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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
3:06 pm [redneckgaijin]	PitW Gift Art, and Poor Investments... BAR-1 forwards some fan art from a local comic shop person (local to him, that is): http://www.peteristhewolf.com/ The reason for the filler is, BAR-1's moving house this week, so he didn't have time to draw. In the interim, I've been, between work on WLP's recent Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales, tapping at PitW script work. What's coming up next includes a very, very high-risk scene that, for various purposes, has to happen and can't be put off until later in the story. Of course, my mind shies away from it out of worry that I'll screw it up, and instead focuses on what is either the worst or second-worst investment I've made this year. (The jury is still out on the PitW books; I've recouped about $1000 of a $7000 investment thus far, but BAR-1 gets a cut... but they might keep on selling, so we'll see.) I'm specifically thinking about the Monica figurines. Monica is the main character of Wapsi Square, a very busty woman with a strong personality. This spring the comic's creator put a design of Monica up on Patch Together, a figurine manufacturing company, as a possible design. Enough people asked for it to be made, and it was floated as a one-time production- that is, the statues would be made only to pre-orders, and none would be made thereafter. I wanted one, but there aren't many purchases I can justify without a revenue stream included. Thus, I thought: So I'll order six, keep one, and sell the other five once the pre-orders are done and the thing's out of print. Unfortunately, Patch Together does NOT do wholesale, period, so I had to buy six statues at full price. Not a problem, I thought; the unit price is fairly low for a figure of that size, I can mark it up, no problem. It took what seemed like forever for the things to arrive- they completely missed A-Kon, which was my best opportunity this year to sell 'em. When they came, they arrived in unlabelled, un-copyright-noticed plain white boxes, with crazy glue in each one with a very faulty lower seam on the tube. Patience, I thought, it'll still work out. Well... it didn't. First Patch Together announced a "special warehouse find." Then they dispensed with that excuse altogether... they've gone into permanent production of the figure. Which leaves me, in all reality, no way to recoup the investment. (And, incidentally, determined to never do business with Patch Together again, between that and various other annoyances involved with this experiment.) So, that's close to $300... essentially wasted, unless someone is willing to pay the jacked-up price out of sheer ignorance. I'll think of something, though. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
6:09 pm [redneckgaijin]	Late Update: CM Woosh... http://www.wlpcomics.com/cm/ (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, November 30th, 2009
10:36 am [redneckgaijin]	NEW ARTIST FOR CHICHI-CHAN! (Oh, and update too.) It's a bit on the late side- but we now proudly present the first of (we hope) many strips by Chichi's new artist, Plumpdragon! His fan art of Chichi and Milkmaid have appeared on the WLP site in the past, and we're glad and proud to have him on as our regular artist! Also- as promised- we're going back to the four-panel gag strip format. We're done with deep messages and experimental formats for Chichi for a LONG time. Anyway, on to the new Chichi story- "HIDE YOUR TAN!" (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 29th, 2009
9:24 pm [redneckgaijin]	Update (MM): CM, Chichi may be late... First, more testing... and a rare case of benevolent censorship... http://www.themagnificentmilkmaid.com/ Second, Chichi's new story is going to be late. I've got one strip ready to go, but I've lost contact with the artist in the past month, and the various emails I've sent this past week haven't been answered. I don't want to run the one strip without the artist on board for more, so I'm waiting for contact from him before going forward. Also, Chocolate Milkmaid is also going to be late- but in this case it's because EvHor's working hard on a commission. Finally, a reminder: those special offers are good through the end of December or while supplies last, and we're still giving an extra 20% off of most WLP comics and all WLP shirts until the end of tomorrow. Happy Cyber Monday, y'all! (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
10:42 pm [redneckgaijin]	THE SALE IS ON. http://www.wlpcomics.com/blackfriday.html - Special offers... ... and 20% very nearly everything else on the WLP Online Store, TODAY ONLY. http://www.wlpcomics.com/shop/ Now, to bed with me- I have to do my OWN Black Friday shopping beginning in about six hours... (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
4:15 pm [redneckgaijin]	Happy Thanksgiving from PitW! Only Sarah would think an actual live turkey was cute and cuddly... http://www.peteristhewolf.com/ Also, don't forget (I don't intend to let you) about WLP's Black Friday sale! (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
7:58 pm [redneckgaijin]	CM Update, Special Black Friday Offers Now Listed The leprechaun girls are boy watching... http://www.wlpcomics.com/cm/ ... and I've just listed a bunch of special offers for our Black Friday sale (but you can't order them just yet!): http://www.wlpcomics.com/blackfriday.html (Comment on this)
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
12:02 am [redneckgaijin]	UPDATE: Milkmaid, main page The training continues... http://www.themagnificentmilkmaid.com/ I spent most of the day working on animated ads for various things, plus getting rid of the last "temporary" graphics on the main pages... that I put there nearly three years ago. More site reworking will follow, but I've given up waiting on others to do it. Anyway, here's a bunch of animated skyscraper ads I made today: I'd love to do more, but I don't have a Flash encoder... or artistic skill. (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 21st, 2009
9:09 pm [redneckgaijin]	UPDATE (Chichi) and Black Friday sale coming... DarkZel gives us a beautiful bit of art for his last page on Chichi-chan! http://www.wlpcomics.com/chichi/ Also, be advised... (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
10:31 pm [redneckgaijin]	Update: PitW They're finally out of the shower... http://www.peteristhewolf.com/ (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
10:44 pm [redneckgaijin]	Update: MM, CM Another filler from the CM-meets-Ranma commission... http://www.wlpcomics.com/cm/ And the training steps it up a notch... http://www.themagnificentmilkmaid.com/ (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
9:54 pm [redneckgaijin]	Update: PitW A week late due to bar1scorpio's computer troubles... http://www.peteristhewolf.com/ By the way, the capture goon squad jokes are: AMINAL CONTROL FORZEN TREATS PET GORMING PIECE ZA NEWSAPPER (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
6:35 pm [redneckgaijin]	By the way, PitW Pre-orders shipping... ... Lee Elder, Niccolo Leigh, Jon Lillemoe, and Kevin Land, your books went out yesterday. As did others, but the others will get email notification soon. (Comment on this)
Monday, November 9th, 2009
10:10 pm [redneckgaijin]	Update: CM, 11-9-2009 Reminder- I'll be at the Dallas Webcomics Expo this Saturday! And meanwhile, Ootla's not interested in catching them all... http://www.wlpcomics.com/cm/ (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
8:27 pm [redneckgaijin]	no PitW Update this week... ... possible computer virus on BAR-1's end, and definite flu virus on mine. Back next week, honest. (Comment on this)
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
6:04 pm [redneckgaijin]	Updates: CM, MM Here comes the training... http://www.themagnificentmilkmaid.com/ And I wish this would happen to me... http://www.wlpcomics.com/cm/ (Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
8:32 pm [redneckgaijin]	Upcoming Cons and PitW Update This weekend I'll be at OniCon in Houston: http://www.oni-con.com/ BAR-1 will be at YoumaCon in Detroit: http://www.youmacon.org/ And on November 14 I'll be in Dallas for the Dallas Webcomics Expo: http://dwex.info/ But tonight it's two new pages of Peter is the Wolf: http://www.peteristhewolf.com/ By the way... nobody's posted a review of either PitW book on Amazon yet. To help you out, here's the URLs to the two books' listings: PitW: First Twenty-Five Hours - http://www.amazon.com/Peter-Wolf-First-Twenty-Five-Hours/dp/0980213509/ PitW: Werewolves Gone Wild - http://www.amazon.com/Peter-Wolf-Werewolves-Gone-Wild/dp/0980213517/ I really want reviews- no matter what they come out to be. Any stars is better than no stars at all, which is what currently show on the listings. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
7:19 pm [redneckgaijin]	Late updates: CM, MM Remember whose comic it is? http://www.wlpcomics.com/cm/ And here's an experiment which can only go well! http://www.themagnificentmilkmaid.com (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
2:00 pm [redneckgaijin]	Late Guest Page: PitW So, bar1scorpio is up to his neck in prep for his home-town anime con, Youmacon. We didn't think we'd have anything for you... ... and then a fan with a webcomic stepped forward. (Well, he stepped forward back in July, but I clean forgot about it until he reminded me today. Oops.) Anyway... http://www.peteristhewolf.com/ And by the way: all Amazon.com pre-orders have shipped. Tell them what you think of the book, OK? (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
4:07 pm [redneckgaijin]	The current math on the Peter is the Wolf TPBs... Financially speaking, here's where the PitW books are. Printing and initial shipping costs (includes money borrowed from various): $7,623.37 Est. Promotional costs (including online ads and flyers): $420 Total pre-sale costs: $8,043.37 Sales: Direct - 16 X "Werewolves Gone Wild", 6 X "First Twenty-Five Hours" - total $426.29 Amazon.com - $422.04 Other Wholesale to date - $974.45 Total: $1,822.78 Royalties on sales due to BAR-1: $368.27 Total current estimated balance of return on investment: -$6,588.86 and about half a ton of books... ... which I'm going to be selling for quite some time, it appears. EDIT: By the way, all Amazon preorders have now shipped- at least according to Amazon. Please be sure to rate the book on Amazon when you get it! (Comment on this)