• Comic writer Mark Sable detained by the TSA for carrying a script about writer under suspicion by the TSA. It’s no secret that the TSA has a great sense of humor.
• Razman360 asks, ‘What are your favorite Webcomics?’
• Sannalim posts a small webcomic entitled ‘Why I don’t Draw Webcomics.’The Examiner talks about the wonderful world of webcomic and has another article about starting one.
• The Floating Lightbulb talks about webcomic store traffic.
• Zingerding explains why they don’t like webcomics.
• ComicSpace does an ROI experiment to see who’s advertising is the best.
• ComixTalk has an interview with Calem Sevcik.
• Sandy Debreuil has a good article on Webcomics.com about creating comic strips in Flash.
• A Palace In The Sky reviews Precocious.

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• Jeremy Mullins has passed away due to injuries sustained while climbing in the Catskills. To his family and friends, please accept our heartfelt condolences.
• Kidjutsu gets a review in PW.
• The Daily Gamecock has a post about webcomics.
• PW also has a post about Sinfest and it’s creator Tatsuya Ishida.
• Stripshow 2.0 for Wordpress is out.
• Webcomic Overlook takes a look at Set To Sea.
• The Floating Lightbulb posits twelve things that hurt your webcomic.
• The folks over at Winged Wolf Studio ponder the difference in jargon between webcomics and digital comics.
• Wordpress 2.8 released.
• Fritz over at RackaFracka has a new Cartoons for Business page where he hocks his cartoons with business themes.

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• The Sudbury Star, also published in the Toronto Sun, has a piece about webcomics called History in the Making.
• TGT Webcomics interviews Alina, creator of WereGeeks.
• The Floating Lightbulb has some tips on raising your visibility with Google.
• Brigid Alverson is joining Robot 6 on CBR.
• The Create a Comic Project has received funding and will have a 2010 tournament.
• The Awkward Scientist reviews Anders Loves Maria.
• The LoliDudes talks about Kawaii Not.
• News-a-rama talks about the changing technology of comics.
• Heidi macDonald, as always, keeps us informed.
• The Webcomic Overlook brings us One Punch Review #21.
• ComixTalk points out the Online Internet Webcomic Show.
• Brad Guigar posts about common mistakes when making word balloons.
• The Webcomic Beacon has a two part series called How Not to Make a Webcomic.

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• Onezumi had a car accident and, so if you can, please stop by her site and wish her well. There is also a donation sale. (*Thanks for the correction)
• Tom Spurgeion has a Comic-Con survival guide.
• The Boston Comics Roundtable has released the third issue of their anthology Outbound.
• Daryl Cagle talks about the future of syndication.
• Comics Worth Reading has a post about the business of comics.
• And the author of Beaver and Steve offers this on the creative process.
• Keith Knight is interviewed by The Story on American Public Media.
• Viz Media has launched a webcomic site according to ICV2.com.
• Starship Castle is starting a review column called Webcomics Warp where they review fantasy or sci-fi webcomics.
• The Washington Post interviews Comic Riffs Blogger Michael Cavna.
• The Floating Lightbulb points out where more help for Wordpress users can be had and reviews Asset Bar.
• Robot 6 reports that the ACT-I-VATE primer is due out this fall.

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• Sean Kleefeld talks about the future of comic distribution.
• News-a-rama interviews Brock Heasley, author of SuperFogeys.
• The National Post talks to Jason Thompson about the Toronto Comic Arts Festival.
• The Floating Lightbulb has some behind-the-scenes plug-in advice about Wordpress.
• Krishna tells us why he doesn’t participate in link exchanges.
• Robot 6 has a post about Slash Print following the digital revolution.
• TwiTip, Twitter for Cartoonists.
• For Better for Worse author Lynn talks about reference material and give some great tips including using toys.
• Dinosaur Comics collection: improbably fantastic re-use of dinosaur clip art.
• Ever wonder what’s up with Jughead’s hat?
• A mini-documentary of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival.

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• Digger moves from Graphics Smash to its own site where the men are pretty and the archives are free.
• Erfworld also has moved off of Giants in the Playground and  launched its own site.
• There are unconfirmed reports of ComicGenesis being hacked into and shut down over the weekend. Critical Kitty has more.
• The Floating Lightbulb posts about why he thinks Comic Hosts are fading. Are they?
• Webcomics.com has an article on how to create a media kit.

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• The Seattle PI has an interview with Jerry Holkins of Penny Arcade.
• The National Post talks to Ryan North.
• Brad Guigar is taking pre-orders for Evil Inc. Volume 4. Now in color!
• Not to be overlooked, Evil Diva is review no. 75 on The Webcomic Overlook.
• Readers pick for best webcomic: Nerd Rage.
• Forces of Geek review thirteen webcomics.
• Coyote Trax’s Webcomics Critique posts about some new finds.
• The Floating Lightbulb posts about webcomic growth and measurement.
• Nick Eff reads a lot of webcomics. Let him show u some.
• Sunny Kris, The Webcomic on Indian Workplaces.

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• Yirmumah now has it’s own Anti-Social network ning.
• Palace in the Sky Webcomic News has an interview with Christopher J. Paulsen, creator of Precocious.
• The Beat reports that Saltwater Taffy is starting a webcomic version of it’s print comic.
• Neil Cohn needs some people to take part in an experiment. Bwahahaha science!
• Platinum Studios is facing a 20 million dollar defecit. Yikes!
• Free Webcomics Workshop for grades 6-11 on May 2nd at the Centerville Library if you happen to live in Ohio.
• The Floating Lightbulb highlights some French webcomics.
• Strawerry Syrup has an interesting post about being on hiatus.
• Johnny Saturn suggests some webcomics we should be reading.
• The blog Young Australian Skeptics gives a scathing and pretty spot on review of After Eden, a Christian anti-evolution webcomic. I suppose there had to be one out there.
• George Carroll has a post on Webcomics.com called ‘Learning from…webcomics?’ which is pretty good.

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JT Talks Webcomics.

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• Joey Manley talks about drama in webcomics.
• Scratchin Post and Li’l Nyet get reviewed by Talkin Bout Comics.
• Heidi MacDonald talks about the webcomics approach to printing.
• Xerexes posts about Musicslu as a possibility for pre-selling webcomics.
• An interview on ComixTalk with Brian Brown, creator of Bellen!.

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• More print vs. webb debate.
• Camaron has a great post called ‘You Have Time’ over at Webcomics.com.
• Rackafracka launches a brand new newsletter.
• The Examiner has a review of The Elves of LleuGarnok.
• Some bad news.
• The webcomic Overlook has the 2009 Eisner Nominees for Best Digital Comic.
• The Beat tells us about the man who invented Comic Sans.
• Xerexes talks about Girlamatic over at ComixTalk.
• Clickwheel.net has relaunched and upgraded so check it out.

Reported by Michael Moss.

• Cat Garza’s is having some issues with a chiropractor, fleen has the story.
• The Webcomic Beacon #70: the 2008 Beaky Awards.
• The Washington Post asks ‘Where Else Do You GO to Fill Your Comics Needs?’ A good question!
• News-a-Rama has an interview with Box Brown.
• Spy6teen debuts on Zuda.
• Yen Press Launches Toxic Planet Comic Online.
• Talkin Bout Comics talks about webcomics that aren’t Zuda.
• Karmic Debt Comics gets hot under the collar about Scott Kurtz.
• Barkeater Lake celebrated 10 years in January. Better late than never for a hearty congratulations!
• Here’s some good advice on designing memorable tshirts for your webcomic from Webcomics.com.
• Sandra and Woo get a review on WebcomicZ.
• The Floating Lightbulb talks about webcomic site design.
• The Art Geek Zoo has a post about its evolving status after one year. Congrats on turning 1!
• The new webcomic Urfs by Mike Jacobsen and Phil Selby was in the spotlight on Neatorama.com.

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• A digital painting demo from James Noguchi of Erfworld.
• Emerald City ComcCon is on for this coming weekend.
• Startslip reaches 1000 Strips. Congratulations Kris!
• The Webcomic Overlook is taking April off.
• Hugo nominated webcomic ‘The Body Politic’ is free download.
• BlogTO has a post about Ryan North and Project Wonderful.
• Palace in the Sky Webcomic News has an interview with Alex and Nick of Rocket Llama.
• The Examiner has a review of ‘MY 25 Percent’ and part 3 of a series about how to get a webcomics started.
• Calamities of Nature is having their first ever caption contest. Find out more here.
• Readers of ZergWatch, a video game fanzine, have picked ‘Let This Mask Hide the Tears’ as the best webcomic.
• Robot 6 points out that IDW is bringing back GrimJack and other ComicMix titles back into print.
• Alone in a Crowd has a nice Webcomics Weekend wrap up post and COmixTalk has Webcomics Weekend Part 2.

Reported by Michael Moss.

JT is back on Talkshoe with a good bunch of webcomicers to talk about NEWW and the new Webcomic Planet.

Guests: Twitter names for now…  links to follow.

Follow these people on twitter :  @Frumph @StealThisComic @sekelsky @DungeonWarden @djnicknitro @rhoratio and others!

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• Joey Manley is looking for your tshirt designs.
• The Webcomic Overlook has a review of Evil Diva.
• ComixTalk has a review of the Webcomics Weekend.
• Xerexes has an interview with Brian Babendererde, creator of Soul Chaser Betty.
• Palace in the Sky Webcomic News has an interview with Nathan Bonner of Indavo.
• Some photos of the Webcomic Weekend.
• Webcomic Finds has a review of Seek and Destroy from Anarchy Comics.
• The Examiner has a review of the webcomic Traitor.
• Storming the Tower has a review of Of Bears and Men.
• PVP offers a tshirt with the slogan ‘You’re Killing Newspapers by Reading Webcomics’ on it in time for the Webcomics Weekend.
• UCLICK offers free Dramacon Comic App through Apple.
• Carmine Magazine talks about The Create a Comic Project.
• GeekDad has his second anniversary and revisits Ten Great Webcomics.
• Coyote Trax’s Webcomics Critique reviews Surviving Retail.
• C.B. Cebulski shares his tips on how to break into comics.
• CBR spotlights Jim Mahfood’s Los Angeles Ink Stains as a webcomic to watch.
• The Cartoon Art Museum is lookin for professional cartoonists to take part in their Cartoonist-in-Residence Program. If you fit the bill and are interested please contact membership@cartoonart.org.
• Wellon’s Weblog has an post entitled ‘Why Web Comics are Better.’
• Johnny Saturn joins ComixsXP.

Reported by Michael Moss.

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JT and Scott Talk Webcomics.  Lucas Turnbloom on The Gigcast 184.  AND  Shallow Thought from Christiana Ellis, The TBBA Spotlight from Brian Anderson, Thw Webcomic Wire from Mike Moss and a visit to The Nightgig Studio Lounge to hear The Barnkickers!

Guest:

Lucas Turnbloom  from Imagine This!

Musical Guest:

The Barnkickers on CD Baby

JC Hutchins Personal Effects

TB-BA Spotlight:

1. dogeatdoug@JTShea oops, I meant this link: http://www.sordidcityblues….

2. dogeatdoug@JTShea And Imy shirts are now available: http://tinyurl.com/b5mzrv

3. dogeatdoug@JTShea And http://www.george-comics.com/

4. dogeatdoug@JTShea And: http://www.willowsgrove.com…

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• Andrew Farago announced the passing of Rod Gilchrist, Executive Director of the Cartoon Art Museum. Our heartfelt condolences to Gilchrist’s family and friends for their loss.
• Palace in the Sky Webcomic News has an interview with J Gray, creator of Mysteries of the Arcana.
• ComixTalk links to a printable DIY comic on how to make mini comics.
• The New England Webcomics Weekend 2009 reaches capacity.
• Maria Walters asks ‘What’s up with webcomics?’
• Gaming Aisle has some picks for their segment Webcomic of the Week.
• Mashable has their list of the 20 best webcomics.
• The Webcomic Overlook reviews Nedroid’s Picture Diary.
• PR.com has a press release about a 50-year-old video editor named Byron Wilkins who changed careers to become a webcomic artist.
• The Floating Lightbulb posts about some newer webcomics.
• Comix 411 has an interview with Larry Latham.
• God’s Playing Poker moves from Thursday to Friday.
• Coyote Trax’s Webcomic Critique has a review of Boxes o’ FOxes.
• Issue #19 of Creative Characters has an interview with Cyrus Highsmith.
• News-a-rama has the nominees for the LA Times Book Prize which were announced on the 3rd.

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Interviews from Megacon 2009

Guests:

Mark Mekkes http://www.Zortic.com
Nick Nitro  http://www.dribbleforkids.com
Mike Maihack http://www.cowandbuffalo.com
Dave Shabet  http://www.deadwinter.cc
Martin Brant and the drew from http://www.grimfurrytales.com/
Echo Chernik form http://www.echo-x.com
Jenifer walker aka scraps from http://www.randomactscomics.com/
Derrik Fish http://www.dandyandcompany.com/
Jenny Breeden  http://www.thedevilspanties.com

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2009 Megacon Webcomics Panel

Thanks to the Webcomic Folks who were nice enough to take time away from their tables to help make the Webcomic  Panel such a success!

Jenny Breeden  thedevilspanties.com
Dave Shabet  deadwinter.cc
KC Green     rumblo.com
Mike Maihack cowandbuffalo.com
Mark Mekkes (corrected)Zortic and eti-pi
Ryan Sohmer  licd.com
Krishna Sadasivam (corrected!) PCWeenies.com 

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• Ryan Estrada applies for his dream job as Caretaker of the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef. Best of luck Ryan!
• Applegeeks reaches 500 episodes. Congratulations Hawk and Ananth!
• Todd & Penguin are back.
• Karen Ellis faces a disastrous fire. For the latest go read her blog. Right now she needs the Mac version of Photoshop.
• Palace in the Sky Webcomic News has an interview with Jamie Jennings of Emerald Winter.
• Creator Interview with Greg Kinman at Zuda Fan.
• The Christian Science Monitor asks, are your comic books really at risk?
• Strip News details some cool stuff in happening in webcomics.
• The Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is still looking for that special someone.
• The Webcomic Overlook takes a gander at Anders Loves Maria.
• Shepard, Lessig and Steven Johnson in NYC Feb. 26th - Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy.
• WonderCon is coming!
• Crappy economy and Diamond de-listing hit Viz hard, company announces restructuring. Good luck!
• The Harvey Award nominations are open.
• Digital_Femme has a post entitled Black Women in Comics: Part 1.
• News-a-rama has an interview with Stuart and Kathryn Immonen.
• Quitting Time will now publish on Monday and Wednesday. That’s right! Twice as much wacky retail antics as before!
• The ComicSpace T-shirt Store Beta is open for business.
• Video of the webcomics panel at Katsucaon 15.

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• Uclick seems to be leading the pack in distributing comics to the iPhone.
• DJ Coffman has a video tutorial on drawing comics with Cintiq.
• Webcomic Finds explains their comic categories.
• An interview on ComixTalk with Grant Thomas.
• Publisher’s Weekly has an article about the good turnout to NYCC 2009.
• Freelance Switch has 10 tax deductions that freelancers can make.
• A new website for sharing sketches called Sketchory.
• New Curator has a post called Museums and Webcomics.
• CBR has their thoughts on which webcomics we should be watching.
• The Washington Post has an article called ‘Which Webcomic Are You Ready to Rally Behind?’
• CBR has a piece about Dark Horse continuing to print webcomic titles.
• Switched says Marvel Comics are coming to the iTunes Store.
• ComixTalk has an interview with Greg Dean, creator of Real Life.
• Fried Fish Comcs is one year old. Congratulations!
• The Examiner has a piece about webcomics.
• The Daily Star has an article called ‘Teen Talk: Weekend Reviews: My time to judge more webcomics.’

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JT and Scott Talk Webcomics with Nick Nitro of Dribble for Kids and The Good, Bad and The Geeky podcast. Shallow Thought form Christiana Ellis, TB-BA Spotlight from Brian Anderson., and we visit the Nightgig Lounge to hear the music of The Hosts.

Guest:

• Nick Nitro of Dribble for Kids and The Good, Bad and The Geeky podcast.

Links:

DavidGallaher @JTShea - The critically acclaimed werewolf western, HIGH MOON started its third season during Monday night’s full moon! highmooncomic.com

sekelsky @JTShea www.webcomicsweekend.com, naturally.

www.BuzziNews.com

Zorphbert and Fred have a new official website? It’s now at: www.zfcomics.com

TB-BA Spotlight:

• A pretty fantasy comic: http://music-ofthe-spheres.blogspot.com/2008/11/chapter-1-page-1-next-page.html
• Brand new, mature audience, freakin’ funny strip: http://cocknbull.net/
• Aaaaaaand one I’m just getting into: http://youmeandsteve.com/

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• News-a-rama has a post about the NYCC Dark Horse Comics Panel and Marvel Digital Panel.
• The Webcomic Overlook reviews SPQR Blues.
• The Express Buzz has a piece about the economy and comics.
• Webcomic Finds reviews Jovian Luck.
• Blambot’s Nate Piekos has a great post about comic-book lettering.

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

Guest: Brian Gibson From Stoopitz.com

TB-BA Spotlight:

dogeatdoug @JTShea And another: http://tinyurl.com/ctbodv

This one is quirky but really funny: http://askrachelcomic.com

And another killer comic: http://www.thanuka.com

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• The Independant has a good piece called ‘How Cartoons Joined the 21st Century.’
• Sony Pictures Animation and Platinum Studios, Inc. team up to develop an animated feature.
• The Cartoon Art Museum in SF is having a benefit screening of Watchmen on March 5th. If you want to volunteer for thier wondercon party give a shout to Andrew (gallery@cartoonart.org).
• Ka-Blam has started ComicsMonkey, a distribution network for print-on-demand comics to comic shops.
• Union of Heroes reaches 100 pages. Congratulations!
• An update on what’s going on with ComicSpace, LLC.
• A new Scott McCloud graphic novel in the works.
• An interestin post in defense of the webcomics business model.
• Da Blog has part one of a series called ‘Webcomics’ Identity Crisis.
• Ars Technica talks about the Infinite Canvas.
• The Weekly Webcomic Spotlight is HotShot and Mighty Girl by Fred Van Lente.
• The Webcomic Overlook has a post questioning the value of negative reviews.

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Here it is.

Check out Lea Hernadez. Good Bad and the Geeky.

JT

• Gizmodo has a piece about Monty Python and the benefits of giving away content for free.
• The Beat asks What’s up with Nick Gurewich?
• ComixTalk has an update to Project Wonderful. Tougher to get in and stay in.
• The Webcomic Beacon episode 62 is about Hobbyists vs Professionalists.Brad Guigar posts a wrapup of his appearance at Harvard.
• The Webcomic Overlook takes a gander at Femmegasm.
• Xerexes has a draft of the 100 Greatest webcomics lists for Comedy and Drama.
• Kris Straub talks about his re-branding of Starslip Crisis on Webcomics.com.
• The lawsuit against Mike Peters has been dropped by the Columbian Coffee Growers Federation.
• Video of Illustrator Charlene Chua doing her thing using Adobe Illustrator.
• Boom! Studios launches a new blog called MarkWaid.com which is a how-to source for writing comics.
• An interview with Goats creator Jon Rosenberg on CBR.

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Guest:

Karl shows up with a Megacon Update.

Horatio from Rampage Network stops by with some news.

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• Comixpedia celebrates three years. Congratulations Xerexes!
• Webcomix-blog promises a new webcomic featured every day.
• Hello Mic Test has a post about the how to produce and popularize your webcomics.
• PinkRaygun.com has a post titled Making Our Way: Pimping Webcomics.
• Palace in the Sky Webcomic News has an interview with Devon Legacy creator Keith Taylor.
• Prism Comics announces new episodes of The Werewif on Wednesday.
• News-A-Rama has discovered Zuda’s interesting use of Twitter.
• The Exchange Magazine has a post, and video of Scott McCloud’s TED talk.
• This Week in Webcomics recommends Hijinks Ensue to readers.
• Sean Kleefeld’s thoughts about comics and webcomics.
• Ben Huh posts tips about developing community.
• The Escapist Magazine has an a post about a new writing aid called ‘Write or Die.’ I can’t wait for the Adobe plug-in version to keep me in line while drawing.
• Halo 3 webcomics has a post about making good text balloons.
• MT Interview with Alexander Danner and Edward J. Grug III.

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JT and Scott interview Norm Feuti of Retail and his new webcomic Gill.  Shallow Thought form Christiana Ellis, TB-BA Spotlight from Brian Anderson.

Guest: Norm Feuti of Retail and his new webcomic Gill.

TB-BA Spotlight:

dogeatdoug Lots-o-linkies: http://webcomic.us/finnstrip/ , http://glitchtown.com/ , http://unconsciousink.com/inklings/ And a couple more: http://theairingcupboard.ne… , http://askrachelcomic.com/i

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• The Guest Strip Project is in dire need of strips, so if you haven’t done one please go on over and get involved.
• The economy claims another victim, this times it’s Young American Comics. Their final news letter announced their going-out-of-business sale.  Sad to see you guys go!
• The Webcomic Junkie has a part 1 of a series of posts about made up webcomic terminology.
• James Sime from Isotope Comics in San Francsico and other shop owners talk to CBR about the effect of webcomics on traditional comic sales.
• This Week in Webcomics has the first have of an interview with Calamities of Nature creator Tony Piro.
• The Independent of Southwestern Minnesota has a piece about Jamie Haram, creator of Picatrix.
• Xerexes is looking for some new and cool webcomics to read.
• The Montreal Mirror has an interview with Karl Kerschl, creator of The Abominable Charles Christopher.
• Webcomics have made it back onto Instructables.
• Adam Susskind has a webcomic tutorial in PDF form.

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News

E-mail:

From Mark Mekkas

Hi JT, If it’s not too late for news this week, I have a little something. In order to get ahead for the convention season, I’m going to reduce ETI-PI to 2 days per week for a while.  However, to make up for it, I’m going to present some “additional content” fiction over at Zortic.  Specifically I’m going to be introducing “The Adventures of Blast Rocketron” starting next Wednesday (bonus trivia points to anyone who remembers who Blast Rocketron is). I appreciate any plugging you can do. Thanks, Mark

visit Zortic at http://www.zortic.com, ETI-PI at http://www.eti-pi.com and Abby’s Agency at http://www.abbysagency.us

Links:

TB-BA Spotlight:

dogeatdoug And a big “SuperFogeys” announcement: http://www.th3rdworld.com/web-comic/The-SuperFogeys

Oh yeah! This is by one of my fav comic artists. Does a lot of stuff for SLG: http://fscwasteland.net/muZz/

And a plug to go vote for “Calamities of Nature” at the Weblog awards: http://tinyurl.com/8nelrj

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• Correction: Tony Piro was kind enough to write and correct the post about his guest strip contest.There were actually three winners (1, 2 and 3) and he also points out that Calamities of Nature, along with others like Dilbert, XKCD and Jesus and Mo, is up for the 2008 Web Blog Awards: Best Comic Strip catgory. Voting is still on. A hearty congratulations to all three winners and best of luck Tony
• Frumph.net has started a contest of sorts called the 2009 Webcomic Promotion Wars wherein you promote yourself in various ways, earn points for that and then do battle.
• AfterElton.com has a post called ‘It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Gay Webcomics!’
• Your Anti-Snark has a review of Out There and takes some swipes in a Year-In-Review post.  The new YWIBAYSFB?  Let’s hope not.
• David Malki interviews on The Sound of Young America.
• 500 episodes without poop jokes? Harder than you might think (via ComixTalk) Congratulations Evan!
• ComixTalk also has an announcement from ComicBrush.com that they have fixed some problems with their program.

Reported by Michael Moss.

• Happy New Year everyone!
• Frumph.net releases QuickFrumph, like QuickKeen but with more Frumph. They’ve also introduced
• WebComicPlanet, Free hosting for webcomics using Comipress MU.
• NewsARama has an interview with Matthew Forsythe, creator of Ojingogo.
• ComixTalk has a post about Howard Tayler’s presentation on Making Money By Giving Webcomics Away.
• The Webcomic Overlook has gleened some answers to the Heidi MacDonald’s question about what the biggest story of 2008 was, and what stories in 2009 will be big.
• Derik Badman’s best webcomics of 2008 list.
• Chris Onstad, creator of Achewood at Googleplex.
• Tony Piro clues us in to an interview with Chris Anderson, the author of The Long Tail book and blog.
• He also has posted the winner of his Guest Strip contest. Congratulations Stephanie!
• Zuda Fan has an interview with creator Spencer Platt.
• If you haven’t heard about reader oriented podcast TGT Webcomics, go and have a listen.

Reported by Michael Moss.

JT and Scott Talk Webcomics.  A year in review recorded live on Talk Shoe.

Guest:  Eveyone who listened and called in.

Links: To Be Added later.

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• Sarah Jaffe posts about the possibility of doing a weekly webcomic column on Newsarama. I say go for it!
• Delos reviews Battlegate.
• The New York Times has a piece about comics ‘Feeling the Pain of Print.’
• The SF Examiner has a post from Joystiq, the second part of ‘Readers Pick Best Webcomic: How the King Stole Christmas.’
• The Village Voice has a piece about webcomics that features Achewood, Bodyworld and Templar, Arizona.
• CBR has a chat with Jamaica Dyer, creator of Wierd Fishes.
• This Week in Webcomics has a three part list of his favorite webcomics.
• MadScott pointed out this handy comic tools blog over on Twitter.
• The Floating Lightbulb has an interesting post about the search engine Mooter.
• Webcomics Inc has a flash hangman game where you guess the titles of webcomics.
• FLEEN talks about Sam Jain, and eFront.
• Brigid Alverson reports that TokyoPop is reviving their manga pilot program.
• Creator the Marvelous Patric announces that Freaks N Squeeks returns with all new comics over on ComixTalk.
• Zuda Fan has an interview with creator Spencer Platt.

Reported by Michael Moss.

• The School Library Journal has an interview with Sarah Ellerton, creator of Inverloch.
• Check out the Webcomic Holiday Postcard Fundraiser.
• iFanboy has a post about webcomics.
• Spike posts about Zuda contracts over at PopCultureShock.com.
• Webcomics.com has a tutorial about creating word balloons in Photoshop.
• Quitting Time, my webcomic, has teamed up with FoolishGadgets.com to bring you Products That Never Made It.
• What do you think about Webcomicsworld.com? The Floating Lightbulb doesn’t hold back as usual. Here is some more reaction.

Reported by Michael Moss.

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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• The Washington Post has an interview with Darrin Bell, the creator of Candorville.
• Tony Piro, creator of Calamities of Nature has a great tutorial called Flatting Your Comic.
• Instructables is starting a series of how-to posts on webcomics. Here is the first one about scanning, cleaning adn publishing line art.
• Also, if you haven’t heard about Webcomics Collage, check it out!
• Fleen has a good review of some interesting and candid posts about Zuda contracts.
• NY Comic Con has made the arts section of Staten Island’s own silive.com.
• We the Robots joins Pibgorn in the New Uclick webcomics lineup for iPhone, iPod Touch and whatever other buzzwords they can throw in there. Congratulations to Chris Harding and Scott Meyer!
• The Beat has a nice post about ADSDAQ and new ad services offered by Joey manley and ComicSpace.
• A comic contest from Saad Akhtar, creator of Fly, You Fools!

Reported by Michael Moss.

This has only been a test.

Now enjoy some festive Holiday ukulele music.

JT

Thank you for your patience.

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Links:

TB-BA Spotlight:

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We talk with Hunter Gallien, aka Zim, from Sword in Hand, and JT and Scott talk about what’s up at NightGig Studios, and the wonderfull world of webcomics. Shallow Thoughts from Christiana Ellis.

GUEST

Hunter Gallien aka Zim from Sword in Hand

NEWS

TWITTER BITS
Follow JTShea on Twitter!

johncoswell ComicPress Manager 1.3 is nearing release. Testers can visit the Lunchbox Funnies forums to grab a beta version to test.

oyComics  Plug, plug, plug. I released an Oy comic collection recently. Available here: https://www.createspace.com/3356672

SStory  Wish I had news!  But, alas…

Wills42 Since my computer is up and running, expect ‘Barely Listening’ to be back on Monday (www.drunkduck.com/Barely_Listening)

TB-BA Spotlight
From the Browser of Brian Anderson…
Follow Brian on twitter  http://twitter.com/dogeatdoug

This one I just started reading. Really funny: Two Cows and a Chicken

This one was a e-novel. Now a webcomic: Ladystar

Just go into this one: http://www.enginehunt.com/

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• Twyla Tharp on motivation, creativity and the usefulness of failure. Great advice for all creative fields.
• Check out new webcomic rating site IsItFunnyToday.com.
• InkBlot 1.0, the latest webcomic wordpress plugin.
• A Webcomic Gift-Giving Guide.
• The Floating Lightbulb has a post about making your comic archive search friendly.
• Algeya has an article on Webcomics.com about creating backgrounds.
• Fleen talks about the purge of webcomics from ADSDAQ. Take a look at the comments section where people layout who has been dropped and the excuses taht ADSDAQ has given them.
• The Beat has a nice piece about making money in comics.
• Palace In The Sky Webcomic News has an interview with Brian Brock of Reaper 7.
• Congrats to the Webcomic Beacon on reaching one year!
• Bomb Shelter Webcomic Idol winner is Simulated Comic Product. Congratulations!

Reported by Michael Moss.

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

Guest:

Links:

TB-BA Spotlight:

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LInks:

More to come..

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• Emily the Strange is a rip off of a 1978 book character.
• Des Moines Register sacks Editorial Cartoonist Brian Duffy.
• Book of Biff, and more cartoons like Questionble Content, have been dumped by ADSDAQ for “…a high volume of graphics and images such as anime or comic strips.”
• TalkShoe announces Instant Talkcasting.
• The Floating Lightbulb talks about getting international traffic for your comic.
• Good post over at Webcomics.com about inking with your natural hand movement.
• UCLICK and IDW to bring Clive Barker’s The Thief of Always to the iPhone.
• Patrick Scullin, creator of Super Siblings, blogs about meeting the legendary Stan Lee.
• Brad Guigar talks about what he thinks is and isn’t newsworthy to follow up on his earlier tips about writing press releases.
• NYT has a piece about Alison Bechdel and her series Dykes to Watch Out For.
• The Webcomic Overlook #60 features Fey Winds.
• Comic Foundry Magazine is closing its doors.
• Next episode of the Webcomic Beacon is the one year special. 
• Skitzo Man has a post about Scott Kurtz’ video: Breaking Bad habits.

Reported by Michael Moss.

• Ryan Estrada does a Neatorama Comic and promotes his Cartoon Commune.
• The Tribune-Review has a piece about Lora Biondi Innes, creator of the webcomic The Dreamer.
• Bomb Shelter Comics extends the voting for the Webcomic Idol contest to today.
• Xerexes strikes again with an interview with the creator of Earthsong, Crystal Yates on ComixTalk.
• The first Macedonian webcomics; welcome Vlado’s World to the webcomics scene.
• Entry level webcomic creator and his internet buddy promise four new webomics.
• Joel Watson, of HIJINKS Ensue documents his digital cartooning process.
• WebcomicPlanet.com, a new site from the good people at Coswell Productions, MindFaucet and Frumph Agencies, is live with an alpha release.
• The Floating Lightbulb posts about Google Sitelinks.
• D. Michael Moore talks about The Problem with Webcomics on his blog One Gamer’s Opinion…

Reported by Michael Moss.

• Jiffy Burke offers 10 tips for webcomic creators over on Sequential Tart.
• ROK Comics is being run as a ’scaled down service’ until further notice. This means there are no employed staff to deal with problems should they arise. ROK isn’t finished yet though, not by a long shot; however, it sounds like they have done what is prudent for now. Best of luck!
• The San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum is looking for volunteers for events on 12/4, 12/6, and 12/ 16. For more information check out their website.
• The National Post has a piece about webcomics. I will withhold commenting on the title of the article.
• Check out RackaFracka by Fritz! Published five days a week plus he has a large archive.
• Palace in the Sky Webcomic News has an interview with Rachel Keslensky of Last Resort!
• The Webcomic Overlook has a post entitled ‘Neal Stephenson vs. xkcd’ which is an interesting read.
• Xerexes interviews Hans Tseng, creator of Directions of Destiny on ComixTalk.
• The Floating Lightbulb has a rather sad post about a Drunk Duck poser. This isn’t the first that I’ve heard of a story like this either. If true, I wonder what Sean’s motivation for doing something like that is?
• Comic Fencing picks on Amazing Superteam for a round of sword play.

Reported by Michael Moss.

• Calamities of Nature has announced its first guest strip contest. The 3 best strips submitted by December 22nd will have their comics featured as the December 28th, December 31st, and January 2nd updates. In addition, each winner will receive a signed copy of the Calamities of Nature Volume 1 collection. If you don’t win, it’s still all good. All other submissions will be featured in the blog individually on Tuesdays and Thursdays and have their comics saved in the gallery. For further details, see www.calamitiesofnature.com
• John Lynch reviews Beaver & Steve by James Turner over on ComixTalk.
• The Comics Reporter has an interview with James Kochalka.
• Webcomics Inc. is offering some exclusive desktop images.
• A nice round-up of slice-of-life comics.
• An interesting post at ComixTalk entitled ‘Your Webcomic Is Not As Good As You Think It Is.’
• MediaShift has a piece about advertising.
• Skitzo Man points us to an interesting article about the changing face of comics publication from Kieth Drury.
• Welcome new webcomic SCAPULA by Aidan Casserly into the frey.

Reported by Michael Moss.

JT and Scott talk Webcomics,  Christian Ellis Shallow Thoughts

LInks:

More to come..

TBBA Spotlight

• This might seem like Nepotism but man, I’m really loving his work: http://nightgig.com/madscott/
• Bleak but fascinating strip. Really liked the art on the first few pages too: http://www.shadowlinecomics.com/webcomics/#/lildepressedboy/
• I love original single panel strips. This one certainly fits that category: http://www.thebookofbiff.com/

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

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

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

• Platinum announces that Cowboys & Aliens is on the Dreamworks priority list according to The Hollywood Reporter.
• The Gazette has a piece about how the internet is liberating comic book artists. Here’s one more from The Gazette.
• Fleen covers Platinum’s possible creation of a Hero By Night television series. Heidi MacDonald has more.
• Xerexes interviews Michael May, creator of Eros, Inc., on ComixTalk.  Also, an interview with Phil Foglio on ComixTalk.

Reported by Michael Moss.

We talk with Ben Paddon about Soul Geek, Politcal blogging and Jump Leads.  JT and Scott talk Webcomics,  Christian Ellis Shallow Thoughts

LInks:

More to come..

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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.

• ComxTalk has an interview with Abby L. of The Green Avenger.
• Creepy returns to MySpace DHP.
• Hereville creator Barry Deutsch has signed a book deal with Harry N. Abrams to publish Hereville as a graphic novel.
• Johas Diego talks tools of the trade on Webcomics.com.
• Michael Schlosky, creator of Mikey’s Life, reviews Li’l Nyet.
• The Freelancer’s Union has announced the creation of the Freelancer’s Insurance Company.
• Tony Piro has a review of the various print-on-demand options there are currently.
• Kevin Colden talks Fishtown over at CBR.
• ComixTalk is shutting down their forums for lack of use.
• Chris Yates covers the Alternative Press Expo.
• The Weekly Webcomic Wrapup ponders it’s own branding.

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

-Chris

We talk with Dawn Griffin of Zorphbert and Fred and JT and Scott talk Webcomics,  Christian Ellis Shallow Thoughts

LInks:

More to come..

TB-BA Spotlight
From the browser of Brian Anderson

• First one for this week: http://www.miserylovessherman.com/
• Some guys I met at Boston Comic Con: http://beinggordy.com/ Not much online yet, but loved what I saw at the Con.
• Another great comic for this week: http://dooomcat.com/wp/2008/08/17/01-bear-nuts/

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JT and Kevin Hayman talk Webcomics,  Christian Ellis Shallow Thoughts

TB-BA Spotlight form Brian Anderson, Music from Jonathan Coulton

Special Guest

Lindsay Smith of Daisy is Dead and Freshman Fifteen.

NightGig News

• NightGig Webcomic Sampler Book 4 in progress!
  
• JT Ukes - site desigh - coloring contest - Tiki - Podacst Daily in November
  
• Errant Apprentice book 1
• NightGig Member PW Ad Box (Totally stolen form The Scienteers )
  

More Shownotes Below

News

E-mail

David Gallaher

Twitter bits

• haikubirdie @jtshea need any tweet news? / superfightfight will turn 5/ this coming Monday
• PiousKnob @JTShea this just i: nestorcomic.com and thusspakemagog.com are AWESOME. P. Gibson http://lancaster-comic.com
• SStory @JTShea Sale through rest of year, free sketch with every JS tbp or comic bought off www.johnnysaturn.com.  TPB is 15.00, comics 2.50 ea. There are other incentives, too, once the sale gets going.  Nov 1 through end of 2008.

TB-BA Spotlight
From the browser of Brian Anderson

• Cool item for this week. I already plugged his strip but this is kind of fun: http://blog.mingssecret.com/mini-comic-con-1-the-first-time/
• From the creator of “Being Five”, “Prune Juice” is back after three years: http://prunejuicecomics.blogspot.com/

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• TigerCon brings art, music and anime to Towson University in Maryland.
• The Globe and Mail has a piece about XKCD.
• A new blog about animation backgrounds.
• Blogger and former webcomic creator Ess Dee ponders about webcomics in this post.
• New webcomic, The Werewif, started on Wednesday this week. Best of luck!
• PCWeenies ventures out into other languages with the help of some friends. Also, the winner of the caption contest is Mike Perron, who’s caption is now published with the 10th anniversary strip of PCWeenies.
• Paramount Studios has aquired the screen rights to Agnes Quill: An anthology of Mystery, by Dave Roman.
• A Keith Knight cartoon causing a stir in New Jersey.
• The Cartoon Commune v.2.0 is here and offering custom stuff.
• Skitzo Man posts what he’s learned from his lack of success in webcomics.
• Theater Hopper has suffered a catastrophic computer failure and needs your help to recover the lost data from a corrupt drive.
• Here’s a video of Emmanuel Guibert’s interesting drawing style with ink and water.
• From Chris Anderson’s blog, The Long Tail, two interesting posts (1 & 2) about revised free business models and pricing sweet spots.

Reported by Michael Moss.

• Newsarama.com has a post about a new webcomic project that remembers those Transgendered persons who are victims of violence. The Transgender Day of Rememberance is requesting submissions for their project.
• Chuck Rozakis posts about archives on ComicMix.
• A review of Mitch Clem’s new book ‘Nothing Nice To Say,’ a foray into the dirty underbelly of print comics.
• Xerexes has an interview with Chris Hazelton, creator of the webcomic Misfile.
• If you didn’t know, APE2008 is coming to San Francisco soon!
• Bomb Shelter Comics ‘Webcomic Idol’ contest has been whittled down to the top ten competitors.

Reported by Michael Moss.

• Elf ‘n Troll ends. Sad news!
• News-a-rama.com has a post about Platinum’s employee pay cuts. That’s sad!
• ROK Comics are now on the iPhone. Watch out Clickwheel!
• Webcomics.com has been purchased by HalfPixel, possibly with the aid of their friends at Penny Arcade. They’re looking for articles, tips and other knowledge sharing stuff from those interested in contributing.
• The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco will be holding a party in celebration of the Alternative Press Expo and Keith Knight’s new book on Saturday, November 1, 2008 from 8:00-11:00 pm.
• SoreThumbs takes on Platinum/Wowio situation in a comic by guest artist DJ Coffman.
• Bound By Law? The ‘Understanding Comics’ of copyright has a new edition out.
• Neatorama posts about the comic Products That Never Made It.

Reported by Michael Moss.

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

Guest:

Philip Hofer of Frumph.net and the WCRCAs

News

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

Full Shownotes After the break!

E-mail

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

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

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

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

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

That’s it!

~Danny, out

Hi,

Anyway, thanks again!

Sincerely,
Diana Nock

Twitter Bits

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

TB-BA Spotlight

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

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• The winners of the 2008 Webcomic Readers Choice Awards have been announced. Congratulations to all the winners!
• ComixTalk posts about Panel Flow, a Flash based alternative to Comicpress. DJ Coffman gives his opinion about using Flash for webcomics.
• An interesting post about Twitter on Comic Book Bin.
• Crackwalker has some thoughts on how to make it as a webcomic creator. ComicMix has more in their post ‘The Theory of Webcomics: The Daily Grind.’
• First real big challenge to Protect Act is the case of Iowa comic book and manga collector Christopher Handly who faces 20 years for possession of a few Hentai books.
• After ten years away, Tubularman is back.
• SonicWall thinks XKCD is internet porn.
• Wondermark! has suspended publishing at Modern Tales and now can only be seen on the newly redesigned Wondermark.com.
• A nice roundup of 24 Hour Comic Day from The Beat.
• Krishna reveals his top secret project. Congratulation on reaching Ten years!
• SkitZo MaN posts about proper file maintenance.

• The Cartoon Lounge over at the New Yorker has a post about a Cartoon-Off with XKCD and Farley Katz.
• I don’t know if it’s the season for arguments or if drama gets you viewers, but there is a lot of arguing going on these days (Exhibit 1 & 2).
• The Daily Cartoonist column ‘Webcomics Weekly News Roundup’ has an interesting roundup of links and news bits from this week.
• The Comics Reporter has an interview with DHP’s Mike Richardson about Webcomics among other topics.
• Prism Comics launches a new webcomic ‘The Catty Corner’ by Joe Carr. Best wishes Joe!
• Platinum Studios announced today that Equiti-trend Advisors has put together a 6-page analysis of PS, which can be viewed here, which is overall pretty dry but does blame their current stock price on the mortgage meltdown. “At its 12-month low currently, largely due to macroeconomic problems and the mortgage meltdown of 2008, PDOS is a bargain currently at less than$.10 per share”Well, .10 cents per share is a bargain, but so are Hatian penny stocks. The Beat has a post about Platinum’s new advisory board.
• Fes of the Webcomic Beacon prepares for his attempt to broadcast his 24 hour lego Webomic. Check it out on Friday from 3pm Eastern time. Best of luck Fes!
• Skitzo Man Dot Com’s Webcomic of the Week is M.I.M.E.S.

Reported by Michael Moss.

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JT and Scott talk Webcomics,  Christian Ellis Shallow Thoughts

LInks:

This weeks Guest:
Scott Drummond from Dock Boys and his live streaming 24 hour comic day on Ustream.

Shallow Thoughts from Christiana Ellis

TB-BA Spotlight from Brian Anderson

Night Gig News:

TB-BA Spotlight,
from the browser of Brian Anderson.
Visit Dog et Doug Online or follow Brian on Twitter.

E-mail News

Send your webcomic news to: Gigcast (at) Nightgig.com

from Mike Whitmer

Slpit lip News

Super Frat Crossover with Dick Masterson!

I’ve been waiting for ages to be able to announce this…

Scholastic/Graphix will be publishing the complete SMILE: A Dental Drama in 2010!

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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

• The Washington Post has an article called ‘Five Webcomics to Keep Your Eye On.’
• Xerexes has an interesting post following up on the ‘Most Read’ series of articles comparing the audiences for various webcomics.
• I can’t remember if I’ve posted Bloody and Brutal Reviews before, but here it is. The unvarnished and more than slightly profane (NSFW) Red Right Hand.
• Great Hera! It’s Wonder Woman Day III!
• Randall Munroe and Cory Doctrow talk work habits at 3PiCon.
• 24 Hour Comic Book Day in San Francisco.
• PC Weenies made PC Advisor Magazine’s ‘Top 10 Humorous Websites’ chosen by their readers. Congratulations Krishna!
• Just in case you didn’t know XKCD spurred a new feature from YouTube. Good work Randall!
• An interview with Gordon McAlpin, creator of Multiplex on ComixTalk.
• Heidi MacDonald of The Beat has a nice roundup of the further adventures in Wowio/Platinum.

Reported by Michael Moss.

JT and Scott talk Webcomics,  Christian Ellis Shallow Thoughts and TBBA Spotlight.

LInks:

Fall Con

No Brand Con

http://www.Alpha-shade.com

E-mail

Hello, please check out my new wacky webcomic, Barry.  He lives with his Ma in Queens….insert high hilarity now!
www.barrycomic.com
I am trying to help promote and profit via my new website, if you dig it please pass the link on to your pals.. Thank you.
Eric

Ed Johnson

HIGH MOON, the werewolf western webcomic, continues its startling second season!

Katherine Sekelsky Synchronism relaunched

Twitter Bits

Frumph @JTShea News news news.. uhm Superfogeys has a trivia contest up starting today, awesome
http://dogeatdoug.com/forums/index.php?topic=321.0

Rampage October Contest - http://tinyurl.com/3r9p9g

ptimony @JTShea New animated Night Owls episode: http://tinyurl.com/4d96fm

DivaLea @JTShea New project with fellow Comic Book Tattoo alum Josh Hechinger: The Moon is Mine, about a moon-based confectioner w/ a big hammer

TBBA Spotlight

Not for the kids, but funny: http://www.dinoballs.com/

Great strip for everyone: http://boxcarastronaut.com/main/

Not so much a comic, but a comic social network. Seems to be growing fast: http://www.webcomicsinc.com/

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• The Rampage Network has a caption contest for October with some awesome prizes donated by Brad Guigar.
• Francesco Marciuliano, writer of Sally Forth, has some good thoughts about comic strip writing.
• The Daily Cross Hatch has an interview with Art Spiegelman.
• Indy Comic News has posted, from their Flashback Series of Interviews, an interview with Phil Foglio.
• The Webcomic Beacon this week covers the 10 commandments of production.
• The School Library Journal clues us into some Good Webcomics for Kids.
• The Floating Lightbulb posts about an opt-in reader email listing service called Ezine Directory.
• Publishers Weekly has a recap of SPX 2008.
• The Beat reports that Ambrosia Publishing is going on hiatus.
• Berkeley Breathed’s Opus is ending, what will his fate be?

• Bob Staake shows us how he illustrated his most recent cover piece for the New Yorker.
• Fleen and The Floating Lightbulb exchange posts (1 & 2) over critical analysis of How To Make Webcomics. AmalgametedArtists.com has more.
• Achewood wins this year’s Ignatz award in the category of Outstanding Online Comic. Congratulations!
• Chris Anderson has a revisualization of the four kinds of free business models and reminds us of who has made a fortune giving away content for free.

Reported by Michael Moss.

JT talks with Joel Watson about his experiment and being out of work. JT and Joel talk Webcomics,  Christian Ellis Shallow Thoughts and the TBBA Spotlight from Brian Anderson.

Special co-Host and Guest!

Joel Watson of Hijinks Ensue

NEWS via e-mail

Mark Mekkes announces that his original webcomic creation will return on October 4th

So, on Saturday 10/4/2008, Zortic will return as a webcomic. While the comic will be recognizable, the universe will be different. “Don’t count on knowing what’s happened before,” said Mekkes, “This is a new universe and it will be going back to the beginning to really show who these characters are and where they came from. And the parody is going to be replaced by a much richer universe and stronger situations that’s really going to enhance the character development. But don’t worry; while it’s a perfect entry point for new readers, there will still be plenty of ‘Easter Eggs’ and other hidden surprises for fans of the original archives to enjoy.”

SPLIT LIP CELEBRATES TWO-YEAR ANNIVERSARY WITH 4 NEW STORIES, COMICS CONTEST

Providence, RI, Oct. 1, 2008 — Split Lip, “the predominant original horror comic work on the Internet”, according to The Horror Blog, is celebrating its two-year anniversary in October with 4 all-new stories and a contest whose winners will receive free comics.

ELF `n TROLL Ending

Super Barracuda!
http://nerdcomics.com/superbarracuda/

TBBA Spotlight

From the browser of Brian Anderson from Dog Eat Doug

Now one from the odd pool: http://www.lilana.com/whale/index.php

But I do have a really cool link:http://blog.mingssecret.com/fantasy-story-1-crossroads/

Reading this right now: http://www.darkhorse.com/Features/eComics/885/Banya-Vol-1?part_num=1&page=1

Have to include this fun little gem too: http://steamcrow.com/

Another really fun comic. The art style has come a long way: http://nameremoved.com/

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• The Daily Cartoonist played host to a spirited debate started by an analysis of the business model for webcomic creators described in the Halfpixel book ‘How To Make Webcomics’ by Ben Gordon. Fleen has more.
• io9.com has a sneak peak at the new Hulk webcomic.
• This Week in Webcomics is reporting that Goblins creator Thunt turns pro. Congratulations!
• ComixTalk posts about Comicbrush.com, a free web-based software for creating webcomics from the Clickwheel folks.
• ROK Comics announces the winner of their ROK and a Hard Place competition.
• The Webcomic Overlook is slowing down for a while to get married. Congratulations and come back soon!
• Zortic returns to webcomics. Welcome back!
• Xerexes of ComxTalk fame will be covering SPX on Sunday.
• 10 years sees the end of Cigarro & Cerveja.
• Orphan Works bill was quietly killed in the House.
• Li’l Nyet posts it’s 100^th episode! Congratulations Bengo and Pug!
• Is your webcomic collective spread all over the universe? Hard to get together to plan stuff? Try DabbleBoard, a shared whiteboard for planning and strategy sessions.
• Lifehacker also posts that GIMP 2.6 has been released with some new goodness.
• Clone Wars webcomics are a go!

Reported by Michael Moss.

• Congratulations to Nicholas Gurewitch who won two Harvey Awards!
• St. Paul has declared October 4^th to be Comic Book Day!
• Next Comic Fencing has their review of Calamities of Nature posted as well they announce that their next review will be of Night Owls.
• Xavier Xerexes interviews Pokey The Penguin in honor of his 10^th anniversary of being on the web.
• XKCD is on BoingBoing.net again with his log-scale map of the observable universe.
• Ponoko’s Photomake could lead to some interesting products from saavy webcartoonists.
• Baltimore Webcomics Panel as covered by CBR.
• The Floating Lightbulb has an interesting post entitled ‘Are More Webcomics Better?’.
• PCNA Graphic Novel Showcase wants you to join them for the third annual 24 Hour Comics Day challenge if you can make it to Portland.
• Bomb Shelter Comics has announced the judges for their Webcomic Idol contest and that they will start accepting submissions October 1^st.

Reported by Michael Moss.

]]> http://gigcast.nightgig.com/archives/498/feed http://gigcast.nightgig.com/archives/497 http://gigcast.nightgig.com/archives/497#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:49:27 +0000 DarthMike http://gigcast.nightgig.com/?p=692 Drawn from sources all over the strange but wonderful series of tubes…

• The Night Owls, a series based on a comic strip from Zuda Comics, is about to start a second season.
• Nicu has a how-to post about working in Inkscape.
• CBR reports that Shadowline is expanding Image’s new webcomic line.  News-A-Rama and ComicBitsOnline.com have more.
• This Week in Webcomics has a review of Untrue Tales.
• Another list of 5 great webcomics that you should read by MakeUseOf.com.
• PopMatters has a post about Achewood: The Great Outdoor Fight.
•  On a note unrelated to webcomics Dr. Horrible: League of Evil is now accepting applications.

NEWS

http://www.scarygoround.com/ is ten years old!

E-Mails

BUBBAWORLDCOMIX.NET will be having it’s 2nd annual Halloween Special….TALES FROM THE APPLIANCE GRAVEYARD.

TB-BA Spotlight Links

And this is one of my all time fav’s. I think he’s updating it again: http://www.blastwavecomic.com/index.php

And this one, even if just for the reader: http://www.rdcomicsonline.com/webcomics/webcomics.html

An advance link for next week. It’s a little wordy but pretty good so far: http://www.gunbaby.com/

This can be for the next show or the one after. Either way this rocks: http://is.gd/2P5I

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• Tokyopop revamps the Manga Pilot program.
• ComicPress: The Technical Guide parts 2 and 3 are out.
• This Week in Webcomics outlines the top ten Strong Bad Emails.
• Webcomic Weekly #47 features a visit from Mike Krahulik of Penny-Arcade.
• King Features has signed a deal with ROK Comics to deliver strips to cell phones.
• The Floating Lightbulb talks about different styles of humor in this post and talks about metrics in this one.
• EyeSkream adds three new webcomics, Little Terrors, Gamer Candy and Somewhere in SF.
• Comics Worth Reading has a list of New Webcomics Worth Reading.
• ComicMix has an interesting post about webcomics and DRM.
• A post from Cameotracker on LiveJournal about when crossovers break up.
• Sandeep Kamath treats us to a list of webcomics created by Indians.

Reported by Michael Moss.

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

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.

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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• CBR has a piece about work-for-hire agreements.
• ROK Comics announces that you can now create webcomics for mobile phones from your mobile phone using their new comic creator.
• Lone Star Press has a ‘Wowio: Countdown to Payment’ clock posted on their site. Currently at 33 days, 13 hours, 24 minutes and 36 seconds.
• The Floating Lightbulb has a short list of great webcomics you may be missing.
• Hope Larson talks to CBR.
• ICv2.com is reporting that Marvel is launching original webcomics for Iron Man and the Hulk.
• Dr. McNinja now in color.
• Cantrip the Magic Rabbit launches, the newest member of the Scienteers. Congratulations and best of luck!
• Gods Playing Poker turns one year old and rolls out an art upgrade in next week’s episode.

Reported by Michael Moss.

• The Floating Lightbulb has a few articles (1 and 2) pointing out some recent additions to the ranks of comic listing sites.
• ROK Comics will be changing things up a bit by offering their content free to view on the web. They also have announced a new contest called ‘Between a ROK and a Hard Place,’ detailed here, in partnership with the Birmingham International Comic Show.
• If you haven’t heard of the Freelancers Union then you’ll want to follow this link. They’re now offering two new seminars about website building and marketing during the economic downturn.
• JDDennis blogs ‘In Defense of Webcomics’ a response to an essay entitled ‘Webcomics Suck.
• The Webcomic Overlook has a review of Jump Leads.
• This Week in Webcomics has an interview with Multiplex creator Gordon McAlpin.

Reported by Michael Moss.

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

LInks:

http://www.abetterwaymerch.com


News

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


E-mails

Lou Graziani

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

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

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

Ingress and Egress, the new Split Lip horror comic

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

TB-BA Spotlight

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• Entrepreneur.com has a profile of Chris Onstad’s comic Achewood and webcomics as business model.
• News-a-rama has a story about micropayments.
• Webcomic Overlook gives Chainsawsuit a One Punch Review.
• CBR interviews Danielle Corsetto.
• ComixTalk reports about the new site design of the webcomic Stupid and Insane Defenders Against Chaos. Xerexes also has a nice roundup of the Platinum/Wowio news and Publishers Weekly has a good article about it too.
• Free file hosting until 2038, you have to sign up for this promo offer by Sept. 15^th.
• Want to put money away for a short term goal like buying a Cintique? SmartyPig allows you to open a savings account to do just that and it’s FDIC insured. 
• Steake and Kidney-Punch by Liz Greenfield is the latest to appear on Dark Horse’s online spotlight for new talent.
• The Floating Lightbulb has a post about your morale and putting the polish on yoru webcomic.
• Brinkerhoff – Pocket Full of Brink – Volume 2 is now available on Lulu. 

 Reported by Michael Moss.

• The Long Tail has a post about the different kinds of free and a great talk about the weird things that happen when things suddenly become abundant.
• Users are remixing the Chrome comic.
• CBR reports that a company called iVerse media is bringing digital comics to the iPhone/iPod Touch and that comics will be sold along with this app. Through the iTunes stores.  Creators will be able to set price and will be encouraged to give away the first issue of their series for free as an enticement to readers. iVerse is looking for established publishers now.
• CBR interviews Dresden Codak creator Aaron Diaz.
• Monkeyangst wants to know if you use Stripshow for your comic.
• The Webcomic Idol contest is gearing up and will start taking submissions October first.

JT and Scott talk Webcomics,  Christian Ellis Shallow Thoughts

LInks:

NG News.. New nightgig member Tobias Michael Craft-Mathis  Sunday Aug 31st

Biggest Looser

JT Ukes Returns…

http://www.sarahpalinistheantichrist.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Indie-Band-Survival-Guide-Yourself/dp/0312377681?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203814571&sr=8-1

DJ Coffman  vs Platinum Round 3   http://www.djcoffman.com/tikibar/

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Dog Eat Doug Collection 1

http://www.clockwork-comics.com/

http://www.elsiehooper.com/

Twitter News!

Frumph @JTShea Lots of good submissions for the wcrca’s and 1 missing panel member who hasnt checked. *eyes you*

spambot @JTShea RPC show now has a site & we interviewed Colin Panetta, creator of Dead Man Holiday (deadmanholiday.com) on the newest episode  spambot @JTShea http://podcast.randompiratecomics.net

Webcomic Wire Darth Mike

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• Locus Magazine has an article by Cory Doctrow entitled ‘Macropayments: Why I don’t take tips for my books.’
• Do Ebooks, legal or not, make you buy real books?
• Krishna announces ’The Sequential Artists’ Pub tonight on Talkshoe.com at 10pm.
• Moberemk wants to know what webcomics your reading over at Suburban Conspiracy.
• The Webcomic Overlook posts about three things to improve on The Frog Pond.
• An interesting post over at The Floating Lightbulb.

• CBR reports about the Wowio late payment issue. DJ Coffman posts about the situation and leads us to these posts (1 and 2)by Brian Altounian about DJ and Wowio.
• Publishers Weekly has an analysis on comics blogs.
• ComicNewsi.com has an interview with Brad Guigar.
• Frumph.net has announced the judges for their new awards the Webcomic Readers Choice Awards and is accepting nominations now.
• ComixTalk has a review of Zombies Calling by Faith Erin Hicks.
• Comic Fencing has posted that The Wannabe Pirates will be their first review in September.
• Quitting Time is pleased to announce that, beginning today, our Customers of the Week will be inspired by the weird, hilarious, real-life adventures of retail survival from (The Customer Is) Not Always Right.

• Scott McCloud introduces new Chrome browser from Google with comics the language he knows so well.
• Xerexes has a review of the second Crying Macho Man collection.
• Wes Molebash has updated the YHT website.
• A little late to the party on this one but Kris Straub started another strip called F-Chords. Best of luck Chris!
• TechRadar.com has a bio of Scott McCloud.
• John Bintz has some advice about ComicPress in a three part series. Here is part one.

Interview with Wes Molebash of You’ll Have That! And JT and Scott talk Webcomics,  Christian Ellis Shallow Thoughts

Banter:

Show 1 of Fourth Year

INTERVIEW

Wes Molebash: You’ll Have That  New URL http://www.yhtcomic.com
new site designed by Chris William http://www.martinilab.com
Project Wonderful  http://www.projectwonderful.com


Planet Karen is BACK!
http://planetkaren.girl-wonder.org/


O’Deer Closes up shop after 5 years - Books on sale
http://www.odeercomics.com/

Schlock Mercenary 3000 strips as of 8/28/08
http://www.schlockmercenary.com/

Webcomic Xylia is running a contest right now for its fans.
http://xyliatales.com/

Star Wars: Clone Wars Web comics coming in November.

Grant Gould broke the news last night (at least online) that he, Tom Hodges, Katie Cook, and Jeff Carlisle will be working on a The Clone Wars web comic for StarWars.com to accompany the tv series. Hodges revealed more this morning on the TFN boards:

The quick version is each week, we’ll be given a story leading into that weeks episode. Now it could be a direct tie-in or peripherally connected from a distance because some episodes have story arcs not connected to each and every episode. Keep in mind, the series will not always be about Anakin, Obi-Wan and Padme. It will flesh out characters we’ve only seen bits and pieces of.

This will also NOT be “web-strip” format. It will be full color, comic format and each story will be 5 pages in length.

AND

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• Wired covers PAX.
• Wowioes, not your father’s breakfast cereal. Here’s what T Campbell is saying and Comics Worth Reading as well.  Platinum and Wowio as yet have not responded to my inquiry.
• Eric Burns posts about criticism on websnark.
• The Webcomic Overlook has part three of their ‘Joy of Webcomics’ series.
• Newly minted Scienteer P. Gibson’s comic Nestor the Greek starts today.  Congratulations!
• Cartoonist Seth has written an essay for The Walrus about the quiet art of cartooning.  Check it out.

• The Webcomic Overlook gives a One Punch Review of Ding!.
• Apple bans the comic Murderdome from distribution through iTunes, Wowio does something similar.
• In more Wowio-woes, they might be late on second quarter payments to creators.
• Wizard Universe has posted the transcript from a roundtable discussion about webcomics.
• The Scienteers review Jump Leads.
• Paul Levitz talks about digital comics over at Publishers Weekly.
• Webcomics Weekly gets a sponsor and Endicia has a postage meter starter kit deal offered to Webcomics Weekly listeners.
• The Floating Lightbulb has some PW advertising tips and tricks.
• Another top 5 webcomic list and a top 10 list for geeks.

• Boy on a Stick and Slither are featured in this post over at Boing Boing for an episode they did about surveillance.
• The Seattle Times has an article about PAX.
• A blog that I’ve never heard of ‘This Week in Webcomics.’ Happy to finally have found it!
• Jump Leads and Nightmare World join SoulGeek Webcomics. Congrats!
• ComicSpace is hiring, a Software Engineer and HTML/CSS Coder, both in NYC.
• An interview with Danielle Corsetto.
• An interview with Barry T. Smith, creator of Return to Angst.
• Brad Guigar is offering his strip, Evil, Inc., to college newspapers for free.
• The Floating Lightbulb interviews Katya and Louisa, the creators of ‘Best Band in the Universe’ and also talks about how to improve your webcomic.

We interview Steve Troop about his new project CryptoZooey! JT and Scott talk Webcomics,  Christian Ellis Shallow Thoughts

LInks:

More to come..

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• ACT-I-VATE has a write up in the Los Angeles Times.
• Koltreg has some mini reviews posted in his blog.
• Another forum thread asking for your favorite webcomics on Whitechapel.
• BOOM! Studios has a review of the webcomic Zombie Tales.
• The Webcomic Overlook has a post about the Webcomics Weekly and their various opinions of critics.
• The Webcomic Overlook reviews Erfworld.

• Wired blogger geekdad had a post called ’10 Great Webcomics You Should Not Share With Your Kids.’
• PAX is coming to Seattle late in August if you haven’t already made plans.
• ‘A People’s History of the United States’ by Howard Zinn has now been made into a graphic novel called ‘A People’s History of the American Empire.’
• Publishers Weekly takes a look at the future of publishing comics and the variety of methods for digital delivery.
• The Escapist asks you the reader what webcomics you like.
• MakeUseOf.com has a list of 5 webcomics they think you should read. At least it isn’t the same old list.
• A collective from Mexico has started up called ‘!Ka-Boom! Estudio.’ Best of luck!
• ComixTalk has an interesting interview with the creators of Pear Pear.
• Aaron Diaz, of Dresden Codak fame, is recovering from a terrible bicycle wreck. Get better soon!
• Zhi talks about Raising Hell.
• The Webcomic Overlook has something to say about Scott Kurts’ posts regarding webcomic review sites.
• A review of the new Buzz Comics and critique of voting sites in general.
• C. Bastet MacKinnon joins the Scienteers. Congratulations!

Interview with Quentin Frost of The Colonel and Company, JT and Scott talk Webcomics,  Christian Ellis Shallow Thoughts

LInks:

Vamperella Contest ay Project Rooftop
http://www.tencentticker.com/projectrooftop/2008/08/12/vampirella-revamp/


Comic Chat Cast
http://comicchatcast.com/

Comic book challenge final 10
http://www.comicbookchallenge.com/contest.php

Drunk Duck Awards Finalists
http://www.drunkduck.com/community/view_topic.php?tid=44362&cid=232
44 Categories

A very funny comic
http://www.captainexcelsior.com



Twitter Finds:

www.kncomics.com
Maya Lindell
“Of snakes and Apples” and “Stupidity of the Right Ear”

theblogComics @JTShea News: “Oy” at http://oycomics.com declared best webcomic on the Internet by unnamed source. lol

From “TB-BA”  “That Bastard - Brian Anderson”

Brian Recomends “MadScott”
The Guest strip Project http://www.moovok.co.uk/gsp/index.php
and Dog eat Doug on Squidoo

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www.thegigcast.com
Have News or a Comment?  Want to tell JT and Scott they are full of it?
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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

• Comic Book Legal Defense Fund benefit with Cory Doctorow and DJ Spooky in NYC on August 21st.
• A post entitled ‘Webcomics: The New Frontier.”
• ROK Comics is having a competition to win a Nokia 9500.
• CBR has a piece about Gunnerkrigg Court.
• Blip.tv talks about webcomics In a Handful of Minutes.
• MT Interview: Stephen Geigen-Miller and Patrick Heinicke.
• Xerexes talks with the founder of BuzzComix about the reboot.
• An interview with Tom Braselton, creator of Theater Hopper which is celebrating its sixth year. Congratulations Tom!
• How to Make Webcomics review by CBR and a response by Scott Kurtz.
• The Floating Lightbulb has an interesting post about the myth of webcomic readership being on the decline and another one about webcomic collectives and their management styles.
• PAX to come to the East Coast in 2010.