to
creators. Instead, the system allows each creator the freedom to
install Google Ads, Amazon Associates ads, ads for their own products,
rate cards for prostitution services or any other damn thing on
their comic’s Rocket Pirates page. Also, since we’re not paying, all
Rocket Pirates engagements are on a non-exclusive basis, allowing
the creators to run their comics on their own websites or any other
place that’ll have them.

The non-subscription approach means that I’m also doing this for free,
so anyone who wants to send food and clothing c/o Joey Manley at
Modern Tales is welcome to do so. I also offer inexpensive adult
services.

The submissions system is simply this: email your materials to me
at warrenellis@gmail.com. I want to see at least three completed
pages and an overview of what you intend to do. No need to be
formal — rambly emails talking about the central concepts and what
you want to achieve are fine.

I’m open to anything — series, serialised graphic novels, single
panels, self-contained shorts, newspaper-style strips — in any
style, from manga to clipart to whatever the hell you just invented
in your basement. No limits.

I’m open to any kind of content. You’re going to have to work pretty
hard to get me to accept a superhero project for the site, but if you’ve
got something that knocks me flat, I’ll take it. But, seriously, I
want to eventually curate something that takes in a wide breadth of
what comics can achieve. Surprise me. Give me something straight out
of literary mainstream fiction, give me a warped genre, give me something
I’ve never seen before. That’s the “theme” of the site, the glue that
holds it together. It is quite simply “stuff Warren really likes.”

The submissions process is open to everybody. I don’t care if you
only decided you wanted to try and make a comic ten minutes ago –
I’ll look at it. I’ll warn you in advance that the chances of my
being able to provide detailed and constructive rejections are slight,
but I’ll do my best.

(Also, if the site turns out to be all-male because only guys
submitted, I’m going to be very pissed off, and will infect you all
with this lung disease my girlfriend seems to have passed to me
over the weekend.)

I’d like to be up and running by the end of the month, but I won’t
kick the site live until I have enough work of quality. The submissions
process will remain permanently open. Unless, you know, I change my
mind. I am unpredictable and I drink a lot.

That’s all I’ve got. Please feel free to pass this unedited post on
anywhere you like.

– Warren Ellis

Sequential Tart interviews Lea Hernandez

admin — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:57:56 +0000

While Sequential Tart isn’t one of my daily reads I do enjoy reading some of their interviews. So today when checking hit logs I noticed that we had been linked from ST. It was good to see Lea out there spreading the word about the NAN Grant. I even laughed a bit as I read her comment of “GOD, THIS IS SHIT!”. I could almost hear her say it in the back of my head.

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!”)

Back From Vacation Gigcast #48

jtpokie — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:03:44 +0000

News , news and more News. Scott and I talk about NightGig news (new banner software, and various studio news), The demise of UTurnCS.com, DJ Coffman’s Win, and a bunch of other stuff. Then BK and Robin report on DrunkDuck and ComicGenesis News, and Finally we play the latest Jonathan Coulton Song, “Creepy Doll”.

KC Green Newsletter

Drunk Duck News

Mafital reached 300th strip:
http://www.drunkduck.com/Mafital

Two Moons reached 200th strip:
http://www.drunkduck.com/TwoMoons

Jenshin published an artbook called Salty Sky. Interested? Check out her personal page:
http://www.randomisgod.com/artbook.html

Interested in freelance illustration job?
http://www.drunkduck.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3731

Radec looking to trade guest comics:
http://www.drunkduck.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3556

Contest! Grand prize: Custom plushie of whatever character you like.
http://www.drunkduck.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3833

Current comic review is of The Planet Closest to Heaven:
http://www.drunkduck.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3834

Comic Genesis News

Darken http://www.darkencomic.com/
and
Sorcery 101 http://sorcery101.comicgenesis.com/
have been Keenspotted!

Go For It is starting again.
http://goforit.comicgen.com/

Blackaby is looking for potential illustraters for
childrens books published by the company she works
for. Check out Off Topic to find out more.

Godlike has passed 500 pages.
http://godlike.comicgenesis.com/

Playing with knives- 100 strips.
http://pwk.comicgenesis.com/

Reasoned Cognition is three
http://www.reasonedcognition.com/

For meetups, there’s talk of people getting together
at Dragoncon.

DJ Coffman Wins The Comic Book Challenge

admin — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:17:58 +0000

As reported by.. well everyone DJ Coffman of the Comic Yirmumah has won The Comic Book Challenge sponsored by Platinum Studios and the local NBC station in San Diego.

“I think I saw the press release on THE PULSE,” Coffman said of the contest. “I entered on a whim. I had the superhero idea for Hero By Night in the back of my head and figured that might be what they were looking for. I didn’t think I’d get picked. I found out I was a finalist last Wednesday night and had seven days to get out to the San Diego Comic-Con. I spent all my savings to get out to San Diego Comic-Con.”

JENNIFER M. CONTINO at Comicon.com has a nice write up.

DJ’s reaction can be found HERE.

Drive-by 12 Owly reviewed by Black Kitty

jtpokie — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:41:37 +0000

Black Kitty reviews one of the Owly graphic novels by Andy Runton http://www.andyrunton.com

ICE: a really good online comic

admin — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:47:46 +0000

ICE is done by Faith Erin Hicks. In her words “It’s a dark story of life in a future England, where temperatures never rise above zero and the monarchy is up to no good“. ICE had been on Modern Tales and saddly I kept missing the updates, but that’s all taken care of, Faith has made her archives available for everyone. I previously haven’t kept up with it and I’m not going to blame modern tales or similar sites about their methods. I think they have a good idea. Hell I think they have a great idea where you subscribe to get the archives. I think they need to go further with it and bind up the archives and sell them once a year. I also think they may have been a little ahead of their time. I think that model can work now with as popular as iTunes and similar rss feeds are now. Sorry I got side tracked. ICE is really well written and the story is packed FULL of every thing that makes a good drama. It’s got love, and new addictions, It has bad guys with moral quirks. I like to think of it as having flavor. More then that ICE is consistant the art is great with a prisma color marker look (remind me to ask her how she colors) and the story full and could stand on its own.

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.

YHT News!

admin — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:04:49 +0000

Wes Molebash over at YHTComic was kind enough to drop us an email with his news announcements. This fits right in with our Gigcast motto of “Make the guest do your work and take all the credit”. Thanks Wes!

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!

YHT Book Signing.

admin — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:07:02 +0000

I just wanted to let you guys know that Wes Molebash will be signing copies of his book, You’ll Have That Vol. 1, at Double Midnight Comics in Manchester, New Hampshire on Saturday, July 8th from 12:30 PM to 4:30 PM. The crew at DM Comics will also be celebrating the store’s anniversary with a huge back-issue sale, various sales on all other merchandise, special gaming tournaments and surprises, and hot dogs and cake at lunch time. He’ll be signing, sketching, and offering free high fives to anyone who asks.

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!

Here There be Gigcast #43

jtpokie — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:42:22 +0000

Argh, Set sail for adventure with the creator/writer of Here There be Robots , Jonah Gregorey. Also, webcomic news with reports from Black Kitty and Robin, and Music from Jim’s Big Ego with introduction by Chuck Rowles.

Drunk Duck News

The web Cartoonist Choice Awards
http://ccawards.com/

Talisman: Return of the Exile
http://www.drunkduck.com/Return_of_the_Exile
Gunnerkrig Court:
http://www.drunkduck.com/Gunnerkrigg_Court

DrunkDuck Awards discussion
http://www.drunkduck.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3196&start=0

Myxomatosis’ The B-Side: A Music Comic
http://www.drunkduck.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3190

Murphy’s free for all fight comic community jam
http://www.drunkduck.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3240

The Quack
http://www.quackzine.com
Batman Collaboration comic
http://www.drunkduck.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1310&start=0

DrunkDuck review: Unfair is Unfair
http://www.drunkduck.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3253

DDRSENSEI looking for artists/designers/colorists/etc
http://www.drunkduck.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3276

NBC’s The Comic Book Challenge
http://www.comicbookchallenge.com

Comic Genesis News

http://www.cortlandcomic.com/ Cortland is droping out of the Daily Grind Ironman Challenge and going on hiatus until Labor Day, which is September 4. After this it will likely contine on a Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule.

http://grimtidings.comicgen.comMany Tidings Grim reached 100 strips on June 15, so congrats to Corgan for hanging in there!

http://forums.comicgenesis.com/viewtopic.php?t=74748 KeenSwim has begun again! Behold our excuse to draw scantily clad characters in all its glory!

A very special contrats to the CGers nominated for the Cartoonist’s Choice Awards! These include-
834n of http://paralleldementia.comicgenesis.com/ Parallel Dementia
M2 of http://junkriot.comicgen.com/ junkRiot
Abby of The Green Avenger – http://www.green-avenger.com/
Xmung of http://www.graphicsmash.com/series.php?name=magellan&view=current Magellen

Also, congrats to Pimpette on graduating!

Life the Universe and The Gigcast #42

jtpokie — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 03:34:25 +0000

I lied… new fixed fully functional Gigcast has been uploaded.

(Seems there was a problem with uploading the file and 1/2 the song, the report about the Toronto ComicGen meet-up and the ending was cut out. Instead of re uploading and messing with the feed, I’ll put out the Comic Gen report in the next Drive-by.

Thanks for understanding,

JT)

Um Yeah.. it is apparent from this mess of a show that Scott and I don’t have the answer, but who cares. Webcomic news, Hitchhikers Guide talk, we sort of discuss the WCC Award nominees (more next show) and a report about the ComicGen meet up at the upcoming Toronto Comic Convention.

Drunk Duck

Whirlwynd:

I’m starting a radio play of my comic 20 Galaxies, and I’m holding
auditions. Auditioning information is posted to the forums,
specifically here -
http://whirlwynd.proboards27.com/index.cgi?board=20gradioplay

Batman Colab
http://www.drunkduck.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1310

http://www.drunkduck.com/Batman_Collab/

Comic Genesis News-

Angry D Monkey is celebrating 250 strips.

A.N.Twill be 2 years old on June 20 and Ida, the author, is looking for fanart.

Christwriter of Blue Skunk is taking a break and is looking for guest art.

The comic Ninja John is looking for guest art for a two week hiatus.

Toy Devision is starting up again after a hiatus.

www.hobbystar.com

www.comicgenesis.com

http://forums.comicgenesis.com/viewtopic.php?t=72763&start=0

www.toronto.ca

Smack Jeeves rolls out a cool new archive feature

admin — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:42:21 +0000

Over at Smack Jeeves they have come up with what I think is a great feature for anyone who wants to quickly skim over a comic and get a feel of it before you dig in and read it.

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

Y? Posts a preview of Part 4 And Drunk Duck has Fusion

admin — Wed, 31 May 2006 12:25:47 +0000

Chewdy of the webcomic Y? has posted a 1 page preview from part 4 titled “Fire with Fire”. As always Chewdy does great work with a small color pallet. Although he says the next chapter is taking longer then expected I’m betting it will be worth the wait. Here is a bit of what he says.

The time between Parts 3 and 4 is taking a lot longer than I was expecting. Mostly because of various life complications popping up, so I suppose I should be glad that there’s a break in the comic at the moment. But still, I yearn to be doing pages again. That’s the bad news, as well as the fact that there’s probably still another couple weeks before Part 4 starts up.

The good news is half of the script for Part 4 is now done, and I’ve worked out a format for it and title and things like that.…

You can read the rest of it on the official Y? site. Don’t forget that Chewdy has a Live Journal site that you can sign up for.

While I have your attention…It was pointed out to me that over on the DurnkDuck forums Tyrapendragon is organizing a Fusion comic and is still looking for participants so if you’re looking for something fun to do, go sign up! Click on that link above to do so!

For those of you who are unfamiliar with what a fusion comic is, it’s basically a fun community project where you draw one panel then pass it on to the next person who then draw a panel based on the one you drew and pass it on. The results are usually fun, a bit wacky and unexpected. Thanks BK for pointing that out.

Wes Molebash at ACME Comics June 3rd

admin — Mon, 29 May 2006 19:28:46 +0000

I recieved a email / press release from Wes Molebash of You’ll Have That.

My first comic book signing of the year will be this coming Saturday, June 3rd! The signing will be at ACME Comics which is located at 94 W. Water St in downtown Chillicothe, OH. The shop is normally open until 6 PM, but this Saturday they’re gonna stay open an extra two hours! I’ll be signing books and drawing sketches from 4 PM to 8 PM!

But here’s the real kicker – we’re giving the entire stack of You’ll Have That Vol. 1 away FOR FREE! On top of that we’ll be giving away YHT posters and button sets FOR FREE! How can you go wrong? You don’t have to spend a dime this Saturday! Just stop by the store, give me a shout, and I’ll hand you a book, a poster, and some buttons! I’ll even whip up a little sketchy sketch for you!

We’ll be offering the books, posters, and buttons for free while supplies last! So make sure to get there early, because when they’re gone they’re gone. When ACME orders a new supply of books they’ll charge the full price ($4.95), so no rain checks.

Hope some of you get a chance to stop in and visit with Wes. Don’t forget that you can listen to our interview with Wes HERE.

Zortic goes on the Keencast Episode 14

admin — Tue, 16 May 2006 14:35:35 +0000

Friends of the Gigcast Mark Mekkes and Steve Troop drop in over at the Keencast. Take a moment and download Episode 14 of the Keencast and support two of our favorite Gigcast Alumni.

Elf `n Troll #4 “Temple of the Dwarf”

jtpokie — Tue, 16 May 2006 12:18:01 +0000

Hey Guys,

I’m in hype mode so I thought I’d share.

Elf `n Troll #4 “Temple of the Dwarf” has begun serializing online over
at 01Comics.
The adventure grows a bit darker as Perri the Elf has gone missing and
Angus steps in to the Silent Wood to hunt for his missing friend. During
his search, Angus happens upon an ancient Dwarf temple where something
sinister is lurking within.
Elf `n Troll is updated every Monday and Wednesday at 01Comics.com
Full Color print editions are also available at Indy Planet.
Also.The Elf `n Troll forum has officially opened and I hope you all
stop by and let me have it!

Elf `n Troll #4 “Temple of the Dwarf”

jtpokie — Tue, 16 May 2006 12:18:01 +0000

Hey Guys,

I’m in hype mode so I thought I’d share.

Please Rewind Relaunch Blockbuster Summer Contest.

jtpokie — Tue, 16 May 2006 11:37:23 +0000

To celebrate the summer movie season and the relaunch of Please Rewind, we
are holding a contest where you can score some major time watching movies!

To enter, simply create a guest strip and submit it before June 30, 2006.
A grand prize winner will be chosen from all the entries to receive our
grand prize pack which includes:

- A $50.00 gift card for Blockbuster Video
- $50.00 in Fandango Bucks for movie ticket site Fandango

That’s $100.00 of pure movie bliss to spend this summer and all just for
creating a guest comic for a strip you love to read anyway. So be sure to
get your entry in as soon as possible for your chance to win!

Details can be found at http://www.pleaserewind.com/contest.php