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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: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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  2. 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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  3. 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. ;)

  4. 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.

  5. 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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