Still at the beach! It’s fun putting several strips from a series together this way. It becomes a comic book! We talked about “More” magazine in the previous post. Today, it’s “Myspace.” Myspace is still around, but it’s no longer tres cool, or “very hip, very inside.” I mean, for crying out loud, this strip ran, what…? Nine years ago!
The Kickstarter thing. It isn’t my intention to tease you, but I feel I owe you updates. Things are proceeding well, actually. Much of the creative work is in place, but we are taking time to assure the financial records are properly in place. I would hate for the project to be taken down on a technicality in the middle of our fun! Speaking of fun, I might as well take this time to ask what you would like to see as a “reward” for your Kickstarter pledge. I have some goodies in place, but I’m very interested in what you’d like to see. I know you don’t even know what the project is yet, but for now let’s not worry about that; just assume it’s something you’ll want to support. I think you will.
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This Kick starter is turning into an early Christmas, we get to give Jimmy Claus our wish list. 🙂
How about a drawing from the supporters, where the winner gets a mention in an upcoming strip. Could be either a shutout, or a sneaky insider reference. Further, if Jimmy is a benevolent Claus, the UPS will deliver the original artwork to the aforementioned winner.
Wow! International notoriety! I would support that with raffle tickets. That is better than a bachelor auction!
Wait, I have that already? But what the heck, a girl can never have enough unless she’s Miley Cyrus.
Count me in sand on that idea!
I’d vote for sand’s suggestion. I’d also vote for putting some of the raised funds towards that phantom “new website” so that we could edit our comments and have a “like” button for those posted by others 🙂
R.A.-Re like buttons, let’s not fix it when it isn’t broken. JJ, give us an example of what you’re talking about. We don’t know which way to go with this.
How about something like: For those who contribute at an appropriately-significant level (such that you aren’t overly swamped by this), you will provide the contributor with a panel of your artistic rendering of them with Arlo and Janis.
Ruth Anne’s suggestion of a like button. Often I see a comment I really agree with, but posting a comment seems like a waste of good real estate.
Once again, my out of box thoughts are deemed illegal. Must be a way to weasel around it.
(‘ ♥ ‘) does this work?
♥ this might work better.
To make a ♥ enter the following without spaces & hearts ;
&stars;
Kickstarter rewards should vary with level of commitment and are often tied into the project results- for instance, a movie project rewards could range from an autographed picture to a cameo in the motion picture. A book could range from a non-personalized signed copy of the book to an author book-signing in ones hometown. Without knowing the goal of the project or the amount you want to raise, its hard to suggest rewards, but here a a few ideas:
For the lower levels of commitment, swag like lapel buttons or autographed post cards of our favorite couple. Higher level rewards could be T-shirts and canvas tote bags. An upper level reward could be lunch with the handsome but reclusive JJ himself!
Keeping with the tone of the current beach arc, how about minimum contributors get a vial of sand from Arlo’s favorite beach?
Blinking, lunch with a celebrity cartoonist, you don’t say. ♥
On one of my friends books I forget what lower levels were exactly but for cost of book at bookstore donated you got book. More you got autographed. More you got a personal appearance and reading. We had reading and autographs in my boat festival in back yard.
Ah. I do a lot of Kickstarters. Here’s an example, not a plug. This campaign is over. (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/girlgenius/the-city-of-lightning-a-girl-genius-graphic-novel/description)
Ideally you want intangible rewards, as they don’t add to your shipping costs. Using backers names as characters is good, but stipulate that you’ll use THEIR NAME, not some idiotic name or phrase they make up. Trust me on this.
PDF collections of art are good as well. If you do a lot of touring, you can offer “dinner with the artist”, though that might be a pain to coordinate.
Paper goods are good rewards, as you can ship them along with a book and it will still be able to go ‘media mail’. This includes things like bookmarks, character portraits, playing cards, bar coasters, art prints or even original art.
The sand idea is cute, but it couldn’t go media. For mixed packages, it’s cheaper (usually) to ship all the media stuff in one box, and all the glass, metal, plastic stuff separately via parcel post.
I’m sure you already know this, but the IRS regards Kickstarter money as ‘found’ money, so raise your goals accordingly, and when the money comes in, just scrape 10% off the top and put it in the bank.
If you are planning on doing a lot of extra rewards, there are companies, or even some printers, that will collate all the pieces together into one package for you, and mail out the individual orders from the plant. A great saving in time, effort & postage.
I sorta agree with the idea of a custom strip, mentioning the contributor’s name if they are above a certain $ level. e.g.: Arlo saying “Guess who I ran into today? Dave Contributor!” and Janis responding appropriately, etc.
I would prefer: “If Steve from Royal Oak jumped off a building, would you jump as well?” There was once when Jimmy did use something from A&J.com, but I can’t quite remember what it was.
Back from lunch, see I owe Blinky an apology. My spell checker defaults to blinking.
I don’t view JJ as one who scrapes off the top of a fund raiser. That said, I now have to rethink our involvement with Kickstarter.
Put them into a strip. Use a Sunday for greater room. Do a beach scene. Have contributors mail or email a picture to you to work from. Larger the contribution, larger the appearance in the strip (foreground, etc). Send signed copies of the print to the contributors.
I should be ashamed of myself. These lycra tights are appropriately named. There is no room for anything else than me in them. I am running errands enroute to exercise tonight. This is worse than when I ran around in tennis skirts and played tennis.
Sand I looked back and Spellchecker had changed lycra to lucrative. It isn’t true.
Have to think about this Kickstarter thing. Interesting ideas have been mentioned.
In the meantime, in today’s live strip, is Arlo being compared to a dog?!
Bonnie: or some animal. I had a coworker who had an interesting expression about people who didn’t learn from experience. He’d say, “He’s just like a goose. Wakes up in a new world everyday.”.
Mark, “Other’s are like a groundhog. Awakening in a never changing world.”
Sandcastler, pretty sure that Phil Foglio meant “scrape 10% off the top” to pay taxes on the Kickstarter money. My wife is a CPA, and that’s the sort of thing she would caution about. I don’t think a CPA would use the term “scrape” though. That has negative connotations.
New kids on the block! Come on out and play.