Convention Planning

One of the new features of this site is going to be helping you plan for your next convention. You'll be getting e-mails reminding you to make travel reservations, book hotel rooms, ship merchandise, etc. You'll even get a handy list to help you plan your packing a couple days before you leave.

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Join Webcomics.com

Starting today, Webcomics.com will begin charging a $30-per-year subscription fee. That fee is going to be used to help support what this site has become -- and allow it to achieve its full potential.

Webcomics.com has established itself as a tremendous resource of practical information for webcartoonists. By joining today you will have access to:

• Frequent updates of news, advice, tutorials and strategies by webcomics veteran Brad Guigar.
• Monthly contributions by webcomics pioneer Scott Kurtz and Penny Arcade's Business Guy, Robert Khoo.
• Personalized features like a new e-mail-based organizer to help you plan for upcoming conventions.
• Feedback and guidance for your comic and the small business you'll create running it.
• A fully rounded, indexed repository of two year's worth of information that you can use to help improve your work.
• A moderated, passionate, supportive community of webcomics creators.
• Inside information on conventions, vendors and other entities that webcartoonists access to advance their businesses.
• Deals on merchandise.

For a low subscription of $30 per year, you will have access to all of this plus the entire Webcomics.com archives, one of the most helpful and supportive forums for creative people on the Web, and several members-only offers.

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FAQ

Most webcomics are based on the free-content model. The "How To Make Webcomics" book is built around it. Why is Webcomics.com becoming a pay site?

Simply put, Webcomics.com isn't entertainment; it's a valuable resource for webcartoonists. It would be difficult to continue offering this site for free in its current state -- and impossible, given the improvements we have planned.

Why not just run ads?

This will be very much a niche site. There will not be as much value for an advertiser as there will be for subscribers.

Why $30 per year?

It's an inexpensive buy-in that almost any webcartoonist can afford. It has an added benefit of keeping out people who may not be as serious about webcomics. It naturally weeds out comments from people who may be passing through, and results in distilling comments to those from people who are committed to improving their comics. 

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