First off, our friends at The Gigcast have posted their 127th episode, so go snag it for your iPod or other portable device. This episode features an interview with the newly married Evil Emperor Nick and Amelius as well as much of the other content that’s normally delivered on the Gigcast.

Other things found on the news-o-blogs, apparently Anne Thalheimer over at Fleen is seeking reading recommendations. Be sure to throw a few her way that you read, or possibly suggest your own, you may pick up a new fan.

In more dramatic news, there has been some hullabaloo concerning the removal of genre-awards from the WCCAs. Interesting reading if you’ve got some time to kill, or you’re very annoyed (or not) with the genre-awards removal.

Meanwhile, Tyler Martin earns a little geek-cred for pointing out some LOST references in his comic. Always fun to see authors do things like that. There should be a list somewhere devoted to just that… or maybe a Scienteer feature…

Lastly, if you haven’t read Dean Trippe’s Butterfly, you’re depriving yourself of a truly well done comic. So get to reading!

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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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.