9/19: Podcasting Country

Seems like new webcomics-based podcasts and vidcasts are turning up more and more frequently these days. In related news, I'll be posting a few new Blowing Bubbles in the next week and a half, then giving up on talk-show podcasts.

They're fun and all, but I have to wonder how many people are listening. With a few exceptions, webcartoonists don't have the kind of star power that I'd associate with a radio must-listen. (Two of those exceptions, the Penny Arcade guys, haven't 'cast since May.) My own experiences at Broken Frontier suggest as much: what feedback I received was for the text pieces, not the podcasts.

Despite this, and despite my own feelings about my abysmal delivery, I don't regret doing "Blowing Bubbles." I think there are aspects of cartoonists' personalities that just don't come through clearly in a prose interview. I was happy to throw a spotlight on those for anyone who did care to listen in. But when it comes to listening myself, now? Webcomics Weekly is the only 'cast for which I can still make the effort.

(And note to the Webcomics Weekly guys: please don't broadcast two hourlong episodes in the same week again, mmkay? It's tough enough to cram one of them into my schedule...)