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Webcomic Beacon #45 - 24 Hour Comics

Fes, Tanya, and Aaron are talking about 24 Hour Comics! We had a few audio irregularities this episode, but please enjoy nonetheless! Tanya also presents us with 6 helpful tips to fail (and some to succeed)!

If you are planning a 24 Hour Webcomic for 24 Hour Comics Day (Oct. 18th), post a note on our official forum! Post what you are planning, and where we can see progress updates and the final product! We’ll go over the list on the next show and check some out!

This week’s Searchlight is Nuclear Test: Life…. though we may not review comics like this anymore. Milestones: My Lady (completed), Song Stress (completed), Last Res0rt (100 strips), Zortic (RETURNS!), Dr. Sheep and the Aardvark (200), Elf ‘n Troll (ending), Dock Boys (6 years), Super Fogeys (2 years) . 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.

Greg Dean of Real Life Comics introduces our show this week!

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Check out the Rampage Network’s Caption Contest this month! Prizes from Evil Inc! Also, there is a drawing for Rare Jenny Everywhere playing cards for the WAGON Webcomic Battle TCG! Also, check out the Global Comic Jam for Jenny Everywhere: Miss Adventure! Sign up to draw a page today!

Sites mentioned: The Gigcast, Scott McCloud, Jenny crossover in Betapwned, Wikipedia: 24 Hour Comics, Squid Works Comic Co-Op, Diana Nock at Jinxville, The International Cartoonist Conspiracy, Fallcon (Minnesota), Wapsi Square, Ryan Dow, Blank it Comics, Mad Scott, Find My Brick, XKCD, Perry Bible Fellowship, Buttersafe, Toothpaste for Dinner, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Frumph, Webcomics Inc, Halloween Cameo Caper 2008, Gilbert and the Grim Rabbit,

Other Webcomics from Fallcon, but I neglected to mention on the show: Business Casual, Rasputin Catamite, Staple Genius, Catnose Comics, Red Zone, Superfantisca Comix, Demon Eater, Straygo, Junior Varsity, The Local Haunt, The Planet Closest to Heaven, That’d Be Sweet, Studio Anti Thesis, and appologies to ones I forgot or lost their card to!

Next Episode: We will be talking about WEBCOMIC DRAMA, headed by Aaron! Please join us LIVE on Saturday the 11th 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 #44 - The 10 Commandments of Webcomic Production

Kris Overstreet and Ben Rodriguez of White Lightning Productions join Fes, Tanya, and Aaron talking about The 10 Commandments of Webcomic Production. Also Mark Savary, uh, I mean, Mr. Slick Smooth talks about adult comics such as Peter is the Wolf, Pawn, and Dragonfest.

We had some technical difficulties this week, so no milestones or Beacon Searchlight this week. 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.

Chris Daily of Strip Tease introduces our show this week!

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Also, stay tuned after the show for a call-in from Kyle of Jovian Luck! Also, check out some great Extra Content for Episode 44 at our Talk Shoe Page!

Sites mentioned: Cheshire Crossing, Comic Genesis, Super Fogeys, Tales of the Questor, Make your own Wiki, Wapsi Square, Net Mechanic, Free Webcomic Hosts, ComicPress, Drunk Duck, Zebra Girl, Gone with a Blast Wave, Arthur, King of Time and Space, Schlock Mercenary, Real Life Comics, Freefall, Punch and Pie, Something Positive, Girl Genius, The 10 Doctors, Peter is the Wolf, The Magnificent Milkmaid, Chocolate Milkmaid, The Mis-Adventures of Chichi-Chan, Stellar, White Lightning Shirts, Minos the Minotaur, Something Awful Forums: Batman’s Shameful Secret, The Gigcast,

Next Episode: We will be talking about 24 Hour Comcis! Please join us LIVE on Sunday the 5th 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 #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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