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Posted by Alan Gardner
March 19, 2013

Over on Fleen, Gary Tyrrell looks at the four webcomics (Cyanide & Happiness, Machine of Death, Schlock Mercenary and Dresden Codak) who have raised a combined $1.7 million on Kickstarter.

#1	Lucas Turnbloom March/19/2013 @ 11:07 am	Amazing.
#2	Howard Tayler March/19/2013 @ 12:40 pm	I have to admit that I was blindsided by the popularity of my project. My most optimistic projections put it at $20k, and we’d do maybe three coins. This is what Kickstarter is for — identifying demand. Whether your project fails to fund, or over-funds, you’ve learned something about the audience you were able to bring to the project, and you’ve done so with much less risk than if you’d opened pre-orders conventionally and started collecting people’s money.
#3	Daniel Boris March/19/2013 @ 2:30 pm	“God bless us, every one!” said Tiny Tim.
#4	Mike McKeenan March/19/2013 @ 8:44 pm	Congratulations to all! A great accomplishment. That’s not a great headline though, Alan. #1 it should be “more than” instead of “over” and #2 it reads like they’ve each raised $1 million vs. cumulative. Might I suggest, “More than one million dollars raised by webcomics kickstarter projects”
#5	Mike McKeenan March/19/2013 @ 8:47 pm	And I admit that’s not perfect either.
#6	Rich Diesslin March/20/2013 @ 1:14 am	Very impressive for sure!
#7	Dan Collins March/22/2013 @ 8:35 am	I’d say webcomics are indeed a viable alternative comics job!

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