Many of you are probably familiar with our purpose here. The only way to keep up with the thousands of web comics is through a lot of categorizing. That’s where finding a comic for the podcast comes in. Last week I finally made it through my queue of completed comics and had to search for more, but as I was going through my bookmarks I found quite a few strips had withered and died.

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When you think professional, what does your mind first go to? Experience? Ability? Respect?

For me, all of these things come to mind, and this is why I can consider myself a professional in my field. I do a weekly webcomic; I take great care in proof-reading and editing my own work until it is fit for publishing online; and I have now been at this work for nearly two years, producing over 100 strips with hundreds more to come. So why is it that so many of my professional colleagues can’t be bothered to spell check their own work before committing it to the web?

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As long as web comics have been around the print industry has been thumbing its nose. They have become a grumpy old giant scoffing at our online triumphs, bashing our artistic styles, our approaches, and the varying degrees of craftsmanship. We can read such things on any forum we wish to peruse concerning the glories of our comic medium. Yet on those same forums the web comic folk have been doing the same. We have been nose turning, scoffing, and finagling the print industry for its archaic ways, its smothering qualities, and its out dated practices. Most of all we web comic folk trash the print’s lack of variety and on our own forums no less.

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So, Daku comes up to me, right, and he’s all like, “Mr. Heezy, there just ain’t no news no more!” and I’m all like, “Look at you, all roguish, and you can’t even find no news” and he was all like, “Whatchou talkin’ bout, Hian? There just ain’t none” and I’m all like, “Just sit back apiece, son, an’ I’ll show you the wassup”

the rest of this post will follow in theatrical dialogue form

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The site may have been empty recently but the staff has had its hands full. Shall we do the rounds?

Bomb Shelter Comics – I know what you’re thinking. Is this another podcast talking about comics? What the hell is wrong with that? There’s a new collective out there and they’re leaving no marketing stone unturned. On their third podcast they even got in touch with me and asked if I could join them. While you’re listening be sure to check out some of the members such as Leftville, Today, Combustible Orange, and Chooken.

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Today: The Comic turned a full year old on May 19th. Chad Diez, creator of the Today, will be putting up guest strips for the entire month of May and ending June 19th. He’s also going from a Monday and Friday only update to a Monday, Wednesday, Friday update schedule to make room for all of the guest comics that poured in at his request. The normal Monday and Friday update schedule should resume after June 19th.

When I asked him how he felt about his comic turning one year old he told me that he was very proud of the huge response it’s recieved throughout the year. He went on to say that he views this anniversary as a first step towards bigger things and he has no plans of abandoning the comic for any reason.

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While a subject such as this is generally reserved for a webcomic’s respective message board, a cold land, rife with fan loyalty and bitter resentment, we’ll just agree that this may be carried on in that arena at a later date.

For readers of my column here on DS, you know of my interest in the experiment that is now The Pet Professional. This previously stellar strip has seen a creative shake-up not once but TWICE in as many weeks and now faces the possibility of having four different artists in a rotation more crowded than a guest strip week.

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