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Guest hosts T Campbell and Dave Belmore

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We promised everyone we would be experimenting with different formats and this summer will be packed full of them. Last week’s interview with Kristofer Straub and David Willis was a huge success and is only the first in a string of podcasts with our listeners in mind.

Our next two podcasts will feature guest hosts who will not only give their opinions on what we review but also choose comics on their own for us to take a look at. This should give us access to strips the two us might not come across. Our first guest hosts will be T Campbell of Penny & Aggie and Dave Belmore, owner of Ironhorse Comics and co-author of Didymous. T and Dave run a great podcast, called Meanwhile, which focuses more on the comic industry as a whole.

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WCCA Nominees are out

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For the past four years there’s been the Web Cartoonist’s Choice Awards. The WCCA is to web comics as the Screen Actor’s Guild Awards are to movies. Anyone and everyone (there are some limitations) who has created a web comic is free to nominate and then vote for the most outstanding comic in 26 categories. Plenty of people have commented (Ping Teo, Tycho, Sam Logan, Scott McCloud, etc.) with everyone sort of mixed on the validity of the whole event. The biggest complaint is it’s an award for who has the most fans followed by grumbling that the same strips keep getting nominated.

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CAD crashes Canada Post

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For those of you like me who waited around until 2pm EDT to buy the CAD books you probably got upset really fast. There was the expectant long load times but after finally getting one each of the two collector editions you probably got a SQL error, over and over and over again. You just had to be one of the first 400 so you would get one of these limited hardbacks.

It appears there were so many requests for these books that the servers for Canada Post crashed and you can see who’s fault it is with this message: Continue reading →

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Daily Grind Update

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Last Friday there was another addition to the loser category. Jeff Bent along with Wendy Chin are the two latest additions to an obvious pattern of one contestant dropping out every week. At some point they will widdle down to the guys who have always updated every day and newbs who have so far put themselves on the map through the competition.

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Book release of the year

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OK, so it might not out sell Harry Potter, but who cares. I may be an online comic snob but look at this! Who doesn’t want these little treasures. It’s the entire body of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons in three hardcover, four-color volumes in a sturdy slipcase. You can pre-order at Amazon or Walmart.

Excuse me while I go squeal in excitement.

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Newspapers may evolve but not the readers

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Here at DS we love to take shots at newspapers but we realize the decline of the printed word can’t be placed solely on the business itself. There are newspapers everywhere trying radically different approaches to bring readers and increase circulation but innovation always has a tendency to fall victim to the masses.The North County Times of Escondido, Calif. began soliciting reader cartoons about six weeks ago and doesn’t turn down cartoons containing opinions with which it might disagree. Continue reading →

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When will everyone give up?

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Every year now there’s just another report telling us that all media is down in numbers. It doesn’t matter if it’s TV, books, newspapers, music industry, or the box office but they’re is always someone complaining. There’s always someone else to blame as well. For TV it’s supposedly reality TV and the internet, newspapers blame it on specialty magazines and the internet, while the music and movie industry blame it on piracy and the internet. Anyone else notice the trend here?

For every complaint there’s the common thread of the internet destroying business as we know it. What’s so wrong about that? Is the world so scared of change that it refuses to see the obvious? The answer is yes, we’ve always been afraid to change and the coming domination of the internet is no exception. The real question is who will be the first to come up with a real business model for the internet. It may be micropayments, ad space, or simple donations but somewhere out there is at least one solution if not a thousand others.

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Peanuts has adults?

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I seem to be the only one who didn’t put two and two together but it’s obvious now. Charles Schulz’s strip Peanuts never had adults in it, NEVER. There were rumors about Schulz drawing some but even these mythical experimental prints are nearly impossible to find. Considering this to be the extent of my Peanuts knowledge I was surprised to find an auction for another print containing adults. The strip is a little charming following typical Schulz humor. Take a look and enjoy while the auction is still up.

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Now it’s Keenspace

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It looks like the whole Keen organization is having trouble. Last Thursday Kelly “STrRedWolf” Price stepped down temporarily as an admin for Keenspace. On the forums you can find Kelly’s post concerning his reasoning but basically it’s a lack of communication. Kelly has been an admin of the space for over 4 years now without contract or pay for the past year. Sounds like even though the Keen group may be superheroes in the web comics arena they still suffer from the same problems as in other strip.

Let us hope the big four resolve the communication issues quickly before Kisai decides to take the her issues in the same direction.

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