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By: Fleen: Your Favorite Faux-Muckrakers Since 2005 » Who Wants A Halfpixel?

Fleen: Your Favorite Faux-Muckrakers Since 2005 » Who Wants A Halfpixel? — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:54:12 +0000

[...] Guigar: Dave Kellett, Kris Straub, and I will be leaving to form a new Halfpixel group with Scott Kurtz. The new Halfpixel will be much like the current Halfpixel—a place for collaborative efforts among the member artists—but with an added emphasis on comic-convention appearances and our joint projects like the Webcomics Weekly Podcast and the How to Make Webcomics book. [...]

By: Kris Straub

Kris Straub — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 04:13:01 +0000

The full text of McLuhan’s first webcomic:

“Webcomic.”

By: Greg Carter

Greg Carter — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 02:30:33 +0000

And there’s skywriting. You could get a giant laser and carve it into the moon. Wonder what Marshall McLuhan would think of that?

By: Kris Straub

Kris Straub — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 01:21:18 +0000

I will be reading the book aloud round the clock at Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park in London.

By: Dave Kellett

Dave Kellett — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 01:29:04 +0000

We’ll also be offering in cartridge form for the Super NES.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 01:21:28 +0000

Maybe we’ll offer it as an audiobook on itunes.

By: Greg Carter

Greg Carter — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:31:07 +0000

It’s not print vs. bits, it’s print AND bits. I’m pointing out the validity of having both - print and download. It’s a book about webcomics… WEBcomics. Shouldn’t it be available online also just on principle?

Personally I’d rather have a book because it’s more portable. (and the spider thing.) Some people would rather read it on their computer. Why shut out an entire market? Especially a market that is growing.

By: Adam Marien

Adam Marien — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:44:16 +0000

You can kill a spider with a book.

Also: http://www.scarygoround.com/shop-tshirts.php#booksrule

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:13:34 +0000

Are you guys really debating the validity of printing a book?

By: Greg Carter

Greg Carter — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:49:22 +0000

“anyway, if they made it a PDF for sale they would make nothing because someone would find a way to copy it.”

Using that logic iTunes should have been bankrupt a long time ago. And SLG wouldn’t sell comic downloads. Even Netflix lets you download movies now. Why sell anything on the internet in a format that can be downloaded and copied if it’s just going to get stolen?

There are plenty of people who will pay for something of value rather than steal it. Getting the right price point is what makes it work.