Digital Strips

Digital Strips refers to the website [http://www.digitalstrips.com Digital Strips] , the first webcomic podcast. The main material of the podcast is reviews of webcomics, interviews of webcomic authors and personalities, round-table discussions, and general advice on how to create and run a webcomic. In addition to the podcast is the Digital Strips blog which provides coverage of the webcomic community.

History

The Digital Strips program began on January 14th, 2005 with its first blog post and aired the first podcast ten days later on January 24th, 2005. The podcast and blog were originally run solely by Zampzon and Daku until the two found the site was growing faster than hoped. One year after the first podcast the two were joined by the popular guest host Phil Kahn of I’m Just Saying and later on by Wednesday White and the cartoonist Brandon J. Carr. The blog expanded with contributions from writers Steve ‘The Geek’ Shinney, Jason ‘The Midnight Cartooner’ Sigler of the webcomic Amazing SuperZeros, Brigid Alverson of the popular blog MangaBlog, and Michael Rouse-Deane.

Over the first year the podcast followed a format of Zampzon and Daku picking two webcomics each and reviewing them for the podcast posted on Mondays. Near 40% of the podcasts, instead of web comic reviews, were interviews of creators behind these comics such as Penny Arcade, PvP, Ctrl Alt Del, Least I Could Do, Bunny, and Yirmumah. After the first year the format changed to one review per show with multiple updates per week, following the tradition of most podcasts.

The podcast and blog have many firsts to its name. The list includes the first comics podcast, one of the first skypecast, the first audio/video interviews of webcomic artists, and the first webcomic blog to pay its contributors on a per post basis. It is also the second longest running comic blog, behind The Comics Reporter. The popularity of the show has increased over the years to the point where it's contributors are considered top critics in the field. Daku has been interviewed by the New York Times in reference to Platinum Studios buying DrunkDuck and by T Campbell for the Blowing Bubbles series of the online magazine Broken Frontier. The Digital Strips website was mentioned as a major milestone in T Campbell's book, The History of Webcomics, and has been linked on a continual basis by ComixTalk, Journalista!, and Tom Spurgeon.

External links

* " [http://www.digitalstrips.com Digital Strips] "

References

* " [http://www.comicspodcasts.com/?cat=13 Comics Podcasts] "
* " [http://www.platinumstudios.com/news/article.php?article=142 Platinum Studios] "