Re: Honolulu Star-Bulletin to run "Secret Asian Man"

On Sep 7, 10:35 am, "D.D.Degg" <ddd...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mike Peterson wrote:
D.D.Degg wrote:
I wonder if Creators is giving KFS' Comics Kingdom
a decent run for the money for newspaper websites?
"Run for the money" isn't exactly the term I'd use...
...And the artists get, um, exposure and some sort of cut, though I'm not
sure how much X-percent of basically nothing comes out to.

Yeah, I was recently pointed to this reprinting of a 1976
Sunday Funnies section (hat tip tohttp://www.comicsreporter.com/)
from the South Fulton Daily Recorder.http://hipsterdad.livejournal.com/tag/south+fulton+daily+recorder

Back then the syndicates vied for hard copy not websites.
Here's NEA getting dibs on a newspaper's comic section
(NEA got one of my local papers' section during the '60s).
You better believe that the cartoonists came out better in
1976 (or 1966) than they are in 2009.

Two different types of deals, I suspect.

KFS has long offered Sunday packages for newspapers that don't have
their own Flexo presses (a no-rub method that is better for comics
because of the density of color on each page). The idea is that it's
cheaper to buy a package deal rather than have them set up a custom
job with just your strips, even though it means that your dailies and
Sundays don't match. And it's how you end up with strips like the
Phantom, Snuffy Smith and Marvin in so many Sunday sections. I imagine
NEA was offering the same sort of deal -- take Package A, B or C and
save money!

As it happens, we saved money by going custom, in part because KFS
matched the deal we were offered by American Color (another printer of
Sunday sections), and in part because it turned out we were paying
premium licensing prices for some of those old faithfuls that we
wouldn't have ordered a la carte. However, I note that the paper has
since switched back to a package that doesn't match the daily but I
think is fewer pages and frankly, since I don't work there anymore,
who cares???

The on-line deal is quite different -- they simply offer you the
chance to run their package of strips on line at no cost in return for
running a few banner ads, and they offer you some banner ad space of
your own. This reminds me of the shows we used to get for free when I
was in TV back in the '70s -- they were called "barters" and included
some decent stuff, including, IIRC, "Wild Kingdom" which of course
came with Mutual of Omaha ads already in it. A lot of the really
cheesy 3-in-the-morning stuff was barters, as was much that ran
Saturday afternoon, and there were more cheesy shows than "Wild
Kingdoms" out there.

And in any case, there's a difference between "cheap" and "free" and
I'd rather have a cut of the former than the latter. I have no idea
how the artists are compensated for the syndicates giving away their
material but suspect it doesn't help much with the rent.

Mike Peterson
http://nellieblogs.blogspot.com
www.weeklystorybook.com
www.weeklystorybook.com/dana
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