Comments on: So Maybe The Future Is Free-Plus?

By: Premium Content for Webcomics « Assetbar: blog personalization tools and premium content

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:59:36 +0000

[...] So Maybe The Future Is Free-Plus? Once upon a time, it was pretty common for well-known webcomics to have a premium content tier â€” exclusive comics, higher resolutions, downloadables and suchlike were available for a subscription fee. Over the past several years, such schemes have fallen by the wayside [...]

By: Fleen: Enjoy Our Semi-Abusive Opinion Mongering » Man, The Stories Just Keep Piling Up

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:45:28 +0000

[...] sooner had I mentioned the PvP and Starslip adoption of AssetBar last week [...]

By: jeffrey rowland

jeffrey rowland — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:35:08 +0000

Looks like a good time for some of these very, very talented creators, and their audiences, jacked into the INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY

By: ZEITGEIST / Random Comics News Story Round-Up

ZEITGEIST / Random Comics News Story Round-Up — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:17:28 +0000

[...] assured be it should be corrected by tomorrow morning.”That’s good to hear. * finally, there’s a really solid post here from Garry Tyrrell on the subject of making a living through one’s web site. Tyrrell reminds that publishing on-line [...]

By: STWALLSKULL » INTERESTING LINKS: Bollywood Superman II: January 30th, 2009

STWALLSKULL » INTERESTING LINKS: Bollywood Superman II: January 30th, 2009 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:09:46 +0000

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By: Digital Strips: The Webcomics Podcast

Digital Strips: The Webcomics Podcast — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:27:59 +0000

[...] Fleen, Gary Tyrrell discusses the use of AssetBar to bring in a few [...]

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:44:08 +0000

I do my comic as a hobby (more like a second job), and can only dream of someday doing this full time. Last night I was up until 3 AM working on a new store front (a large fraction of that time just trying to figure out how to make rounded corners align correctly on a website), and that’s pretty normal hours for me these days. My webcomic has a fairly small following, but I still make a few hundred dollars per month from advertising and merchandise. In contrast, This Modern World and Red Meat have been around for almost 20 years, and are drawn by much more talented people than me. Given that I have zero training in art, or the web, or business, and have been doing this part-time for about a year, couldn’t these guys put in a few long nights, and make a website that would allow them to monetize all their great content better? Is it rude of me to ask this?