Happy Labor Day!
It’s time for some new bonuses – the first one is an alternate version of today’s strip, with the seemingly-required Labor Day comic theme of exploding barbecues. (Also tripe.) The second one is a Rumormonger Idol sprite strip, with a rumor going around about a new judge.
On a different note, Station V3 has been invited to join the sci-fi section of the Palace in the Sky comic group – and so it has!
V3 reader Daniel Ellingson has created some interesting things with the Spore Creature Creator – including a very nice version of Julius the Rumormonger!
In addition to Julius, today’s comic reveals that one of the other rumormongers is named Marco, and yesterday’s revealed that one of them is named Kyle. (There’s a little trivia question about Kyle on the forum!)
Silence in the Darkness on Q16 recently had its 500th strip go up! (Still dark – but not always silent.)
Two new episodes of PodWarp 1999 have gone up recently – a short Episode 22 with just me, Mark Mekkes, and guest Aaron Lewis, and a regular-length Episode 23 with the regular PodWarp crew!
And finally, I’ve updated the voting bonuses – there’s a sprite strip up at TopWebcomics, and a bad translation of today’s strip up at the all-new redesigned buzzComix. Thanks for voting!
If you’ve joined Star Pirates (or you’re going to) and now you’re looking for a fleet to join, the Rumormongers fleet is the one for you! In addition to being the “official” Station V3 fleet, its abbreviation is “RUM” – and how much more appropriately pirate-y can you get?
For today’s new voting bonus, there’s a sprite strip in which one of the Rumormongers is considering joining the fleet while he waits for the next round of Rumormonger Idol to start!
And on a completely different note, the fifth episode of The Sequential Artists’ Pub is up! I was there again for this one – lots of interesting topics covered, like a cartoonists’ public persona, pen names, mirror sites, the use of RSS feeds (Station V3 has one) and blogs on comic sites (like this one you’re reading right now).
Yesterday’s Peanuts rerun had Linus posing with his blanket and saying “I am Count Dracula from Transylvania” – I saw that one translated into German, in the book “Linus – oder: Wo ist meine Schmusedecke?” There he says “Ich bin Graf Dracula aus Transylvanien” – I think in that case the translation made it even more effective!
For a translation to German (and then back to English) that’s much less effective, there’s today’s first bonus! And the second one is a sprite strip in which one of the contestants is trying to get the judge to start the second round of Rumormonger Idol. Thanks for voting!
Last 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!