Eliopoulos

January 21, 2011 5:07 pm Thanks to everyone for downloading.

Costs. Well, it cost me a lot of time and money in the sense I could have been doing other PAYING work, so I *think* that justifies  a certain cost. I'm not Marvel and don't have the overhead costs, etc. I don't have to pay someone to do the book, edit the book, composite the book together. I do it all myself which saves a lot. I don't have to pay a printer or a retailer or distributor. I don't claim to know what Marvel's costs are, but it just being me, it's simpler.

Now, I have paid for my website which is not a huge cost, but enough. Then I used a web app called Fetch that would automate the Paypal link as well as the e-mail link to the order. Save me tons. The cost? $5 a month for under 25MB of storage. The PDF is almost 10. So, I have room for another book as well.

So, really, what makes it cheap is being a small business and doing it myself. And, if enough people buy, I'm on my way to a new distribution chain. 

September 23, 2010 3:57 pm Thanks, guys!

September 22, 2010 9:56 pm By the way, that was not meant as an attack or anything, just as a plea as to why we need to reach out. I am truly concerned and want to grab new readers. And, yes, if you read Dogs of Summer, you'd know it was Bucky. But that will be explained in the book. :)

September 22, 2010 8:19 pm I hate "getting into it", but there is a logical reason. We need to reach out to new readers now. If we don't, we're in danger of seeing comics die out. It's totally fine that you may not like this book...it may not be for you, but why can't books for new readers and children look good. Don't you think that giving kids a book that they might think is cool and possibly get them hooked on comics a good thing? Doesn't providing comics that bring in new readers which keeps the industry healthy a good thing for you as well? One hand washes the other. Snubbing your nose at books like this is cutting your nose off to spite your face. Building readership is a good thing for everybody--we continue to work and make comics that we love to do and you continue to read and enjoy the books you love. Instead of questioning a book like this, how about buying it and giving it to a kid you know? Not for me, but for all of us.

June 25, 2008 6:28 pm

What I meant to say was a lightning bolt struck the floor and out popped Rob Liefeld who, with golden sceptor in hand, battled the rest of the Image founders in a life or death match to see who would survive.

 

:)

June 24, 2008 10:58 pm

I'm a big history buff. Mostly Revolutionary history. I think of those great moments where you wish you were there when something happened. Then you read about John Adams and he informs you that those moments were only exciting, interesting--momentous--afterward in the context of history.

 

I've been there for certain meetings, events, moments in comic book "history" and they, as well, aren't thes big dramatic moments. I was standing next to Joe Q when Stephen King said we should do The Stand. It wasn't an earth-shattering moment. It was a simple conversation that slipped by as an other would.

 

I've been there for others as well. I've been privvy to info before anyone else, I've been a "fly on the wall". And now, thinking about them, I think because they WEREN'T those moments you see on a soap opera just before the commercial, they are more real, more interesting, and more worthy of interest. It's real people doing what they do without thought of the "big moment".

 

Still, very cool.

May 6, 2008 9:40 am You know you love it. That thing took me so long to draw. Damn Skrulls.