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[Webcomics]? In this economy?

klemmingklemming Registered User regular
edited June 2020 in Social Entropy++
I'm just going to dump all the comics I've got here:
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Darths & Droids


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Questionable Content


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Three Panel Soul


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xkcd


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Skin Horse

Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
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    Existential comics with a noble life

  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
  • NeurotikaNeurotika Registered User regular
    Poor turtle

  • statlerstatler Registered User regular
  • HeadCreepsHeadCreeps NOW IS THE TIME FOR DRINKING! Registered User regular
  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    HeadCreeps wrote: »

    Thistle geekin' out is adorbs.

  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    Webcomics? In this economy?

  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    Webcomics? In this economy?
    That's a much better thread title.

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    It’s just a webcomic, Michael, what could it cost? Twenty dollars?

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    It’s just a webcomic, Michael, what could it cost? Twenty dollars?

    Here's 10 dollars, get yourself a Darth or Droid.

  • notyanotya Registered User regular
    edited June 2020
    I wish truly micro, micro transactions were feasible. Like I paid 1 to 5 cents to the author for every webcomic I read. (Transaction fees make this impossible)

    People with 100,000 views per comic would be filthy rich.

    notya on
  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Scott McCloud proposed that like 15 years ago, but at the time ad networks still made enough sense that you could give the comic away for free, and make more money off ad impressions.

    Now Patreon is kinda doing that but you still have this problem of a for-profit company being the gateway between the audience and the artist, and them being able to decide who can use the platform.

  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    HeadCreeps wrote: »

    So i am thinking this is a shadowrun world long after things went nuts and settled down......should really read storm of locusts

  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    There's nothing preventing people from running a Patreon style thing directly from their webcomicsite except for overcoming the trust barrier people put up when a site asks them to enter their credit card details.

  • notyanotya Registered User regular
    edited June 2020
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    There's nothing preventing people from running a Patreon style thing directly from their webcomicsite except for overcoming the trust barrier people put up when a site asks them to enter their credit card details.

    It's both too much money (1 dollar minimum) and too much effort (basically subscribing individually to each person). And I don't mean to sound rude when I say a webomic artist doesn't deserve a dollar. Just not for a dollar for a single comic. And sure, I want to pay for artists I've followed a long time, but suddenly I'm trying to gauge a fair amount. And when do I re-up payments again? It's too much to think about for one of a hundred artists I follow.

    In my perfect ideal world, we'd have google pay attached to our chrome browser. You load a webpage with pay content. It's a big red button that says 1 penny to view comic. You click it, you can see the comic. 1 penny is moved from your google pay account the author. And if you're tired of clicking it every time, you can ok your browser to always pay a penny when you load that specific page.

    It is too bad that ad revenue doesn't pay as well as it used to.

    notya on
  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    Credit card companies are just as much middlemen as patreon are, and limit what they are willing to give the time of day to.

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Pretty sure the blockchain will sort all of this out when it comes into its full glory. Once all the scoffers and naysayers are vaporized I'm sure there will be enough of us left to support a thriving webcomic industry a microbit at a time.

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    i got a promoted twitter ad today that said the blockchain was helping farmers reduce food waste

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  • DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
    ???

    "Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    ???

    if blockchain causes more people to lose all their money they will no longer buy food which means farmers stop making food

    no farmers = no food waste

    bitcoin will save us all

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    KRILL

    THICK

    BALEEN

    TEEMING

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  • TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    Cool uncle angel is back!

  • LalaboxLalabox Registered User regular
    This isn't even White Chain's final form

  • AistanAistan Tiny Bat Registered User regular
    Daughter of the Lilies is probably my favorite webcomic at the moment. Just did a re-read and I had completely forgotten about these pages.

  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User regular
  • LabelLabel Registered User regular
    Okay 10 Vigilant Gaze Purges The Horizon, it was a hard fought battle but you've won me over.

  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    Credit card companies are just as much middlemen as patreon are, and limit what they are willing to give the time of day to.
    That's why I use paypal which is certainly not owned by a billionaire vampire.

  • EvilCakeEvilCake Richmond VARegistered User regular
    is 10 Vigilant Gaze supposed to sound like Siegmeyer of Catarina in my head? cuz that's all I am able to imagine

  • nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    Credit card companies are just as much middlemen as patreon are, and limit what they are willing to give the time of day to.
    That's why I use paypal which is certainly not owned by a billionaire vampire.

    PayPal would never hold on to money on shaky legal grounds for years in order to profit off the interest.

    Certainly not.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    Credit card companies are just as much middlemen as patreon are, and limit what they are willing to give the time of day to.
    That's why I use paypal which is certainly not owned by a billionaire vampire.

    Man, way to fall into that trap, you should use Venmo instead. The hip, alternative pay method for cool kids... that PayPal bought to make sure there was not actually a hip cool alternative to PayPal.

    Note: Venmo was probably never good in any case, but still.

  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
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    Tonight's DoA
    has a predicable but still good first comment for the strip.
    worst Mike drop

  • LalaboxLalabox Registered User regular
  • Moth 13Moth 13 Registered User regular
    Lalabox wrote: »

    It doesn't seem to be on the website yet, but the tumblr has additional pages.

  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    Credit card companies are just as much middlemen as patreon are, and limit what they are willing to give the time of day to.
    That's why I use paypal which is certainly not owned by a billionaire vampire.

    PayPal would never hold on to money on shaky legal grounds for years in order to profit off the interest.

    Certainly not.

    Personally I like paypal back when it was part of ebay. venmo is meh to me as I see so few asking for it compared to the long list of questionable ones
    But things like cashapp seems really iffy but then it's a slippy slide past that of other online payment ways

  • WearingglassesWearingglasses Of the friendly neighborhood variety Registered User regular
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