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Ben Adams is the creator of Misfit’s Journey which is an autobiographical tale with 3d art.  He has been placing ads with non-webcomics websites where he thinks the audience would become fans of his webcomic.  In another post, he further explains his thinking about where his webcomic’s appeal may lie.

A no-brainer perhaps, but one all creators should think about before spending money on advertising.  I have no data to back it up but it doesn’t seem farfetched to believe that there are still a lot more potential readers out there that haven’t heard of webcomics at all then are actively reading them today.

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Scott Kurtz announced that PvP will be available for mobile phones via GoComics.

Wallpapers, messages and animations are scheduled for May 2006. The GoComics player that PvP comic strips will be featured in is part of a larger bundle that comic book fans can subscribe to. It will be like a comic book anthology on your mobile phone.

The full press release is on the PvP website. Continue Reading →

The Comics Reporter points to this article in the Penn State paper about how musicians should look to webcomics as a way to make a living in the file-sharing, peer-to-peer age. Continue Reading →

I’ve noticed a surge in webcomics offering fixed, button-sized ads recently. I think Yirmumah may have been the first one I noticed – it displays several 100×31 buttons for “sponsors” at $10 a month. I just saw Evil Inc had a slightly larger button (145×45) at $20 a month and I know I’ve seen this as a new thing at several webcomic recently.

Good thing, bad thing? Effective for the advertisers? Decent source of revenue for the creator? Any thoughts… Continue Reading →

The Daily Herald, third-largets newspaper in Illinois, has launched a new website called Beep!, designed to appeal to younger readers in the Chicago suburbs. For their comics section, they’ve utilized Webcomicsnation’s tooncasting feature to create a kind of comics page. Continue Reading →

Off Panel Productions founder Hans Bjordahl is interviewed by CNET about his efforts to publish webcomics targeted at specific niche markets. (Coincidently I just added all of the Off Panel Production webcomics to the Comixpedia library.) Continue Reading →

Hans Bjordahl’s Bugbash links to Off Panel Productions which proclaims that it “is dedicated to helping niche comic artists publish their work online and make money doing it. We aim to bring comics to communities that have never had them, all while giving the artist unprecedented ownership and creative control.”
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