Many people, who create comics, have an account on ComicSpace.com. It's an image hosting place like photobucket, but specific to comics. They have a new feature to the site, which is to sell your artwork through the site. All you have to do is upgrade.
I noticed this feature a few days ago, but I ignored it until I saw how much artwork is being sold for. This is a pretty good picture, but is it worth $6,000? Who has six grand to drop on a picture?Here's how it works: you draw pretty pictures, then people who like pretty pictures buy your pretty pictures. This is the first of (hopefully) several "primo" account features here at ComicSpace. You can upgrade to a Primo Account for just $4.95 / per month. Once you're a primo member, you'll be able to sell your original comic artwork directly through your comic galleries. Payments will be sent to your Paypal email address immediately. ComicSpace will not take a commission, or hold your money.
Q: What exactly am I buying?
A: You're buying the actual, original artwork of the image displayed. Imagine you're browsing an art gallery with original paintings on the wall. You're buying the original painting/drawing/sketch/etc.
If you're part of the Project Wonderful network, and you're advertising on ComicSpace, a banner ad will cost you $20.10. Here is the example from the comic called Gone With the Blastwave:

This comic deserves more coverage than I'm giving here. But the creator is from Finland, and self describes Gone With the Blastwave as "infrequently updated", and not serious. I wonder if he realizes he's being charged $20 every time someone clicks that banner ad? I mean, that's a lot of money to spend on promoting something you consider unoriginal, in a "really generic post-apocalyptic setting".
It costs $5 to upgrade. It will be interesting to see what happens with this new feature of ComicSpace. I'm no math expert, but turning $5.00 into $6,000 certainly sounds like the latest bandwagon. Obviously, I'm in the wrong business... Hmm, if only there was a way to turn lead into gold. Screw blogging right? Why settle for a measly five or ten cents a click! Sell a picture for $24,000 and do nothing the rest of the year.
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Cover of Nexus - Most others are in the 100 or so range
Well I think that's worth a lot more b/c of the comic book collector mentality than the merits of the artwork itself. Look at who did it and the fact that it was a cover.
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Xaviar Xerexes
On second thought, let's not go to Comixpedia. It is a silly place.
"I wonder if he realizes
"I wonder if he realizes he's being charged $20 every time someone clicks that banner ad?"
It's $20 per day, not per click, and if you only advertise for one day and it brings in several thousand new readers, then it might be worth it.
(A year ago, before Project Wonderful existed, Something Positive charged $35 or so for one day of advertising. The rates for busier sites on PW are comparable, if not better.)
Good catch
I'm not sure I read the second half of that post carefully enough.
What Gordon said...
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Xaviar Xerexes
On second thought, let's not go to Comixpedia. It is a silly place.
Correction
"It's $20 per day"
Ah, oops. I still wonder if there is something being lost in translation from Finish to English though. It doesn't make sense to talk about how lame your comic is, and then spend $20 a day promoting it. Just my opinion.
Admittedly I'm no great
So I'm not sure if you're saying that comicspace has too high a price (which isn't the site owner's fault) or the Blastwave guy is dumb for paying that much? I'm fairly certain he had to win a bid from at least one other guy who was willing to pay 20 bucks, and a long line of people that are willing to pay almost as much. It's clearly more than just one Finnish guy who doesn't understand how to pay in American dollars.
As an aside, it looks like it's down to 18 bucks now. Much cheaper than an original piece of art from Steve Rude. But then again, it should be.
--Neal
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