Archive for September, 2008


Webcomic Beacon #43 - Placing Ad Space

Tony Piro of Calamities of Nature joins Fes, Tanya, and Aaron are talking about advertising! No, not placing ads, but placing AD SPACE. We go over Tony’s reviews of various ad services such as Project Wonderful. Also, we joined stupid Twitter… or yeah… twitter.com/webcomicbeacon

Milestones this week: … NONE REPORTED! For the Beacon Searchlight we give our first impressions of Gilbert and the Grim Rabbit! Do you have a milestone to report? Would you like us to give our (positive and/or negative) impressions on your comic? Send a notice to us at WebcomicBeacon@gmail.com.

Phil Foglio of Girl Genius introduces our show this week!

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Sites mentioned: The Gigcast, Brett Hainley, Aarin Lewis, Webcomic Asylum, Jovian Luck, Project Wonderful, Google Adsense, ADSDAQ, Burst Media, Adbrite, Odd Fish, Black Label Ads, Twitter, Penny Arcade’s Twitter Strip, Insert Comic Here, Tanya’s Traitorous appearance on The Gigcast, Steal This Comic, TV Shows Connected by St. Elsewhere,

Next Episode: We will be talking about The 10 Commandments of Webcomic Productions with Kris Overstreet of White Lightning Productions! Please join us LIVE on Sunday the 28th at 3pm Eastern (-5 GMT DST)! E-mail us or CALL IN (with a phone) and leave a voicemail at 1+320-241-1444.

Webcomic Beacon #42 - The Crossover Wars (re-release)

Some iTunes Feed Listeners may not have gotten the last episode, so here is our attempt to try and fix it. It’s the same episode as last week. Expect Episode 43 sometime on Friday.

The Following is Episode 42:

Fes and Aaron are talking about Crossovers and The 2007 Crossover Wars! Hogan of The Cameo & Crossover Archive, Reinder of Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan, and Gothia of America Gothic Daily all join us today. Mike of Prepare to Die comes on later to talk about the WAGON Webcomic Battle card game!

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Webcomic Beacon #42 - The Crossover Wars

Fes and Aaron are talking about Crossovers and The 2007 Crossover Wars! Hogan of The Cameo & Crossover Archive, Reinder of Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan, and Gothia of America Gothic Daily all join us today. Mike of Prepare to Die comes on later to talk about the WAGON Webcomic Battle card game!

Don’t forget the Strip Fight.org Weekly Ringside Update! Aaron Brassea came in first for Round 174: “Arch Enemy”. Vote now for Round 175: “Death”. The deadline to get your entries in for Round 176: “Volcano” is September 22nd!

Mark Savary talks about Pirates, as September 19 is Talk Like a Pirate Day! He looks at The Wannabe Pirates, Pirates vs. Ninjas, and Sails Of Blood!

Milestones this week: Ripeville (200), Insert Comic Here (2 Years), Girly (600), Commissioned (4 Years), Anders Loves Maria (200 + 2 years)! For the Beacon Searchlight we give our first impressions on Jovian Luck (mistakenly referred to as “Space Heist” on the show). Do you have a milestone to report? Would you like us to give our (positive and/or negative) impressions on your comic? Send a notice to us at WebcomicBeacon@gmail.com.

Scott Bevan of White Ninja Comics introduces our show this week!

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Sites mentioned: The Gigcast, Framed, The Framed Great Escape (mostly missing), Clan of the Cats, Elf Life, College Roomies from Hell, Drunk Duck, Magical Misfits, Life and Death, The KAMics, Chronicles of the Witch Queen, Project A.D.A.M., Invasion, Repository of Dangerous Things, Mind Mistress, Jenny Everywhere, Evil Overlords United, Cameo Comic, The Volet, Treasure Hunters, Pimpette & Associates, Candi, Jenny Everywhere and the Crossing Over Worlds, Halloween 2008 Cameo Caper, Angry D. Monkey, Oh, and I should mention that the cover is adapted from The Crossover Wars website. The Quasi-Official Song for Talk Like a Pirate Day can be found here by Tom Smith.

Next Episode: We will be talking about Putting Ads on your Webcomic with Tony Piro of Calamities of Nature! Please join us LIVE on Sunday the 21st at 3pm Eastern (-5 GMT DST)! E-mail us or CALL IN (with a phone) and leave a voicemail at 1+320-310-0922.

Webcomic Beacon #41 - Open Forum #4

Mark Savary joins Fes, Tanya, and Aaron as we just sit back a bit and shoot the breeze about webcomics. We also rag on The Gigcast a bit, but only because we love them! And we are not at all copying them in any way…. no, we’d never do that. Zack of Unamused Comics brings us this week’s cover!

Milestones this week: Cigarro & Cerveja (10 years and ending) and The Far Reaches (200). On the Beacon Searchlight we look at, and give our impressions on Geist Panik. Do you have a milestone to report? Would you like us to give our (positive or negative) impressions on your comic? Send a notice to us at WebcomicBeacon@gmail.com.

Don’t forget the Strip Fight.org Weekly Ringside Update! Mico came in first for Round 173: “Made in China”. Vote now for Round 174: “Arch Enemy”. The deadline to get your entries in for Round 175: “Death” is September 15th! Also, the $10 iTunes Xepher.net Logo Art Contest ends on September 15th!

Steve Notley of Bob the Angry Flower introduces our show this week!

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Sites mentioned: Hatpire, Last Place Comics, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Book of Biff, Perry Bible Fellowship, Kawaii Not, Minus, DrunkDuck.com, ComicGenesis.com, Rampage Network, Xepher.net, Webcomics Nation, Comic Dish, Smack Jeeves, Something Awful Comic Forum, The Gigcast, Levelator (Program), A Taste of Evil, Dresdson Codak, Jenny Everywhere, Union of Heros, Sugary Serials, Super Fogeys, Socks, Penny Arcade, Spiky-Haired Dragon, Worthless Knight, Hookie Dookie Panic, and thanks to Jinxtigr for being especially active in our chat room during our weekly live broadcast and recording!

Also, Tanya Rocks The Gigcast.

Next Episode: We will be tralking about Webcomic Crossovers! Please join us LIVE on SATURDAY the 13th at 3pm Eastern (-5 GMT DST)! E-mail us or CALL IN (with a phone) and leave a voicemail at 1+320-241-1444.