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Drawn from sources all over the world…

• 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.

Reported by Michael Moss.

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JT and Scott Talk Webcomics.  on Talkshoe  LIVE!

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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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Drawn from sources that are getting ready to watch Obama get sworn in…

• 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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You may not know this but I’m a part time gamer geek. I love to crush little pixels under my 3d rendered boot. That’s why I’m pretty excited to point you to Wingdamage.com.

Brought to you by the Fighting Gregories they bring you reviews and articles about why they love gaming. From the music, to the art, the characters, the culture and everything in between.

Check out their first review over at www.wingdamage.com.

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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.

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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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Drawn from sources that love The Muppets…

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

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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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Drawn from sources that are ready to watch Tropic Thunder tomorrow…

• 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.

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Drawn from sources that are under the gun in the new year…

• 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.

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