Webcomics in paper formats
Webcomics in Print has launched a new competition this week! The Little Terrors spot-the-difference runs until the end of the month, but not only that but we've reviewed Man on the Moon and our usual Monday Book News. Go check it out! Continue Reading
Suburban Tribe: Too Many Notes is a trade paperback collecting strips from 2006 along with the first 24 Suburban Tribe strips with commentary from creator John Lee.
You can check out a PDF preview here.
Suburban Tribe is a member of the Hyena Comics group.
This week Webcomics in Print is talking about covers! Continue Reading
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Warren Ellis’ forum The Engine has a thread on webcomics and the direct market (i.e. comic book shops). The discussion ends up being more about the problem retailers see with creators debuting their comics at cons without offering them at shops at the same time, but also has some interesting discussion for webcomics with an eye on the traditional comics market.
Retailer Brian Hibbs:
In most cases, my knee-jerk reaction to something (anything) that is being made available to me secondarily is going to be minimal if not nil orders. […]I’ve got no real concern about creators having an equal or better crack at the hardcopy sales, but where the advantage directly turns against me (ie: offering for sale BEFORE I have a fair crack at the work… be that on-line, or, yup, even in person at a convention or something), then I’m way way WAY less likely to support that work with my purchasing dollars as a retailer.
Hibbs elaborates a bit on this saying that he does not see as big a problem with comics offered free online. The problem is if the consumer has already paid for the comic in some format, which would make him/her less likely to buy it again through a store.
With Tastefully Done completed and launched, a new project is forming in the case of donating all the proceeds to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
According to the Flight Blog, Matt Forsythe is now selling the second print collection of his twice-Eisner nominated Ojingogo comic.
You can purchase the book online at his website or read it online.
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Kris Straub's classic webcomic Checkerboard Nightmare is now out in a book titled: A Brief History of Webcomics.
It's more than 160 classic webcomic parodies, along with five chapters on webcomic history:
Check out some preview images from the second first BabySitters Club graphic novel coming Nov. 1st. This one is called "The Truth About Stacy". Creator (adaptor?) Raina Telgemeier also recently updated her webcomic Smile.
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