Our Heroes kick things off by introducing themselves, talking about self publishing, merchandising, and conventions, and finish off on some steamy tales of possible plagiarism.

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Check out TNPs founding comics, RobTheBot and Reeder Rabbit. Not much available at RobTheBot at the moment..

SDCC or San Diego Comic-Con is the worlds largest comic & popular arts convention. Denis and Ali are gonna be there, exhibiting. Scott will be attending east coast shows including New York Comic Con and Webcomics Weekend.

Great printing companies include comixpress.com, ka-blam.com, and lulu.com. Let us know if you know of any others.

Simply drawn comics that work! White Ninja Comics, and xkcd.

ECCC is happening next weekend, and Denis and Ali are exhibiting! Were looking forward to being in spitting distance from Jhonen Vasquez of many great works such as Invader Zim.

Our friend Joe Hunter sheds some light on a controversial topic: Plagiarism or inspiration? You decide. Incarnate graphic novel, Pierce The Veil band shirt. Don’t steal pictures of crying kids. Pierce

Be ready for our next discussion of Platinum Grit and Oglaf (NSFW). See ya then!

Music for this episode: The Decemberists – Summersong (iTunes Link)

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Emerald City ComiCon is coming up March 13 & 14. It is held at the Washington State Convention Center in beautiful Seattle, Washington. ECCC is the Northwest’s premiere Comic Book and Pop Culture conventions and we are gonna be there, exhibiting. We are officially listed as TNP Press, since registration happened before Starboard was founded.

TNP Press will be at booth 1006 and will be represented by, Denis Caron of Anhedonia Blue and L.A.W.L.S., Ali Showkati of Spaghetti Strap Western, and Paul Westover and Ben Carter of Woody After Hours. We’re also gonna be sharing our table with Cari Corene of Toilet Genie.

Be sure to download our map which also includes a coupon for $5 off a purchase of $30 or more. It should be an exciting time at Emerald City ComiCon, so stop by if you can.

Click here to download the PDF of the map & coupon.

Due to the fact that we have entered principle photography for my feature-length film Deranged, and that I am the only crew member on this project, you can imagine that my resources are going to be spent for the next month. As a result SSW will have to be on a temporary break until I enter post-production and things calm down a bit. I don’t wanna sacrifice page quality, so this is the best solution in the long run. Spaghetti Strap Western will return March 19 with page 91. Until then be sure to check out some other fantastic graphic novels over at Starboard Comics. My new graphic novel collective!

Check out my blog for more info.

My apologies to my readers and thanks for understanding See ya in March!

Welcome to the new webcomic collective, Starboard Comics.

This site was made out of a desire to create a collective, specifically for serialized online graphic novels. The difference between a traditional webcomic and the comics that make up Starboard, is that with traditional webcomics, the focus is usually on the humor and anyone can jump in and read a quick joke, similar to Calvin ‘n Hobbes or Peanuts. Here, our graphic novels offer greater overall depth and quality, and feature an overarching story that is told on a weekly basis. The emphasis is more on the plot and progression of a story, similar to other one-shot graphic novels like The Dark Knight Returns, or Watchmen.

The startup comics for Starboard Comics are Denis “Joenis” Caron’s Anhedonia Blue, Scott Ferguson’s Motokool and, Ali Showkati’s Spaghetti Strap Western. As you may have noticed Anhedonia Blue and SSW were originally part of our sister collective TNP Press. Over the past few months we began to realize that these novels could be better suited on a dedicated website. Well, the opportunity finally presented itself and here we are. We have officially decided to dedicate TNP Press to daily humor strips and publications, and make a new home for our graphic novels.

In addition to a great new site, we decided to start a podcast. There aren’t very many podcast out their dedicated to webcomics, so we decided to remedy that situation. Our podcast is called Starboard Webcomics Podcast, and you can listen to it via our homepage or by subscribing through iTunes. You can expect us to post a new episode every other Wednesday. We’ll be discussing everything from other webcomics, to our own personal techniques and tips. Should be a blast, so be sure to subscribe.

Finally, Starboard Comics is dedicated to following the comic convention circuit around the country. So look for our coming announcements, to see where we’re headed throughout the year.

Joenis, Scott and I hope you all enjoy the new site. Be sure to follow us on twitter and let us know what you think!

Scott, Joenis, and Ali test out the ropes of pod-casting in this short test episode. Be pre-warned, this is for a mature audience only, the content may be thought of as inappropriate and if you are easily offend, you may not want to listen, we do not want to offend you.

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SSW rape scene? Can it be?
http://www.sswestern.com/page-87/

Bad Webcomics Wiki presents Spaghetti Strap Western:
http://badwebcomics.wikidot.com/spaghetti-strap-western

Empower Women! Girls With Slingshots and shave penises in your face!
http://www.daniellecorsetto.com/archive.php?today=876&comic=866

Dead Baby Jokes! dead-baby-joke.com Don’t go there.

E.Q.Comics’ FML strip:
http://www.fmylife.com/miscellaneous/4251269
Philippa Rice’s FML strip:
http://www.fmylife.com/kids/5120895

We finally met Philippa Rice, the lovely Brit, from our Sister Collective, TNP Press:
http://mycardboardlife.com/

Follow the yelling bird on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/yelling_bird

Music for this episode: Minus The Bear – This Ain’t A Surfin’ Movie (iTunes Link)