Episode 22 - Grayscale vs B&W vs Color
Fes, Tanya, and Aaron are joining by Michael Rouse-Deane of The Guest Strip Project! It was an Open Forum discussion with a chat room and call ins! Callers included Ryan Dow, Amy, Jakob, Tara, and Peter called in dropping a Canadian printing company: Art Bookbinder.
Mark Savary reviews Ted: Enter the Purple Gerbil; and Peter Tarkulich gives his impression of Anime Invasion: The Comic. Byron also comes in to promo Strip Fight!
Milestones: Sequential Art has passed 400 strips, Butternut Squash hits its 5th year, T-N-T hits 200, Bear and Kitten reached 100 strips and is also running a contest! Cartworks hits 1 year, Alternate Reality Worlds reaches a 3rd year, Unamused Comics hits 100, and Autumn Lake hits its 3rd year as well. Also Across the Way’s story has come to an end.
For next week, Broadcasting LIVE on SUNDAY, May 4th, starting at 2pm (-6 GMT), we’ll be talking about Newspaper Style Webcomics. You can now listen to the show LIVE on Talk Shoe! Have a question or comment about this week’s topic, or next week’s topic? Get involved with the show by: Getting SKYPE and contact “fesworks”; submit an audio file or plain text e-mail message to us.
Other sites mentioned: Ka-Blam Printing, Dead Days, Out There, Bear And Kitten, Little Terrors, Octopuspie, Planet Karen, Thorn, Planet Saturday Comics, Sequential Art, Darken, Zebra Girl, Kaspall, Daisy is Dead, Project A.D.A.M., Odd Fish, Angry Little Robot, The House of Madness, Beaver and Steve, Newt and John, and 67th Avenue.
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Yay! It’s-a-me!
And I didn’t sound half as much as an prick as I assumed I did!
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:03 pm
I told you, I’m a good editor!
May 4th, 2008 at 12:08 am
[...] you can hear me rambling about grayscale in the Webcomic Beacon at [...]
May 7th, 2008 at 8:22 am
I prefer just a bit of color myself, I started with grey scale (not really sure how to cross-hatch) and then I moved to color. That whole printing thing sound like too much trouble though, I’m not sure I’d ever publish my strips in a book, even if I did get big (if I did I guess I’d have to go back and color the first ones) But printing on the whole just sounds messy (I don’t know though, I might just be overly complicating things)
May 7th, 2008 at 11:07 am
I certainly don’t mind the extra-long podcast, but– seeing as how you guys probably spent at least five minutes debating about “should we leave this stuff in the show?”– one more word about contributors’ comments going on too long and I’ll have to slap you.
May 8th, 2008 at 7:42 am
Hey, I know other podcasts that only like to play call-ins that are only about 30 seconds. If I get 5 callers that leave 3-5 minute messages, that’s not gonna work at all.
May 8th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
One of the best ones yet! I’m glad you mentioned “Out There”, since it is one of the best B&W comics ever. I wish my writing was half as solid as Monroe’s!
June 14th, 2008 at 5:40 am
Hey! I can only seem to download the first 40 seconds of this episode! Trust the episode I was most looking forward to be the one that isn’t lol