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@ The Beat. Ah! My bad!

Always wonders just why Flaming Carrot has been criminally out of publication for so long. It’s well deserving of the over-sized limited edition hardcover treatment much like The Goon Fancy Pants editions. I assume publishers just weren’t offering Bob what he wanted?

Good luck Bob! Hope you sell a million copies!

The only reason a truly talented artist will be ignored in kickstarter is if he can not show his talent among all the other not so talented projects there.

You got to have some marketing skills, talent or no talent.

I love Bob Burden. Ran into him and James O’Barr down the aisle from me at last year’s NY Comic Con. Took a while to realize that the two were booth squatters — they had showed up at the con, found an empty booth, took the poster board sign and flipped it over and written their own names on it and set up shop for a few days. I was in awe of what con at the con they had pulled off.

I really like the Wild Blue, but 50$ for 5 issues (plus shipping I guess) is waaaaaay too much. For the same amount I will get the Cyberforce in HC and Silvestri has a whole new deal in the works.

Pitty, I might get the issues if some other people back this up.

Great!
Another bubble about to burst, this Kickstarter thing.
As more and more mainstream authors jump on, the less space will be for the guy who’s just hoping for a… kick-start of his career.

@CitizenCliff They are indie comics. I couldn’t pass the opportunity. The entire series on my iPad? Sold!

Jee-zus, the level of detail on those Wild Blue Yonder pages is just remarkable. Wonderful job on inks and color.

The recent news has been highlighted with American Flagg!, Cerebus, Flaming Carrot and Love and Rockets all being brought back via digital distribution. It’s like 1983 all over again.

Kickstarter bubble will never burst…since individuals get to pick and choose to support only what interests them and only a few hundred people can get a book supported, rather than dealing with publishing where thousands are needed.

With all do respect Mr. Palmiotti, I think what Mr. Menezes is implying is if you have 1000 kickstarter projects all by the likes of Jim Lee, yourslf, Frank Miller, insert-another-established-if-not-big-name-here and a 1000 projects by not so big names the 1000 projects by the not so big names are most likely going to get overlooked or ignored because fans will put their money with the big names first, leaving no money for those hoping for a career kickstart and not just a project kickstart.
I tend to agree with him but my opinion is irrelevant, the market dictates what sells and kickstarter is no different. If fans want Flaming Carrot over first time cartoonist foray into the field that’s what the fans will get.
It’s just a shame that some truly talented unknown’s will get passed over in the process…
As they say…there is only just so much money to go around…

How tuned out is this industry that a book like Flaming Carrot needs a kickstarter project to get funding? How well did the Milk and Cheese or Reid Fleming editions sell?

Ron: Flaming Carrot has been at several publisher sin the last decade or so including a collection from Dark Horse. I think Bob prefers to control his own publishing future, however.