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The reason for that, TNW is that, as with web-anything, e-books, music downloads, whatever, on-line comics are basically for the kind of people who are happy enough to pay £50 for a t-shirt, or a 'live experience' at the O2 stadium, but feel as if they're entitled to pop art, in the raw, for free.
Problem with this, as a market model, is that it's going to make it very difficult for anyone to earn a living as a serious artiste. Anyone, I fear, who is in favour of web-comics just hasn't thought it through properly. If you spend months, often years, working on something, it's only reasonable to expect to be paid for it, if it's good, surely? Otherwise, after a while, what's the point? The views of this venal generation of students, who in any case just want to work for Goldman Sucks, should be ignored. All right, they've been driven into a corner, but anyone who'd rather stare blankly at a computer screen for another half hour, so as to save a few bucks a month should ... Oh, I don't know, just kill themselves, or something. Looking into the future, it's hard to see how they'd be missed. |
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