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By: André

André — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:58:50 +0000

A lot of people are in webcomics just for money or kudos. You see examples of them all the time. They just don’t last very long.

You can tell who they are by their websites: they look extremely good, but they burned out after two or three comics, when no one recognised what geniuses they were.

By: Christopher B. Wright

Christopher B. Wright — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:42:27 +0000

I chuckled over the phrase “money-driven scammers.” Of course I know what you meant, but it made me think of other potential categories for scammers, like the ones who do it for the art.

By: Ben Gordon

Ben Gordon — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:58:27 +0000

A perspective from a mutual friend made me realize I misread you. I apologize for my previous comment — I had no business being so harsh.

I do imagine if money-driven scammers did try to enter webcomics, it would be on the iVerse front.

By: andrew

andrew — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:39:55 +0000

I would totally read the webcomic ‘Douchebag Jihad’ - heading to godaddy now.

By: Jeff Lowrey

Jeff Lowrey — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:15:07 +0000

Y’all want to know how to make $1 million dollars doing webcomics?

First, assemble $10 million dollars.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:11:43 +0000

The major issue is being someone that finds they’d love to make comics for a living for the sake of making comics, and yet has trouble getting anyone to look at it. Webcomic readers are both picky and have such bad taste at the same time, they continue to confuse me to endless days.

I was hoping the article might be able to give some tips as to how to go about turning a comic into a business, but unfortunately it was just a “hey, look what’s getting big!” article.

Bleh.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:44:59 +0000

Gary is not talking about people who want to make comics. He’s talking about people who want to make money, and will churn out any piece of crap online thinking they can “monetize” it. There are already too many people that got into webcomics for that reason.

Oh, hey. I guess that’s one more way the webcomic business has become like the comic book business.

By: Gary Tyrrell

Gary Tyrrell — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:43:28 +0000

Bryant, I believe that your namesakes anticipated such an occurence, and that hidden in some backward-masked fasion here, one may find the Onstad interview.

By: Ben Gordon

Ben Gordon — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:00:40 +0000

Last time I looked, the only people intentionally drawing crappy comics were all professionals.

I’d like to see you try your hand at “making it big in webcomics.”

Keep your jihad against future webcomickers to yourself.