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A Wizard of Goatse posted:sure hope you're hosting it on your own server then because lol Good advice! am also planning on "uploading" them into the safest form of all, physical media buried in a chest under the ground
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my webcomic is already physical, highly physical, outrageously physical, grunting and flexing inside its sealed vault
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FunkyAl posted:e: also your website and comics will be less likely to die when venture capital runs out and google and amazon realize they are suspended in midair over the grand canyon and the effects of gravity begin to take place, so to speak Amazon's cloud services make them ridiculously big money. That whole "store" thing they've been loving around with since 1994 is the real boondoggle. They're a weird case, though, because as soon as they notice they're making a profit, they figure out some new insane scheme to invest in to eliminate it. Google has tried to do the same thing, but they make so drat much money that they haven't been able to cancel it all out no matter what stupid thing they try. Twitter, though, they've been tapdancing on the edge of the abyss pretty much since they opened. So, yeah, if you want your comic to be around for the long haul, you've got a lot better options than that.
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idonotlikepeas posted:Amazon's cloud services make them ridiculously big money. That whole "store" thing they've been loving around with since 1994 is the real boondoggle. They're a weird case, though, because as soon as they notice they're making a profit, they figure out some new insane scheme to invest in to eliminate it. Google has tried to do the same thing, but they make so drat much money that they haven't been able to cancel it all out no matter what stupid thing they try. Do you have any sources to cite on the Amazon store being a boondoggle? Not that I doubt it, I just want to know the broader facts.
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Mr. Lobe posted:Do you have any sources to cite on the Amazon store being a boondoggle? Not that I doubt it, I just want to know the broader facts. Amazon's entire business model is undercutting every single other store on Earth, online and off, so that they can establish universal monopoly and crown Jeff Bezos as God-Emperor of the World. They have never made money from the store; mostly because shipping is expensive. They do make money from AWS, though. https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/27/it-looks-like-amazon-would-be-losing-a-lot-of-money-if-not-for-aws/ https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/28/retailers-be-warned-amazon-isnt-worried-about-making-money-right-now.html https://www.geekwire.com/2017/true-cost-convenience-amazons-annual-shipping-losses-top-7b-first-time/ http://fortune.com/2017/02/23/retailers-lose-money-to-amazon/
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yeah they could make it pretty profitable again pretty quickly if they needed to but they've been working for the last few years to Walmart every remaining retail business in the country, hence all the emphasis on otherwise ruinously expensive poo poo like the two-day shipping and drone crap
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the old ceremony posted:my webcomic is already physical, highly physical, outrageously physical, grunting and flexing inside its sealed vault the warner brothers (and sister)?
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AriadneThread posted:the warner brothers (and sister)?
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ah, my fanart of the warner brothers
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Mildred Haversham in: The Worst Idea.
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The look on Tim's face when he realises he's trapped in a garage with Mildred and with only a fork to defend himself with.
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You can self host but I have never figured out how to get anybody to notice your comic if you do so.
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I'm going to trust Mildred and that she can get out of this. Either Tim shows her proof he's got a dangerous invention and gets thrown to jail, or he proves he's an even more of a terrible person by flirting with her and she gets him sent to jail for that. Either way, that'd be the end for Tim. Well, that or Mildred tells Neil and he breaks Tim in half.
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amigolupus posted:I'm going to trust Mildred and that she can get out of this. Either Tim shows her proof he's got a dangerous invention and gets thrown to jail, or he proves he's an even more of a terrible person by flirting with her and she gets him sent to jail for that. Either way, that'd be the end for Tim. he kind of just sat back and watched her crawl all over Eustace Yvonmukluk posted:Yikes.
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How easy must it be to run a comics syndicate. People just send you whatever garbage and you just have to make sure it doesn't include any slang for penis and that's probably 95% of your day
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:he kind of just sat back and watched her crawl all over Eustace Eustace/Mildred was like 15/21, and he didn't sit back, he just asked her mother to tell her to stop, which is one of my favorite jokes. "Does Daddy want me to stop coming to his work?" "Of course not, darling." "...does Daddy want me to stop teasing the science men?" "You just made this very easy." Tim/Mildred is like 38/16, which is completely different.
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Eustace was 24, but Mildred had it all worked out
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Are Mildred and Linton eventually going to hook up as the horniest of the mystery kids?
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:he kind of just sat back and watched her crawl all over Eustace I'll admit, I didn't saw it as flirting, more like Mildred was poking fun at him. And Neil did do something to stop her making fun of Eustace. Now that you mention it, we still haven't seen Mildred's reaction to Eustace coming back alive, huh? Though that page makes me think she'd have moved on from him by now.
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Red Metal posted:well at least tumblr lets you tag things so you can read all of a single comic in a row, right? Good news: Looks like he's gone back and tagged all the comics, and Tumblr has a secret chronological view feature. So if you want to read, for instance, all of Magical Merlin, you could open up the "magicalmerlin" tag to view all the Magical Merlin comics (unless he forgets to tag one), and then stick "/chrono" at the end of it to view it in chronological order instead of reverse chronological order, like this.
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Bongo Bill posted:Good news: Looks like he's gone back and tagged all the comics, and Tumblr has a secret chronological view feature. So if you want to read, for instance, all of Magical Merlin, you could open up the "magicalmerlin" tag to view all the Magical Merlin comics (unless he forgets to tag one), and then stick "/chrono" at the end of it to view it in chronological order instead of reverse chronological order, like this. ...how did that feature ever even get discovered, tumblr has less documentation than my sneakers
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Fangz posted:You can self host but I have never figured out how to get anybody to notice your comic if you do so. if you self host either zero people or an amount greater than zero will read your comic, if you host on smackjeeves an exact number of people, let's say 106, will read your comic, but this number will never increase or go down
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If making webcomics isn't by and large about toiling in obscurity for years with a dearth of reader feedback then I guess I've been doing it wrong but it's too late to bother changing up my workflow now.
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Fortis posted:If making webcomics isn't by and large about toiling in obscurity for years with a dearth of reader feedback then I guess I've been doing it wrong but it's too late to bother changing up my workflow now. it's certainly a part of the process but it shouldn't last forever. it's okay to quit and come back because when you come back you know more and you're more of a person etc.
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FunkyAl posted:it's certainly a part of the process but it shouldn't last forever. it's okay to quit and come back because when you come back you know more and you're more of a person etc. Nothing bothers me more than a webcomic I enjoy stopping abruptly. I don't blame the author for it but it still really sticks in my craw. As such, I could never do that myself. I'm finishing this thing come hell or high water. I will probably be in my late thirties/early forties still drawing big slime monsters punching big skull monsters and cats turning into catapults but god drat it I'm gonna do it!
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my very first webcomic was set up on wordpress, which i was completely incapable of using, but it was worth it just for the stats because i got to show my grandmother that someone in iceland had viewed the site and she got really excited and started pressuring me to send my portfolio to marvel (lol) because i was now an international superstar
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amigolupus posted:I'll admit, I didn't saw it as flirting, more like Mildred was poking fun at him. And Neil did do something to stop her making fun of Eustace. Eustace was undergoing a rapidly accelerating metamorphosis into a "Tim" due to exposure to a volatile cocktail of Winters and Science which ultimately resulted in a fatal overdose of Hubris, so maybe she has a type. Or maybe she is a hereto unknown scion of the Winters family. Edit: Gah! Eustace literally became a white horse named Science, maybe Tim could be a black horse named Hubris. Then all we need is a red horse and a pale horse to complete the set! Yak of Wrath fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Oct 24, 2017 |
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Fortis posted:Nothing bothers me more than a webcomic I enjoy stopping abruptly. I don't blame the author for it but it still really sticks in my craw. As such, I could never do that myself. I'm finishing this thing come hell or high water. I will probably be in my late thirties/early forties still drawing big slime monsters punching big skull monsters and cats turning into catapults but god drat it I'm gonna do it!
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Tollymain posted:oh good mildred has at least the barest amount of sense
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PMush Perfect posted:That's pretty pure sunk cost fallacy. If you have a better idea, a way to make a better product, a better comic, you should definitely pursue the possibility. Don't dump you comic at the first sign you have another idea, obviously, but consider both your own long-term interests, and how to make the best comic you can possibly make. In all honesty I think my comic is cool and good. Initially I was just making a joke about the frustration I think all webcomic artists experience at some point. The past six years have been a blast for me because I honestly just love making stuff, and keeping up with a single story provides me the direction I need to actually continue doing it without losing focus and loving off. Ultimately, my own artistic growth and having a completed story under my belt are my primary long-term interests. (That said, everyone, please read http://www.bsfantasy-comic.com, thank you.)
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The key to becoming a popular webcomic artist is, as far as I can tell, either: a) To start 20 years ago or b) To become friends with other popular webcomic artists and up and comers and get them to promote your work.
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GlyphGryph posted:The key to becoming a popular webcomic artist is, as far as I can tell, either: c) reach heaven through violence
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A.o.D. posted:c) reach heaven through violence you forgot (d) make and distribute comics offline
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Huh, looking at the previous comic and it's actually quite obvious that Mildred is setting up to swipe the keys, but of course nobody noticed. Ace misdirection.
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Straight White Shark posted:What, the part where she explicitly announced a few days ago that that was her plan wasn't a tip-off? I think we were, like Tim, put off balance by her strategy.
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