A Hatboro, PA man (Keystone state rep-re-sent!) known only as Slim has taken it upon himself to archive one of our favorite trends in comics distribution. Talkin' bout Two Dollar Digital. Creators like Skottie Young and Chris Eliopoulos have already offered up digital collections of their creator-owned comics and more and more artists are following suit. At or around that sumptuous two dollar price point.
Slim's been dutifully aggregating these offerings on a new Tumblr page called "2 dollar comics."
There, you will find cover art (like this glimpse at Hunter and Hillman's Lobster Ladd& Cosmic Jones: Beach BBQ Blast-Off), technical specs, and creator synopses, with links to downloading web comic collections, sketch books, and full OGN's in digital formats perfect for all your devices. There's stuff for kids as well as mature readers, and we hope more titles will join the list soon.
We recommend some Grizzly Shark.
Thanks to Blair for the tip.
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Yup. Favorite trend in comics right now.
YES! This is a nice trend that i hope more creators get on board with, and its pure profit into the creators pocket which is always good. Maybe they can set the pricing standard.
Awesome! I hope that creators really leverage digital media as a cheaper way of exposing their works to the world. I hope that they don’t get greedy and try to price their work at the same prices that printed versions would sell for.
Also, I second Grizzly Shark vs Sea Bear. EPIC read.
I must also recommend The Illustrated Section – http://theillustratedsection.com
It also congregates lots of creator-owned comics, but in a store where you can browse/find/buy them all at once.
We jumped on the bandwagon with a complete 230 page collection of our all-ages Atomik Mike series for a measely 2 bucks.
I think in regards to views/sales we’re doing better than when we shop it out at conventions.
That cover looks awfully familiar. Maybe like the cover for Super Nintendo games? Assuming its intentional, Kudos!
@ato – Very intentinal, I think
I just downloaded it and the art/colors are fantastic. Really enjoying what I’m seeing so far.
@charlesp1138 – If you link it, they will come… unless I missed it. In which case, sorry.
@OttoBott you may have missed it. It was one of my first posts. Thanks for digging the site, guys!
http://2dollar.tumblr.com/post/3057011031/atomicmike
Ah crap, meant to make that a hyperlink. I quit.
damnit I didn’t need to know about more $2 comics…
*grumbles and goes to download new comics*
Anybody know what format they come in? I’m guessing a secured PDF, but I’m currently at work, so I won’t be download them for a while.
@PotatoPope –i’m really curious as well. Is there a standardized format they are using like PDF? THat would make the most sense. I don’t know what a secured PDF would do for you besides disabling printing or editing.
@ottobot yep I forgot the link, slim nailed it though.
I can’t speak for the others but our book is a completely normal PDF file. Not secured or anything. We trust you and all think most people are moral upstanding folk. It looks great on on iPad or iPhone or your computer screen. Less work for us to just make it a PDF.
Every book at the very least offers PDF, some CBR. The best part is that you can purchase these books, click the link to open the file and then ALSO open the file in iBooks – all without needing to sync to iTunes. I love it.