We’re looking forward to your feedback once we go live!

Once many of these questions are answered, there should be more signups, more people, more votes, etc. All things, no matter how big, start from a small group of people. We’re thankful for your trust as an early submitter.

But as far as publishing rights, we are not going to claim exclusivity. If you publish elsewhere, like your own site, you are free to do so simultaneously, and sell stuff too.

But I will say this now, as a startup, we don’t have a giant budget for advertising. Advertising has its place but its not the only solution for getting people involved. We have marketing plans and I’ll talk more about that soon.

As for the current Zingerstore, that is something we put together to offer some products sooner than later. It is not the store that will eventually be where people can buy things related to comic strips, i.e. a shirt with a specific strip or mug with an illustration of some characters, etc. We do have more involved plans for e-commerce giving each cartoonist their own storefront, but it isn’t going to be something available at launch. It’s a feature further down the line.

And lastly, you make a good point about the lack of understanding of the legal terms. You’ve inspired me to address that shortly.

I understand your hesitation. We’re making big claims about changing things for comics and that comes with a lot of questions to answer. We’re getting to it!

I mean, it’s all very well having a nice website with the latest social media, but I want to know how much money you’ll front to advertise, and where you will, and for how long. Sure, these things change for each individual strip, but some examples would be nice.

I’m more cautious than excited about this service right now, and the most alarming red flag is your link to the store on the main page (http://www.printfection.com/zingerding). That store is just a print on demand thing, which everyone knows gives you the least profit for the least risk. So 1) Are we going to be making 70% of the 2 dollars we make from selling a t-shirt through that and 2) Do you have a more lucrative store/shipping plan ready? If you do, I’d love to hear it.

You might wonder why I sound so negative/defensive, forgive me, but I am especially cautious when you ask for 6 cartoonists to submit work when we cartoonists have no idea of the details of what’s in it for us. Can you post a contract we would sign?

Matt