EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson

Today’s podcast is all about web comics, where they came from, where they are today, and perhaps where they are headed. We have no less than three working web comic creators on the show.

There is a little syndication bashing while we are at it, and we discuss if its “cool” anymore to be geeks. All that and an interesting conspiracy theory involving the Apple / Intel deal.

You can get the RSS feed for the show right here. Or, if you prefer, you can directly download the 19mb MP3 file right here.

This has some bearing on this recent comic I guess, but thanks to Seung Lee for this little diddy!

Don’t think this has been seen before. Looks way smaller than I figured it would.

That is what G4 is telling us anyway. Check it!

When I had final high-resolution artwork I set about shrinking them and moving panels around for my final book. The web formated pages are around 10″ x 7″, but my book format is around 6″ x 7″. More of a square. I usually planned my drawings in tiers. Each page has two tiers. So to fit the rectangular piece into the more square book I just take one page and add to it half of the next page, creating a three tier final artwork. (What was two rows on the web, is now three in print. I hope that makes sense).

I actually found this all rather helpful.

Let me moan a little about something that totally drives me up the freaking wall.

Sometime back in the early 50’s Firefox, Opera, Safari, and other quality browsers added the ability to do tabbed browsing. Jump to 2005 where Microsoft has FINALLY decided that tabbed browsing is a good idea after all. But is it part of a new browser build? NO! Its a freaking tool bar download thing!

So let me just ask the obligatory question: Why is ANYONE using IE anymore? Give me a reason and I promise to really think about it. Is there a good answer? Anyway, you can get the stupid thing here if you really want it.