Making money with webcomics. Seriously!
Peppercoin has released the next version of its small (but not quite ‘micro’) payment system. Peppercoin 2.0 promises smaller per-transaction fees, no required user signup, per-use and subscription models, and easy payment through credit and debit cards. Continue Reading
Following on the heels of the successful Something Positive “Help Me Quit My Job” donation drive, the fellows at Goats have launched a similar effort. The full details on positive changes for Goats that would occur depending on the amount of money raised are listed on the site. Jon Rosenberg also provides an explanation for why a fundraising effort is needed now:
The shame of it is that I think we’re only a year or so away from being able to do this full-time with a small but reasonable salary. It would be a dream come true, and we’re so close I can smell it. There’s two of us that need to be paid, so it’s taking about twice as long as we’d like, but it is possible. Especially if I can spend less time trying to find freelance work and more of my time working on the strip to get us to that point. Unfortunately I’m not entirely sure I can get over this hump with my credit rating intact. At least, not without your help. Continue Reading
Alexander Danner notes in his blog that Next Comics has shut down operations. In fact, the domain name (nextcomics.com) has expired so the only place to still read the final post from publishers Arni Gunnarsson, Mal Jones, Joe Szilagyi, Mike Sims and John Hirbour is at Danner’s blog.
From all reports, Next Comics published at least a few ongoing projects but with fewer and fewer updates throughout 2003. Sadly the publishing staff at Next Comics appears to have made no plans to save the work published on their site and leaves it up to the creators (hopefully the creators had backup copies of work submitted to Next Comics). Continue Reading
Dog Complex kicked of a brand new service on Tuesday, June 1st, that rewards readers for telling others about the strip. The idea is simple: A reader registers at the site, is issued a unique URL, passes it on to their friends and family, and gets a point each time someone visits Dog Complex. The top 3 point leaders at the end of the month get prizes, like DVDs, books, strip prints, and more. Not only that, but there are also random prize drawings as well, so that users of the system do not have to feel like they’re out of the running just because they don’t have a lot of friends. Continue Reading
After R K MilHholland challenged his readers to pay his salary for the year so he could devote himself fulltime to Something Positive, it appears that Milholland’s faithful may in fact help him to quit his day job.
MilHholland reported this week that his donation drive was closing in on $20,000. Continue Reading
Emily Adamo (editor of webcomic Apple Geeks) wrote an article called “Making Webcomics Your Day Job” for the Apple Geek site. Plastic picked up on it and started an interesting comment thread on this still mostly elusive goal. Continue Reading
R. Stevens is auctioning off the guest strip he did for Scary Go Round. Click here to bid. Continue Reading
The business of syndication as we know it today began in the nineteenth century when many newspapers, especially in smaller cities and towns, found it tantamount to impossible to maintain a large enough staff to do anything other than gather and report the local news. Therefore national organizations sprang up that sold national articles, columns, and anything of interest to the smaller papers. These syndicates allowed a small paper to carry high-quality national content and a highly varied selection of features, in spite of the small staffs they maintained.
It’s not often a webtoonist combines webcomic-making and civilian place of employment, but Howard Tayler has pulled it off. Uncool Solutions is a nifty webcomic that runs monthly on the Novell website. It so happens that Tayler, in addition to being the creator of Schlock Mercenary, is also a product line manager for Groupwise, a Novell program.
Not only is Uncool Solutions a webcomic, it’s a contest for readers to send in a solution to deal with the problem presented in the current comic strip. Granted the solution has to include at least one Novell product, but hey, they’re footing the bill for the winners. The top three entries receive gift certificates from Think Geek. Continue Reading
Just this past Thursday Carson Fire posted a message on his website:
I need some suggestions… where do I find the art collectors? We’ve sold one piece from the gallery, but we have to sell even more.
If we don’t start seeing a bit more activity, some more nibbles, suggestions, something, I’m afraid I’m going to have to make myself be mean, and start taking whole blocks of the Elf Life archive back offline.
Fire has been setting deadlines for sales of original Elf Life art right on through this weekend with portions of the Elf Life archives removed from public access when those deadlines are not hit. Fire is upping the ante with some hints about the next phase of Elf Life (which apparently will only happen if he hits his fundraising goals).
If I need to be this aggressive to sell art and save the series, then aggressive I shall be. I’ve already started mapping out “Elf Life phase 2”, which will be a continuation of the series, but *after* the wedding, since the wedding has me mired in an epic with no visible means of support.
The next phase of Elf Life will be called something completely different, and will put more emphasis on the relationship between Glee and Filis, and Thea’s training for battling the younger Sea Naga. It will not be a mystery about the past, as most of Elf Life has been, but a straight adventure that finds the strongest women of Elf Life on the road, doing battle with the world.
That means a more exciting, faster-paced, and dareIsayit sexier Elf Life than ever before.
Although there are no deadlines for today, Fire did updates his site with news that he is halfway to his goal. Continue Reading
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