"Staff Favorite" @ DTC

We must be doing something right because with only one issue of our series ONE: Season 1 we've been notified by the gang over at Drive Thru Comics.com that ONE: Season 1 has picked up the honor of a "Staff Favorite" listing! We're honored and humbled by this, especially in light of all the great product they have to choose from at their site. I also want to let everyone know that issue 2 is on it's way soon. It's half colored and looking fantastic!

To download issue 1 head on over to our store on Drive Thru Comics and if you would like to purchase a print copy we have it on sale at our Indyplanet Store as well. Beautiful full color and a cardstock cover to boot! Want to look before you buy? We have that covered as well at our ONE Website.

Our Store @ Indyplanet

Our store is now live at Indyplanet.com and there you can find print copies of single issues of our comic books along with posters and eventually T-shirts. For retailers, you'll be able to carry our line which will be distributed through ComicsMonkey.com along with other distributors we partner with in the near future.
For those that like to read your comics online and want to save some money we still have our comics available at Drive Thru Comics.com and we will also be adding a few more digital distributors soon for your convenience.

Our New Webcomic Site

We have had a webcomic presence since the very beginning of Cinemacomics, but hosted off site at places like Webcomics Nation and Graphic Smash. We will still continue to have our projects hosted on these and possibly other off site hosts for the foreseeable future, but we also have wanted to have them available at our main Cinemacomics site for a one-stop destination. With that, we are excited to announce that our brand new Webcomics Portal is now live! All of our projects are now available to read online for free in one location. We would like to give a special thanks to Brent Erwin over at Ape Entertainment for all the help he gave us on the technical side of setting up our webcomics portal. His help was invaluable and we hope you'll support the fine comic books that Ape Entertainment produces.

Ka-Blam Direct Market Distribution

And with that banner comes the possibility of saving many a small publisher. Very good news that could become great news as this new distribution system takes shape.

Ka-Blam Digital Printing is launching a print-on-demand distribution service to direct market comics shops.~Barry Gregory

A bit of disclosure, Ka-Blam.com Printing is part of 01Comics which was the first publisher to publish our first offering, Zero Hunters, several years ago. So, Barry & Jenni Gregory and the rest of the Ka-Blam crew are good people in my book. When they started Ka-Blam, POD (print-on-demand), was still somewhat in it's infant stages in the scheme of things in the sense that there weren't many around at the time and the main one I knew about was Lulu.com which I used back then to see how one of my comics would look in print form. Anyway, the cost back then (haven't checked it out for quite a while) was astronomical for single issues. So, when Ka-Blam went live, needless to say that they were going to be my POD of choice because:

A. I knew Barry
B. The cost was very reasonable and single issues were an option now.

What sealed the deal for me was the day I got my first samples of Zero Hunters #1 from Ka-Blam. I was blown away by the quality. I ended up upgrading to cardstock covers for all our books and I have to say that the quality of these books is better than 90% of the books out there by traditional printers. So, don't let any naysayers start you off with a negative impression of POD books. You'll be seeing for yourself when comic shops start carrying our books and many others, which brings me back to the purpose of this post.

For those of you that follow the industry you know that small press has the deck stacked against it. And now that Diamond has raised their benchmarks again, it was probably going to lay waste to those small press publishers and creators who were for all intents and purposes barely hanging on before the new benchmarks. Well, this bit of news from Ka-Blam is news we all needed in this rather bleak time. Now, make no mistake, it's still going to be an uphill struggle for small press and many still won't make it. Profits will still be small and no one will become rich monetarily, but at the very least it gives us a chance to continue on and have print copies available as opposed to going 100% digital.

At Cinemacomics, that was our business plan anyway--singles issues through Ka-Blam and trades through Diamond and other distributors. But, now with this new distribution system we may also be able to do single issues and have them available for comic shops. And, they will always be available:

No benchmarks. No thresholds. No minimum orders. No prejudice against offering items again … as matter of fact your items once listed will always be available. ALWAYS.~Barry Gregory

So, if you are a retailer reading this check out what ComicsMonkey has to offer. If you are a fan and you want your retailer to carry not only Cinemacomics books, but other indy books, please direct them to the ComicsMonkey site and help spread the word.