Warren Ellis Curates new Webcomic Site 63
Warren Ellis has announced on his blog that he has finally been talked into curating a mass webcomics site titled "Rocket Pirates." The submission process is completely open via Warren's gmail account and invites anything as long as it isn't too terribly formal. While Rocket Pirates doesn't pay authors for submissions the site is apparently going to allow each author to post their own advertising via "Google Ads, Amazon Associates ads, ads for their own products, rate cards for prostitution services or any other damn thing on their comic's Rocket Pirates page."
Re:Wowzers, slow news day (Score:1, Troll)
Metamoderators: do your thing.
And the goal is ... (Score:5, Insightful)
No, seriously, what's the point of doing this? The comics will be hosted on this site; check. But the arrangement is non-exclusive, which means the creators are still free to host them on their own sites, also -- which presumably they would have done anyway.
Wouldn't it be much easier to create a kind of "Drudge Report" of Web comics, that aggregates links to new episodes as they appear? Seems like just about anybody could do that with some blogging software.
I suspect that it's about bandwidth. (Score:5, Insightful)
Providing a site that is supported via Google ads and such would save those artists from having to come up with the bandwidth cash themselves.
Re:And the goal is ... (Score:5, Insightful)
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Actually that already exists on many sites, I wont advertize any of them here but you can google for web comics lists and find dozens.
Re:And the goal is ... (Score:2)
You really _don't_ want to see Warren Ellis unhappy. Bad things will happen.
Very bad things.
Re:And the goal is ... (Score:2)
I'm worried if they are allowed to put ads all over the place, the could presumably put malicious stuff there too. It's really just a big free webhost, because, if it's so massive, anyone can sign up and post anything?
Great way to break into the business (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Great way to break into the business (Score:1)
This will be great for artists who have the talent, but really need exposure.
My wife has been working on her online semi-weekly comic strip for over a year now. Her drawing/photoshop skills have come a long way since she started. Even though her paintings and drawings have been featured in local (Columbus, OH) galleries, it's been a fight to gain an audience for her comic larger than family and friends.
Perhaps this is because RocketFuel follows her real life very closely, down to the clothes she wears
web 2.0... check (Score:1, Troll)
hmmm.... I think I've seen this business model somewhere before...
And his website, it's atrocious! (Score:3, Funny)
This link circle-jerk digirati bullshit has to be stopped. He's fucking farming out his content creation with this RocketPower thing which is borderline ironic.
*sigh*
Ads Ads Ads (Score:3, Insightful)
Who? (Score:4, Interesting)
Seriously, wtf?
Re:Who? (Score:4, Informative)
While
He's an influential british comics writer - who's biggest work was transmetropolitan for DC's vertigo comics line.
Re:Who? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Who? (Score:2)
Re:Who? (Score:2)
Challenge: Name that tune.
Rewrite the original post, even with the newfound knowledge.
I'm certain someone will mod you some karma in compensation if you provide an excellent example.
Tip: Take the time to write, preview, edit, spell check, grammar & punctuation check[1], edit, etc.
Lots of people write something, scan it for what they think might be embarrassing[1], and submit it. It's not a race to post first.
Invest a few minutes and show us your best.
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Re:Who? (Score:3, Funny)
This reminds me of the old saying: Teach a man to research slashdot stories; he's a subscriber for one day. Give the man an answer in the comments, and he's a subscriber for life
Re:Who? (Score:1)
http://www.warrenellis.com/ [warrenellis.com]
Finding these was less work than posting here.
Re:Who? (Score:1)
Re:Who? (Score:1)
His name is a guarantee of quality (Score:1)
Good show for helping out indie artists! I love this guy ^^
Comics are for kids (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Comics are for kids (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Comics are for kids (Score:1)
Re:Comics are for kids (Score:1)
Re:Comics are for kids (Score:1)
But to answer what you said, I'd say comics that are not for kids do not absolutely have to contain sex and nudity either. Comics are just a different way to tell a story, any story.
Just as there are kids movies and X-Rated movies, there are lots of movies that do not fall in these extremes. There is no reason comics cannot have t
Re:Comics are for kids (Score:2)
But it does. And so do comics.
Re:Comics are for kids (Score:1)
A whole lot of comics? (Score:1)
Edison hate? (Score:1)
Edison, do you often refer to yourself in the first person and third person within the same sentence? So sorry about the future shirt!
Just what we need! (Score:4, Funny)
In all seriousness, though, it seems like a duplication of existing services with a fancy name attached to it. I would have rather seen him do something for the web comic community by aggregating existing comics and posting reviews and commentaries on them blog-style.
Re:Just what we need! (Score:1)
Re:Just what we need! (Score:1)
If I've read it correctly, Warren Ellis is providing hosting services for webcomic writer/artists for free and allowing them to post their own Google AdSense links so they can collect on ad revenue. That's something a lot of 'free' hosts don't allow, as they're the ones that collect on the ad revenue to support your hosting fees. While I don't think the host itself is precluded from its own ad revenue, this should be a boon to potential digital indie comic creators; free hosting, your own ad revenue, and in
Re:Just what we need! (Score:2)
Re:Jesus fuck! (Score:1)
You're right (Score:1)
Re:You're right (Score:1)
But these comix aint gonna read themselves.
Who is this guy? (Score:3, Interesting)
While I understand that some Slashdot nerds like comics, I'm wondering a) who this guy is, and b) how many
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It's All About The Content (Score:1)