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What Happened to Coolbeansworld.com

Thu, 01/11/2007 - 17:08 — xerexes
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Nick Percival started the first online comic subscription site (I haven't found anything earlier) Cool Beans (url was coolbeansworld.com but it's long since become a spam site) back in 2001 (2000?) but I can find almost nothing on how and when it went away. There's a review of the site on BorderWalker (ed. - URL updated) from 2002, but really doesn't seem to be anything on the web.

 


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Thu, 01/11/2007 - 17:52 — DAJB
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Didn't it hit financial

Didn't it hit financial problems and get swallowed up in a heap of recriminations? I may be thinking of something else (my memory's far from perfect!) in which case, apologies to anyone concerned, but that does seem to ring a few bells ...

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Thu, 01/11/2007 - 20:21 — nvonflue
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I think you want this

I think you want this Borderwalker link.

And as the guy who wrote that ancient review (Review? I've learned a bit since then) I can say that CoolBeansWorld was pretty amazing on the inside. Fantastic art from big names at a time when most people thought a few print comics people could really raise webcomic visibility. I never heard how or why it ended. It was a bit ahead of it's time.

And I've seen a few Borderwalker links from you lately Xerexes, Nice to see some resurrection of the place. There's a few things that were fairly ahead of their time over there, too!

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Thu, 01/11/2007 - 23:10 — xerexes
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Thanks Neal!

I was going to email you tomorrow about it since you wrote one of the few pieces on it. I saw lots of press release stuff on its launch but its too bad no one wrote anything on its end.

I really missed digging into BorderWalker back then and recently yeah, I did go back through the whole site to see what I had missed.

Probably inspired a bit by cleaning up formatting on T Campbell's history series (still lots of archived articles to "clean" a bit - things got jumbled a bit when we moved to Drupal at the beginning of 2006.)

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Fri, 01/12/2007 - 00:15 — joeymanley
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There wasn't a lot of

There wasn't a lot of conversation about when it ended because ... it just sort of disappeared. I guess they didn't send out any press releases or anything when they decided to shut down, and there wasn't a network of webcomics conversations and bloggers back then, the way there is now. I had a subscription myself, but I didn't check it very often. My sub was more for research purposes. One day I went there, and it was just gone. I didn't know how long it had been gone, though.

Same thing happened to me with Crossgen's subscription service, too, come to think of it.

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