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DJ Coffman on Placing Webcomics With Big Company Websites

Mon, 03/20/2006 - 11:19 — xerexes
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DJ Coffman has a post today on SPUN, a webcomic on the CBS Sportsline website.  The new comic by John Moore is apparently a paying gig with CBS.

This point has been pushed a lot this year by multiple folks - if you want to get paid as a cartoonist one avenue would be to tailor a comic very tightly to a specific subject matter and then approach companies and communitys relevant to the subject matter with it.

It would be interesting to get more examples of success with this approach - post 'em in the comments here if you know of any... 


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Mon, 03/20/2006 - 16:09 — timtylor
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I suspect that quite a few

I suspect that quite a few existing webcomics could find a natural community audience without extra tailoring. I've got fantasy and science-fiction particularly in mind: those genres have strong fan communities, and there are a lot of very good stories in webcomic form.

Mon, 03/20/2006 - 23:23 — RyanEstradadotcom
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Let's not forget Frank: The

Let's not forget Frank: The Comic, for LiveJournal!
http://community.livejournal.com/frankthecomic/

Wed, 03/22/2006 - 11:36 — Websnark.com
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Yirmumah itself is a good example

Don't forget that Coffman's placed Yirmumah itself on Cracked and other, quality websites run by stalwart men who have wallets.

Wed, 03/22/2006 - 12:26 — ubersoft
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Kernel Panic

Kernel Panic was originally started as a monthly comic appearing on an IBM Website covering various Unix platforms. I was hired by an IBM contractor who was maintaining the site, and it remained that way right up until the dot-com bubble burst, the company was let go, and the website was left to die.

I got paid a pretty good chunk of change for that gig. Never got the last check, though.

Wed, 03/22/2006 - 13:04 — xerexes
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I remember that! I think...

Was that the one where you had some comics about the alternate IBM OS system (WARP?) - can't recall the name right now?

 

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Wed, 03/22/2006 - 14:33 — ubersoft
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No, that's Help Desk.

No, Help Desk featured OS/2 from time to time. Kernel Panic focused pretty exclusively on Unix and Unix-like operating systems (like Linux) and is still updated (though somewhat sporadically) on my site (http://ubersoft.net/kpanic.)

Wed, 03/22/2006 - 22:17 — TylerMartin
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I know who signs my

I know who signs my checks.

The big syndicates seem to be doing a lousy job of web-syndication, instead trying to run their own content site of just... comics.

Need to get more webcomics piggybacking on content sites. Self-syndicating. It was the design of such bite-sized entertainment.