Making money with webcomics. Seriously!
It was about a year ago that news broke that Girls With Slingshots and BFX2 had signed with licensing company 360ep. The company seems to have been busy looking into more webcomics that they might sign. Their webpage now also show Adrian Ramos’ Count Your Sheep and James Burks’ Martin’s Misdirections as clients. Continue Reading
Scott McCloud writes about NetComics which launched today with a huge catalog of translated Korean comics. Near the top of the page are links to two free webcomics. Continue Reading
You read Cat & Girl right? Dorothy Gambrell recently revealed she is working on a book of C&G which should be out in the first half of 2006 (no pressure Dorothy!)
Also, I never noticed before Gambrell’s Donation Derby blog where she sketches how she spends donations of $5 or more. Continue Reading
Moving against the trend of print to web, Jennie Breeden launched a monthly comic book version of her popular webcomic, Devil's Panties.
On her blog, Breeden writes about the launch and concerns with the new Diamond minimums policy:
I've got a comic book coming out. A real life, wasn't printed at kinko's, major distribution comic book. It's going to be in comic book stores. everywhere. well, everywhere that orders them. that's the katch.
So diamond (the company that distributes ALL comic books) has this new policy. If there arn't enough comics pre-orderd by comic shops then they won't distribute the comic book. good god is that a pain in the ass. so if you want to order one and don't have a comic shop around go to www.comicsoutpost.com and order one. Go to a comic shop and say you want Devils Panties printed by Silent Devil publishing company.
and here's another thing; it's a monthly book. you can already order the second book due out in March. The first book was in december previews, second one is in january previews, and the third book will be available for pre-order before the first book is even in stores yet. oh yes, this is going to be interesting. First devils panties book is going to be in comic shops February (if you pre-order it)
it's a 48 page comic $4.95 and it's compleately new, never before seen art. I've re-drawn all the online comics, re-vamped them, and thrown in comics that never made it to the online strip. There's new characters, more Wookie and paper dolls and two pages of aditional information about the comics.
Joe Martin is going to self-syndicate his comic strips. Martin is a prolific creator of comic strips with three projects in newspapers (and he indicates in this article he has two more on the way). He was formerly with Tribune Media Services. Continue Reading
At only three months old, On the Rocks signs a non-exclusive paid syndication contract. Continue Reading
The second installment of Joey Manley’s column at the Pulse (Webhead) is up and while it’s nothing that would be new to a regular reader of Comixpedia, it’s a great primer about the “webcomics business” for the rest of the comic medium’s faithful.
I’m pretty excited about Manley’s column at the Pulse (which otherwise tends to give webcomics awfully short shrift) and hope it helps to bring more comics fans to webcomics. Now all we need is Eric Burns in TCJ and we’ll be set!
This is probably old news to some,but I had missed that Danielle Corsetto had set up a MySpace page for her Girls With Slingshots characters, Hazel and Jamie.
It’s not clear that everyone interacting with it knows that these are fictional characters… On the other hand it sounds like it’s been a successful promotional gimmick. Corsetto wrote:
Hazel and Jamie’s MySpace page has received massive attention! They had more “friends” in two days than I’d gotten in a few weeks! They already have their own personal “creepy stalker,” they’ve been granted “friendship vibrators” (thank you, Sam!), and Jamie’s been tickled pink over all the compliments she and her *ahem* melons have received.
Gutterfly Comix announced it was shutting down as of November 26th. It’s not clear from the brief announcement what will become of the URL after that point. Continue Reading
Newsarama has a story on TokyoPop’s partnership with Universal Press Syndicate to bring some manga-style comics to America’s newspapers. This story is being framed by recent news about the continuing decline in newspaper subscribership (down 2.6% this year) as a means to reverse that trend.
It is an interesting development although even the comic book industy has already figured out that it needs to grapple with the appeal of manga so the newspaper syndicate are essentially the last major segment of American comic to figure this out. It’ll be interesting to see how many newspapers pick up the manga offered through Universal Press. Continue Reading
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