Screen Tones: A Webcomic Podcast
Sep 16, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 15 segments
We’re recording this in 2026. We’ve all had convention experience. There’s a lot of things that are shifting in the conventional convention wisdom, maybe things we took for granted, things that we…
Kristen LeeHost
Star PrichardHost
Claire NiebergallHostAnd if you have two money instead of 10 money, you're going to spend money more carefully.
But there is this kind of sense that I know we've talked about on the side, which leads to episodes like this, where we're all just kind of like...
Nobody's coming in and, again, pointing at your stuff and being like, that looks cool.
They're looking at it and being like, is it worth it? Is this an investment that I can benefit from? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Which leads to this... over-reliance on, I guess, going to a convention and you're not necessarily looking for new things.
You're looking for familiar things, things that are well-known to you, whether it's fan art or fan comics of things that you already know about, or even comics about things that are easily understood.
And I think when I tabled that first time, I got that first taste and only taste of the sense of like, people are looking at my work, they might not fully understand it, but they're asking questions, they're interested, they're willing to kind of cold buy something a little bit more quickly than which is lovely.
And it's nice to have somebody just be like, I'm just going to check this out because I trust it.
And nowadays I feel like there's far more like people looking at it, putting it down, coming back around, looking at it again, coming back around.
And then maybe getting it or getting something smaller or something on your table where they've come back to your table three times and they're like, I feel bad for this person.
And it's kind of tough when you've got original stuff that's a little bit harder to pitch.
And if you have two money instead of 10 money, you're going to spend money more carefully.
But there is this kind of sense that I know we've talked about on the side, which leads to episodes like this, where we're all just kind of like...
Nobody's coming in and, again, pointing at your stuff and being like, that looks cool.
They're looking at it and being like, is it worth it? Is this an investment that I can benefit from? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Which leads to this... over-reliance on, I guess, going to a convention and you're not necessarily looking for new things.
You're looking for familiar things, things that are well-known to you, whether it's fan art or fan comics of things that you already know about, or even comics about things that are easily understood.
And I think when I tabled that first time, I got that first taste and only taste of the sense of like, people are looking at my work, they might not fully understand it, but they're asking questions, they're interested, they're willing to kind of cold buy something a little bit more quickly than which is lovely.
And it's nice to have somebody just be like, I'm just going to check this out because I trust it.
And nowadays I feel like there's far more like people looking at it, putting it down, coming back around, looking at it again, coming back around.
And then maybe getting it or getting something smaller or something on your table where they've come back to your table three times and they're like, I feel bad for this person.
And it's kind of tough when you've got original stuff that's a little bit harder to pitch.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.
