Assembled, Zipped, Transferred And Downloaded: News From Digital

By Tom Spurgeon

* Jeff Smith talks about his forthcoming webcomics-driven project here. My understanding is that this basically going to be the Faith Erin Hicks model, with individual pages serialized at a steady pace. I think that's fascinating news.

* Greg McElhatton explains what happened to his Read About Comics site, one of the foundational places for day-in, day-out comics reviewing on the comics Internet.

* the CBLDF has a bit more on a case where Apple's nebulous policy about content caused a provider to err on the side of caution and pull a bunch of material. I honestly don't get this impulse from a company like that at this point and time. I have to imagine most of the even super-conservative people I know have wrapped their minds around there being comics material that might not allow an equivalent movie to be shown on daytime PBS, and that this is material that adults might want to read. The stupidity of that aside, not communicating to your publishing partners in rational, direct terms seems so wholly awful that I'm not even sure how to process it.

* I haven't spent the time to figure out Aces Weekly yet, but here's information on a fourth issue.

* Simon Moreton is using a pay-what-you-like model for a comic that he hopes will raise money for a trip to SPX. That's a physical comic, but it's primary outreach is on-line culture oriented.

* finally, when in doubt, steal from Gary Tyrrell. That's writing-about-digital-comics advice, but also life advice. Tyrrell caught what he thinks might be the first kickstarter campaign on behalf of an on-line comic that doesn't exist yet, which might offer up some thinking counter to conventional wisdom that says all of these successful webcomics-culture crowd-funders are based on building audiences for work on-line before money is obtained. Also Scott C and Kate Beaton are apparently doing events in Alaska this week.
 
posted 12:10 am PST | Permalink
 

---

 
Daily Blog Archives
November 2019
October 2019
September 2019
August 2019
July 2019
 
Full Archives