Archive - Jan 25, 2005 - Story
360ep Signs Danielle Corsetto's Girls With Slingshots
Submitted by Erik Melander on January 25, 2005 - 14:12
The Beat reports that Bill Jemas' 360ep, a marketing and licensing management company, has signed Danielle Corsetto's Girls with slingshots. 360ep will represent Corsetto's webcomic for licensing and publishing opportunities and the webcomic will also join 360ep's Herorealm.com lineup.
Eat The Roses Ending And ETR2 About To Begin
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on January 25, 2005 - 12:11
Meaghan Quinn has the Keenspot newsbox today with news on the wrap-up of her Eat The Roses webcomic. Luckily for Quinn fans, however, she notes that the end of ETR will lead directly into the beginning of ETR2.
Charge for Archives or Keep Them Up For Free?
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on January 25, 2005 - 11:39
Newspapers are struggling with how to make a go of it in an increasingly web-only world. Many employ a strategy of giving aways the news but charging for their archives. Coincidently that's the strategy employed by the Modern Tales family of subscription websites.
A couple of plugged-in commentators (Dan Gillmor and Cory Doctorow) argue that for newspapers, both financial incentives and an appreciation of what it means to be a paper of record in the digital age mean that newspapers should give away their archives for free forever.
Thumbnails of Every Comixpedia Cover
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on January 25, 2005 - 01:25
I'll try to make this page linkable to the issue archives but for now I thought I'd share a page with thumbnails of every Comixpedia cover. And I mean every cover ever as it includes a thumbnail of next month's cover from John Barber.
I'd also like to point out that the link to past issue archives is back - it's at the bottom of the Issue Contents box up there on the left (right below the cover).
