- Hypervoid 2.0 - páuerdi bai Movable Type - é o novo blog do meu camarada escritor e tradutor Alexandre Mandarino. [se você gosta dos assuntos que posto aqui vai gostar de lá]. ele mudou do Blogger brasileiro pro MBlog depois do primeiro anunciar corte de espaço em disco pos usuários, entre outras besteiras.


- Infodemia - blog novo do escritor Fábio Fernandes.


- Larry Young entrega de mão beijada o maior segredo sobre como fazer dinheiro no mercado independente de quadrinhos:

The very best that an unknown can do with monthlies is break even. Anybody can make money with an OGN. These are just ballpark numbers, but:
Let's say that you have a $2.95 book. You get $1.18 from distributors at your discount; you have to sell 1483 copies just to pay for your $1750 printing bill for 3000 copies. Say you took out a full page PREVIEWS ad, which adds another $1200 to it. Now you have to sell 2500 copies just to BREAK EVEN. You only have 500 copies left, so your profit MAXIMIZES at $590.00 for THE WHOLE FLOPPY. If you sell out the print run, which you won't.

Say you do it as an OGN, though, with the same number of copies printed but a $12.95 price tag. Yes, it'll cost you four large or so for the print run, but you pay for your print bill and PREVIEWS ad at 1003 copies and your profit maximizes at $10,344 when you sell out of your run, which you eventually will.

This is the secret of making money in independent comics, and everyone reading this has to go out and buy a copy of the ASTRONAUTS IN TROUBLE hardcover to thank me for telling you.

agora, se mais editores [brasileiros e gringos] dessem ouvidos...
adendo: pra quem não sabe "OGN" é "Original Graphic Novel". ou seja, um álbum com material original, não uma edição encadernada de uma mini série já vista antes.