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Warren Ellis Curates new Webcomic Site

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the creator-to-curator dept.

Warren Ellis has announced on his blog that he has finally been talked into curating a mass webcomics site titled "Rocket Pirates." The submission process is completely open via Warren's gmail account and invites anything as long as it isn't too terribly formal. While Rocket Pirates doesn't pay authors for submissions the site is apparently going to allow each author to post their own advertising via "Google Ads, Amazon Associates ads, ads for their own products, rate cards for prostitution services or any other damn thing on their comic's Rocket Pirates page."

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  1. And the goal is ... by PCM2 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...what?

    No, seriously, what's the point of doing this? The comics will be hosted on this site; check. But the arrangement is non-exclusive, which means the creators are still free to host them on their own sites, also -- which presumably they would have done anyway.

    Wouldn't it be much easier to create a kind of "Drudge Report" of Web comics, that aggregates links to new episodes as they appear? Seems like just about anybody could do that with some blogging software.

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    1. Re:And the goal is ... by zepher-109 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The point is that your comic is hosted on a website endorced by Warren Ellis, publishing companies will look in there a lot quicker for new talent then on Keenspace or wherever.

  2. I suspect that it's about bandwidth. by khasim · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bandwidth isn't cheap if you become popular.

    Providing a site that is supported via Google ads and such would save those artists from having to come up with the bandwidth cash themselves.

  3. Who? by Aladrin · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sooo... Who is Warren Ellis and why should I bow at his comic-hosting feet?

    Seriously, wtf?

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    1. Re:Who? by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 3, Informative

      C'mon - I had no idea who he was either, but just selecting "warren ellis", context clicking and choosing a google search gave me his homepage and his wikipedia entry.

      While /. submissions could occasionally use a little more background, its not that hard to find out wtf the article's talking about (usually in less time than a post asking for said info).

      He's an influential british comics writer - who's biggest work was transmetropolitan for DC's vertigo comics line.

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  4. Just what we need! by daeg · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've all but lost hope for the Internet but now my faith has been renewed! Yes, provide any cartoonist with hosting! I enjoy looking at badly written, unfunny, and largely idiotic cartoons! While you're at it, can you please duplicate LiveJournal? I am seriously lacking in my daily need to read higschool Emo-kid drama. A duplicate of MySpace would protect my prowling habits when MySpace.com goes down. Help me, Warren Ellis, you're my only hope.

    In all seriousness, though, it seems like a duplication of existing services with a fancy name attached to it. I would have rather seen him do something for the web comic community by aggregating existing comics and posting reviews and commentaries on them blog-style.