I remember Nathan recently asking for recommendations for podcasts in a blog comment, but I can’t find it right now, so I’ll make my suggestion here.
Nathan, I think you may like Alpha Rant, which is put together by the two brothers that produce the Alpha Shade web comic. I don’t actually read the comic, but I enjoy their commentary, and since you’re into the web comic scene I thought you might get a kick out of it. Then again, you may get offended too, because they have some pretty harsh opinions about the general web comic culture and most of the people involved.
They usually split the cast into two parts, one in which they talk about just their comic and the process of what went into creating it for that week, and feedback they’ve gotten, etc. Part two is more general conversation about whatever, but it’s usually also about the web comics scene, or other pop culture stuff. They attend a lot of the cons, and some of their reflections on the presentations (and presenters) are some of the best episodes.
As a side note, their site is the single site that I’ve seen that uses Flash well (it’s pretty much an all-Flash site), and makes me reconsider my strict anti-Flash opinion. Now I’m strictly anti-Flash-unless-you-do-it-this-good. One cool thing is that they do their comic in Flash as well, so all the art is vector and the pages will resize with the browser, etc.
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cool, sounds like they’re mccloud believers, which i am as well. i generally think most comics are dumb, so i’ll have to check these guys out. even if they’re comic ends up sucking, it will be cool to hear how they approach vector based art.
my comic becky in monkey land is vector based, but is rendered as standard gifs.
mccloud: http://scottmccloud.com
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