JT and Scott talk Webcomics,  Interview with Ben Paddon of Jump Leads, Ghost Hamster and Podwarp 1999!  A few news stories  and A Christian Ellis Shallow Thoughts LInks: The GigcastA Nightgig Studios Production - http://www.nightgig.comwww.thegigcast.comHave News or a Comment?  Want to tell JT and Scott they are full of it?E-mail: gigcast@nightgig.comOne of the Farpoint Media family of [...]

Fes and Aaron are joined by Mark Savary and Rob Powel of Steam Pirates, to talk about burning out in the webcomicking world.

So these first strips round out Volume 5 Chapter 12. Now you're probably thinking "Really? Volume 5, Chapter 12? That sounds like a hell of a lot of strips" and well, you'd be right. You're probably also thinking "Damn that guy must be crazy" and you'd be right again.

Newsarama has a roundtable style interview with a whole bunch of folks mostly about webcomics and the potential impact of a worsening economy on creators.  It's more interesting than it's title suggests.

The Newsarama article includes comments from T Campbell; Mike S. Miller, an authorized representative of Wowio.com; Chris Crosby, Chief Executive Officer of Keenspot and creator of Superosity; Tim Demeter, editor of (the iPod comic site and home to digital material from UK comics publisher 2000AD) and GraphicSmash.com (ModernTales’ action-focused anthology site); Dean Haspiel, co-founder of the webcomix collective, ACT-I-VATE, editor of SMITH Magazine’s Next-Door Neighbor anthology and Billy Dogma creator; Jim Dougan, a founding member of the webcomics collective, The Chemistry Set, and co-creator of Sam & Lilah on DC’s Zuda Comics (came in fourth place in the March Zuda competition), now part of the online comics collective ACT-I-VATE; Shaenon Garrity, creator of Narbonic and editor of the subscription-based webcomics anthology site, ModernTales; Queenie Chan, a Chinese-Australian webcomics creator; Andy B., a member of the Toronto-based webcomics group, Transmission-X; David Gallaher, writer of High Moon, the first winner of DC’s Zuda webcomics competition; and Lea (DivaLea) Hernandez, webcomics and Original English Language (OEL) manga pioneer.

A reminder to folks in New York City — my play, Parens., will receive a public reading this Saturday at 7:00 at the Stella Adler Studio (31 W. 27th St., 2nd Floor). If you do come, don’t be surprised if the building doesn’t look like a theatre. The address is clearly marked on the outside, but the name of the studio isn’t. Just go on in and head up to the second floor, where there are a pair of tiny black box theatres. I’ll be in one of those.

I don't really post much art on this blog, so here are the rough pencils for a panel from the latest episode of Super Animal Adventure Squad:

I'd been wanted to make an image like this for my about page for a while now. Now it's done I sort of with I'd been wearing a different shirt, but otherwise it came out kind of how I wanted it to. I might have to get my wife to take another shot after I get a haircut!

Okay, last one of the three, and no obtuse symbolism here. Just straight playin'



This one comes not outta my fascination with the monomyth but rather that question about whether Superman can ever get old,in the conventional biological sense. I'm in the camp that, yeah, he certainly can get old and even die of advanced age, but that his youth and vitality will stick around with him for, oh, say a century or two.

 Hot on the heels of yesterday's momentous Freaks N Squeeks announcement, today, the Marvelous Patric is excited to announce that Fun Factory is returning to GraphicSmash.