Business

From the Hurting comes a link to this San Mateo Times story on a company selling subscriptions to comics for your cell phone.

Putting comics on your cell is not all laughs for FunMail. FunMail pays the syndicators for the comics. The consumer pays the wireless carrier $2 a month per comic. The carrier pays FunMail three to four months down the road.

New and novel means of distributing comics is a great thing but who pays $2 a month, per comic, to read comics on their cellphone?
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Warren Ellis latest Brainpowered column at Artbomb.net, entitled Monetising the fringe, discusses methods for online payments. The column covers both Paypal and Bitpass.

PayPal leads to BitPass, which could be the way of the future. Continue Reading →

Cory Doctorow catches a listing for Mad Magazine:

….Experienced comedy writer required. Must be able to provide writing samples. Minimum 3-5 years related experience. Prior copyediting and proofreading experience required. Continue Reading →

Phillip and Jon will be appearing at the January 14th meeting of the Cartoonist Alliance in Manhattan. They’ll be speaking about the economics of webcomics and the process of putting together the new printed Goats collection. Continue Reading →

The NY Times has an article on several micropayment systems, including Bitpass. Turns out even Clear Channel Radio is experimenting with micropayments. 2004 may be the year that micropayments really reach a tipping point. Continue Reading →

Tapestry reports that UComics requested the removal of the unofficial RSS Feed Tapestry had created for Calvin and Hobbes. Continue Reading →

I’m looking for someone to develop and create a daily comic strip for a corporate website targeted at IT managers. Preferably a separate writer and artist (at the client’s request). The comic strip should be humorous in and of itself, and will not be an advertorial for the client’s product — but at the same time, it will serve as a draw to the client’s website. It’s not necessary to have an understanding of the client’s product in order to craft the strip (and, in fact, the last time I went through this process, it seemed that people were paying TOO MUCH attention to what the client’s product was, and too little attention to simply creating a good comic strip for the target audience). Continue Reading →

Missed this thread about Bitpass on Slashdot, but Scott McCloud noted it on his website. Here’s the lead-in post:

I have been following the story of BitPass for some time now. The micropayment solution provider has been featured on Slashdot before. That article focused on Scott McCloud, and his comic The Right Number. Since that story, BitPass has added a number of sites using their service. From this netizen, it looks like the idea is really taking off. Continue Reading →

Warren Ellis’s latest column at artbomb.net, entitled “Webcomics’ Second Coming”, talks about BitPass, the micropayment solution currently undergoing beta testing. Ellis uses Patrick Farley’s (www.e-sheep.com) APOCaMON as an example of what micropayments could mean for online cartoonists. Continue Reading →