Thursday 4 August 2022

BARMY COMIX No.1 is still available to download!

A reminder that my digital comic BARMY COMIX No.1 is still available to download anywhere in the world. Compiled during lockdown two years ago it features 32 pages of selected stories of Combat Colin, Brickman, Derek the Troll and Pedantic Stan INCLUDING a 9 page preview of the yet to be published Combat Colin No.5!

If you're interested you can download it from this link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y5IH2SDBlpxbws_nqsndaLkZAgh1inzQ/view

If you enjoy the comic and would like to make a small donation of £2 I'd be very grateful if you could PayPal me at:
lew.stringer@BTopenworld.com 

(Don't forget the dot between lew and stringer or I won't receive it.) Thanks in advance.

A few pages from Barmy Comix No.1...

 

 
 

 

 

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11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Free comic! Cool! Ta.

Lew Stringer said...

Well I'd prefer if you did pay something, even if only £2, rather than just take it. Did you enjoy it?

Roberto said...

Albert the butler looks a lot like Ally Sloper !

Anonymous said...

Why pay when we can get it free

Lew Stringer said...

Yep, that's intentional Roberto. You're the first person in 40 years to spot that. :)

Anon, perhaps to show appreciation for something you've enjoyed? I can't add a pay button to Google Drive so I ask people to contribute after they've downloaded the 32 page comic.

Arron said...

Dowloaded it, thanks you. Will there ne a NO2?

Lew Stringer said...

I'd intended to do a second issue featuring different characters but as no one who downloaded it this week has paid a penny for it, no.

Gareth said...

I don't know why people aren't paying for it now but when you initially released it I paid a donation of a couple of quid. I hope others did the same? I hope you will reconsider and do issue number two.

Tony Howson said...

No one at all? Well, that's pretty damn depressing. Perhaps the attitude of "why pay when we can get it free" is more widespread than I'd prefer to believe.

Economists argue that the Honesty Box model works as long as the number of free riders is at a tolerable level. There's a non-monetary utility to be derived from paying something (anything) for the transaction, which appeals to anyone with a conscience or sense of community spirit.

If the number of free riders passes the tolerable level, there's a danger of the service being withdrawn. That results in a loss to all parties. The provider loses income, the community loses the benefits. This is more popularly expressed as " .. and that's why we can't have nice things"

It's a reciprocal gift exchange. If I go round a friend's house for dinner, I don't think "whoo! Free meal, sucker!" but I will take a bottle of wine or box of chocolates or, in the case of my geekier friends, comics for their kids.

Tony Howson said...

Also, £2 isn't much to ask. Particularly in a week that saw an inflation busting price hike for all US Comics.

I paid £3.75 for the latest Iron Man on Thursday. That's more than the total I paid for every issue of Iron Man published between June 1972 and January 1977 (about 50 issues).

The guy serving in my LCS was very apologetic about the increase, I guess he'd had moans from the public, but he's too young to remember what inflation and exchange rates did to comics in the '70s and '80s.

There were some interesting graphs on Bleeding Cool recently tracing the evolution of the 10c comic to $4.99 and plotting it against prevailing inflation rates over the same period.

Lew Stringer said...

Hi Gareth, Tony, Yes, a lot of people did pay for the download when I released it two years ago but not this time for some reason. I know times are hard and every pound spent mounts up but I'd hoped that if they liked it they'd show some appreciation rather than just taking it for free. Ah well.

I might still do a second issue. Scanning, drawing a new cover, writing/designing the intro etc will take a few days so I'll have to fit it in with paid work. If that one doesn't bring any response I won't be doing any more digital comics as I can't afford to work for free.