Monthly Archives: July 2005

DS 30: Interview with Tim Buckley

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Digital Strips : Show 30 [13.7 MB]
 This week we return to ConnectiCon. We have an interview with Tim Buckley, cartoonist behind Ctrl+Alt+Del. Tim gave us some time for a one on one interview after his panel discussion. He talks about getting started as an artist, turning his web comic into a business, his fans, and much more. By the way, only a real gamer will recognize the ending music.Also during the show we discuss the start of the Great Web Comics Scavenger Hunt. The topic for the month of August is Pirates. So, gather your list of comics about Pirates and send them in to us as your contest submission.

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  • Ctrl + Alt + Del by Tim Buckley
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    HOUSD and Outer Circle to Exchange Characters

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    I bet all you comic characters out there have thought to yourselves, “What would it be like to be drawn by someone else?” It just so happens there are two characters which have stopped thinking and acted. Starting tomorrow (Sunday July 31st) and going until Friday, Neil from HOUSD and Peekaboo from Outer Circle are exchanging cartoonists.

    You can’t miss what might be the first Web comic Exchange Program. You’re saying to yourself that some of your colleagues have appeared in other strips as cameos or they have been kidnapped and Continue reading →

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    Digital Strips is Looking For Advertisers

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    We have decided to begin accepting advertisements for the DigitalStrips.com web site. You can find all the details, including pricing on our Advertise page. The plans include the top banner ad and two spaces in our right sidebar. We’re adopting a flat fee pricing model and I think we’ve priced the ads in such a way that all levels of web comics can afford to place an ad on our site.

    We’re looking primarily for web comics to purchase the space or comic related merchandise or services. Continue reading →

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    Digital Strips Guest Appearance on Extra Life Radio

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    This week’s show features a review of the online comic Extra Life by Scott Johnson. After being informed of the review Scott invited us to be on his own podcast, Extra Life Radio. So, last night we logged into Skype and chatted about starting Digital Strips and web comics in general. You can download the interview by clicking right here.

    After doing so many interviews in which we were the ones asking the questions it was a little weird being the question receiver. Continue reading →

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    Digital Strips … The Beginning Continues

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    Another Digital Strips comic to continue the tale that follows the beginnings of our humble project here. I’ve toned down the maimings of my partner and have instead turned to public humiliation. Hopefully I didn’t cram in too much background this time.

    I abandoned the hand drawn word balloons for this one and went with the PhotoShop created ones. I find it easier to place the dialogue after the fact, but I do love having a completed Continue reading →

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    ConnectiCon has been saved

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    There are times when I am surprised, and then there are times when I am truly amazed. Tuesday of last week we found out that Matt Daigle and Briana Benn where royally screwed by the Connecticut Convention Center and went into additional debt of $34,148.50. This is the sort of event that ruins lives and it could have, except that the artists who attended ConnectiCon banded together to start a drive to SAVE CONNECTICON.

    Now you might think it’s close to impossible to raise that kind of money from a community notorious for consuming a product for free. Well let’s see, how long did it take?

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    Web Comic Wrap-up

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    It has been awhile since I’ve done one of these but then I’m pretty much a slacker.

    Clickwheel – You’ve probably heard news about this all over the place. It’s the world’s first RSS feed for downloading digital comics to the iPod. This is a great little extension of RSS and podcasting that we should have seen coming. The developers on the product are enjoying being #1 in the Top 10 downloaded iPod products while at the same time on verge of creating a business model using subscriptions.

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    New Digital Strips Contest: The Web Comic Scavenger Hunt!

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    Regular listeners to the show will be aware that we have been receiving a lot of great promotional material, swag if you will, from various comic artists wishing to promote their sites. Daku and I have been trying to come up with a fun and interesting way to give this stuff away in contests and as rewards to our listeners and readers. I think we have just thing.

    I am officially announcing “The Monthly Web Comics Scavenger Hunt“. Here’s how this is going to work. Continue reading →

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    Digital Strips … The Beginning

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    Daku and I continue to work at developing our own comic strip to supplement the site and show. Once I get enough of these strips done I’ll put up a section on the site where everyone can read through them. For now though, I’ll just post them piece-meal like I’ve been doing.

    For the beginning of the strip we want to introduce the over all concept of what we’re all about, an origin story if you will. I’m experimenting with some possibilities, but we start off with the cold hard facts: Continue reading →

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    DS 29: Review of Year One, Penny and Aggie, Extra Life, and Professor Paradox

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    Digital Strips : Show 29[15.9 mb]
    		 After so many “special” episodes of Digital Strips we decided to do a regular review show. We still have several interviews we recorded at ConnectiCon to play for everyone over the coming weeks, but this week we wanted to get back to the core purpose of the show, exposing you to great web comics.Here are the comics we talk about this week:

  • Year One by Mike Parkinson
  • Penny and Aggie by T. Campbell and Gisele Lagace
  • Extra Life by Scott Johnson
  • Professor Paradox by Steve Voudrie
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