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 Gigcast Drive-by 14: Station, a review. [8:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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 Video Troop: The Gigcast #50: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

As you can see, Mayberry enjoys keeping up with NightGig..

and so should You!

Steve Troop on his Vid-Cast Puppetry and Web comic news from NightGig and around the Web,

and The latest song from Jonathan Coulton!

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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!

JT

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Well damn.

Drive by will be up early this afternoon. Amazing how a sick 4 year old can thow off you weekend schedule…  that and the kids start school Tuesday, and my boy turns 5 on Thursday… So much to do…

Maybe next Monday it is then.  Subscribe to the rss feed http://gigcast.libsyn.com/rss and be surprisd when one shows up.

JT

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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!

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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.

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 Gigcast 49: Serving up a Comic Dish: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Webcomic news, NightGig Book 2 announced, and an interview with The new Free Webcomic hosting site, Comic Dish creator, Sam Charette.

Notes to follow

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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.
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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!”)

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