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Online Cartoonist Finds Financial Success Offline

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-a-lot-of-comic dept.

destinyland writes "The first collection of Perry Bible Fellowship comics has racked up pre-sales of $300,000 due to its huge online following. Within seven weeks the volume required a third printing. Ironically, the 25-year-old cartoonist speculates people would rather read his arty comics in a book than on a computer screen, and warns that 'There's something wonderful, and soon-to-be mythic, about the printed page...' He also explains the strange anti-censorship crusade in high school that earned him an FBI record!"

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  1. Re:Totally Deserved! by HandsOnFire · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've been doing too much reading lately. I noticed that "IsupposeIshouldbehappyyoudidn'ttypeotalloutlikethis" had a typo within a split second. I think you mean IsupposeIshouldbehappyyoudidn'ttypeitalloutlikethis.

  2. Re:Retarded. by ty421 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Of course, N.G. has said that Bill Watterson is a bit of an inspiration for him, so I suppose this is just a natural progression of "real" comics. On the other hand, Calvin & Hobbes is the greatest comic to have widespread newspaper publication, although I will accept evidence to the contrary.

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  3. Re:Newspaper comics by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Is it just me or are the comics in newspapers COMPLETELY devoid of any humor?

    It's just you. Well, OK, they're pretty awful as a whole but there are still some decent ones:

    • Pickles: Who knew crotchety old men could be funny?
    • Heart of the City: Ditto 7 year old girls and their geeky friends.
    • Non Sequitur: If Gary Larson chose to tell a story instead of a one-liner.
    • Doonesbury: No, really. Not everyday, but most of the time.
    • Zits: Almost always at least mildly amusing, occasionally laugh-out-loud funny.
    • Baby Blues: For parents only, I think - a perfect reflection the middle class married with kids lifestyle.
    • Peanuts: Yeah, I said it. Now that they're running Chuck's old stuff before he forgot that adults buy the newspaper.

    Still not funny:

    • Cathy: Irving, think Ike Turner. You know what to do.
    • Gasoline Alley: Does anyone like this?
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  4. Re:Newspaper comics by FleaPlus · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'd personally add Pearls Before Swine and FoxTrot to that list of good newspaper comics. Of course, I actually read those comics almost entirely online. ;)

  5. Re:Retarded. by Nuroticat · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sinfest is also quite worthy. It's a spiritual (lol) successor of strips like Calvin & Hobbes and Bloom County. I've enjoyed Sinfest more than any other web or newspaper comic for years.

  6. Re:Achewood by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 3, Informative

    wow achewood... it leaves a bad taste in my mouth and a ring around my eyes, but sadly thats not a good thing. Its as if someone wrote a program to take anything funny that has every been said, or written and remove the humor from it, leaving only a soulless, time wasting, empty shell of a cicada.

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    Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
  7. Re:Newspaper comics by Bazman · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why is everyone referring to PBF as an 'online' comic? I first read it as a printed version in the UK Guardian newspaper.

    Comics in The Guardian are always high quality. There's currently Steve Bell's 'If' strip and Doonesbury, plus PBF, and in the past they've re-run Krazy Kat.

    Unlike US newspapers, UK papers don't generally have an eight page comic section to fill - perhaps that is the reason for the perceived decrease in quality.