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@achewood "One of Your Shoes is By the Dog Food: A Tale of Things Not Worth Mentioning During Married Life," is out in September on Harper-Doubleday.

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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #75 on: September 11, 2011, 11:43:54 pm »
wait, so achewood will be gone from the internet?  or just assetbar?
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #76 on: September 11, 2011, 11:52:42 pm »
Just assetbar... so far.
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #77 on: September 12, 2011, 12:34:49 am »
I wonder what'll happen to all the "premium content"...

Will he try to shift it over to some other iteration of the floundering subscription/micropayments model or do you think he'll just dump it all on the main site or what?

If he's actually serious about getting the strip rolling again, it wouldn't be the worst way to jumpstart the merch-sales model that seemed to make the guy good bank at the strip's height to have a big archive binge of that stuff to gruffle through. Or to as a mechanism to a relaunch with some ads and, again, draw people back in for that model.

I just don't think that the subscription/micropayment model was ever gonna work for most web comics or could ever on a long term basis.

It's too quick a read, any given day of a strip, and we're too mentally programmed to think of the medium as a throw-in to a newspaer still.

Maybe if there was someday one mostly-unified central iTunes/Netflix clearing house of web comics, I guess it could be beaten into working, but that's a ways off if it's ever gonna be possible.
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #78 on: September 12, 2011, 12:40:57 am »
I'm guessing this connects somehow to "girding the new generation of Achewood." Which means I can still hope that's actually going to happen someday till January when Assetbar shuts down.
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #79 on: September 12, 2011, 03:53:18 am »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on September 12, 2011, 12:34:49 am
Maybe if there was someday one mostly-unified central iTunes/Netflix clearing house of web comics, I guess it could be beaten into working, but that's a ways off if it's ever gonna be possible.

I think this has some merit for the future.  The biggest obstacle that I see is most creator artist will see it as a new "syndicate" which, in essence it is, but it makes sense to me to put your work where it is most likely to be seen. 

We'll probably have to wait until print newspapers totally collapse before this actually comes to pass though.
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #80 on: September 18, 2011, 10:27:14 pm »
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #81 on: September 19, 2011, 12:05:07 am »
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #82 on: September 19, 2011, 02:45:48 am »
I wonder if that's accurate.

Achewood was executory for roughly 9 years.  To be published daily, let's say that means weekdays, so 5 strips a week times 50 weeks a year times 9 years equals 2250 strips.  Are there really that many?  Or are they counting every blog post/Ray's place etc he posted?  Not to say that the ancillary material isn't worth counting, but is it the same as a strip? 

Interesting.
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #83 on: September 19, 2011, 03:04:49 am »
I was thinking it was interesting he's right in there with everyone else. I mean, DS . . . . well, I'd rather read one Achewood a week than 5 DS like clockwork (not that it's bad, it just doesn't grab me the same way).
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #84 on: September 19, 2011, 04:12:10 am »
Quote from: Nabubrush on September 19, 2011, 03:04:49 am
I was thinking it was interesting he's right in there with everyone else. I mean, DS . . . . well, I'd rather read one Achewood a week than 5 DS like clockwork (not that it's bad, it just doesn't grab me the same way).

RStevens did mention this seems to ignore the time when he was doing 12 strips a week
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #85 on: September 19, 2011, 04:37:11 am »
They must be counting everything.  There's no way that's accurate otherwise.
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #86 on: September 19, 2011, 12:44:29 pm »
If only we had someone with exceptional research skills who could give us the full scoop...

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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #87 on: September 19, 2011, 02:24:48 pm »
Quote from: jay-ell on September 19, 2011, 12:44:29 pm
If only we had someone with exceptional research skills who could give us the full scoop...



You mean somebody who wants to take the time to count how many strips there are?
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #88 on: September 19, 2011, 03:11:32 pm »
There's gotta be an easier way than that. Some way that they're numbered in serial that isn't immediately obvious to mere mortals.
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #89 on: September 19, 2011, 04:35:26 pm »
Looking quickly at achewood.com/list.php I count 1673 items. Now this counts anything he posted including non-strips like the preview of Beef's zine and such.

(I pasted the page into Excel, deleted the month headings, and looked at how many rows there are)
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