BUISINESS
Publisher Devil's Due announced a partnership with Kevin Spacey's Triggerstreet.com for webcomic competitions at the Triggerstreet.com site.  Stephen Cristy from Devil's Due compared it favorably in terms of financial rewards and creator freedom to the DC Zuda site.

The Platinumized Wowio is set to relaunch in less than a week (there's a countdown timer on the site now).  Comics Worth Reading comments on the new Wowio business plan (one quibble though - Johanna says "WOWIO worked for everyone: free comics for readers and real payments for creators of 50 cents a PDF download."  - well yes, but apparently it didn't work for the owners of WOWIO very well as it appears they have yet to make any profits)

With all of the Platinum and WOWIO news, I've missed mentioning DJ Coffman's recent "I'll draw anything for $2" promotion.  It seems to boil down to the equivalent of selling sketches at a convention and I'm sure others have done similar things before but Coffman seems to be particularly happy with his effort and its results so far.

DEAD TREES
AppleGeeks signs with Dark Horse to do a book in 2009.  Congrats to Hawk and Ananth.

TECHNOLOGY
Everyone seemed to be linking today to this article on webcomics through the Nintendo Wii.  Four Japanese publishers are teaming up to do this in Japan.

WANT ADS
Laurent Q writes at Panels and Pixels: I'm a french writer (novels and comics-books) seeking artists. Several project accepted by french publishers are awaiting their artist.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
Ouch - get better soon Aaron Diaz!  (He had a bike accident and got hurt).

Looks like DrunkDuck webcomics site is running an awards program this year.

Last not least: an animated version of the caustic clip-art webcomic, Get Your War On.

WOWIO's website is now showing the countdown to their relaunch. From the figures on the countdown clock, the expected relaunch date is 31 July.

To My GLBT fans, Make sure you check out the Gaylaxicon:
(Blurb from their Website):

A year ago today, I wrote the first “Webcomic Overlook” over at my Rooktopia blog. It was a humble little piece about Nedroid’s Bad Webcomic Challenge, where he wrote a 100 quickie strips which — if everyone’s being utterly honest — weren’t actually bad at all. (I wasn’t the only one enamored. [...]

A break from the action as Sabrina is confronted with her attitude following the last fight card and was coming out of it on her own, but let’s see what a talking to from her mentor, Marina can do. One of the more talky pages and not much to be said for Sabrina except [...]

We’ve just finished a couple of great days at the San Diego Comic-Con, seeing old friends and meeting so many new ones! Although we’ve seen CryptoZooey in the news a lot since its debut, we think this may be the first review of the new book and couldn’t wait to share!

There are a lot of moments that we’d like to highlight from our first two days (and we will do a more in-depth report after the Con is over), but there was one person who visited us to look at the new book who we’re fans of. Check out Felicia Day and the Jackalope!

I need to record short movies of my desktop, and can't find a freeware program to do it.

Help!

Please suggest something (for mac) that I can record with!

I like having all of that music on the computer but sometimes I don’t know how I want to listen to it all.  I’ve got a lot of music I like but I don’t like any of it all of the time.

JT and Scott talk Webcomics,  Christian Ellis Shallow Thoughts LInks: New Steve Troop Comic book/website.Dresden Codak creator  Aaron Diaz hurt his hand Slave Labor launches new webcomics program The GigcastA Nightgig Studios Production - http://www.nightgig.comwww.thegigcast.comHave News or a Comment?  Want to tell JT and Scott they are full of it?E-mail: gigcast@nightgig.comOne of the Farpoint Media family of shows [...]