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Creative Brand Strategy Project
References
Abrams, R. (2101)Successful Business Plan. The Planing Shop
Guigar, B., Kellett, D., Kurtz, S., & & Straub, K. (2008). How to Make Webcomics. Berkeley, California: Image Comics, Inc.
Kawasaki, G (2007, Nov 16) Creating Mantra not Mission from the (2004) Art of Start retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT7xlFTinIw
Images
Anime Wasabi http://www.animewasabi.com/
Fablevison http://www.fablevision.com/
Half Pixel http://www.haldpixel.com/
Mickey Mouse http://blog.buycostumes.com/halloween-costumes/happy-birthday-mickey-mouse/
Nan Desu Kan http://ndkdenver.org/
Penny Arcade http://www.penny-arcade.com/
Joe Camel http://childrenofthenineties.blogspot.com/2009/07/joe-camel.html
Ronald McDonalds http://www.ifood.tv/blog/saving-kids-from-mcdonald-s-junk-food-marketing-0
Webcomics.com as a Trade Association
Professional Blog 2 BSB
For Business Storytelling and Brand Development at Full Sail University
From Prompt
“For this blog assignment, it will be necessary for you to research, review and select one professional association that you are interested in that relates to your specific industry. You will analyze the industry and discuss one or more of their major programs that influence your industry. In your analysis, you could comment on the association’s programs/services, marketing, legislative policy, research and task force or committee objectives.”
My Response:
Webcomics.com can be considered a trade association by definition, but not in a traditional sense. It does not try to call itself a trade association and avoids the extra legal steps in doing so. It does not attempt to raise funds for political reasons or hire extra staff to tackle key industry objectives. It seems run by one man, Brad Guigar, who is connected to various working web cartoonists.
Around the beginning of 2010, Brad Guigar made a case to turn the site into a paid annual subscription model with a free portal for the public: the case being wife, kids, and the ability to provide a better service. The service at $30 a year extends the conversations and tips from Half Pixel’s “How to Make Webcomics”. It also creates a social hub where creators can collaborate on individual projects. It is the closest thing to a web-comics trade association.
Guigar manages a bridge between experts like Robert Khoo of Penny Arcade to give a direct connection to novice, mid-range, and expert web cartoonists. The discourse around marketing and productivity is invaluable.
How to use the site for extending your network?
Easy answer, just post on the forums. Don’t post BS attempts to get attention. Either answer someone’s question or respond to someone’s comment. Try and reach out to other creators working on similar projects and see if they want to team up to finish a project. Networking with other creators is so easy if a person is polite and are going through the same creative endeavors with artists at conferences and at webcomics.com.
However, finding fans and making a living purely on creative endeavors is still the tuff part. Webcomics.com just gives you all the tools to make web-comics. Recently, the tech questions and development of new media has been the focus of web-cartoonist and can cause the medium to change.
Webcomics.com is Part of an Industry Change Agent
With other related Half Pixel Projects such as Webcomics Weekly and the success of each member in the content driven industry, webcomics.com creates industry trends and standards. For example, “Project Wonderful”, a similar service to Google AdSense, is a industry staple for web-comics because it was mentioned many times on web-comics weekly and on Webcomics.com. Currently, the service is shaping the conversation about how tech affects the content driven markets related to web-comics.
This service could lead to a trade association because I believe it has the ability to create committees, awards, and political movements related to protecting the freedom for independent creators to post their content on the web. However, that would mean a completely different service and headache for Guigar to deal with. If something like “Net Neutrality” started to affect the webcomics.com community, I believe it would become a political trade association overnight.
Anyone up for the challenge?
For Business Storytelling and Brand Development at Full Sail University
From Prompt
“For this blog assignment, it will be necessary for you to research, review and select one professional association that you are interested in that relates to your specific industry. You will analyze the industry and discuss one or more of their major programs that influence your industry. In your analysis, you could comment on the association’s programs/services, marketing, legislative policy, research and task force or committee objectives.”
My Response:
Webcomics.com can be considered a trade association by definition, but not in a traditional sense. It does not try to call itself a trade association and avoids the extra legal steps in doing so. It does not attempt to raise funds for political reasons or hire extra staff to tackle key industry objectives. It seems run by one man, Brad Guigar, who is connected to various working web cartoonists.
Around the beginning of 2010, Brad Guigar made a case to turn the site into a paid annual subscription model with a free portal for the public: the case being wife, kids, and the ability to provide a better service. The service at $30 a year extends the conversations and tips from Half Pixel’s “How to Make Webcomics”. It also creates a social hub where creators can collaborate on individual projects. It is the closest thing to a web-comics trade association.
Guigar manages a bridge between experts like Robert Khoo of Penny Arcade to give a direct connection to novice, mid-range, and expert web cartoonists. The discourse around marketing and productivity is invaluable.
How to use the site for extending your network?
Easy answer, just post on the forums. Don’t post BS attempts to get attention. Either answer someone’s question or respond to someone’s comment. Try and reach out to other creators working on similar projects and see if they want to team up to finish a project. Networking with other creators is so easy if a person is polite and are going through the same creative endeavors with artists at conferences and at webcomics.com.
However, finding fans and making a living purely on creative endeavors is still the tuff part. Webcomics.com just gives you all the tools to make web-comics. Recently, the tech questions and development of new media has been the focus of web-cartoonist and can cause the medium to change.
Webcomics.com is Part of an Industry Change Agent
With other related Half Pixel Projects such as Webcomics Weekly and the success of each member in the content driven industry, webcomics.com creates industry trends and standards. For example, “Project Wonderful”, a similar service to Google AdSense, is a industry staple for web-comics because it was mentioned many times on web-comics weekly and on Webcomics.com. Currently, the service is shaping the conversation about how tech affects the content driven markets related to web-comics.
This service could lead to a trade association because I believe it has the ability to create committees, awards, and political movements related to protecting the freedom for independent creators to post their content on the web. However, that would mean a completely different service and headache for Guigar to deal with. If something like “Net Neutrality” started to affect the webcomics.com community, I believe it would become a political trade association overnight.
Anyone up for the challenge?
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