Dave Sim
Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for Sept 1 2016 - Ambition and Trust
In this episode, I play a song from the new Rick Springfield album; I talk about attending Dragon*Con and seeing friends I've had for a long time; I discuss dream jobs and being trusted to do the right thing; do I have too little ambition? I use Always Sunny in Philadelphia as a compass; what are...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for July 19 2015 - Black Heart of Digital Hygeine
In this episode, I play a song by Amy Ray; I read the patrons and talk about how the weekly schedule is a benefit and I'm not phoning them in; I talk about "flight time" and its importance; I talk about David Moldawer's article on new media for Boing Boing; I talk about the "tenth...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 21, 2013 - "My Life In Fandom #19"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 21, 2013. In this episode, I talk about the comic books I was buying in the late 1980s and early 1990s. You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can...
read articlePodcast Endings
Over the course of this summer through the last week, a number of podcasts I subscribe to have come to an end. In a way, these announced endings are relatively rare. It seems more common that people just trail off their production schedule and at some point they podfade without another episode being...
read articleSteve Bissette and Dave Sim Chat
Yesterday I got my Steve Bissette Captain Beefheart sketch from the post office and also read the purportedly last entry of the exchange between Steve and Dave Sim about self-publishing, comics in general and many other topics. That's kind of a shame. I'd like to see the two of these guys go on long...
read articleDealing With the Post-Scarcity Digital World
When I write a long post that gets any sort of traction in the blogosphere, invariably some drive-by commentor will refer to it as "rambling." Generally they do this on posts where I try to tie together multiple different stories into a larger meta-story. This will be one of those. Don't...
read articlePodcasting Use Case for Comics
Here's an example of what podcasting can do that normal media just couldn't. Derek Coward turned me on to Indie Spinner Rack. In a recent show, they had some correspondents at the Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo who did a freakish level of coverage of the Howard E. "Gene" Day...
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