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Van Douchebag · Post by **Van Douchebag** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 7:55 am

Does anyone get any offers from other sites for their comic, but said offers aren't worth it at all comparatively to what one gains through being on Keenspace?

So far I've gotten three for White Hydra, and only one was worth my time.

The first was for a site called Spider Spawn, which is essentially a fledgling doppelganger to Keenspace. Comparing what I get by being on Keenspace and what I get by being on Spider Spawn, I realize there absolutely no difference other than the opportunity to be better advertised on Keenspace.

The second was for a web magazine put out by a collection of RPG sites. They wanted all new White Hydra strips, and were willing to pay me $40 a page. That's a pretty good deal, but the magazine is monthly and one page a month. That, and I'd rather hang on to White Hydra and keep it out of any kind of contract. Instead I created a spinoff to White Hydra involving Ernest's roleplaying buddies and sent that off to them.

The third was the other day, and was by far the worst offer to day. The guy wanted people to start coming to his site so offered comics he liked subdomain hosting on his site, plus a forum. I tried bargaining with him, but ultimately rejected the offer.

If someone were to pay my hosting and a domain name then I'd probably jump on the offer, because that's what I'm really after, but thus far the offer hasn't come up yet.

BloodKnight · Post by **BloodKnight** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:00 am

Yeah I got some offers myself, even some publishing offers.

One of them was literally said "Give us Garas and you'll be famous."

Yeesh, some morons.

Van Douchebag · Post by **Van Douchebag** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:01 am

Well, that was random.

BloodKnight · Post by **BloodKnight** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:02 am

Yeah, wrong reply

I was going to reply here anyways.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:03 am

Science, Science News, Discover, Scientific American, the New Scientist, and Nature...

... all have not called to run Reasoned Cognition. *sigh*

Birdie · Post by **Birdie** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:32 am

I just accepted the offer to be published in my school paper. The best part is i really don't need to draw new strips, they were willing to just use stuff from my archive, AND I don't have to censor myself. So if I just wanted to say fuck a lot, I could probably do it. Of course I don't get paid, but I think that this experience can possibly add 1-2 hits a week to my website depending on if people like me in print form. Maybe I'll be the next garfield.

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:57 am

...I got an email telling me my penis isn't big enough, does that count?

Carlin · Post by **Carlin** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 9:00 am

Birdie wrote:Maybe I'll be the next garfield.

You mean pure crap? Oh wait.. that's an insult to crap. [/snide off topic remark]

Go Birdie! [/off topic compliment]

[on topic]

I got nothing. [/on topic]

[/pointless banter and fake BBc]

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 9:39 am

Was that Ghastly that once got an offer from some people to print his comic for free, and they'd even give him some copies on a lower price? Now, that was a bad offer.

Well, I didn't get anything yet. I had to refuse going back to translating mcDuffies on serbian a weekly basis, because I don't see a point in putting up little bits of such big archive on weekly basis and I'd like to spend that time in some other way anyway. I also refused translating LWK for the same guy, because it's under contract. But I don't know if that can count, because it's a guy I know for a long time.

I get a lot of webhosting-related spams. I mean, they are topical, they find my site and then send me offers for hosting and such, but it's obvious that it's just template spam messages.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 9:54 am

orion wrote:...I got an email telling me my penis isn't big enough, does that count?

Your penis? I think it can count to one, sometimes.

CJBurgandy · Post by **CJBurgandy** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 9:57 am

I've only gotten e-mails from GLBT sites that want me to advertise on their sites. Sites I've never heard of asking me to pay them.... now don't get me wrong, I like advertising, but some of them were ridiculous rates and I think I'd benifit more from advertising on Ghastly's site for half the price.

Plus, some of the sites were a little too scary even for me. It's probably the same group of people that own all the sites.

Phalanx · Post by **Phalanx** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:02 am

Hmm... Had one from a gaming company who wanted me to illustrate their game cutscenes for them, but rate of pay wasn't worth the amount of work it would have involved. It was still kinda cool though.

More requests from writers who wanted me to be their artist for their comics; one even wanted to pay me, but I didn't like the writing.

And then there was that one offer that I did accept

Soap Soaperson · Post by **Soap Soaperson** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:05 am

A couple people have...

One of them spammed this forum about half a year ago. They saw me post a pretty negative "U SUCK U SPAMMER" remark just fer' them, then proceeded to read my comic. ...And that's how they invited me to join their publishing company.

There was (I think) one other site asking me to join their blooming pay-comic deal. I don't ever want to do that with my dinky ol' comic, though (like I'd make them any money with my sporadic updates).

The closest I've ever come to publishing Deity Permit was by letting people (some anonymous, some friends) use pages of it for magazines done for projects in classes.

Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:12 am

If I had a dollar for everytime someone has tried to scam me with a business offer that really wasnt.

I've had a number of people offer to publish me, the most brazen of which was a guy who said "we're just a small publisher so we can't afford to pay you anything but we'll give you a discount on purchasing two copies of your book". Yeah, that sounds like a real deal there sport.

I've had a number of people make offers for what basically amounted to peanuts. I've had people offer to host my comic for me in exchange for letting them run ads on my site (which at the time is what Keenspace was doing so I don't see why I would bother with that). I've had people try to scam me to get free ad boxes. I've had people doing videogames and board games contact me trying to get me to do free artwork for them (because they're a small company and can't afford to pay me) claiming it will make me famous.

I don't know why people seem to think I will trade them my artwork for fame. I'm already pretty god-damned famous in terms of internet celebrity. It seems to me if they're wanting my artwork on their project they're the ones hoping to get famous by being able to associate my name with their product.

I've had lots and lots of offers over the years and none have yet been legitimate business opportunities.

Godoftarot · Post by **Godoftarot** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:32 am

Noooo...
But I get those damn e-mails all the time telling me I could win $10,000 bucks in a poetry contest. Now they send me e-mails all the time telling me they'll publish my poem in their book if I pay for it.
They also tell me they'd like to give me an award for achievement in poetry...but first I have to shell out $400 to attend their convention, and that's not counting airfare.

Faub · Post by **Faub** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:40 am

I've had two requests to be someone's artist ("you're great. I think you're worthy to draw my comic for me!") and one request to join a pay site but they didn't want my comic. I spend all my time working on the pages I do finish for my comic. What makes them think I can do that AND their comic?

For all the offers I've had to publish and advertise on other sites (all zero of them) it's just easier for me make my comic print ready and publish it myself. I would get more out of the experience both in terms of learning experience and money that way.

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:41 am

All i've got was a comic site that wanted me to link to them to help em out. They also claimed to have quotes from a lot of top newspaper artists about how good their comic strip was.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 11:09 am

godoftarot wrote:Noooo...
But I get those damn e-mails all the time telling me I could win $10,000 bucks in a poetry contest. Now they send me e-mails all the time telling me they'll publish my poem in their book if I pay for it.
They also tell me they'd like to give me an award for achievement in poetry...but first I have to shell out $400 to attend their convention, and that's not counting airfare.

... Actually, they aren't all scams. I won second place in one of these poetry contests, won $500 and six free copies of the book (which did get published and did as well as you'd expect a book of random poetry to do).

It was about six years ago. An early love poem to my now-wife Beth.

Godoftarot · Post by **Godoftarot** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 11:11 am

rkolter wrote:
godoftarot wrote:Noooo...
But I get those damn e-mails all the time telling me I could win $10,000 bucks in a poetry contest. Now they send me e-mails all the time telling me they'll publish my poem in their book if I pay for it.
They also tell me they'd like to give me an award for achievement in poetry...but first I have to shell out $400 to attend their convention, and that's not counting airfare.
... Actually, they aren't all scams. I won second place in one of these poetry contests, won $500 and six free copies of the book (which did get published and did as well as you'd expect a book of random poetry to do).

It was about six years ago. An early love poem to my now-wife Beth.

What can I say? I guess your love poetry is better than mine.

Soap Soaperson · Post by **Soap Soaperson** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 11:27 am

You'll just have to learn to trust spam, I guess.