Muistiinpanoja The Thingistä
15.03.06 17:03

Kävin The UK Web & Mini Comix Thingissä Lontoossa lauantaina 11.3. opintomatkalla. Tapahtuma käsittelee omakustanteita ja nettisarjakuvia. Tarkoituksenani oli hakea sieltä ihmisten yhteystietoja, jotta voisin haastatella heitä sähköpostitse. Lisäksi kuuntelin pari paneelia ja juttelin muuten vain ihmisten kanssa.

Spreading the Word: Distribution and Promotion of Webcomics and the Small Press -paneeli

Osallistujat: Barry Renshaw (vetäjä), Daniel Merlin Goodbrey (1), Jonti Picking (2), Colin Dinnie (3), Gianna Masetti (4), Shane Chebsey (5)

2: get one thing popular and it will spread 4: word of mouth 4: immediate talkback - you know what the readers think, though there is a certain persentage of idiots always involved it is also good 1: comics for iPod (clickwheel.net), a comic art exhibition in a museum in a game (Second Life) 1: digital paper - change in digital comics coming?! All: selling stuff on websites to accommodate site costs 5: promo CD - there are so many CDs given out nowadays that they're not interesting, plus people are used to getting them for free so they're not willing to pay for them - not marketable 5/All: promoting by social contact is a good way of getting new readers, because everyone doesn't have the internet 4: downloadable comics (for PSP) 4: webcomics are easy - for most the printing stuff flies over the head, it's too difficult for a beginner 4: if your comic takes a few pages to get into before you realize it's good, a lot of users turn away because they don't bother to read that long - trailers, prologue? If your art is so-so in the beginning, do it again or do a prologue Audience: is it that bad to lose readers due to short attention span? 5: find out what makes YOU attracted to a comic, so you can use that to attract people to your comic Audience: re-drawn first pages - a book with re-drawn content plus a CD with the original drawings on the side (panel people: only attractive to fans to see the old art, so only fan merchandise?) All(?): would be nice to have indie comics available also outside comic shops: bookstores etc. 4: advertising a webcomic: * comic lists (good for a new site where you don't know how many readers there are) - voting on those lists * forums * ads outside the webcomic circle of people (new potential readers, you can for example give ad cards to movie goers if your comic might attract them) * put your artwork to big sites (for example fan art to a big game's official site, will get you a few hits) 5: * bring readers in from outside the web, don't just advertise to web people 1: * stunts All: mobile content is wanted (be careful on the rights) All: subscribtions: they mostly send people away, they don't really work, there are too many comics available for free Audience: websnark - writes about webcomics (a web mag?) Audience: a new way to subscribe, not seen often: archives are free but new stuff costs Audience/1: micropayments (1 pence/page), eg. Bitpass 2?: noted that they don't really work that well either 2: works best on separate platforms (consoles, mobiles etc.)

Critical Mass: Debate and Criticism of and in the Small Press -paneeli

* How do you feel about reviewing in the web? Good/bad/too varied/useful/not? * fans tend to bitch about a negative review in forums * bad review = slump, good review = pride - is it good to have so much feedback? * people say things in the web that they wouldn't say to their face (do you?) * reviews on blogs and comments on those reviews = good or bad? * there are a lot of reviews on comics in podcasts

Pencil & rubber, reviews in comic form (can be found somewhere in the web)

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