new cartoons

[tmcm]

I'm still posting. Just everything is going up on www.tmcm.com

Too Much Coffee Man website

I have been putting a lot of work into my weekly newsletter - news, cartoons, roughs, etc.

Comments

[anonymous]

After all these years, I'm sorry that your LJ followers aren't worth your time anymore. :/

time

[tmcm]

Shoot - not that at all. I love LJ. But it does boil down to time.

I basically stopped getting feedback on LJ. I love it because it's interactive but when so many people leave then what attracted me to it in the first place isn't there any more. At the same time blog software got better (and easier) for my own website. I'm still posting - just to my own site instead of to someone else's site.

Ultimately - it's a combination of factors. It does make me sad though. I really liked LJ.

Re: time

[swiftblade]

Cross post or rss feed?

Re: time

[tmcm]

rss feed would be good. I cross post some. rewriting the html is a pain.

not sure how to set up the rss though...

[jannytruant]

YAY, was just thinking a week ago I hadn't seen you post in a while... had the faint idea to check TMCM.com & then forgot. Thanks for the nudge!

rss

[tmcm]

I'll see if I can figure out how to make an RSS feed from my site. Not sure how to do it. But www.tmcm.com is my main focus now (and my newsletter).

[jannytruant]

All good, I just signed up for the newsletter.

I'm super-curious about this model - that is, I'd not seen anyone charge for receiving email newsletters before. My first reaction was "that's pretty brave", but then I realised it's basically a mini-magazine subscription. How successful has it been? Have you had any negative feedback? Does it being a source of income change how you feel about compiling it? More pressure? Appreciate your audience more?

FWIW curious because a lot of my work revolves around social media, and it strikes me that this may be a really good model for certain kinds of artists. I certainly feel better about it than, oh I dunno, facebook's current sponsorship debacle.

[tmcm]

Cool. Thank you for signing up.

Paying for a newsletter does seem a bit ridiculous. I'm hoping to make it worth it with extra and oddball cartoons. I'll also share process - show early unfinished cartoons etc. I'm looking for new revenue sources since newspapers are dying. I rationalize by thinking it's way to act as a patron for the comics. I got the idea from the cartoonist who does Tom the Dancing Bug. This Modern World is starting to do it as well.

What's facebook's current debacle? I don't know about it.