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:
Free comic! Cool! Ta.
Well I'd prefer if you did pay something, even if only £2, rather than just take it. Did you enjoy it?
Albert the butler looks a lot like Ally Sloper !
Why pay when we can get it free
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.
Dowloaded it, thanks you. Will there ne a NO2?
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.
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.
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If the number of free riders passes the tolerable level, there's a danger of the service being withdrawn.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.
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.
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.
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