Merandising is really quite a different thing from a micropayment system.. Anyone with a paper, ink and acces to a scanner/the internet can run an online comic. Making and selling merchandising is harder to do and more expensive for the creator. You add another step to the process of making money (delivery, maybe even rpoduction which would add at least 1 more, maybe more steps), somene else who wants a slice of the pie.
Sure it's doable, and sure, there's a living to be made that way. But it's not going to be the start of a comics revolution.
but the micropayment system has that potential.
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Merandising is really quite a different thing from a micropayment system.. Anyone with a paper, ink and acces to a scanner/the internet can run an online comic. Making and selling merchandising is harder to do and more expensive for the creator. You add another step to the process of making money (delivery, maybe even rpoduction which would add at least 1 more, maybe more steps), somene else who wants a slice of the pie. Sure it's doable, and sure, there's a living to be made that way. But it's not going to be the start of a comics revolution. but the micropayment system has that potential.
Actually, Scott mc Cloud handles Image Comics in his book, Reinventing Comics.