Episode 20 of PodWarp 1999 is up – we have Steve Troop of Melonpool on as a guest, and we discuss his new project that’s happening, CryptoZooey, and his new project that didn’t quite happen (but look for it again next April 1), Zero Worship. And also time travel, alternate universes, and the PodWarp 1999 drinking game.
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Warping another Pod
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008Podcasts and Books and Things
Saturday, July 12th, 2008Last night I attended another Sequential Artists’ Pub podcast. This week’s main topic was books – preparing things for print, where/how to have them printed, where/how to sell them, etc.
In case you’re wondering, I save the full-size 300dpi scans of my strips before I resize them and save them for the web, and I used those files when I put the first book (Get Yours Today!) together. I took the print-on-demand route for publishing, with lulu.com, so it’s printed (and sold) through them. I’ll most likely put out the second book (which I’m currently working on) that way too.
And in unrelated news, today’s voting bonuses are the rough drafts for yesterday’s strip, today’s strip, and tomorrow’s, and a bad translation of today’s strip. Enjoy!
Further Adventures in Podcasting
Sunday, June 29th, 2008Last night I took part in Krishna Sadasivam’s podcast, The Sequential Artists’ Pub. Lots of interesting topics were discussed, such as tools and techniques, drawing tablets, site statistics, cartoonist resources, and wearing hats!
(My contribution is a bit limited, due to some connection problems. TalkShoe’s “ShoePhone” didn’t want to let me talk – it’d tell me I was connected, but it’s also tell me I wasn’t on the call. Eventually I wound up installing Gizmo, and finally managed to connect that way – so I don’t say anything until about 40 minutes in, and later on my connection gets garbled. Hopefully I’ll have better luck next time!)
Welcome New Readers!
Friday, June 27th, 2008Since there seem to be a lot of people reading at the moment, I thought I’d take the opportunity to welcome any of you who happen to be new readers coming in from StumbleUpon, what appears to be the most successful ad campaign I’ve run on Project Wonderful, and of course anywhere else, too…
Welcome!
Make yourself at home, check out the three spinoffs, tell a friend about Station V3, say hello on the forum, get a copy of the book… Or (most importantly) just enjoy reading!
And for anyone who isn’t a new reader (and has read this blog post this far anyway), thank YOU for reading, too!
In other news, the ‘official’ version of the latest episode of PodWarp 1999 (“Dial F for Frankenstein” – the call-in show episode) is up on the site now. I was using the same headset as on the past few episodes, but on a different computer, and that seems to have worked much better. (So now you get to hear what I actually sound like!)
Finally, in voting bonus news, I finally closed the Rumormonger Idol round 1 poll – the results are up as today’s first bonus, and some parting words from the loser are up as the second one.
Technical Difficulty Day
Monday, June 23rd, 2008This morning, there was a power blink at home, and the computer reset itself.
At work, I got a call from a remote site that also had a power blink, and they were having problems with a printer because of it.
Later in the day, due to some server configuration work being done, stationv3.com was unavailable for a little while.
Tonight we had our first PodWarp 1999 call-in show – and Talkshoe froze up on us.
Then after that, a thunderstorm knocked me offline for about half an hour.
The site should update automatically at its usual time (about two hours from now), and you can see tomorrow’s strip then. But if anything goes wrong with that, I think I’m going to have to blame Technical Difficulty Day!