Hi everyone,<\/p>\n
We’re coming on the first anniversary of the comic and it’s been a fantastic experience. We have finally found our stride, and finally settled on a great artist, Osiris Santos Junior (what a GREAT name, isn’t it?). The response and feedback have been great and we couldn’t be happier with how the comic is turning out.<\/p>\n
Our first year was something of an experiment. We needed to figure out how to produce such a comic, how to raise awareness for it, and how to create a great story experience for our readers. It’s become very quickly apparent that reading a long-form comic week-to-week isn’t the best way to enjoy HWB. The story needs to unfold at a good pace and we can’t (or shouldn’t) create an environment where the story is compromised in order to bring people back every week. Long-form comics need to read like long-form comics, not weekly serials.<\/p>\n
Another thing we discovered in the last year is that this was probably the worst time to start a long-form comic and rely on network advertisement. With the great and recent improvements in ad blockers, there’s just no financing left through “traditional” advertising.<\/p>\n
So we’re going to do an experiment for Year Two: we’re going to turn to you<\/strong>, our readers. On September 1, we’ll be starting a 30-day crowdfunding campaign to help us produce the next chapters. We’re looking at producing an 8-page chapter every other month (so 48 pages a year), each financed by a small campaign. There’ll be rewards and stretch goals, and some of you may even be involved in the behind-the-scenes of how the comic gets produced. There’ll be stretch goals for additional pages and, who knows, maybe even color!<\/p>\n The comics produced through crowdfunding will be made available first to the backers, and eventually (3-6 months later?) make it onto the website for everyone to read (except for exclusive content that will be backers-only as part of the crowdfunding campaign).<\/p>\n So stay tuned and look forward to September 1, that’s when we’ll announce everything!<\/p>\n Lucien & Jean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi everyone, We’re coming on the first anniversary of the comic and it’s been a fantastic experience. We have finally found our stride, and finally settled on a great artist, Osiris Santos Junior (what a GREAT name, isn’t it?). 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