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DS 35: Interview with Gabe and Tycho

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Digital Strips : Show 35 [20 MB]
 This week we feature an interview with Gabe and Tycho, the writer and artist behind the very popular web comic Penny Arcade. We also discuss the upcoming the Web Comic Hurricane Relief Telethon being conducted on Sept. 13 and 14. We encourage web comic creators and readers to contribute what they can to this worthy cause. We also talk about the winning entry from the Web Comic Scavenger Hunt we held during August.This week we talk about :

  • Penny Arcade by Gabe and Tycho
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    DS 34: Review of Comedity

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    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 feature is an interview we conducted with the guys from Comedity we recorded during ConnectiCon.This week we talk about :

  • Comedity by Garth Graham
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    DS 33: Review of Combustible Orange, Pet Professional, Bot and Cam, and Cortland

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    Digital Strips : Show 33 [15.4 MB]
    		 On this show we discuss my absence from Otakon. We receive T-shirts from Please Rewind. I get a book from Dave Kellett with a collection of strips from his comic Sheldon. We also discuss the recent New York Times article on web comics and Ryan Estrada’s 168 (175?) hour comic.This week we feature four web comic reviews. Here are the comics we talk about this week:

  • Combustible Orange by Frank Gibson and Becky Dreistadt
  • Pet Professional by Jason Salsbury and Matt Kaufenberg
  • Bot and Cam by Sammy Janssens and Mike Johnson
  • Cortland by Matt Johnson
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    DS 32: Review of Surliness

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    Digital Strips : Show 32 [16 MB]
    		 This week we play another interview we recorded during ConnectiCon 2005. We speak with Richard Dachtera, the cartoonist behind Surliness. This web comic follows the antics of an IT department on a college campus and a mutant lobster man.Also during the show we talk about Ryan Estrada, the new Digital Strips comic section to our site, and my upcoming visit to Otakon. Do you want to hear a sound seeing tour for Otakon like I did for ConnectiCon? Be sure to let us know by emailing the show.

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  • Surliness by Richard Dachtera
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    DS 31: Interview with Ryan Estrada

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    Digital Strips : Show 31 [16.3 MB]
    		 This week on Digital Strips we talk with Ryan Estrada. Ryan describes himself as Artist, Animator, Adventurer and he has a resume to back that up. His work has taken him across the globe and the top notch cartooning he does makes his work well worth a read. Daku interviews Ryan from Thailand.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.This week we talk about :

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    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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    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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    DS 28: ConnectiCon Tour

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    Digital Strips : Show 28 [16.3mb]
    		 This week our show is recorded during ConnectiCon. ConnectiCon is the largest multi-genre convention in New England and it Features the genres of anime, gaming, web-comics, science-fiction, fantasy and more. We met a lot of really great people while at the Con and had a good time over all.What you’re going to hear in this show is a “sound seeing tour”. I had a headset on connected to my video camera in my bag and I recorded the show with Daku as we walked through the main convention room floor. You’ll hear us describing the event as we saw it including the web comic artist tables and some conversations we had with them. This is the first time we’ve ever tried to do something like this, so be sure to let us know if you liked it or not. We may be able to shows like this from other Cons in the future.During the tour we found tables for these web comics. They are listed in the order we came across them during the tour:

  • Least I Could Do : leasticoulddo.com
  • Mine’s Bigger : minesbigger.novablade.com
  • Partially Clips : partiallyclips.com
  • Fragile Gravity : fragilegravity.com
  • No 4th Wall To Break : no4thwall.com
  • Staccato : staccatocomic.com
  • Fallen : fallencomic.com
  • Instant Classic : iccomics.com
  • Apple Geeks : applegeeks.com
  • VG Cats : vgcats.com
  • Ctrl Alt Del : ctrlaltdel-online.com
  • Comedity : comedity.com
  • The Devil’s Panties : thedevilspanties.keenspace.com
  • Dominic Deegan : dominic-deegan.com
  • Surliness : surliness.com
  • Paradox Lost : paradox-lost.com
  • Ded End : dedend.keenspace.com
  • And Then You Die : andthenyoudie.net
  • Chugworth Academy : chugworth.com
  • Daze and a Haze : dazehaze.keenspace.com
  • Mac Hall : machall.com
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    DS 27: WCCA 2006 Winners

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    Digital Strips
    Show 27 [10.6mb]
    		 This week we announce the winners of four categories of the Web Cartoonists’ Choice Awards (WCCA). It is our pleasure to be part of the WCCA and during this show we get to announce the winners of the categories Outstanding Newcomer, Outstanding Writer, Outstanding Artist, and Outstanding Comic.This week we talk about the following:

  • Beaver and Steve by James Turner : Outstanding Newcomer
  • Narbonic by Shaenon Garrity : Outstanding Writing
  • Copper by Kazu Kibuishi : Outstanding Art
  • Scary Go Round by John Allison : Outstanding Comic
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    DS 26: Interview with Sebastien Dumesnil and Robert Nichols

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    Digital Strips : Show 26 [10.9mb]
    		 This week we feature an interview with S�bastien Dumesnil and Robert Nichols, the filmmakers responsible for the upcoming documentary film Adventures Into Digital Comics. The filmmakers discuss the people in the film, the motivation behind making it and the controversy the trailer has caused.We received some swag from Jay Mcleod, the cartoonist behind Migrayn. He sent us some print comics and buttons and nice note. Thanks Jay! Good looking comic.

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  • Adventures Into Digital Comics by S�bastien Dumesnil and Robert Nichols
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