Drawn from sources wishing you a happy leap year!

• Big doings over at Keenspot, Chris Crosby acquires complete ownership of Keenspot and Comicgenesis and Dan Shive named as new CTO.
• CBR interviews Kristopher Straub. 
• How to deal with trolls and idiots on your comments boards.

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 Gigcast 131 Atomic Robocast! [0:01] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

An interview with the creative team behing Atomic Robo Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener Drunk Duck news with BK and Spang and the usual webcomic news reviews and commntary Contact The Gigcaste-mail: gigcast@nightgig.com
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Drawn from sources that are tired and shagged out after a prolonged squalk…

• Stick figure comic to explain the subprime crisis.
• A bold title: All webcartoonists should read this. 
• CBR News: The Comic Wire (no relation) reports that Dark Horse has announced new webcomic collections.
• An interview with T. Campbell on ComixTalk. 
• More manga online.
• Otakon is looking for creators to participate in their webcomics 102 panel. 
• Webcartoonist needs help, any donation will help.
• Webcomnik joins the internets. Good luck Webcomnik!
• Looking for fonts? Try Dafont.com.

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Because Lea has made this easy to spread the message. I give you her words

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

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

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

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

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

Away, my monkeys! Help Rachel! FLY!

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 Gigcast 130, Ashcans for the Masses! [0:01] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We talk Ashcans/mini comics with KC Green, Kit White and Kev Hayman, The music of Jonathan Coulton and the DD report with BK and SpANG.

 

 

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Jess Fink who has done a number of comics and T-Shirt designs has found that Hot Topix is selling one of her designs.. well almost.

A Hot Topix rep had little to say.

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

Remember Todd Goldman.

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Drawn from sources recovering from the weekend…

• Nicholas Gurewitch has announced that his strip is going on hiatus.
• Prof. Patrick Winston on how to speak.  Now you have no excuse not to wow them at the next panel. 
• More on how to create comics.
• Dilbert comments on the case of an employee being fired for posting a Dilbert strip through, you guessed it, his comic strip.  Frankly I’d rather be unemployed than a drunken lemur anyday. 
• Here’s a review of Freak Angels by Firefox News.
• T Campbell posts the Feb. 2008 survey of webcomics. 
• Ed Ryzowski, creator of Geek Tragedy, has started coloring Brad Guigar’s Evil Inc.
• Theater Hopper announces a partnership with Firstshowing.net. 
• Xaviar Xerexes interviews Cat Garza.

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Drawn from sources all over the kingdom of webcomics…

• Brad Guigar celebrates 8 years of doing a daily comic strip! Quite an accomplishment! Congratulations Brad J
• I can’t remember if I’ve posted about this or not; however, Dave Roman has some great advice for aspiring freelancers out there. 
• For those of you who are into freeware, Photoscape looks to be a promising alternative to PhotoShop.  I’d love to hear if anyone has used it and has an opinion about it.
• Lots of reactions, including this one, to this week’s XKCD.

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 Gigcast 129, Uke lookin' at me? [0:01] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We talk with and listen to the music of Youtube Ukulele Diva Molly, aka Sweetafton23 . Plus the DD report from BK and SpANG! and the usual mix of webcomic news review and commentary.

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 Gigcast 129, Uke lookin' at me? [0:01] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We talk with and listen to the music of Youtube Ukulele Diva Molly, aka Sweetafton23 . Plus the DD report from BK and SpANG! and the usual mix of webcomic news review and commentary.

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