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Tom the Dancing Bug offers "Inner Hive" subscriptions
I have loved "Tom the Dancing Bug" by Ruben Bolling for many years, so for me this was a no-brainer.
May 02, 2012
A Statement from Me, Ruben Bolling.
Fellow Brains In Beakers:
Today, I’m starting a new phase in my little weekly comic strip, Tom the Dancing Bug. It’s an experiment that I hope will both make the strip more sustainable, and make the relationship between myself and my readers more direct.
Tom the Dancing Bug was originally conceived as a newspaper comic strip, and you may have heard about the financial problems newspapers have had over the past few years. Those problems have had a devastating impact on the financial viability of the strip...I’m selling subscriptions to the appropriately cheesily-named INNER HIVE. It’s not a charitable support-me program, because I don’t think that will work by itself in this context. I wanted to make it a real transaction where the buyer gets something of real, greater value than the money spent. Plus I didn’t want to get involved in the logistical nightmare of distributing tote bags.
What I offer to members of the INNER HIVE is special access to Tom the Dancing Bug: a private email of the weekly comic, a day (or more) before it appears anywhere publicly, plus some contests / giveaways, as well as occasionally some other content, such as sketches and unused drafts of comics.
...more
A Statement from Me, Ruben Bolling.
Fellow Brains In Beakers:
Today, I’m starting a new phase in my little weekly comic strip, Tom the Dancing Bug. It’s an experiment that I hope will both make the strip more sustainable, and make the relationship between myself and my readers more direct.
Tom the Dancing Bug was originally conceived as a newspaper comic strip, and you may have heard about the financial problems newspapers have had over the past few years. Those problems have had a devastating impact on the financial viability of the strip...I’m selling subscriptions to the appropriately cheesily-named INNER HIVE. It’s not a charitable support-me program, because I don’t think that will work by itself in this context. I wanted to make it a real transaction where the buyer gets something of real, greater value than the money spent. Plus I didn’t want to get involved in the logistical nightmare of distributing tote bags.
What I offer to members of the INNER HIVE is special access to Tom the Dancing Bug: a private email of the weekly comic, a day (or more) before it appears anywhere publicly, plus some contests / giveaways, as well as occasionally some other content, such as sketches and unused drafts of comics.
...more