Webcomic Beacon #46: Drama Behind the Scenes and Out in the Open.

Darcy and Matt Sowers, of Code Name: Hunter, join Fes, Tanya, and Aaron are talking about drama behind the scenes, and sometimes, of course, right out in the open. Mike of Quitting Time has made this episode’s cover! Mark Savary talks to us about observation, and then reviews My Life in a Cube.

Steve Troop of Crypto Zooey introduces our show this week!

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This week’s good Searchlight is Speak No Evil: Melancholy of a Space Mexican. Milestones: The KAMics (4 Yrs) and Gods Playing Poker (1 Yr). Do you have a milestone to report? Would you like us to give our (positive and/or negative) impressions on your comic? Send a notice to us at WebcomicBeacon@gmail.com.

Check out the Rampage Network’s Caption Contest this month! Prizes from Evil Inc! Also, there is a drawing for Rare Jenny Everywhere playing cards for the WAGON Webcomic Battle TCG! Also, check out the Global Comic Jam for Jenny Everywhere: Miss Adventure! Sign up to draw a page today!

Notes: Sites mentioned: Garfield minus Garfield, Something Positive, DrunkDuck, Paranoia High, Geek Tragedy, Just Another Webcomic, PVP, Guest Strip Project,

ALSO: Check out Fes’ LIVE broadcasting of his 24 Hour Lego Comic Attempt!
AND, let us know if you are doing a 24 Hour Webcomic as well, in our forums!
PLUS, If you know of any webcomics that have “died”, let us know for our Halloween Episode!

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Webcomic Beacon #45: 24 Hour Comics

Fes, Tanya, and Aaron are talking about 24 Hour Comics! We had a few audio irregularities this episode, but please enjoy nonetheless! Tanya also presents us with 6 helpful tips to fail (and some to succeed)!

Greg Dean of Real Life Comics introduces our show this week!

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If you are planning a 24 Hour Webcomic for 24 Hour Comics Day (Oct. 18th), post a note on our official forum! Post what you are planning, and where we can see progress updates and the final product! We’ll go over the list on the next show and check some out!

 

This week’s Searchlight is Nuclear Test: Life…. though we may not review comics like this anymore. Milestones: My Lady (completed), Song Stress (completed), Last Res0rt (100 strips), Zortic (RETURNS!), Dr. Sheep and the Aardvark (200), Elf ‘n Troll (ending), Dock Boys (6 years), Super Fogeys (2 years) . Do you have a milestone to report? Would you like us to give our (positive and/or negative) impressions on your comic? Send a notice to us at WebcomicBeacon@gmail.com.

Check out the Rampage Network’s Caption Contest this month! Prizes from Evil Inc! Also, there is a drawing for Rare Jenny Everywhere playing cards for the WAGON Webcomic Battle TCG! Also, check out the Global Comic Jam for Jenny Everywhere: Miss Adventure! Sign up to draw a page today!

Notes: Sites mentioned: The Gigcast, Scott McCloud, Jenny crossover in Betapwned, Wikipedia: 24 Hour Comics, Squid Works Comic Co-Op, Diana Nock at Jinxville, The International Cartoonist Conspiracy, Fallcon (Minnesota), Wapsi Square, Ryan Dow, Blank it Comics, Mad Scott, Find My Brick, XKCD, Perry Bible Fellowship, Buttersafe, Toothpaste for Dinner, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Frumph, Webcomics Inc, Halloween Cameo Caper 2008, Gilbert and the Grim Rabbit,

Other Webcomics from Fallcon, but I neglected to mention on the show: Business Casual, Rasputin Catamite, Staple Genius, Catnose Comics, Red Zone, Superfantisca Comix, Demon Eater, Straygo, Junior Varsity, The Local Haunt, The Planet Closest to Heaven, That’d Be Sweet, Studio Anti Thesis, and appologies to ones I forgot or lost their card to!

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Webcomic Beacon #44: The 10 Commandments of Webcomic Production

Kris Overstreet and Ben Rodriguez of White Lightning Productions join Fes, Tanya, and Aaron talking about The 10 Commandments of Webcomic Production. Also Mark Savary, uh, I mean, Mr. Slick Smooth talks about adult comics such as Peter is the Wolf, Pawn, and Dragonfest.

Chris Daily of Strip Tease introduces our show this week!

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We had some technical difficulties this week, so no milestones or Beacon Searchlight this week. Do you have a milestone to report? Would you like us to give our (positive and/or negative) impressions on your comic? Send a notice to us at WebcomicBeacon@gmail.com.

Also, stay tuned after the show for a call-in from Kyle of Jovian Luck! Also, check out some great Extra Content for Episode 44 at our Talk Shoe Page!

Notes: Sites mentioned: Cheshire Crossing, Comic Genesis, Super Fogeys, Tales of the Questor, Make your own Wiki, Wapsi Square, Net Mechanic, Free Webcomic Hosts, ComicPress, Drunk Duck, Zebra Girl, Gone with a Blast Wave, Arthur, King of Time and Space, Schlock Mercenary, Real Life Comics, Freefall, Punch and Pie, Something Positive, Girl Genius, The 10 Doctors, Peter is the Wolf, The Magnificent Milkmaid, Chocolate Milkmaid, The Mis-Adventures of Chichi-Chan, Stellar, White Lightning Shirts, Minos the Minotaur, Something Awful Forums: Batman’s Shameful Secret, The Gigcast,

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Webcomic Beacon #43: Placing Ads on Your Website, with Tony Piro

Tony Piro of Calamities of Nature joins Fes, Tanya, and Aaron are talking about advertising! No, not placing ads, but placing AD SPACE. We go over Tony’s reviews of various ad services such as Project Wonderful. Also, we joined stupid Twitter… or yeah… twitter.com/webcomicbeacon

Phil Foglio of Girl Genius introduces our show this week!

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Milestones this week: … NONE REPORTED! For the Beacon Searchlight we give our first impressions of Gilbert and the Grim Rabbit! Do you have a milestone to report? Send a notice to us at WebcomicBeacon@gmail.com.

Notes: Sites mentioned: The Gigcast, Brett Hainley, Aarin Lewis, Webcomic Asylum, Jovian Luck, Project Wonderful, Google Adsense, ADSDAQ, Burst Media, Adbrite, Odd Fish, Black Label Ads, Twitter, Penny Arcade’s Twitter Strip, Insert Comic Here, Tanya’s Traitorous appearance on The Gigcast, Steal This Comic, TV Shows Connected by St. Elsewhere,

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Webcomic Beacon #42: The Crossover Wars

Fes and Aaron are talking about Crossovers and The 2007 Crossover Wars! Hogan of The Cameo & Crossover Archive, Reinder of Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan, and Gothia of America Gothic Daily all join us today. Mike of Prepare to Die comes on later to talk about the WAGON Webcomic Battle card game!

Mark Savary talks about Pirates, as September 19 is Talk Like a Pirate Day! He looks at The Wannabe Pirates, Pirates vs. Ninjas, and Sails Of Blood!

Scott Bevan of White Ninja Comics introduces our show this week!

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Milestones this week: Ripeville (200), Insert Comic Here (2 Years), Girly (600), Commissioned (4 Years), Anders Loves Maria (200 + 2 years)! For the Beacon Searchlight we give our first impressions on Jovian Luck (mistakenly referred to as “Space Heist” on the show). Do you have a milestone to report? Would you like us to give our (positive and/or negative) impressions on your comic? Send a notice to us at WebcomicBeacon@gmail.com.

Notes: Sites mentioned: The Gigcast, Framed, The Framed Great Escape (mostly missing), Clan of the Cats, Elf Life, College Roomies from Hell, Drunk Duck, Magical Misfits, Life and Death, The KAMics, Chronicles of the Witch Queen, Project A.D.A.M., Invasion, Repository of Dangerous Things, Mind Mistress, Jenny Everywhere, Evil Overlords United, Cameo Comic, The Volet, Treasure Hunters, Pimpette & Associates, Candi, Jenny Everywhere and the Crossing Over Worlds, Halloween 2008 Cameo Caper, Angry D. Monkey, Oh, and I should mention that the cover is adapted from The Crossover Wars website. The Quasi-Official Song for Talk Like a Pirate Day can be found here by Tom Smith.

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Webcomic Beacon #41: Open Forum Discussion #4

Mark Savary joins Fes, Tanya, and Aaron as we just sit back a bit and shoot the breeze about webcomics in an open forum. We also rag on The Gigcast a bit, but only because we love them! And we are not at all copying them in any way…. no, we’d never do that. Zack of Unamused Comics brings us this week’s cover!

Steve Notley of Bob the Angry Flower introduces our show this week!

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Milestones this week: Cigarro & Cerveja (10 years and ending) and The Far Reaches (200). On the Beacon Searchlight we look at, and give our impressions on Geist Panik. Do you have a milestone to report? Would you like us to give our (positive or negative) impressions on your comic? Send a notice to us at WebcomicBeacon@gmail.com.

Notes: Sites mentioned: Hatpire, Last Place Comics, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Book of Biff, Perry Bible Fellowship, Kawaii Not, Minus, DrunkDuck.com, ComicGenesis.com, Rampage Network, Xepher.net, Webcomics Nation, Comic Dish, Smack Jeeves, Something Awful Comic Forum, The Gigcast, Levelator (Program), A Taste of Evil, Dresdson Codak, Jenny Everywhere, Union of Heros, Sugary Serials, Super Fogeys, Socks, Penny Arcade, Spiky-Haired Dragon, Worthless Knight, Hookie Dookie Panic, and thanks to Jinxtigr for being especially active in our chat room during our weekly live broadcast and recording!

Also, Tanya Rocks The Gigcast.

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Webcomic Beacon #40: Superhero Webcomics

Ben Carver of Point Guardian, Al Schroeder of Mind Mistress, Neil Purcell of Dasien, and Abby Lark of The Green Avenger joins Fes, Aaron, and Tanya as we once again discuss superhero webcomics! Thanks to Carlisle of Steal This Comic for doing our cover! Neil also drew something for this show before he knew Abby was coming and that the cover was already being drawn (click either image for larger size):

Kent of White Ninja Comics introduces our show this week!

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Milestones this week: The Gigcast, another webcomic podcast (3 years), Legostar Galactica (6 years), Sara Zero (300) , Circle vs Square (100), and Galaxion (2 years). On the Beacon Searchlight we look at Mind’s Eye of Jupiter.

Notes: Sites mentioned: Might have missed a bunch of them, but here’s the Stan Lee interview with Veronica Belmont on Mahalo Daily, Xepher.net Logo Contest, Crowfeathers, Lawn Darts, Planet Karen, Lizzy, Black Hat Collective, and Challenges of Zona.

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Webcomic Beacon #39: Restarting Your Comic, with Tara Tallan

Tara Tallan of Galaxion joins Fes, Aaron, and Tanya as we go over reasons and “how-to”s of restarting your comic. We also get Jason Wilson of Smuggling Vacation on to discuss some “controversy” that came from his print comic.

David Willis of Shortpacked introduces our show this week!

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Milestones this week: Jazz and Jess (3-yrs) and Code Name Hunter (7-yrs). The Beacon Searchlight points at Unions of Heros and we give it our impressions. Mark Savary comes back with a review of Last Place Comics.

Sites mentioned: Midwest Fur Fest, Fan Expo, Geek Kon, Girl-a-Matic, ReBoot, Dark Red, and be sure to check out our Talk Shoe page for “Extra Content” from after the show ends.

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Webcomic Beacon #38: Genderswap or Trans/Morph Webcomics w/ Dan Shive

Dan Shive of El Goonish Shive joins Fes, Eric, and eventually Tanya as we discuss webcomics that have transgendering or morphologies. (Late edit: Probably better worded as “genderswap”.)

Not Randy Milholland of Something Positive introduces our show this week!

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Milestones this week: Dungeon Warden (500 and Ending), and Exiern (3 years).

Notes: Sites mentioned: Sluggy Freelance, Girly, Commissioned, Girl Genius, PVP, Penny Arcade, Sin Fest, Dominic Deegan, Nodwick, Full Frontal Nerdity, Backward Compatible, Crossworlds, Ps238, The Wotch, Abstract Gender, Discordia, Clan Bob, Metamorphose, Order of the Stick, TGComics (moreso NSFW), Changes, Venus Envy, Galaxion, XXXenophile.com, Guest Strip Project, Webcomic Crossover & Cameo Archive, The KAMics,

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Webcomic Beacon #37: Spectacular Failure #2 and Open Forum Discussion

Fes and Tanya, are joined by Ben Carver to help salvage what Murphy’s Law had done to this week’s show! Awesome! Let’s say it’s everyone’s fault… yea… let’s go with that. Well, Hopefully this is entertaining since Fes get’s made fun of for not knowing how to do things. It’s an Open Forum Discussion during another Spectacular Failure! We also talk about a few things brought up in The Webcomic List forums. Some of which turned into a discussion on Feminism. And then we roll into how Fes can’t do things again.

J. Jacques of Questionable Content introduces our show this week! Special break music was from Lord Pandar’s coming music album, with samples at Cryptowen.com, whom of which also did this week’s cover!

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Mary Savary brings us his thoughts on webcomic updates, and goes over The World’s Worst Webcomic, Avoid Spikes, Butternut Squash, Bugsport, Pirate & Alien, and Daedalus Blue. Also we have a Beacon Searchlight of Jakob’s Hourly Comic project. Don’t forget the Strip Fight.org Weekly Ringside Update!

Mark Savary takes a look at The World’s Worst Webcomic by Evil Couch, Avoid Spikes by Martin & Wolf, Butternut Squash by Ramón Pérez and Rob Coughler, Bugsport by Ted Bastien, Pirate & Alien by Tyson Smith, and Daedalus Blue by John Aggs and Dave Andrews.

Sites mentioned: Galaxion, School Spirit, Comic Genesis, Drunk Duck, Exiern, CSS Zen Garden, Net Mechanic, Coffee Cup, The Webcomic List Forums,  DMFA, The Devil’s Panties, Penny Arcade, Templar Arizona, Queen of Wands, Something Positive, American Gothic, Girls with Sling-Shots, Girl Genius, Girl-a-Matic, Girl Wonder, Webcomics Weekly, Downloadable Content, Digital Strips, Art and Story, The Gig Cast, Kaspall, Punch and Pie, Jenny Everywhere, Blade of Toshubi, Also you can check out the prep work for the Halloween Cameo Caper 2008!

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