Not Comics: Could Kickstarter Be Evil?
Paul Constant (an occasional and very good writer about comics) and Jen Graves debate the popular money-raising platform over at The Stranger. I think the thing to consider with something as successful as Kickstarter is that it may have a deleterious effect on a culture without doing anything in functioning the way it's intended to function. I think Kickstarter's pretty awesome. I can even see a day where I might have a project for which it might work extremely well. At the same time, I'm sort of suspicious of its success contributing to a comics culture that's already short on people bringing capital investment to the process of making comics (many of whom expect to reap capital reward on the other end).
