Fes Works rejoins Rosscott and Eric Kimball for this episode of the Webcomic Beacon Newscast. Lots of small, barely related articles this week. Not all articles may have been gone over in detail, but they are all listed for you.
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News
Graphic.ly Redesigns Their Interface for Sharing of Comics
Original Source: Comic Book Resources
CBLDF and Others Fight Utah law Restricting Internet Speech
Original Source: Comic Book Legal Defense Fund – via: Comics Reporter
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Tech
New Take on Interactive Comics from Tron
Original Source: Disney Digital Books – via: Robot 6
Top 10 Motion Comics
Original Source: Topeless Robot
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Biz
The Importance of Transparency in Collaboration
Original Source: GiGaOM
Bitcoin New Micro Payment System
Original Source: Fleen
Ebook Lending Markets
Original Source: GiGaOM
Demographics of Likers
Original Source: All Things D
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Educational
Brian Wood’s Artbook for Download
Original Source: io9
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Discussion
How Not to Post on the Web by Scott Adams
Original Source: Scott Adams’ Blog – via: The Daily Cartoonist
Meanwhile in Malasia: Cartoonist are in Trouble for Citicizing the Acceptance of Rape
Original Source: The Malaysia Insider – via: Comics Reporter
Smithonian Interview with Ryan North
Original Source: The Smithsonian
The End is Nigh
There have been a number of articles recently about the print comic book industry indicating that they will have to move to a digital format soon.
Overview of why moving to digital makes sense (via Comics Alliance)
And a number of disapointing statictisic came out this month:
(ICv2 #1, ICv2 #1, The Comics Chronicles)
And the top graphic novels are starwars books not superheros (via ICv2)
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Tidbits
The Axe Fell on PeanutTwitter
Original Source: PeanutTweeter- also: Twitter account
One Month of Comic Suggestions
Original Source: Comic Book Resources
Guardian Newspaper Puts the Online Business First
Original Source: GiGaOM
Waren Elis to Make a Comic With Invisible Text
Original Source: Bleeding Cool
Comics as Therapy Techniques
Original Source: The New York Times – via Bleeding Cool
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Oddities
Auction to be in a Comic Killing Osama Bin Laden
In the category of just plain wrong a digital publisher Hype Comics is auctioning off the right to appear in a comic Seal Team X where your character get to kill a mutant lizard Osama Bin Laden.
Original Source: Bleeding Cool
Transformers as Drawn by an 8-Year-Old Bryan Lee O’Malley
Original Source: io9
Chistopher Hastings’ (Dr McNinja) Drink Recipe in Comic Form
Original Source: Saveur
And Another One from Dorothy Gambrell (Cat and Girl)
Original Source: Saveur
Medieval Justice League
Original Source: – via: Comics Alliance
Artist Statement Generator
Original Source: Arty Bollocks Generator – via: Lizardbeth
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The Importance of Transparency in Collaboration:
The quote: “Everyone is better off when they know why decisions are made with as much accuracy as possible. ..” The entire paragraph: truer words were never spoken on the subject.
If you don’t know the game plan, you can’t participate. (And, I don’t even play team sports.)
People who withhold information from others working on a project most likely do it to demonstrate some type of superiority over the other members. In the long run, it keeps the group from producing a better project.
Brainstorming can generate great ideas from someone’s concept. If anyone keeps information to him/herself, the project (which will be judged as a group effort, not an individual’s, will not succeed as well as it could.)