Last week’s Webcomics.com poll asked three questions about digital downloads. With 131 members responding, we have very interesting results.
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Over the weekend, MSN mused whether the comic-book industry is headed for extinction.
According to the widely read Mayo Report at Comic Book Resources, February 2011 was the fourth-worst month in comic book sales since hard data began being reported in 2003 by major distributor Diamond. February also set a new low for sales of the month’s top-selling book, “Green Lantern,” which moved just under 72,000 copies.
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The LegalZoom newsletter has an interesting piece entitled Five Things to Remember When Starting a New Business. Number One, understandably was to choose the right legal structure:
- Corporation: Shareholders are not personally responsible for company debts; allows opportunity to raise capital from investors; formal record-keeping required; may reduce taxes, especially self-employment taxes.
- Limited Liability Corporation (LLC): Generally protects personal assets from company debts; no corporate tax as profits can be passed directly to owners; fewer corporate formalities required.
- Sole Proprietorship: No corporate formalities required; run by one individual who is personally responsible for the business’s debts.
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Part four in an ongoing critique of comics picked at random from participating members. As with before, if I re-write the punchline, I’m not necessarily trying to go funnier. I’m trying to demonstrate construction. I want to show how you re-assembling the logical steps along the progression of your comic can lead to a more polished punchline. It may not seem funnier for your sense of humor. But I’m confident that if you pay attention to the construction, you’ll be able to take away somethin that works for you.
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The Village Voice has a piece on the state of comics today.
It spends an inordinate amount of time describing the woes of the print cartoonist and then proceeds to describe webcomics as “‘Penny Arcade’ and everybody else” — with the latter clamoring for food stamps.
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An awful lot of time is spent on this site examining different levels of digital distribution. I guess that’s to be expected on Webcomics.com. But as we forge ahead with our self-publishing efforts, it would be a shame to ignore some traditional sales opportunities in the process.
Retail stores (“brick and mortar stores” colloquially) offer some very good opportunities to make significant sales for the self-publishing cartoonist.
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Here’s a piece titled How To Steal Like an Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me) passed along by member Paul Tallman, who found it eye-opening and encouraging. Enjoy!
Q.: We recently had an overzealous reader leave a ton of comments on our site at once, with a handful of them talking about how much I “fascinate” him. He even asked for a photo of me (mentioning that he already checked google but couldn’t find any). He also doesn’t seem to understand that the character in our comic and I are not the same thing.
While I’m not too worried that this will turn into a serious problem, it’s still a little creepy. Do you have any advice on how to handle people like this? Do we point out that they’re being inappropriate and try to get them to tone down their weirdness? Or do we just ignore them and hope they go away?
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Part three in an ongoing critique of comics picked at random from participating members. As with before, if I re-write the punchline, I’m not necessarily trying to go funnier. I’m trying to demonstrate construction. I want to show how you re-assembling the logical steps along the progression of your comic can lead to a more polished punchline. It may not seem funnier for your sense of humor. But I’m confident that if you pay attention to the construction, you’ll be able to take away somethin that works for you.
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