The power of the people

[hardcormier]

Anyone who doubts the power of crowdsourcing should check out the Order of the Stick's page on Kickstarter. Scroll down to the bottom to get the story from the beginning. For those not in the know, The Order of the Stick is a long-running and popular webcomic and Kickstarter is a site that allows people to pledge money to fund creative projects. If

Comments

[jenniferthorne]

I love OotS! I'm so happy for him.

Well, as an author, I can tell you that losing thousands of dollars a year to the shiftless jerks does tend to make one bitter. There are lots of good people out there, too, though. Crowdsourcing works well if you have a large fan-base. If I put a donation box on my website I think it would fill with cobwebs, not $400k ;p

[jenniferthorne]

You know, that's a funny thing, though. Now that I'm thinking about it... It seems to work well for online comic books. I've seen people do very well at financing print-runs that way. I wonder if it is something about that community?