OT- update on a unique publishing success
laurentyvan
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I've shared with you (and thanks for putting up with it) a couple of examples from my son's cartoon strip, PBF, (Perry Bible Fellowship). So, just an update...
or shameless self-serving posting, take your pick. Just an excited father I guess...
Your name is Nicholas Gurewitch, you create a comic strip for the Syracuse Daily Orange in college, continue it on the web after graduation, get it picked up by papers and magazines world wide (but in a small way), lay back and do your thing, receive a couple of awards, then a couple more, exposure multiplies exponentially on the web, demand allows you to finally pull a book together for one editor who believes in you (while all the other editors of this particular publishing house pooh-pooh its potential), and bingo you have:
THE TRIAL OF COLONEL SWEETO AND OTHER STORIES:
A COLLECTION OF THE COMIC STRIPS OF
THE PERRY BIBLE FELLOWSHIP.
It's been rotating somewhere between 225 to 500 on Amazon's top sales ranking for several months, as good as 145 for a time, all this still prior to an early October publication date!
No.1 in the categories of:
Graphic Novels, Comic Strips, and Publishers (Dark Horse).
I share this story with you:
As a book and coin seller who is pleased to relate a story of the web as a source for a successful bound and printed book.
As a reader who is amazed at what is essentially free on the web: PBF , and sees that product already in its second printing prior to publication with a great deal of the interest in it worldwide. Watch this trend of internet to page- I believe it will only grow.
As a parent who basically stood by and watched, amazed and gratified by his progeny, I'm proud enough to want to share with you my son's publishing success.
or shameless self-serving posting, take your pick. Just an excited father I guess...
Your name is Nicholas Gurewitch, you create a comic strip for the Syracuse Daily Orange in college, continue it on the web after graduation, get it picked up by papers and magazines world wide (but in a small way), lay back and do your thing, receive a couple of awards, then a couple more, exposure multiplies exponentially on the web, demand allows you to finally pull a book together for one editor who believes in you (while all the other editors of this particular publishing house pooh-pooh its potential), and bingo you have:
THE TRIAL OF COLONEL SWEETO AND OTHER STORIES:
A COLLECTION OF THE COMIC STRIPS OF
THE PERRY BIBLE FELLOWSHIP.
It's been rotating somewhere between 225 to 500 on Amazon's top sales ranking for several months, as good as 145 for a time, all this still prior to an early October publication date!
No.1 in the categories of:
Graphic Novels, Comic Strips, and Publishers (Dark Horse).
I share this story with you:
As a book and coin seller who is pleased to relate a story of the web as a source for a successful bound and printed book.
As a reader who is amazed at what is essentially free on the web: PBF , and sees that product already in its second printing prior to publication with a great deal of the interest in it worldwide. Watch this trend of internet to page- I believe it will only grow.
As a parent who basically stood by and watched, amazed and gratified by his progeny, I'm proud enough to want to share with you my son's publishing success.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
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Congrats to a proud papa!
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Member of Canadian Association of Token Collectors
Collector of:
Canadian coins and pre-confederation tokens
Darkside proof/mint sets dated 1960
My Ebay
Congratulations to the progenee! The parent ees worthless!
Or so says Ren...
is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato