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Digital Strips

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Digital Strips: The Webcomics Podcast is a weekly podcast filmed in Geelong, Australia, initially featuring two hosts, Daku and Zampzon, before later featuring multiple additional hosts replacing the latter host upon their leaving the show. They discuss webcomics, webtoons and comic books released every week, as well as related films, television series, websites of interest, writers and artists in the comic book, webcomic and webtoon industry. They also travel to comic book conventions in the local area and interview various artists, writers and editors in the comic book industry such as Kris Straub, David Willis, Scott Kurtz, Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, Eric Burns, Brian Clevinger, Ryan Sohmer, Lar deSouza, Scott Bieser, and Randy Milholland, to name a few. The podcast can be downloaded via iTunes or watched directly online at their website.

The launch of Digital Strips[edit]

Digital Strips launched its first post on January 14th, 2005, and the first episode of its podcast ten days later on January 24th, 2005.

Each season usually consists of 50 episodes, not including interviews. Their 500th episode was aired on March 11, 2018. Season 15 is currently in production. Each episode is aired on Thursday typically every week.

Episode layout[edit]

Digital Strips episodes are usually somewhere between 20 and 180 minutes in run-time. Most episodes consist of the DS Crew (Usually Daku, Wednesday, Bridget and Terence) discussing the state of comic art on the web. The show includes reviews, commentaries, and interviews.

The show is accompanied by the tagline "If it has to do with webcomics, we're on top of it. We love this crazy medium just as much as you do and together we can scream it from the (digital) rooftops!"

About Digital Strips[edit]

The show was created by Heiko (Daku "The Rogue" Memmel) and Nate "Zampzon" Bramble; at a later stage Zampzon being replaced by Jason "The Midnight Cartooner" Sigler, Phil "MoEffin" Kahn, Steve "The Geek" Shinney, Terence "The Average Joe" McManus, "The Serenest" Wednesday White and Brigid Alverson of MangaBlog. It is described as both the first and longest-running comics review podcast.[1]

The "DS crew": The Rogue, Zampzon, MoEffin, The Midnight Cartooner, The Geek, The Average Joe, and Brigid, review comics and interview creators each week with lively and sometimes unyielding banter. This podcast is not intended for young children. Each episode is described as "the show for fans of webcomics by fans of webcomics".

Guests grace the panel frequently throughout the series.

Guests have included: David Gallaher, Kris Straub, Brandon J. Karr, Brian Clevinger, Eric Burns and Penny Arcade creators Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Digital Strips also got the first exclusive interview with Katie Tiedrich, writer of the comic Awkward Zombie, after its debut in September 2006.

Press[edit]

Digital Strips was interviewed by The New York Times. The article was published in September 2006.[2]

Other interviews include one done by the Broken Frontier[3] – as a part of the Blowing Bubbles series by T. Campbell.

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