I should have written about this before, but the Kickstarter for Volume 3 of J. Miles Dunn’s Grinidon is entering it’s last week, and there is a fair bit of news to report for those following the saga so far.
For those not familiar with Grinidon, you can look [Here], [Here], and [Here] for previous posts, reviews, and even Interviews with J. Miles and artist Erwin Arroza right here on Moby’s!
Forgive me for I have sinned…I went and paid money to see ‘The Mountain Between Us’, and you know it left me thinking a lot about Hollywood, Romance movies, and us.
My thoughts are a bit rambling, so forgive me. Overall, the movie was fine. I really enjoyed seeing Idris Elba, he’s a fine actor. Kate Winslet did OK too. Let’s admit it, we go to these movies to hit a spot, and some miss and some hit. I got to thinking of how Hollywood gets away with regurgitating so much to ‘the masses’, then I realized that the masses are always changing. Continue reading »
When making your comic it is important to think of the ‘branding’ of the book. If you are making the book simply for your own amusement and want to call it ‘BS I Like’, well, good for you.
But most people making comics realize at some point that if they want others to pick up the book and read it, well it needs to appeal to them at least a little bit.
And this is where the logo and the titles come into play. Sure, you have a great cover, and a great name for the book too. But what if that name just doesn’t look appealing on the cover? What sort of book does your logo say the book will be? Is it a dark logo, for a Batman type adventure? Or perhaps it’s a period comic about some fantasy world, so you’ve used a Gothic font? Continue reading »
His name is Aravind Menon, and he’s fucking retarded. All I was looking to do was buy a few scripts for some comic books on Facebook, and this guy thinks he can demand, yes…demand, that I ‘publicly declare my intentions for using the scripts’. Continue reading »
While I have not yet completed production on my first comic book yet, I am already looking ahead to the inevitable Kickstarter attempt and have been trying to find ways to make it more likely to succeed.
Basically, here is what I’ve found out:
So I got to thinking that there might be a win-win here for publishers and pledgers. My idea is basically this:
We get together 6 or so indie comic book guys who have a Kickstarter coming up in the next year or so, maybe sooner. Each puts one of his earlier books into a pool. Each of the 6 or so publishers is then able to use this pool of books in his Kickstarter without any payment to the others, he is paying by allowing the others to use his book as well.
This would allow us to go from the physical tier of approx $10-12 into something closer to the sweet spot. Imagine 40-50 pledges at $22-25 and all you have to do is mail a floppy.
You could make your digital comic book in the pool up-to-date with new ads for your site, existing books, others in the series, or your upcoming Kickstarters. It’s essentially free advertising.
The trick would be to not make the pool too large, so we do not end up stepping on each others potential pledgers, and to have a variety of genres and books but no crap, garbage titles.
I will update this if I can come up with a better way to explain, or expand on the concept, but for now there it is. What do you think?
