Tag: Patreon
Patreon’s Silence Is Destroying Their Two Greatest Successes
Last Wednesday and Thursday, Patreon told their creators and patrons they were changing their fee structure. It’s been a fiasco. They’ve been silent since...
The Patreon Fiasco: Jack Conte tells creators “We ****ed up.”
The creative community is still waiting on Patreon to officially address the new policy of passing transaction fees on to the patrons (backers), but...
UPDATED With Patreon’s Explanation: Why People Are Alienated By Patreon’s New Fees – We...
Seems like it’s a season of change in Crowdfunding. Last week, we talked with Spike about Drip, Kickstarter’s answer to Patreon and now Patreon’s...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 4/19/17: People get excited about things on Twitter!
§ Nice art: People on my twitter feed were excited by this tweet!
https://twitter.com/ErenUnten/status/854038476513173507
Heroic Rey and cheerin' Chewie! Who wouldn't like that?
Artist Eren Unten has...
Rosy Press Indefinitely Shutters its Doors, Janelle Asselin Leaving Comics
Over the last decade, Janelle Asselin has become one of the most influential and progressive figures in comics. Last year, she set off a journalistic...
LINE Webtoon and Patreon team up to invest up to $3,600,000 in webcomics
The massively successful global webcomics portal LINE Webtoon and crowdfunding site Patreon are teaming up tp help fund more webcomics in several innovative ways,...
Comics Journalism: You get what you pay for
We lost another one yesterday. David Harper of the oft-linked to and discussed Sktchd sitecalled it quits after a year of think pieces, surveys, podcasts and charts. He'll continue doing his podcast after a break for the warm Alaskan summer, but those long investigations are a thing of the past. The reasons were the usual: burnout from writing about what you love.
MATT CHATS: Jim Zub on Joining the Crowdfunding Game with Patreon
I first became a fan of Jim Zub’s because his tutorials on the comics making process, so it’s fitting that my next interview with him is about a platform that...
Wait…WHAT?! Jason Shiga’s Next Book, From First Second
Jason Shiga, known for his multi-path comics such as Meanwhile, is scheduled to publish his next title, Demon, with First Second in October 2016....
MATT CHATS: NHOJ on Doing a Brand New Comic (Almost) Every Day
Irish cartoonist NHOJ (John Cullen) has been posting his Daily Comics for over 650 days at this point. They are often funny, sometimes poignant...
MATT CHATS: Thomas Boatwright on Puppets, Patreon and a Transition from Comics
Rarely do I get to learn the story of people who have moved away from the comics industry. Artist and creator Thomas Boatwright is...
Tom Spurgeon launches a Patreon campaign and a digital magazine
After making some noises about it for a while, Tom Spurgeon has joined the crowdfunding world for his award-winning Comics Reporter site with a...