Comments on: King Features suspends ads on Comic Kingdom

By: Anne Hambrock

Anne Hambrock — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:58:10 +0000

@Jason,

Alan summed it up pretty well, but here are some other differences:

Dailyink comes with no ads, lists several strips on the same page, is delivered to the subscriber, and has a one year archive.

Comics Kingdom has sidebar ads, displays only one strip at a time (you have to go through the index to find other strips you may wish to view), can be bookmarked but is not delivered, and has a 30 day archive. The one strip at a time feature means that you have to wait about 10-30 seconds – depending on your connection – each time you wish to view a new strip. This is one of the reasons I prefer Dailyink, as I can read all the comics on my page pretty quickly.

By: Alan Gardner

Alan Gardner — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:27:12 +0000

@Jason – DailyInk is the subscription service for individuals to get comics emailed to them. Comics Kingdom is a product sold to online newspapers that displays comics and is ad supported.

By: Jason Smith

Jason Smith — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:43:02 +0000

Can someone explain to me what the differences are between “DailyInk” and “Comics Kingdom”?

I’m a paying subscriber to the King’s Features DailyInk service. I think it’s worth the amount I spend (about $15/year). I’ve never heard of Comics Kingdom before and it appears to have all the same King Features strips.

Thanks,
Jason

By: Anne Hambrock

Anne Hambrock — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:53:03 +0000

@Rich,

I have a pretty comprehensive list of current comics kingdom papers listed on my site. It’s at the bottom of the post.

http://edison-lee-blog.blogspot.com/search/label/Comics%20Kingdom

By: Mike Peterson

Mike Peterson — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:10:25 +0000

At my last paper, I brought up Comic Kingdom and a freebie offered by Creators, but since nobody on the management team had seen these things being used at other papers, nobody wanted to really look into it.

God, I miss those management team meetings.

By: Rich Diesslin

Rich Diesslin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:46:39 +0000

You have to work at it to get a paper cut from a newspaper … but yeah, inky is true. I gotta say I’ve never heard of comic kingdom until now, but I haven’t been looking. ;)

By: JD Larson

JD Larson — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:50:16 +0000

But you can get a nasty papercut! And inky fingers.

It only takes a few bad people to destroy the work of a lot of good people, unfortunately. Hackers and thieves have transformed the internet from a utopia of ideas and information into a dangerous place.

By: Mike Cope

Mike Cope — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:57:36 +0000

You can’t catch a computer virus from newsprint.