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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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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Oooooooh shiiiiiiiit… I had a bunch of name confusion issues when I decided to go by Chris my freshman year of college. Fucking stupidest idea ever.
And good luck with the exhibitionism!
Chris?… is that like your middle name or something? WHERE HELL DID CHRIS COME FROM!?!
My middle name is Christopher.
That’s what I get for being a pastor’s kid. :/
And why do I keep missing reply buttons?
Because he don’t want no back talk!
Cos apparently you are reply-retarded. :]
Replytarded. That’s me.
Fun Fact: Jhonen is pronounced “Jee-HOO-Nen”.
where’s the link to the kissing girls that were on that shirt?
http://scottmccloud.com/2010/02/26/for-the-record/
thanks, Champ!
Hey, thanks for the linkzor! We added it to the Show Notes. :]
you greedy men. Not one, but TWO collectives. lol
also, it’s “plagiarism,” not “pladurism”
We’re so foreign to the notion of plagiarism, we don’t know how it’s spelled
that.. or Ali is illiterate.. you choose.
where’s the link to the kissing girls that were on that shirt?
I know Joe has the link.. if you get it from him can you forward it to us?
ahhh…. I thought Scott was saying he was looking at it during the podcast…. Though I haven’t listened to the recording since this morning-ish, so I could be wrong.
http://scottmccloud.com/2010/02/26/for-the-record/
Sorry I couldn’t find it at first so I decided to omit it completely rather than ask Scott. I’m so cool and smart.
You’re so smool!
Interesting podcast guys! In my experience t-shirts and custom art is a pretty good source of income for me. I haven’t been able to print a book yet, but from what I hear, full sized books (70-100 pages) are the top money makers for indy webcomic artists. I’m planning on printing one up soon, I’ll let you guys know what I come up with
Thanks Evan! I don’t know though, I still feel like T-Shirt Sales have the highest market of sales, at least from what I’ve heard from others in the industry.
Here’s Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content’s thoughts on the matter of making money in webcomics: http://qcjeph.livejournal.com/100732.html (mind you this article touches on the difference between old school syndicated comics and the new age of web comics as well.)