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- ↑ Guest Experiment: Digital Strips, Jared von Hindman, Head Injury Theater, October 1, 2005
- ↑ For One Publisher, the Life of Every Comic Book Starts on the Web, The New York Times , September 26, 2006
- ↑ Archived 2007-07-18 at the Wayback Machine , Broken Frontier, July 18, 2007
- ↑ DS 10: Interview with DJ Coffman: Season 1, Episode 10, March 27, 2005
- ↑ DS 24: Interview with Scott Kurtz p3: Season 1, Episode 24, June 24, 2005
- ↑ Brian Clevinger on Digital Strips: Season 2, Episode 81, August 16, 2006
- ↑ DS 93: Interview with Scott Christian Sava: Season 2, Episode 93, October 27, 2006
- ↑ Interview with Katie Tiedrich of Awkward Zombie ~OR~ Kids These Days…: Season 3, Episode 120, June 13, 2007
- ↑ Interview: Scott Bieser of Big Head Press: Season 4, Episode 155, February 16, 2009
- ↑ Tom Mason ~INTERVIEWS~ Norm Feuti, creator of Gill and Retail: Season 4, Episode 156, February 24, 2009
- ↑ Digital Strips 159 – Interview with David Gallaher: Season 4, Episode 159, March 19, 2009
- ↑ NEWW Interview ~WITH~ Randy Milholland of Something Positive: Season 4, Episode 163, April 1, 2009