Comments on: Shirt Order Update

By: larnsturt6109

larnsturt6109 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:35:58 +0000

Stickerguy.com has always been kind to me. Not sure if his prices are still competitive, as the last time I ordered something was a few years ago. They're not incredibly flexible or fast, but if you want black and white, they're a great way to go.

By: iptydafu8334

iptydafu8334 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:35:58 +0000

I'd be all over a print if you offered it. -Especially signed; it'd almost be like owning art. I'd only suggest that you do the dimension of it, including signature, so that it would readily fit within an off-the-rack matting piece. -Read: general photo dimensions. And stickers are always a good idea.

By: demiakumu7096

demiakumu7096 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:35:58 +0000

ordered 2 shirts, I would love a onesie for my daughter or a baby-T like 12-18 months

By: jfardink8572

jfardink8572 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:35:58 +0000

I'm quite impressed with your ideas for making money from a free comic. JoCo may be revolutionary, but at least he started with a conventionally marketed product. Good for you.

Anyway, my thoughts: Keep the shirts coming; good move. Signed prints are a great idea; I'd buy some. Stickers are also kick-ass; my guitar case needs bling. I'd suggest maybe an ovular version of the "Fancy Bastards" T-shirt, with "Godspeed" and "You Fancy Bastards" curved around the top and bottom of the oval with RocketJosh (TM) in the center, perhaps with Joel and Eli looking on from opposite ends as opposed to from the side to preserve the ovular shape and the central focus on Josh. Man I should be a fucking designer. Oh and I think that the old Green HE logo would make a good sticker, but don't get me wrong, I love the new site design. Kind of indifferent about the eBook; I might be interested in it. And I understand while you're looking at sustainability options that you'd consider a black and white book of comics, but I don't think its a good idea. People might buy it but I wouldn't. You do such a great job with coloration and shadowing and gradients and I fear a lot of that would be lost in B & W. I hope you can find a better color option, but I personally would be content to buy a more expensive color version, maybe hard cover and signed. I may be decidedly more fanboy than a lot of your fans, but don't forget what you said in one of your video blogs; your fans are geeks. We're the people who wait in line outside of a comicbook store to buy the new pewter statue of Darth Vadar in his weird Bubble Shell from Empire for the discount price of $79.99; you might have an audience for a $40 - $50 dollar signed hard cover collection. Of course, this should probably be a large collection of the first 100 or even 200 comics; perhaps it would be a good idea to have cheap black and white 50-75 books of comics and then every 200-225 comics to release a more expensive, color anthology. I don't know if the overhead and potential loss is worth the risk. Maybe you should set up a weekly HijiNKS ENSUE poll to ask your audience what they'd buy to potentially predict these overhead costs. God damn I should be your manager.

Alright, I'm done abusing the semi-colon. I'd best order a shirt lest I miss the deadline!

By: bhaelochon

bhaelochon — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:35:58 +0000

Shirts and stickers are win. Prints are situationally sweet. E-books are "eh". What's a real book?

By: wadmaasi8564

wadmaasi8564 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:35:58 +0000

I'm still big on the eBook and pBook ideas. I'm with jfardink in thinking that B&W isn't as good an idea, but if there's no (or minimal) preproduction costs for print-on-demand I don't see why you shouldn't try it and gauge the, you know…demand (I would probably not purchase a B&W book myself).

By: deanhatescoffee

deanhatescoffee — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:35:58 +0000

An eBook compilation would be really cool. I could use it to conveniently show my friends how cool this comic is. Sketches and behind-the-scenes work would be neat to see, too.

As for a printed book, I'd only get it if it was in color. It'd be a cool gift, though.

By: aaron6928

aaron6928 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:35:58 +0000

I'd buy some bumper stickers if you decide to make those and certainly more shirts.

As far as books go I would wait until it's affordable to do physical books. An E-Book really isn't that appealing since I can just look at all of them while I'm online. I enjoy physical books simply for the purpose of when I travel, they're nice to have (I've collected all of the Penny Arcade books released so far simply by going on vacation).