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Modern Tales has set up a page offering a syndication service that allows webmasters to place a Modern Tales webcomic on their own websites.

“At any given moment, the latest episode of the syndicated comic will appear within your own web page. Your readers will be drawn back to your website to follow the story (which is, of course, the same reason that newspapers and magazines carry comics). Some percentage of those readers will follow the link back to Modern Tales or one of its sister sites, and eventually choose to subscribe, to gain access to the archives (which is, in turn, analogous to buying a Dilbert paperback). So: your site gets more repeat visits, and our site gets a stream of new readers who would never have found us before. Everybody wins.” Continue Reading →

Another entry in the ongoing micropayments debate. From the blog Whole Lotta Nothing comes this piece comparing the ease of Google’s Text Ads to the Bitpass payment system. It seems a bit like comparing apples to oranges to me, and concluding that because you can eat the apple peel it must be better than those complicated oranges. Still, an interesting read. Continue Reading →

Some comic creators like to market themselves as personalities, while others steer clear of the spotlight. Why did Grant Morrison go one way and Peter Milligan the other?

The Ninth Art editorial board considers the question of image building. Continue Reading →

Another entry in the “Will Bitpass Make it Afterall” sweepstakes – Dirk Deppey of Journalista! posts his thoughts.

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Scott McCloud responds to Shirky with, as those bloggers like to say, a right-good fisking, and Joey Manley weighs in with a rant based on his own experience publishing Modern Tales. Both thoughtful responses in a needed debate.

Add your comments to original post about Shirky’s article here. Continue Reading →

Clay Shirky is a smart guy who has written a lot about the Internet and social interaction. He weighs in again on the everlasting micropayments debate with a critique of BitPass and the current renewed enthusiasm for micropayments.

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I’ve offered my own opinions on what constitutes the “mainstream” (i.e., superhero) market for offline comics. Ninth Art columnist Brent Keane revisits his own opinions on this dark corner of the universe.

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And now there’s this piece from a “Pop Culture” store complaining that it’s not fair that he has to compete with “mass market” chains. An actual pop culture store would be pretty cool I imagine. Most direct market shops don’t qualify though. Continue Reading →

From Journalista! comes a link to an Editor and Publisher story on the state of the Sunday Funnies.

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ComicsUtopia is constructing a database of comics by creators who need help getting their work in the hands and minds of the thousands of potential readers, readers who are hungry for new comics and new ideas.

ComicsUtopia invites you to submit your book or webcomic to the database. All we ask in return is that you browse our database and purchase at least two titles from it, or read at least two webcomics. This ensures that everyone who joins ComicsUtopia gets the exposure they deserve and helps us help each other. All information and artwork posted to ComicsUtopia remains the property of the original author. Continue Reading →

This article in the Guardian looks at micropayments for the web generally. As further discussed on this Keenspot thread, folks are still talking about Mr. McCloud’s experiment and R Stevens’ essay. Continue Reading →