Posted by Pinky.
Hi everybody! I'm going to throw an opinion question out there.
A few months ago the people at FUSE magazine (www.fusemagazine.org) asked us if we'd like to contribute a cartoon to their magazine. Of course we said YES (we like to try new things). And, well, our first comic finally came out in the current issue - Volume 33 Number 3 for those of you who are curious - and wow, it was really neat for us to see a Pinky Show comic in a magazine. We are on the last page. And not to pat ourselves on the head too much (because that's bad manners, right?) but we really like the way it came out and I can imagine doing all kinds of neat things in a comic format!
So... Bunny and I have been talking a lot about comics and how that might actually be a better format for the Pinky Show than videos. Basically we just think it's a lot more do-able. There's certain things we can do in videos that probably wouldn't translate well to a comic strip format, but the opposite is true too. And anyway, producing animated educational videos is really unsustainable as a two-cat operation. We haven't been able to figure out how to pay for stuff like electricity and food while making free videos & art. We seem to have lots of fans but don’t receive many donations. So we need to figure out a different way of doing things if we want to keep doing this kind of work.
So here's a question: What do you folks think about The Pinky Show changing formats, from videos to comics? Beyond sustainability issues, it might even help us to expand our audience (if we could get it into newspapers or whatever) and maybe in a few years, when we have enough comics, we could put them all together and sell them as a book (do people even still buy books??). We might still put out a video once in a while - "whenever possible" - but for now we have to figure out a way to survive, and don't people like to read comics?
What do you think? Good idea? No? Any feedback would be appreciated.
Take care,
pinky