Webcomic Beacon #167: Newscast #11: Comic News & Discussion for Feb. 27th, 2011

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 AggieJeph Jacques’ adDave 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)

Webcomic Beacon #166: Open Forum: Shameless Listener Plugs

Several of our listeners join Fes and Tanya to discuss their webcomics! Had to reschedule the scheduled topic, and at the last minute we made an impromtu Open Forum episode! One of the benefits of listening to us LIVE as we record, are chances such as this! I also incorrectly stated it was episode 167. I was wrong. That’s the next episode!

We’ve had on Denver (Tales of a Checkered Man), Seth (Buddies in Big Places & Unconventional), Cayen (Tides of Change), John (Flopside), Kai Hennig, Kelsey Norden & Ally Clark (Jupiter Palladium), Lee (LP Comics),

Cover Art by: Omi

Remember that (most of) The Webcomic Beacon will be at Penguicon!


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The break song was Photoshop by Bob Ricci

Webcomic Beacon #165: Newscast #10: Comic News & Discussion for Feb. 20th, 2011

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)

Webcomic Beacon #164: The Tropecast #5: Adaptation Distillation vs Decay

Adam Smithee, Alex Heberling, and Fes Works are here to discuss Adaptation Distillation vs Adaptation Decay. We talk a bit about the Uncanny Valley, Muppet Babies, Starship Troopers, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Transformers, Cowboys and Aliens, and a few other series.

TV Tropes: Adaptation Distillation, Adaptation Decay, Pragmatic Adaptation, Adaptation Expansion, Compressed Adaptation,


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Additional Notes:CR: Familiar Faces: Professor Dementor, Cowboys and Aliens (webcomic sample), Cowboys and Aliens (main site)

Webcomic Beacon #163: Newscast #9: Comic News & Discussion for Feb. 13th, 2011

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)

Webcomic Beacon #162: H. P. Lovecraft Inspired Webcomics

Robyn Seale (The Watcher of Yaathagggu), James Riot (The Path), and Melissa Kaercher (The Geek Life) join Fes and Mark to discuss H. P. Lovecraft and his short stories, and webcomics inspired by them. We talk about Cthulhu and other old ones, extra-dimensional horrors, tentacles, forbidden knowledge, cultists…. fun times!

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Cover Art by: Robyn Seale.

The break song was Cthulhu Fthagn by Tom Smith and The Great Luke Ski | Notes: H. P. Lovecraft (wikipedia), Lovecraft is Missing, H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, H.P. Lovecraft: Literary Podcast, Cthulhu Coffee, Spooky Spooky Scary Scary, Riven Sol, Call of Cthulhu movie, Ryan Estrada,  | Milestones: I’m Here to See If You Can Fly With Broken Wings (200/2 yrs), Slightly Off Topic (3yrs), Phineus (1000)

Becky Beacon’s Picks of the Month: Namesake, 14 Nights, Godseeker

Webcomic Beacon #161: Newscast #8: Comic News & Discussion for Feb. 6th, 2011

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)

Webcomic Beacon #160: Tropecast #4: Star Trek Tropes

Fes, Tanya Higgins, and Mark Savary join forces with Rosscott, Adam Smithee, and Jules Rivera to discuss Star Trek Tropes! Yes, this episode of the Tropecast, nearly all of the Webcomic Beacon crew is on! (Alex is gone at a convention). Tanya does, sadly, bow out due technical difficulties.

TV Tropes: Red Shirts, The Worf Effect, Explosive Instrumentation, Mary Sue, The Wesley, Growing the Beard, Mauve Shirt, Klingon Promotion, Dropped a Bridge on Him, Mirror Universe, Beard of Evil, Captain’s Log.

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The break song was Spock Star by The Great Luke Ski | Notes: Webcomic Beacon “Mary Sue” episode, Super Art Fight, Trope (ala Speedy): We Hardly Knew Ye, Red Letter Media’s review of Generations,  , | Milestones: Sakana No Sadness (1yr)