Miscellaneous Musings, the Tabloid Edition
on January 7, 2010 at 6:55 pmHi, Folks!
I’m hard at work on episodes 33 and 34, and they are brutal! Well, to be exact, the subject matter is brutal, the drawing of it has been a real joy.
So much happens in this scene that Benita and decided that there would be an aftermath issue to establish who lived, who died, and the current status quo. The only constant in Spire City is change, after all.
I noticed today that www.comicsxp.com has all ten published issues of Johnny Saturn available in digital download format, so be sure to go there and look over their fine selection of available comics.
These days I’ve grown used to not having a comic buffer. A buffer is when you have comics lined up for future publication, giving you some breathing room. I haven’t been able to pull that off in a long time, unfortunately. I’m OK with it, though, because it gives the comic a sense of immediate freshness to me.
Last year we more than tripled our readership. We hope to do the same again in 2010. That readership means everything to us, because we support the comic through book and digital sales, and more readers equal more sales.
I’m not ready to announce Johnny Saturn on the Amazon Kindle yet, but soon… I downloaded the publishing guide, so it’s coming quick. My mom has a Kindle, and I am very impressed with it. I wouldn’t mind having one of them myself, one of these days.
Well, that’s enough for this post.
Be Good! Scott.
Welcome to the “Bufferless zone”
I agree that, though things can be hectic with the schedule, it does keep things fresh.’
So far the color readers I’ve seen online have been pretty pricy. I plan on getting one at some point.
The problem is I love the easyiness and affordability of digital comics, but I like to sit comfortably in bed or on the couch to read them. Sitting at my desk to read them is kind of a drag.
Agreed, it’s not as much fun to read them on the computer. I look forward to a digital reader we all can afford and is color. I guess there are licensing issues about making a color Kindle–get it figured out, guys!
I think digital comics are the future. It’s been a slow boil for a while, but now I think things are falling into place. Apparantly Marvel agrees, too.
They recently introduced a comic reader for the PSP who also recently unvieled a digital comics store as part of their Playstation Network. I’m investigating how that works but it looks like proprietary software.They have some free downloads available. I don’t know yet if it handles regular PDFs are how it works exactly, but I’m going to find out.