Dern (Hello, With Cheese) returned to grace the Webcomic Beacon Newscast once again, with Rosscott and Alex Heberling! Thanks to Eric Kimball for gathering our news links.
Music: Hulkulele by Nuclear Bubble Wrap
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Top Stories
Assetbar closing it doors
Assetbar, a premium content thing created by/for Chris Onstadt/Achewood to give his readers extra content, is closing its doors. Seems like it aspired to be the Topatoco of premium/subscription content, but never took off.
Found via: Fleen – Assetbar
Slave Labor Graphics dropping pamphlet publishing for a digital strategy
Original Source: Publishers Weekly – Found via: Comix Talk
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News
Marvel Releasing Digital Bundles
Original Source: Robot 6
Explaining Decompression in Comics
Original Source: Ogiue Maniax – Found via: Evan Dahm’s Twitter
Micheal Heart (inventor of the modern ebook) Dies
Original Source: Project Gutenburg – Found via: Comix Talk
Kindle Tablet to be unveiled
Original Source: This is My Next – Found via: Mobile Beat
Webcomic documentary about fake Women’s clinics
Original Source: Cartoon Movement – Found via: Robot 6
Why QR codes are a waste of time
Original Source: GiGaOM
Are Apps killing online publishing?
Original Source: GiGaOM
Co-Founder of DragonCon Arrested on Child molestation charges.
Note: He’s had nothing to do with DragonCon, nor has attended, for over 10 years.
Original Source: Robot 6
Gabrielle Bell takes down her award nominated slice of life comic
Original Source: Robot 6
Confesions of a YouTube superstar
Original Source: GiGaOM
How Steve Jobs Ruined Comics
Devices are becoming less iconic and convey less information for cartoonists.
(Or maybe this guy needs to try harder as storytellers – Editor).
Original Source: Tom Pappalardo – Found via: PVP
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I really don’t care for QR Codes, especially when they give something special or a bonus. The reason being that I don’t have, and won’t be able to afford a Smart Phone anytime soon. So I feel like I’m being left out of these extra bonuses just because I don’t have a smart phone.
I always wondered what those weird squares are, and b/c of this episode now i know. I have a smart phone (courtesy my company) and so do many of my friends, i have never seen any of them scan the QR codes so i just assume they aren’t really worthwile.
[…] “sdshamshel” (aka Carl) from Ogiue Maniax joins Fes Works and Mark Savary in this week’s discussion. A large amount of this show comes from Carl’s post “Explaining Decompression in Comics” from his website, which we had reported on The Webcomic Beacon Newscast back in September. […]