Art & Story 123 – The Big Format II

[private]This week we’re joined again by Kevin Cross for a discussion on the various print formats we’ve explored over our publishing histories, highlighting the pros and cons of each. While there are many more formats beyond what we’ve outlined here, we focus on the ones we’ve personally used and share our opinions based on experience. [...]

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Art & Story 117 – The Big Ka-Blam

[private]It’s a special live recording this week with Barry Gregory and Thomas Florimonte of Ka-Blam Digital Printing, IndyPlanet, and ComicsMonkey! We start with an overview of their print on demand services, how IndyPlanet works as an online fulfillment service, and what they hope to achieve with their latest endeavor, the ComicsMonkey distribution service. Throughout our [...]

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Art & Story Alive! Episode 87

[private]This week we talk about printing, selling, and marketing, followed by a discussion on cover design. We close out the episode with some thoughts on an article about our “inner whining artist”. From Collin Lenzen: Maybe a little talk about after the comic: Where and how to sell the thing. How to promote it. From [...]

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Art & Story 76 – The Big Potpourri IV

[private]We had intended on making the focus of this one “Honesty and Sincerity in one’s work”, but addressing the recent news about ComicsMonkey, as well as responding to an email from Ted Seko, took up a larger chunk of the show than we thought it would. Hence another in our series of multi-topic “potpourri” episodes. [...]

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Art & Story Alive! Episode 51

[private]Given the excitement surrounding the ComicsMonkey announcement, we thought it might be prudent to spend a little bit of time talking about Print On Demand technology. An equal portion of the conversation involves a bit of prognosticating about ComicsMonkey and what it means for us small publishers, but my hope is that we squeezed a [...]

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ComicsMonkey Will Be A Game Changer If We Keep Our Heads

[private]So yesterday the Ka-Blam folks announced that they’ll be rolling out their ComicsMonkey service through which users of their Print On Demand service can distribute their books to direct market comics stores. Given the recent news about Diamond Distribution’s new restrictions and what that could mean for small press publishers, people seem to be very [...]