Thom Revor heads the show with Fes Works; with thanks for last week’s comics news brought to you by Dean Esmay, Jason Strawsburg, and Eric Kimball. Sorry for the lack of updates on The Webcast Beacon Network this week. We’ve been moving servers!
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Top Stories
Blind Ferret sites hit with malware virus
Original Source: Sohmer’s Twitter
Additionally: lezgetreal.com
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Buzz
Mark Millar, others team up to take down online bully
Original Source: DC Women Kicking Ass
Additionally: Archive of some of the trolling
Zombies bring Diamond back from the dead
Original Source: Bleeding Cool
Ustream shuts down Hugo streaming
Original Source: CNN
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Business
Authors caught sockpuppeting
Original Source: Paid Content
Additionally: Op-Ed, Are sockpuppets really that bad?
Apple is about device Amazon is about service
Original Source: GiGaOM
‘Cerebus’ Creator Dave Sim Contemplates ‘Career End Point’ And Economic ‘Doomsday Scenario’
Original Source: Comics Alliance
Additionally: Moment of Cerebus
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Education
What newspapers and media can learn from Reddit
Original Source: GiGaOM
On franchise fiction and women
Original Source: The Mary Sue
Additionally: Comic Book Resources
Canadian Comic History
Original Source: Sequential Tart
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Tech
Kickstarters accountability rules
Original Source: The Mary Sue
Additionally: Kickstarter Blog
Java Exploit warning
Found via: Fleen
Original Source: The Register
4chan gets real about software
Original Source: BoingBoing
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Tidbits
The results of googling webcomics
Original Source: Webcomic Overlook
Dinosaur comics inspired fortune cookies
Found via: Qwantz
Original Source: Cookie is Fortune
Yes Homestuck raised a ton of money
Original Source: Kickstarter
Husbands go from webseries to digital comic
Original Source: Robot 6
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Oddities
Opposing the DOJ/Apple Settlement in comic form
Original Source: Paid Content
Eggy comic Bingo
Original Source: Robot 6
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Fes, you really should take the time to look of Dave Sim and his legacy with Cerebus comics. Not only his involvement in the black and white movement and creator rights fight in the 80’s and 90’s but also the infamy that was his misogynistic downfall. He’s actually a pretty bold footnote in comics history and a really fascinating story.
Keep in mind I first started reading PRINT comic books about 1 year ago. Before that it was newspaper comics and webcomics only. I’m not familiar with almost all print comic creators.