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Comic Sales Soar After Artist Engages 4chan Pirates

Posted by kdawson on from the more-flies-with-honey dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Steve Lieber, the artist behind the graphic novel Underground, discovered that someone on 4chan had scanned and posted the entire comic. Rather than complaining, he joined the conversation, chatting with the 4channers about the comic... and the next day he saw his sales jump to unheard-of levels, much higher than he'd seen even when the comic book was reviewed on popular sites like Boing Boing."

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  1. Re:Fighting 4chan? by TheKidWho · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/591/