Natalie joins as this week’s guest host, with just Fes Works. Thanks to Eric Kimball for gathering our news links. Also, The Tropecast has returned with two new episode, plus a new Webcast Beacon Network video series called First Issue!

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Top Stories

Lateness has a negate effect on the people you work with
Studies are showing that when you show up late without notifying people it can cause a negative morale.
Original Source: eHow

Warren Ellis: Why people like webcomics
Found via: Fleen – Original Source: Warren Ellis

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Woman Studies

Drawing of women in appropriate attire
Found via: Una The Blade – Original Source: Women Fighters in Reasonable Armor

Advice on how to write women
Original Source: Comic Alliance

The Strong Female Characters Joke continues
Arron Diaz posted a fake response from DC to his reboot of the DC character pretending to be a editor at DC working on rebooting his own characters.
Original Source: Aaron Diaz

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Buzz

The Kate Beaton Media Feeding Frenzy
People love Kate Beaton. No real story here. We already knew she was awesome.
Found via: Fleen- Original Sources: A.V. Club and The Paris Review

Jennie Breeden announces her engagement in comic
Found via: Multiple places
Original Source: The Devil’s Panties

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Biz

Quick bit on how people read webcomics
Original Source: ComixTalk

Comic Reading Habits of Fleen readers
Original Source: Fleen

Making Webcomics Work
Colleen is a brilliant (if not shameless) self promoter.  This article is really a bit of self promotion for her comic but it still has some interesting information.
Found via: Bleeding Cool – Original Source: A Distant Soil

Archie Comic Returns to Superheroes
My question is will they have Penis-man with his hurting balls of justice? (Drink if you get the reference.)
Found via: Jason Strawsburg – Original Source: New York Times

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Tech

Apple’s iCloud does not allow PDFs
Original Source: Slashdot

HTML 5 Better than Apps?
Original Source: Editor and Publisher

Analysis of the new Newstand app
Original Source: Graphic Policy

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Tutorials

Trees – by GriffSnuff

Coloring Using Layers Part 1 and Part 2 – by SilverFox-5213

Background Glow – Ebruliiart

Fractal Effect – PSDbox.com

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Oddities

MTV releases the Liquid TV archives to the web
Found via: ComixTalk – Original Source: io9

3D printer for 10 year olds
How come 10 year olds get one before I do
Found via: Slash dot – Original Source: Singularity Hub

If people had sex like…
Found via: The Mary Sue – Original Source: Roxy Drew

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