Yesterday, I was reading matsya's great 1999 Scott McCloud interview (linked up on this here forum somewhere), which touched on digital comics and how the comic book would be evolving into the web-based strip.
Today, I hit one of my favorite webcomic creator's blogs and, in part of a longer rant about how much he didn't miss going to the San Diego convention, he put this:
Coincidentally, the first issue of The Midnight Hour was printed by a new company called comiXpress. comiXpress is a one-stop resource for small and self-publishers. Co-founded by Logan DeAngelis, a comics creator with years of experience in pre-press and printing, comiXpress‚ services are specifically tailored to the needs of comics creators, offering high-quality print-on-demand, sales and distribution, all at astoundingly reasonable prices.
If you're looking to publish a comic, you have to check them out. If you're looking to read something new and different, you should check out their store. comiXpress is going to revolutionize indie comics publishing, and, as far as I'm concerned, this kind of innovation is long overdue.
The guy who wrote that has been a comic book editor, writer, and webcomic publisher (with some print stuff coming out later this year). So when he gets interested, I figure it's probably worth checking out.
So I did. As far as I can tell, what this is, is a kind of CafePress for comics.
In their own words, ComiXpress allows creators the opportunity to print their comics in quantities as low as one single issue for incredibly low prices (You can literally get the ball rolling for just over $10!). Once printed, these comics can be listed on the ComiXpress secure online store for no additional cost to the creator and when copies of their comics sell, ComiXpress prints and ships the order directly to the buyer and cuts a check to the creator! (They note elsewhere that they prefer paying via PayPal.)
That sounds like a great idea to me.
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