Drawing a single panel comic about a turtle (Charley) when he was 9, JT knew he wanted to be a cartoonist. That didn’t work out.

Later a short stint in High school as a DJ for its low wattage radio station and on stage in the schools Plays and Musicals gave him a taste for show-bid-ness (that didn’t work out either)

So, when in 2005, (deep breath) after dropping out of college, joining the US Navy (5 years on the USS Spruance DD 963), marring a great girl, finding the Internet, having 2 Awesome kids, Finding webcomics, leaving the Navy, trying that cartooning thing again with Gecko Nation, and founding NightGig Studios (With Ken Prince) to help other Web Cartoonists, (breath) podcasting was born, he decided he wanted to be heard again and created… (wait for it) … The Gigcast.

Taken from JT’s Gigcast Bio.

1) Hello! Tell us who you are, and what you do.

Hi, I’m JT (Tim) Shea, Co-Founder of NightGig Studios, and host and producer of The Gigcast.

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HALLO, fellow scienteers and non-scienteers alike! A lot of stuff is happening around my head, but the biggest one right now is MEGACON in Orlando, FL! I’m leaving for Orlando today and will be there all weekend at Artist’s Alley, table Brown 12B!! That’s way back there, but it will be a freakin party you know!!!!! Also with me I will have like 1,000 mini comics for sale! I got one called “PROBLEMS WITH MY BODY” which is a mini containing sketches and lil comics from my sketchbook. I’ve seen others do this before and thought it was really neat, I hope others think the same way!!!  Next, I got a mini version of my 24 hour comic, THE FARM HOUSE) available, then a very special one: GUN SHOW THREE AND A HALF!! A little taste of what the new gun show will bring to everyone, and I think no one will be disappointed.  I’ll also have old issues of Gun Show one and two, and will be sketching in everything I can, for free!! So, if you live in Florida, you have no reason NOT to come down to Megacon and shake my hand!See you there.

Every Saturday from 5PM Pacific Standard Time until “question mark” I’ll hook up my camera and mic and draw live and chat with viewers. So go ahead and bookmark hpkomic’s comic-factory and check it out this Saturday. I’ll be glad to talk about stuff with you guys as I doodle.

Special thanks to my Nightgig peeps for informing me of this Tooncasting thing. If you’re not listening to the Gigcast, you’re missing out. As a bonus, that same episode features an interview with our friend David Gallaher.

Oh yeah, and a bonus, some pencils to my next comic page.