Drawn from sources that are appalled at the show ‘I Survived a Japanese Game Show’…

• Platinum Studios in negotiations to aquire WOWIO, LLC. Still no response to my press inquiries about DJ Coffman’s contract issues.
• R. Stevens is ending his syndication arrangement with United Media.
• The Webcomic Watchmen review Happiness is a Warm Gun.
• Some cool stuff from the Floating Lightbulb including a post about John Solomon and a shotgun interview with Liesl Adams of On the Edge.
• An interview with Drunk Duck Founder Dylan Squires who is moving on from Platinum.
• An interesting post entitled ‘What happened to Comics 2.0?’
• Webcomics Inc. blog has moved to a networked community site called ning.
• CBR has an interesting post about MySpace and Comics.
• Red Eyed Johnny, America’s first nationwide webcomic rehab program.
• Comic Fencing has a review of Multiplex.
• Two Hearts author is working on a video game.

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 The Steppe Interviews - Gigcast #148 [17:13] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

JT’s on vacation and Scott runs the show, Christian Ellis Shallow Thoughts and Music from JT

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Kreg Steppe interviews Capes ‘N Babes, and Dire Destiny

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Drawn from sources who get their news from the Daily Show because it feels better in my soul-like region…

• Platinum Studios announced in their newsletter that they recently had an independent firm perform an IP asset valuation and came up with the estimated worth of a little over $150MM.
• Heidi MacDonald has a great post about how Platinum is dealing with D.J. Coffman, now saying that they’re not going to hand back the rights after all. I guess $150MM isn’t enough and D.J. is right, it’s never too late to do the right thing; I’m looking at you Brian Altounian. Joey Manley has more.
• The Webcomic Watchman reviews Happiness is a Warm Gun.
• John Freeman has a brief guide to making webcomics.
• The Webcomic Overlook has posted reviews during its self proclaimed furry week.
• Kevin Cornell talks about the implements of the trade.
• Jon Rosenberg, creator of Goats, interviewed on ComicMix.
• A helpful tip to webcomics with RSS feeds from Blueskycomic.
• Call for artists.
• Grumps is over, so long and thanks for all the fish!
• Blank It, a new webcomic from Lemuel Pew and Aric McKeown.

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 The Gigcast 147 [0:01] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

JT and Scott talk Webcomics, Christian Ellis Shallow Thoughts and Music from The Fump

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Drawn from sources all over the world wide web…

• Webcomics Weekly #38 talks about the Orphan Works Bill.
• The Harvey Award nominees are out.
• ComixTalk catches up with Dylan Meconis, creator of Bite Me! And currently working on Family Man.
• ComixTalk interviews Kilo Burrell of SPQR Blues.
• Webcomic Overlook gives a one punch review of Castle Vidcons. In correction to my last post Webcomic Overlook was reviewing Tales of Pylea on Comic Fencing.
• Here is a new service for making webcomics called Pikkipi and here is their blog. I read their EULA and it doesn’t make my eyes bleed, good for you Pikkipi, anyone care to point out something I missed in it that’s bad?
• Comic Book Resources has a post about Pray for Death.
• An interesting post about How ‘Comics and the Internet’ is a tricky subject.
• A report from Aiea Library – iRead Webcomics Talk #1.
• The Joe Shuster Award winners were announced and the winners of the Outstanding Canadian Webcomics Creator/ Creative Team are Ryan Sohmer and Lar De Souza for Least I Can Do and Looking for Group. Congratulations!
• Robert Downey Jr. is in talks with Dreamworks/ Universal’s ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ which was optioned from Platinum Studios.
• Ben Gordon and William Hessian interview each other about webcomics, the first part of which is posted here and the second part is posted here.

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Drawn from sources that are full to the gills with news…

• Diesel Sweeties releases a ten-volume free collection edition under Creative Commons licensed.
• A study on the neuroscience of selling your stuff… ouch!
• If you haven’t noticed Project Wonderful has recently upgraded their charts to contain exact daily values. You can also now compare the performance of up to three campaigns on the same chart and download those reports as a CSV file for offline analysis. Sweet!
• Excalibur, York University’s Community Newspaper has an interesting article ‘T-shirts: the secret to a lucrative career.
• Rdhallwriter posts about an article from Hear 2.0 and uses that as the basis for his assertion that webcomics are our future.
• Newsarama Roundtable on Economics and Webcomics.
• Go and get your copy of Inbound: The Boston Comics Roundtable Anthology today.
• Poinko has ended his comic Lancaster: The Ghost Detective, it will be missed; however, we do look forward to what new project is in the works too.
• Punch an’ Pie reaches 200 strips! Congratulations Aeire and Chris!
• The Webcomic Overlook reviews Tales of Pylea.
• The Floating Lightbulb posts about the upcoming release of ComicSpace.
• Ren and Stimpy storyboards.
• T. Campbell’s gets a post on BoingBoing.net for the return of FANS! in February.
• Ape Lad’s sketchbook scanned to Flickr.

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 Gigcast 146 - Ben Saves the Day [0:01] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

JT and Scott talk Webcomics,  Interview with Ben Paddon of Jump Leads, Ghost Hamster and Podwarp 1999!  A few news stories  and A Christiana Ellis Shallow Thoughts

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Drawn from sources that know not to mess with the Zohan…

• The Sequential Artists’ Pub – June 13^th, bring your favorite beverage and join in the conversation at TalkShoe show.
• The Webcomic Overlook gives a Once Punch Review of Crazy Buffet.
• Occasional Superheroine posts about webcomics at MoCCA.
• Nicholas Gurewitch is profiled in MPNnow.com.
• Bill Watterson profiled on Lines and Colors blog.
• Malcontent Foz Meadows has an interesting post about her life with webcomics on her blog Shattersnipe.
• Brad Fox defends publishers in this post.
• Daily Bits has a post called ‘5 Webcomics That Don’t Suck.’
• ComixTalk has an interview with Dresden Codak creator Aaron Diaz.

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Drawn from sources that are thankfully not made in a sweatshop by child labor…

• The creators of Nemu Nemu are panning a presentation called ‘iRead Webcomics!’ which will be a discussion of some basic techniques and tips on making webcomics at 20 libraries across Hawaii.
• The blog Comic-1 posts about webcomics on Xpase.net.
• Click to Remove posts his idea for how to monetize a webcomic and follows up with a post about how to name your webcomic.
• Rick Marshall interviews Chris Hastings over at Mindpollution.org.
• Vito Delsante tells us more about ‘No Formula: Stories from The Chemistry Set (Vol. 1)’ over at his blog.
• 4 color rebellion talks about his favorite webcomic, Cyanide and Happiness.
• Blake Petit reviews How To Make Webcomics over at Comixtreme.com.
• Fleen talks about the fire alarm at MoCCA.
• The Webcomic Overlook reviews Freak Angels on ComixTalk.
• The Scienteers reports that creator Troy Smith’s comic, Scandal Sheet is coming back from hiatus. Welcome back Troy!

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Drawn from sources that are listening to webcomic podcasts today…

• A new set of Heroes webcomics is reportedly on the way.
• Platinum Studios continues to send out press announcements about how great their doing, but nothing from them about thier payment issues relating to Hero by Night creator DJ Coffman. The latest, ‘Final Orbit’ will be made into a movie.
• Webcomics Inc. is a blog about webcomics that I’ve just discovered as well as the Webcomics Inc social network on Ning.
• As reported by The Beat, Tokyopop publisher Mike Kiley sent out this letter to TP creators after announcing title cuts and staff layoffs.
• The Webcomic Overlook reviews OOTS.
• Rate My Drawings is hosting Drawing Day, this from Lines and Colors.
• Cloven Hand Comics, yet another site I’ve discovered today for hosting and community services.

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