The PodWarp 1999 team is boldly going where no webcomic podcast has gone before - a genre-specific look at making your webcomic. The five of us will be looking at Science Fiction writing conventions and styles, talking about using the genre as a setting for both comedy and drama, discussing ways of marketing a scifi webcomic, and we’ll probably end up talking about all sorts of inane rubbish at the same time.

PodWarp 1999 are…

Tauhid Bondia: The man behind scifi “reality series” webcomic Good Ship Chronicles, which has been described as “Star Trek meets The Office.” His previous work includes Spells & Whistles, a fantasy-comedy webcomic, and syndicated comic Suzie View. In his spare time, Tauhid solves crimes with his friends, traveling across the country in a green minivan with their cowardly talking dog.

Jim Francis: Also known as Arioch, Jim’s contribution to the world of scifi-webcomicry is Outsider, a long-form dramatic story about a solitary human being involved in a war between alien races. He also has an extensive online gallery featuring original art and tutorials, and is well known for having traveled back in time to become his own Great-Great-Grandfather, although he doesn’t like to talk about it.

Mark Mekkes: Parodying popular science fiction with his webcomic Zortic, set mostly aboard the starship EntirePrize, but sometimes not. Mark also mediates The Web Cartoonists’ Choice Awards, and has been known to wrestle bears and alligators, often both at once.

Ben Paddon: Creator and Head Writer for the small team of friends who provide long-form dimension-jumping scifi-comedy Jump Leads. Saying his name backwards three times has been known to cause the very fabric of reality to tear asunder, allowing a horrific army of demonic entities to pass from their Hellish dimension to ours.

Tom Truszkowski: Tom is the single entity responsible for Station V3, a four-panel scifi-comedy webcomic about the goings on aboard a space station. He is terrified of falling down stairs, as his entire body is made of a very fine porcelain which, upon impact following a long drop, would shatter into a thousand irreparable pieces.