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» EPISODE17 - Ratholes
show notes:
- Muppets are rad
- We elect Brad to deliver the bad news: We don’t want to critique your webcomic.
- We have a new hotline. Leave your question, message or tip at: 214-717-5487
- mailbag: when you started your strip, did you know who your characters were, or did that develop along the way?
- Brad thinks good ideas are a dime-a-dozen.
- Reinventing your strip: starting over as you go.
- If you start your new strip by breaking the fourth-wall, Kris will murder you.
- PANEL FIGHT! New Readers page: important or unimportant?
- We reveal the entire podcast was just an intervention for Kris.
- Super Duper - Backup software for the Mac from Shirt-pocket software.
- Simpletech portable media
Dec 03
Balls
- Scott: You know what?
- Kris: ?
- Scott: I've decided that our new de facto catchphrase is "balls." Until further notice.
- Kris: It's on. Balls-on.
- Kris: Okay. I got the paypal stuff with the store straightened out.
- Scott: Balls.
- Scott: I mean... good.
» EPISODE16 - Quote THIS!
Show Notes:
- We’re all working very hard to finish the “How to Make Webcomics Book”
- No Kris this week= sadface :(
- Dave has a new book: Blizzard of Lizards. Buy it here
- Making book covers. Do’s and don’t.
- Book Cover naming conventions: what to avoid.
- DC editor Julius Schwartz claimed Gorillas on a cover guaranteed sales. The panel agrees.
- Scott is done with writing book blurbs and intros for other cartoonists (unless they’re friends).
- Dave hates people re-gifting his art. Personal gifts are NOT ebay fodder.
- Brad Guigar’s midwest mentalities put him in uncomfortable situations.
- Scott uses Feedburner.com to get stats from his RSS feeds.
- The panel discuss the possibilities of putting google ads in RSS feeds via feedburner.
Nov 30
Nov 29
- Scott: I was using the microwave tonight and pressed the button that said TIME COOK, but I totally said TIME COP in my head.
- Aaron: "Time Cook" would be funny.
- Scott: Image would probably publish that for us.
- Aaron: A comic about a chef that travels through time, making sure cuisine adhered to history's true course. "Even though it's inhumane... we must help the Scots discover Haggis."
Nov 28