Gearhearts Steampunk Glamor Revue, (which will be featuring Veronique Chevalier on the cover, as well as in an extensive interview, in their upcoming Valentine’s issue, Feb. 2013), is raising money to build a free-standing website, pay photographers and artists what they deserve, and attend conventions.
I also donated 5 autographed copies of my “Polka Haunt Us: A Spook-tacular Compilation” recording project as premiums for the campaign. Please help them meet their goal!
Just so the fine attendees of TeslaCon 3: A Trip To The Moon, are made aware, The MAD-emoiselle One Herself shall be on hand once again to regale vous with her mad sonics! (Merci to Lord Bobbins Himself for creating this lovely likeness of La Moi)!
Don’t forget Queen Bee’s Art & Cultural Center, this Saturday, November 17th for the San Diego chapter of “Skyscrapers & Helicopters” Abney Park Vocalist Jody Ellen’s Solo CD Release Tour. I shall be your Hostess & MC’ess for the evening!
“Bountiful bouquets and boxes of bon-bons, all that is sweet and lovely is yours in our first-ever Valentine’s Edition of “Gearhearts Steampunk Glamour Revue“…This issue features the (in)famous steampunk chanteuse Veronique Chevalier on the cover, & in an exclusive interview, as well as the lovely artwork of Brigid Ashwood! So rejoice! Love is in the air, and the sweethearts of steampunk abound!” (Oui! This preview image is indeed “all steamed up!” Vous have to wait til Feb. 2013!)
Thunt of the webcomic “Goblins” made me, and several other webcomics, aware of a Facebook app someone created that scrapes our sites’ content, reposts it without our permission, and - the part the really pisses me off - encourages people to donate to our comics via a link/Google Checkout account we’ve not approved or are linked with.
See the area in the read circle? ”Keep the Something Positive app alive.” We webcartoonists get none of that. That all goes to the guy who set the app up - apparently someone named Lance Strish. No link back to the webcomics he’s taken from. No, “Hey, be sure to support the artists.” Nothing.
This shit happens all the time in Apple’s “We’re Too Busy Counting Money to Have Quality Control” App Store. Now webcartoonists get to deal with it on Facebook, too.
If you enjoy a webcomic - or anything - on the web, please don’t give money to the people who make apps that scrape their content without their permission. Give it to the actual people who make the stuff you like. If you see an app and aren’t sure if it’s “official” or not, ask the creator, but honestly, if it WAS official, the creator would have plugged it on their site.
Edit: I should point out this guy’s doing the same with 160 other comics in the same app.
Double Edit: Just to make sure some of you who’ve never read my comic know, the App is only called the Something Positive app on the page that scrapes my comic (Something Positive). If you go to another comic’s page, say Questionable Content, it’s suddenly the Questionable Content app.
This article on Buzzfeed in under 24 hours made the top 100.
21 Steampunk Songs for the new year.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/steampunk/21-steampunk-songs-for-the-new-year-3n9d
I am very proud of everyone who helped make this a reality. So if you are looking for a good way to spend that Amazon gift card you just got I suggest buying the two volumes of the sound track and the book. All three together are under $30 and just over $25 so you get free shipping and also you get a lot of great art and entertainment that is timeless.
ADDENDUM: La Moi, The MAD-emoiselle Herself: Veronique Chevalier, has a track included on Volume 2 of this two volume steampunk music set! Hoist one for La Moi when my song “The Beer Hall In Hell” comes on! ;-)
