DS

Final Notice, Web Comic Scavenger Ends Soon!

Posted by DS on Aug 31st, 2005

Ok folks, this is it. Only a few more hours to go before it’ll be too late. The Web Comics Scavenger Hunt for the month of August is coming to an end as of midnight tonight (PST). Get us your list of links to Pirate related comics to enter. The person with the most valid [...]

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PAX 2005 Writeups from Slashdot and GameSpot

Posted by Zampzon on Aug 30th, 2005

PAX 2005, the Penny Arcade multi genre convention, has finished up and closed it’s doors. CmdrTaco, the head contributor to geek news source SlashDot, was on hand to report on the event.
Here is an excerpt from his report: “For me the highlight of the weekend was the ‘Make Monday’s Strip’ panel where the process of [...]

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Zampzon

Web Comics Scavenger Hunt Coming to a Close

Posted by Zampzon on Aug 29th, 2005

This post is a reminder that the Web Comic Scavenger Hunt for the month of August is coming to a close soon. You have until midnight August 31 (3 days from now) to get a list of links to web comics having to do with pirates. The person that sends us the longest single list [...]

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Lulu.com Cancels Ryan Estrada’s Book Orders

Posted by Zampzon on Aug 29th, 2005

As most people reading web comic related sites know, adventuring cartoonist Ryan Estrada recently completed the monumental task of drawing a 168 hour comic. After much fanfare and encouragement Ryan emerged from his trailer with a mountain of comic pages created over the course of one week. He promptly self published the entire enterprise using [...]

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DS

DS 34: Review of Comedity

Posted by DS on Aug 28th, 2005

Digital Strips : Show 34 [21 MB]
This week we talk about the recently announced free web comic ads we are asking people to send us. We also play an audio letter sent to us by Colin Wales, web cartoonist behind Nixon, and it sparks further debate over Manga between Zampzon and Daku. This week’s [...]

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Free Audio Ads on the Digital Strips Podcast, Promote Your Comic

Posted by Zampzon on Aug 27th, 2005

As we’ve discussed before on the site and on the show Daku and I have been thinking about adding audio ads to the Digital Strips podcast. After announcing the idea and asking people to let us know if they’d be interested in such a thing we got a lot of positive feedback about adding web [...]

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GameSpot Interviews Robert Khoo, Penny Arcade’s Business Guy

Posted by Zampzon on Aug 27th, 2005

The Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) is open this weekend and those who are lucky enough to get in are enjoying a weekend jam packed with geek culture. Games, both video and table top based, are being played, comics are being discussed, and videos are being watched.
The gaming news site GameSpot recently interviewed Penny Arcade’s Robert [...]

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Digital Strips Comic Update: Furries?

Posted by Zampzon on Aug 25th, 2005

I’m sort of sneaking this one up there by updating outside the normal show posting schedule. This comic is mostly a self indulgence. I’ve been watching my Thundercats season 1 DVD set and I just had to find a way to work it into the strip. Take note that I did draw the logo myself, [...]

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daku

Dayfree Press Changes Personnel

Posted by daku on Aug 24th, 2005

Someone was bound to chase after Ryan North after all the times he has been in the press. Ryan is the acclaimed creator of Dinosaur Comics which was nominated for 3 WCC Awards this year in addition to winning the Outstanding Anthropomorphic Comic Award. In a recent announcement Dayfree Press released that Ryan was filling [...]

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Genesis 2 Tackles Evolution

Posted by daku on Aug 23rd, 2005

We all like web comics that entertain but an art form can never mature until it does more then make you laugh. Editorials and opinion strips are an excellent example of strips which have elevated syndicates to the respected position in newspapers they currently have. This is where strips such as Genesis 2 steps in. [...]

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