If you ever meet Phil Foglio he will talk your ear off at how great his comic is doing. He is posting pages of his series Girl Genus on-line instead of releasing a separate comic book. Now I have talked with Phil a few times, but what inspired me to wrote this post was something I read on the Comics212 blog by Christopher Butcher (a comic book store owner none-the-less).
According to Mr. Foglio he is selling more of the collected Trade Paperback when they are coming out. And he is not the only indy comic person to try this model, I just saw that the author of Finder is also posting her work on-line.
I have been behind on my GN and I am wondering if this format would work good for me too. I love the idea of testing out the work, get feedback, and then being able to ‘fix’ any rough edges before it goes to print as a trade paper back. Considering that I have gotten behind on my GN due to other commitments maybe this is the way to go. Hmmmmmmm.
What do you guys think?
On the current on-line Finder pages: the artist is posting some pages first as the rough pencils and that might be interesting variation to this model.
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