Dylan Meconis is a prolific cartoonist who lives in Portland, Oregon. She constantly labors away at a mix between her solo work and projects in collaboration with others, including writing the script for Scott Kurtz’s popular PvP webcomic. She is part of Periscope Studio, which we’ve talked about in previous podcasts. We talk about building… Continue reading What the Outfoxed Says with Dylan Meconis (Episode 69)
Category: Podcasts
See You in the Funny Webpages with Dave Kellett and Fred Schroeder (Episode 68)
Dave Kellett and Fred Schroeder created the movie Stripped about the past, present, and future of comic strips and their creators. Dave is the creator and cartoonist of two webcomics titles, Sheldon and Drive, and the co-author of How To Make Webcomics. He is one of a small but growing group of webcomics artists who… Continue reading See You in the Funny Webpages with Dave Kellett and Fred Schroeder (Episode 68)
Agile Was I Ere I Saw Ada’s with Danielle Hulton (Episode 67)
Danielle Hulton of Ada’s Technical Books not only opened a bookstore in Seattle in 2010, but recently dramatically expanded the size of the shop by moving to a new space. What led her to leap where others feared to tread, and how do you keep a bookstore current when ebooks seem to sucking readers away?… Continue reading Agile Was I Ere I Saw Ada’s with Danielle Hulton (Episode 67)
Crowded House with Joshua Lifton (Episode 66)
Joshua Lifton is one of the founders of Crowd Supply, a company that crowdfunds around products. They take a very different approach to preparation, funding, and follow-up than Kickstarter. Kickstarter just announced that it had crossed $1bn in pledges in its five-year lifetime. Of that, it’s disbursed nearly $850m. It’s on track to facilitate perhaps… Continue reading Crowded House with Joshua Lifton (Episode 66)
Made from Scratch with Jane Friedman and Manjula Martin (Episode 65)
Jane Friedman and Manjula Martin founded Scratch Magazine, a born-digital publication that tells writers what they’re worth and how the publishing industry sausage-making factory actually works. Jane has an extensive background as an editor, and may be best known for her decade at Writer’s Digest. Manjula is a freelance writer, whose work has… Continue reading Made from Scratch with Jane Friedman and Manjula Martin (Episode 65)
Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves with The Doubleclicks (Episode 64)
Photo by Jesse Kirk Angela and Aubrey Webber are the musical group The Doubleclicks, bringing geeky music to nerdy folk. The sisters never intended to form a band, but when Aubrey joined her sister Angela in Portland a few years ago, her cello coupled with Angela’s singing caused enough of a stir… Continue reading Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves with The Doubleclicks (Episode 64)
Failing Upward with Greg Knauss (Episode 63)
Photo: Adam Mathes Greg Knauss is an independent software developer who created Romantimatic, a reminder program for absent-minded sweethearts. You may know him from the early 2000s: from Suck.com and Metababy and Rainy Day Fun and Games for Toddler and Total Bastard, a collection of stories he promoted on what was arguably… Continue reading Failing Upward with Greg Knauss (Episode 63)
Retooling Cool with Kevin Kelly (Episode 62)
Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools re-imagines the Whole Earth Catalog, of which he was an editor and publisher, for the Internet era: crowdsourced, crowdmade, crowdmanaged. He’s been on the Internet for as long as there’s been an Internet for all us to get on. He was part of the founding team of Wired magazine, and the… Continue reading Retooling Cool with Kevin Kelly (Episode 62)
Backerkit to the Future with Maxwell Salzberg (Episode 60)
Maxwell Salzberg of Backerkit knows what it’s like to have a lot of people giving him money who want something in return: he and three colleagues created the Diaspora project, one of Kickstarter’s early blockbusters. He co-founded BackerKit with Rosanna Yau to help people with the problem of managing crowdfunding backers’ responses and… Continue reading Backerkit to the Future with Maxwell Salzberg (Episode 60)
Shell Game with Dan Shapiro (Episode 59)
Dan Shapiro with a premium sheet of game pieces. Dan Shapiro created the game Robot Turtles out of scissors, clip art, and a printer to offer asymmetric play: kids and adults can play together and both can enjoy the experience. He brought it to Kickstarter to sell a few hundred copies, and… Continue reading Shell Game with Dan Shapiro (Episode 59)