Webcomic Beacon #66: Promoting Your Comic with Ads & Links

C.J. (Steal This Comic) joins Fes, Tanya, and Mark to discuss Ads, links, and other ways to promote your webcomic.

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Cover by Jack of Gothy

Milestones: Capes n babes (200 strips), The Ord (100 strips), PSI (300 strips), Tally Road (200 strips), Meiosis (200 strips). This week we  give our Impressions on: The artiste Manquee, Lowly Dregs, and  The Ord!

Thanks to George for recording the sites mentioned on the show:

Webcomic Wallpaper, Project Wonderful, Questionable Content, Devils Panties, Boxcar Astronaut, Rocket Lama, Sword & Sarcasm, White Noise, Juathuur Gatecrash, Crow Feathers, Lords of Death and life, UStream, Galaxion, Eyeskream webcomic Creators Group, Rampage Network, Webcomic Z, Webcomic asylum, Gothy.

The 2008 Webcomic Beaky Awards!

The Webcomic Beacon is underway in reviewing eligible nominations for the best new webcomics of 2008! These were submissions from listeners and ourselves.

*NOTE* The Colors of the links mean nothing. It’s apart of how WordPress works when you paste copied links. Manually renaming and linking all of these would be too much of a pain in the butt.

Webcomic Beacon #65: Furries and Furry Comics

Dr. Samuel Conway, aka Uncle Kage (UncleKage.com), joins Fes, Tanya, and Mark to discuss furries, furry fandom, and furry webcomics.  Darcy (Code Name: Hunter), Rachel (Last Res0rt), and Trpdwarf (Around the Fur Studio) join in the call.

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Milestones: Apple Geeks (500 pages), Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic (1000 strips), The Ord (100 strips) , Gets a Job (100 strips). This week we set our Beacon Searchlight on Krazy Bov. We also would like to Spotlight: Dead Winter.

News: Karen of Planet Karen had her apartment burned downZortic mentioned in his Journal that Susannah Kist needs our help.

Thanks to George for recording the sites mentioned on the show:

Kevin and Kell, Jack, Doc Rat, Urban Jungle, Fletcher Apts, Lack-a-daisy, Plush and Blood, Avoid Spikes, By the Saints, Precocious, Dan and Mabs Furry Adventures, Sabrina online, Suicide for Hire, Broken Plot Device, Chivalry and Knavery, Freefall, Mac Rat Love, VG Cats

Additional Links: CNN Coverage of Anthrocon 2009.

Webcomic Beacon #64: Cast Diversity In Your Comic

C.J. (Steal This Comic), Swankivy (Negative One), and Jinx Tigr (Tally Road) call in to talk with Fes, Tanya, and Mark about cast diversity.

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Julie Sydor of Song of Straygo drew the cover for the show.

Milestones: ETI PI (100 updates), Eros Inc (100 comics), Faulty logic (100 updates), and House Pets (100 comics).

Thanks to George for recording the sites mentioned on the show:
The Webcomic List Forum DiscussionCooties, Webcomic Overlook, Sam and Lilah, Cheap Thrills, Furry MUCK, Zerbra Girl, Webcomic Wallpapers, Death Rythym Blues, A Year of Living Biblically

Webcomic Beacon #63: Anti-Valentine’s Day Special

It’s an Anti-Valentine’s Day Special with Jules Rivera (Marsh Rocket) joins Fes and Mark to discuss bad relationships and terrible romance in webcomics in bitter celebration of Greeting Card’s Day.

Milestones: Nerf Now (1 yr), Boxcar Astronaut (100 strips), Slightly off topic (100 strips).

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This episode is brought to you by: Last Resort, Ned the Chainsaw Guy and Action Flick Chick!

Thanks to George for recording the sites mentioned on the show:

Menage-a-3 (NSFW), Penny and Aggie, Marry MeNo Pink Ponies, Inverloch, Mega Tokyo, Candi, Namir Deiter, You Say it First, Badly Drawn Kitties, Fur Will Fly, Ozy and Millie, Ganbare! Shimura-san, Anders loves Maria, Least I can do (NSFW), Questionable Content, Capes n Babes, Night Zero, Union of Heroes.

Webcomic Beacon #62: Open Forum: What’s in a Name?

Zack (Insert Comic Here) and Rachel (Last Res0rt) join Fes, Tanya, and Mark to discuss some of the meanings behind, and reasons for, the names we pick for our webcomic characters. We are ALSO joined by several callers that were listening to the show LIVE on our Sunday Afternoon Broadcast! What were YOU doing? Watching the “Super Bowl”?

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Cover by Zack of Insert Comic Here.

The people who called in were: Adrian from Jayden and Crusader, Ben Carver from Point Guardian, Jules Rivera from March Rocket, Alexantra from Garanos, and  Gray Liliy from The Adventures of Wiglaf and Mordred

Beacon SearchLights: The Great Space Race, Alone in a crowd, Mikey’s life, Twisted Musings, Between Failures , Between Failures, The Adventures of Wiglaf and Mordred, Synchronism

Thanks to George for recording the sites mentioned on the show:
Webcomic Overlook, Least I could do, Gastrophobia, Questionable Content, Krazy Bov Comics

Webcomic Beacon #61: Hobbyists vs Professionalists

Scott Gallatin (of The Gigcast and Madscott) join FesTanya, and Mark as we talk about hobbyist and professionalist approaches to webcomickery… Yes I know that isn’t a real word, but it looks funny.

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Milestones:  Trying Human (100 pages), Genuine Draft (100 pages), Alone in a crowd (1 yr), Big sandy gilmore (100 strips), Heroes of Lesser Earth (400 strips). This week we set our Beacon Searchlight on The Nolans.

This episode is brought to you by: Galaxion and Webcomic Asylum!

Thanks to George for recording the sites mentioned on the show:
Dominic Deegan, Least I could do (NSFW), Jonathan Coulton, Scott Kurtz’s PVP, Penny Arcade, No need for Bushido

Webcomic Beacon #60: Coloring with Jules Rivera

Jules Rivera of Marsh Rocket joins Fes, Tanya, and Mark this week to talk about coloring! We also go on to talk about hedge clippers,  relationships and drama…. particularly in the aftershow.

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Milestones: Between Failures (400 strips), Circle vs Square (1 yr), Moosemountain Comics (100 updates). This week we set our Beacon Searchlight on Riotfish.  Also of note is that the Guest Strip Project failed to meet it’s update schedule.

This episode is brought to you by: Prepare to Die and Galaxion!

Thanks to George for recording the sites mentioned on the show: Book of Bif, The Structure of Man YouTube videos (buy the DVDs), Song of Straygo, Cookbros comics, Steal this comic

Webcomic Beacon #59: Using WordPress for your Webcomic Website

Fes and Tanya are joined by special guest Mike Sisk (Webcomic+Inkblot), to talk about using WordPress to run your webcomic website!

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Milestones: Insert comic Here (200), Grin and Spirit (4 yrs). This week we set our Webcomic Searchlight on Bulflinch. We also would like to Spotlight: Toy division, True Magic, and Galaxian!

This episode is brought to you by: Peons of Antarctica and Silver age!

Thanks to George for recording the sites mentioned on the show:
Casual Notice, Fractured Mentality, The Adventures of Wiglaf & Mordred, Divine Introspection, Akward Comfort, Emperors of Byzantium, Wagon Webcomic Battle

Webcomic Beacon #58: Apocalypse Webcomics (Disaster Podcast)

Another attempt at a genre podcast! Good thing Fes has  Tanya and Mark helping to keep things off-topic and interesting! Yes, we talk about movies a lot, but what better inspiration than Hollywood? … No? Well listen anyway! Also check out some of the Apocalypse and Disaster Webcomics we talk about. Post in the comments, ones we missed!

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Milestones: Out There (800), Dr Sheep and the Aardvark (ends), Point Guardian – (ending), Cheap Thrills (100), Autumn Lake (700), P.S.I. (300), and Out of my Mind (1 yr)!

This episode is brought to you by: Steal This Comic, and Rocket Llama! (for advertising on our Project Wonderful ads during our Live Broadcast!)

Thanks to George for recording the sites mentioned on the show:

Freek Angles, Gone with the blast wave, White Noise, Airshell (discontinued but here is a review and some sample pages), Wapsi Square, Gunnerkrigg Court, Gigcast, Frumph’s Women of Webcomics, the Whitebreads and the Apocalypse, Gello Apocalypse, Prodigy Grey, Resident Dysentery, Night Zero, Zombie Hunters, Inherit The EarthJack, The World Explodes, and Changes.