ATTN: Comic Book Creators!

[razorsharp]

ATTN: Comic Book Creators!!!!!!!!

I am looking for talented comic book creators with razor sharp wit and style.
Do you have a passion for comic books that goes beyond just buying that latest issue of Wolverine? Do you have great story and or visual ideas just burning in your brain waiting to burst out?

razorsharpcomics.com is an independent website for creators to share their vision. Create your own comic and enjoy the satisfaction that people are seeing your work. Get feedback from the community of subscribers and who knows with a lot of skill and a little luck it could lead to a career with one of the big boys

Payment (what you thought I was going to leave that out?) will be determined based upon a large percentage of subscriber dollars, divided amongst the creators based on their site ranking. This is not a job offer, it is a chance for independent creators to have their stories told online.

You do not have to sign away your work. Each piece of script and each image will remain the property of the creators. This way everybody benefits. The creators keep control of their property and the readers get to see the work as it was meant to be seen.

I am getting the word out early to give creators a chance to do what they do best. If you already have lots of work just waiting to get out the wait won’t be too long. I am aiming for a Mid March—Early April release. Jump onboard and be among the first have their comic shown on the next big name in comic book websites, www.razorsharpcomics.com.
Remember, these are online comics and must be converted in the proper files and formats.

Any Questions
Email me at razorsharpcomics@hotmail.com

Thanks for your time,
Jason Urban

[Lorendiac]

Payment (what you thought I was going to leave that out?) will be determined based upon a large percentage of subscriber dollars, divided amongst the creators based on their site ranking. This is not a job offer, it is a chance for independent creators to have their stories told online.

[Here's some feedback I offered when this was posted on another forum a couple of weeks ago. No reply was forthcoming, but just now I noticed this copy of the post on here and decided to offer my feedback all over again. Somehow it just doesn't seem worth emailing this question to him -- especially not when other people might be interested in seeing the answer, if I got an answer. I'm hoping the guy who posted this ad actually checks up on the relevant forums again occasionally. Or maybe someone else will tell me why I'm overly skeptical regarding this "opportunity," or whatever?]



First, let me clarify that I don't have a comic book project all worked out, with 22 pages or so illustrated and ready to be submitted to a publisher or posted online as a webcomic. So my questions are just theoretical at the moment.

From the passage I quoted above, I get the impression that you intend to have full access to the webcomics of your creators only be available to those who pay a regular subscription fee.

My question is: What makes you reasonably certain that you can get enough paying subscribers to make it worth people's trouble to post their creations exclusively on your site?

There are a great many webcomics out there that don't charge at all. I can click over to one in my browser and then read a hundred consecutive pages of storytelling at one sitting if I get hooked on it so that I really want to. I don't have to pay a dime. Since I know there is plenty of material available for free, I simply ignore any sites that want me to pay for the privilege of "subscribing" to them in order to get access to online comic-formatted entertainment. I strongly suspect that I am far from being the only comic book fan who takes that thrifty approach to reading webcomics.

Some of the webcomics that give it away for free have been successful enough that they now sell T-shirts, printed collections of old storylines, etc., to fans who want them -- and they also have sufficiently reliable fanbases that they can make money by selling advertising space as well.

(This duplicates, on a smaller scale, the business model that TV networks have used for a long, long time. The networks aren't "selling" the right to view the latest episode of a "Star Trek" series or whatever; they are "selling" captive audiences to corporations who want to buy advertising time; the entertaining shows being given away for "free" via broadcasting in order to "bait the trap" to attract the audiences!)

On my hard drive, I have a file with thousands of words of notes for a possible sword-and-sorcery webcomic. Hypothetically, if I ever find an artistic collaborator to illustrate my scripts, I expect we'll go the route of "giving it away for free" in order to attract the passing attention of as many potential fans as possible. If we attract enough of them as "regular readers," then we'll find other ways to "cash in" on our success. So I'm just asking: What would make your approach preferable? How many faithful subscribers do you expect to lure in, out of all the people on the Internet who already view webcomics for free in other locations and like it that way?