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Top Shelf to Launch Web Comics Site
By: Associate News EditorDate: Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Source: Publishers Weekly
Publisher Weekly is reporting Indithat Top Shelf Productions will launch an all-new webcomics site, topshelf 2.0, on Friday, May 16th. Though their site has featuerd webcomics in the past this "relaunch" will be a leap forward in both artistic scope and ambition.
Top Shelf co-editor, Leigh Walton told PW, One thing that hurt the momentum of our last webcomic program was a slow, irregular update schedule, so the goal of the new jam is to post early and often."
One of the advantages of publishing webcomics is that it will allow Top Shelf to “take much larger risks [on] publishing comics that we may really dig formally, or that have more challenging content, that there may not be a market for in print," says Top Shelf publisher Brett Warnock . "I see webcomics as almost a separate market. Or at least, an ancillary one, in that we don't plan on stopping our release of gold old fashioned books printer with wood pulp, and released to brick and mortar stores." He went on to add, “The most obvious difference [with webcomics] is color—something that we're still using very sparingly in our print publications, but on the web is completely unlimited. What excites me the most about working with young artists—those, like me, born after 1980—is that we've grown up with computers, and that affects the comics that we make.
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