Comments on: Not big… HUGE.

By: Free

Free — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:42:44 +0000

Chat with live girls for free…

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By: Jeff Knooren

Jeff Knooren — Tue, 08 May 2007 16:46:54 +0000

Revive Micropayments, I’d say you’re crazy, but more like psychic. Lots of discussion about it on Comixpedia.

By: Jeff Knooren

Jeff Knooren — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:18:04 +0000

This is all great info. Now teach me to be funny.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:26:24 +0000

DJ, I agree with you 100%. What Marvel and DC don’t realize is their comics are offered for free on the internet through bit torrent file sharing. Now, they can continue to fight it like the RIAA and end up angering fans and alienating their already dwindling market, or they can offer them online legitimately and use that to increase their fan base, push movies, sell video games and toys. There will always be a market for the fan boys who collect the paper but for those who don’t online is the perfect way to increase your market. This new generation of kids do not spend $3 per issue. Many of them will never step inside a comic shop but they will surf online. Let the big two continue to miss the market. Those fans will flock to Hero by Night.

By: DJ

DJ — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:58:14 +0000

It’s pretty simple logic if you know where to find the numbers. In the comic book field, let’s look at March’s actual sales numbers: http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/10404.html (pretty abysmal all around) -

XMEN #197 only sold 75,184

Let’s keep in mind two things. Not ALL of those sales equals a reader. Some of those go into back issue bins at shops, or even destroyed–

So, my meager comic strip here. We get 9000 unique readers a day. When I wasn’t even updating I still got around 5000 something unique readers a day. So that’s one day. In March, I had 282,780 unique users on this site. And honestly, that sounds good here, but it’s PEANUTS to what bigger strips get. PvP and Penny Arcade blow that out of the water.

And that’s not to mention this key point. Someone who DOES pick up XMEN and read it… they’re done. They don’t come back to it for another month or so. While the majority of readers come back daily to webcomics, including this one. Sometimes more than once a day!

So, sure, XMEN made some MONEY because those were “sales”– but let’s think about ad dollars. Some company bought ads in XMEN for what I’m guessing like 5-8k!!! (I’ve heard varying figures) For that circulation?!!

Webcomics could charge 1/4th of that and offer amonthly ad spot to a company like WWE action figures, and make a decent living doing so. Also,it’s better for the advertiser, they get cheaper advertising, and reach more people. Everyone is happy.

Look at most of those titles… more people are reading and following webcomics. I think this is why you see DC and MArvel scrambling around to figure out a way to do digital downloads…. but they don’t really GET it. Webcomics I mean. Comics online, etc…. Comics want to be free online!

By: Schroddfather

Schroddfather — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:31:09 +0000

DJ -

How do you come up with the comment that more people read Yirmumah than regularly read X-Men? I wouldn’t be surprised if you had a readership of several tens of thousands, but I thought the X titles routinely sold over 100K. I’m a finance geek so I’m genuinely interested.

By: WaveX

WaveX — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:48:07 +0000

Hi DJ,

Where can we (the European followers of the DJ cult) get a hand on the HBN 2 ?

WaveX
from belgium, probably the best Belgium in the world