Oh….and NeverEnoughGold gave me a round tuit in the hopes that I would explain “subscribing”…. I think….
The thing is, I joined GoComics as a Pro member, and the only time I was ever non-Pro was very briefly when there was a mix-up with my renewal…so I’m not sure whether you have to be a Pro to subscribe…
I hope not, for the cartoonists’ sakes…but if you do, it’s yet another reason to pay the 3¢ a day….
it’s SO much easier to use this site when you have a page or two with all your subscribed strips laid out like a newspaper page!
Subscribing means editing your page and dragging the comic in question over to your list…or else, while you’re reading it, clicking the green square with a plus sign, just to the left of the star right underneath the last panel.
That adds it to your page, or to whatever sort of list you have if you’re not Pro, if that’s different…. but it does more…it proves the popularity of the strip and solidifies its position on GoComics… and the cartoonist’s relationship with the syndicate. It’s a big selling point to potential buyers… ie, newspapers that might want to run the strip… if they can see that it’s already a draw.Plus, since the way cartoonists are paid is by receiving a percentage of syndication sales, it means your favorite artists have a better shot at not doing all this work for birdseed… or even free.
If a strip is immensely popular here it might even mean not just more sales to newspapers, but a slightly larger percentage of the revenue generated as well…. but I’m not sure.
Subscription numbers are also the basis, BTW, for Sherpa strips being moved up to GoComics.
Hope that helps…and can somebody tell me, please, if you have to be Pro to set up a page or subscribe? Thanks.I’ll let you borrow my new round tuit.
Oh….and NeverEnoughGold gave me a round tuit in the hopes that I would explain “subscribing”…. I think….
The thing is, I joined GoComics as a Pro member, and the only time I was ever non-Pro was very briefly when there was a mix-up with my renewal…so I’m not sure whether you have to be a Pro to subscribe…
I hope not, for the cartoonists’ sakes…but if you do, it’s yet another reason to pay the 3¢ a day….
it’s SO much easier to use this site when you have a page or two with all your subscribed strips laid out like a newspaper page!
Subscribing means editing your page and dragging the comic in question over to your list…or else, while you’re reading it, clicking the green square with a plus sign, just to the left of the star right underneath the last panel.
That adds it to your page, or to whatever sort of list you have if you’re not Pro, if that’s different…. but it does more…it proves the popularity of the strip and solidifies its position on GoComics… and the cartoonist’s relationship with the syndicate. It’s a big selling point to potential buyers… ie, newspapers that might want to run the strip… if they can see that it’s already a draw.Plus, since the way cartoonists are paid is by receiving a percentage of syndication sales, it means your favorite artists have a better shot at not doing all this work for birdseed… or even free.
If a strip is immensely popular here it might even mean not just more sales to newspapers, but a slightly larger percentage of the revenue generated as well…. but I’m not sure.
Subscription numbers are also the basis, BTW, for Sherpa strips being moved up to GoComics.
Hope that helps…and can somebody tell me, please, if you have to be Pro to set up a page or subscribe? Thanks.I’ll let you borrow my new round tuit.