Carter Fort joins Rosscott, Alex Heberling, and Mark Savary for this edition of the Webcomic Beacon Newscast! We also have newshound Eric (Exiern) to thank for snooping out stories! Yet another Webcomic Readers rears it’s head, striping out website contest to show just the comic. Yet more discussion on Digital Manga Distribution. Plus a lot of tid-bits todayincluding references for getting started with comic creation, Spider-Man teaming up with Top Chef, and Jeph Jacques/Dave Willis frenemy situation with Penny and Aggie-gate!

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News

New Webcomic reader makes reading comics easier and making money harder
(Source: UserScripts.org – via: gHacks.net)
Correction: This isn’t an App (as we may have stated), but a browser script.
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Discussion

Is it too late for for even free translated manga to prosper?
(Source: Comic Book Resources)

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Tidbits

Super Art Fight Gets Mention in Wired Magazine (March 2011)
(Source: Wired Magazine/App – via Oh Perilous World)

Amusing Targeted Ads on Penny and Aggie
(via: ComixTalk – Penny and Aggie – Jeph Jacques’ ad – Dave Willis’ ad)

Denis O’Neils Reading List for Learning to Write Comics
(Source: Bleeding Cool)

Mark Millar And Frank On Getting Started In Comics
(Source: Bleeding Cool)

Food Network’s Top Chef and Marvels Spiderman Team up in Digital Comic
(Source: MTV Geek)

Campaign to Help Nathon Fillion to Buy Firefly (Eric is a Browncoat)
(Source: MTV Geek)

Mark Sukerburg to be in a Graphic Novel
(Source: PC Magazine)

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Eric Kimball leads Mark Savary and Fes in this edition of the Webcomic Beacon Newscast!

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News

Google starts Beta testing its One Pass payment system
As a direct challenger to both apple and paypal Google has released a mirco-payment system
(Source: The Street – via a Google search)
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Discussion

Achewood becomes a subscription site
(Source: Achewood – via Fleen)

Overview of buying comics digitally
(via Robot 6 and Comic Alliance)

$2 PDF comics have become a movement
(via assorted chatter)
Assorted References: Scottie Young, 2 Dollar Comic

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Tidbits

A Mexican Susih house stole the T-shirt design of the Alison Action (bearnutscomic.com) photoshoped out the severed human head and arms and used it as a mascot without permission.
(via post on webcomics.com)
(Original Art & T-Shirt vs The Thieves)

Glyph Award Nominees Announced
(Source:  The Daily Cartoonist)

Steam Punk Huckelbery Finn Comic launched on Kickstarter, supported by Neil Giaman
(Source: Comic Mix)

The Gigcast Podcast Returns! …again! …maybe?
(Source: itself)

Funkly Winkerbean forces the shutdown of critic’s blogs
(Source: Robot 6)

Border files for bankruptcy
(Source: Bleeding Cool)

Bit.ly could go down if the protests in Libya intensify
(Source: Quora – via Bleeding Cool)

Sarah Glidden’s Take on Egypt, Comments Happen
(Source: Pizza Island – via  Rosscott)

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Kara Dennison joins Rosscott, Mark Savary, and Fes are here for you in this edition of the Webcomic Beacon Newscast! We also have newshound Eric (Exiern) to thank for snooping out stories, who was also on today’s show!

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News

Diamond teams with iVerse to offer in-store digital comics sales
(Source: Comics Beat)
Additional Discussion:
Diamond and iVerse Hatch a Particularly Silly Digital Download Scheme
(Source: Indignant Online)

There is talk about creating a comic con outside of comic con
(Source: Comics Reporter – via Bleeding Cool)

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Discussion

Kleefeld on Webcomics #1: Webcomics, a Primer
(Source: MTV GEEK)

Kickstarter and Twitter are changing the way creative works are made
(Source: Think Vitamin – via Webcomics.com forum post by Dawn Chapel)

Neil Giaman discusses how piracy of his work increased his sales.
(Source: Open Rights Group YouTube Channel – via Bleeding Cool)

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Tidbits

Machine of Death sells the best on the Kindle
(Source: Itself – via Fleen)

Comic Vampire Vixens Facebook page taken down because it had Nazis
(Source: Alex Ronald – via Bleeding Cool)

National Organization for Marriage hotlinks a image from SMBC but SMBC get its revenge
(Source: The Wiener Works)
Additional Discussion:
(Comics Reporter)
(The Advocate)
(Daily Kos)

New convention announced for Geek Girls
(Original Source: Itself – via Comic Mix)

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Eric, Mark Savary, and Fes run this edition of the Webcomic Beacon Newscast! We also have newshound Eric (Exiern) to thank for snooping out stories, who was also on today’s show! We were also joined by Zoë Robinson for announcing winners of the 2011 Webcomic List Awards.

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News

Harvey Award Nominations Now Open
(Source:  Itself)

The 2011 Webcomic List Awards
(Source: itself)

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Discussion

Apples new policy forcing all purchases to go through the apps store raises worries about censorship
(Source: Bleeding Cool)

Interview with Ryan North
(Source: Comic M!x)
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Tidbits

Axe Cop Fan Film Trailer
(Source: Peter Muehlenberg – via Boing Boing – Comic: Axe Cop )

The Future of the Daily Cartoonist
(Source:  The Daily Cartoonist)

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