Webcomic Beacon #17: Comic Brainstorm Session #3

Fes and Tanya sit at the Round Table, once again, for a comic brainstorm session with Eric of Exiern, Thom of Crossworlds, and Gothia of American Gothic. We get down to business and crank out a lot of good information on our Primary and Secondary Characters! Aarin Edwards and Brett Hainley are out this week, but we have a guest reviewer! Mark of Autumn Lake wants to try out to be our Webcomic Reviewer, and he reviews Chronicles of Salterre.

Webcomic Milestones coming up in the next week: Life and Death will be hitting 500 comics, and Dead Days will be hitting 400 comics! Congrats!

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Webcomic Beacon #16: Net Neutrality?

Brett Hainley joins us in our discussion on Net Neutrality. We mostly learn that Fes knows the least about anything, of anyone in the room. STAY IN SCHOOL! … or at least pay attention more… Anyway, this week we had it set up as an Open Forum, where we had a live broadcast using uStream. We hope to do it again next time. We ran out of time for a Webcomic Reviews and Impressions, but we have only one Milestone this week: Mr. Oblivious has hit over 100 comics!

We are currently looking for a new webcomic reviewer for The Beacon. Stay tuned for more information or send us an e-mail asking for details!

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Notes: Sites mentioned this week: SaveTheInternet.com, Something Positive, Congress.org, HouseOfRepresentatives.gov, and Senate.gov. Also Digital Strips is updating again and thanks to K-Dawg of Angry D. Monkey for showing up in our chat room for the show!

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Webcomic Beacon #15: Webcomic Podcasts

With the show today we have JT and Scott of The Gigcast, as well as CD Rudd of the 910 CMX Webcomic Talk Group! We talk shop about how we handle our Webcomic Podcasts. Brett Hainley gives us a short guest review of the webcomic Goblins, and Aarin Edwards gives up a quick impression of Lizzy. We have only one Milestone this week: Super Fight Fight has hit 1 year!

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Notes: Sites mentioned this week: Talk Shoe, Extra Life Radio, Skype, uStream, Technorama, Family Webcomics, Night Gig, The Levelator, Digital Strips, JT “Ukes” at 40, Sonic Society, Sweat Shop Studios, Madscott, Sailor Sun, Downloadable Content, Art & Story, The Webcomic List, The Wotch Community, Drunk Duck, Farpoint Media, and Project Wonderful. Oh, also Thorn, 67th Avenue, and School Spirit.

Special reference: “MyHope” – Original Uke Music Video

Gigcast Contest info: Subscribe to both The Gigcast and Beatnik Turtle

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Webcomic Beacon #14: All Ages Comics

How can one find All Ages Comics? Do we read any and don’t realize it? We have Michelle and James Lehmann of Family Webcomics on the show with to discuss the whole dealeo. Brett Hainley returns to give us his thoughts on the said “school of thinking”. Aarin Edwards and Diana Nock are out this week… so no Impressions or Reviews this week. We might be looking for a new semi-permanent reviewer too, as Diana needs to focus on other stuffs.

Some Milestones this week: Planet Saturday Comics has hit 100 Comic Pages And will now be updating weekly! Bitmap World also celebrates 100 Strips!

For next week, we will be having Tim (and maybe Scott) of The Gigcast, as well as, CD Rudd of 910 CMX on the show. The subject? Webcomic Podcasting! Submit an audio file or plain text e-mail message to us with a question or comment about this week’s topic, or next week’s topic!

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Notes: Sites mentioned this week: Sugary Serials, Copper, Kevin And Kell, Dreamland Chronicles, Dan and Mab’s Furry Adventures, ZAP!, Zip and Li’l Bit, Freefall, Cooties, Girl Genius, Floppity, Muffin Time, Minus, Rating Pandas, and Ardra.

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Webcomic Beacon #13: Comic Brainstorm Session #2

Continuing from where we left off in Episode 8, we present Part 2 of our Webcomic Brainstorm Sessions! On our panel we have Eric of Exiern, Thom of Crossworlds, and Gothia of American Gothic. Also, Aarin of The Best of What’s Left joins us as a Guest Host since Tanya is out again. Brett and Diana are also out this week, but we still have Aarin Edwards giving his Impressions of Camera Obscura and The Best Band in the Universe.

For next week, we will be having Michelle and James Lehmann of Family Webcomics on the show. We’ll be talking about All Ages Comics. Submit an audio file or plain text e-mail message to us with a question or comment about this week’s topic, or next week’s topic! But hey, maybe you should pick up our Feed!

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Notes: Sites mentioned this week: Anders Loves Maria, Rouges of Clwyd-Rhan, Galaxian, and 100-Strip Milestoners: Bristled and The Manual… who, ironically, have both gone on Hiatus.

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Webcomic Beacon #12: Printing, Serials and Anthologies

Special Guest Host this week! We have Jerzy Drozd of Sugary Serials and the Art and Story podcast! We talk about printing webcomics in issues, serials and anthologies. Plugging a number of sites in the process. We miss having Diana and Brett this week, but Fes goes ahead and reviews Marry Me. Also we still have Aarin Edwards giving his Impressions of Split Shift and Poly+Morfs.

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Notes: Sites mentioned this week: Sugary Serials, 01 Comics, IndyPlanet, KA-BLAM Digital Pritning, LuLu; and webcomics: Nemu Nemu, Dial K for Komics, Jenny Everywhere. Also enter contests at Strip Fight.org.

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Webcomic Beacon #11: Open Forum Discussion #2, and Rene Engström Interview!

The candy is 50% off, and we had another open forum for this week’s show! We maybe mentioned Valentine’s Day, but we also talked about The Nominees of the WCCAs (vote soon!). We also interviewed Rene Engström of Anders Loves Maria *NSFW*! Also Brett Hainley rants about online dickery in his Casually Ramblings. Diana Nock gives us a review of Hold My Life, and Aarin Edwards gives his Impression of Stupid Robot.

NOTE: I want to apologize for the coincidence of Rene being on, as well as the Casual Ramblings statement on Something Awful (as Rene is an active member). Brett was given free reign of his subjects, and while heated, I choose not to censor his segment. However, this was not an intended correlation, and not meant to insult Rene in the least. I did apologize to Rene personally, and it’s water under the bridge. – Fes

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Notes: Some other sites and webcomics mentioned on this week’s show include: The Best of What’s Left, Meiosis, Minus, Bear and Kitten, Cooties, Quitting Time, Coffee Time and Across the Way, Comixtalk.com, Comixpedia.com, and tons of comics listed as the nominees to The Web Cartoonists’ Choice Awards. (Vote Now!) And check out the ongoing comic strip contests at Strip Fight.org.

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Webcomic Beacon #10: Commissions! Plus Interview with O. Abnormal aka “Obsidian”

We are will be talking about Commissions as we interview Obsidian (aka O. Abnormal) of Commissioned Comic .com! Once again Brett Hainley delivers his thoughts with Casually Ramblings. Diana Nock gives us a review of Truck Bearing Kibble. And also Aarin Edwards with some Webcomic Impressions of Teddy Bear Trauma and Easy Skankin.

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Webcomic Beacon #9: Developing a Style

What’s the difference between drawing in a style and not drawing well? We talk about developing a style and come up with a few different approaches. Brett Hainley Casually Rambles on the subject. Our Interview this week is with Brock Heasley of Super Fogeys! Again we have Aarin Edwards with honest Webcomic Impressions of Thick Pie and Calamities of Nature.

No webcomic review this week. But a special Happy Birthday to The Mortician of Project A.D.A.M.! Happy Birthday Dude!

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Webcomic Beacon #8: Comic Brainstorm Session #1

Trying something new, with a Webcomic Brainstorm Session! With us is Drowemos, Gothia, and Thom brainstorming a new webcomic, essentially from scratch. Brett Hainley returns with another Casual Rambling. We also have some brutally honest Webcomic Impressions of Invincible Jeff and Radcliffe with Aarin Edwards and a Webcomic Review of What Birds Know from Diana Nock!

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