Cafepress : A Worthy Site or a Rip-off?

Vorticus · Post by **Vorticus** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 5:49 pm

Hey a hidden plus of doing a sprite comic! No one will ever buy your stuff, so you never need to worry about of these things.

Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 9:45 pm

faub wrote:Whoa, $0.75 to print a comic? I need to find a place like this. Do you have any links where I could find a long reach stapler and a heavy-duty page trimmer? If I could get that kind of price, I would actually consider printing by issue instead of trying to put together a trade paperback. What kind of volume did you need to order to get that?

It's only a matter of getting double sided photocopies. 10 double sided photocopies for 9 cents each. 90 cents Canadian. I can print colour covers on cardstock at home for less than 6 cents each. 96 cents Canadian for one comic book at a time.

There's a printer up on the mountain where, if I get 15 books printed at once I can get the printing done for 40 cents Canadian.

With the pages already coalated it's a snap to bind them with a long reach stapler and a heavy duty trimmer to trim the edges to square the book.

Bright spark · Post by **Bright spark** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 2:45 am

Wow, that is really cheap and easy.

Just like me.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 5:05 am

bright spark wrote:Wow, that is really cheap and easy.

Just like me.

Your new avatar makes me uneasy, bright spark.

As for CafePress - unless they've changed their TOS, they retain rights to the images you use for your products until you close your account. One of the things they may use your images for is their own advertising.

Bright spark · Post by **Bright spark** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 5:38 am

rkolter wrote:
bright spark wrote:Wow, that is really cheap and easy.

Just like me.
Your new avatar makes me uneasy, bright spark.

As for CafePress - unless they've changed their TOS, they retain rights to the images you use for your products until you close your account. One of the things they may use your images for is their own advertising.

Yes, last time I draw with a mouse.

And I heard that there was that prob with cafe press, in fact, wasn't there an online protest movement a while back to get people to stop using cafepress?

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 6:22 am

bright spark wrote:
rkolter wrote:
bright spark wrote:Wow, that is really cheap and easy.

Just like me.
Your new avatar makes me uneasy, bright spark.

As for CafePress - unless they've changed their TOS, they retain rights to the images you use for your products until you close your account. One of the things they may use your images for is their own advertising.
Yes, last time I draw with a mouse.

And I heard that there was that prob with cafe press, in fact, wasn't there an online protest movement a while back to get people to stop using cafepress?

The mouse has nothing to do with it. I think it's that the face is turned away from vertical while the neck remains motionless. It reminds me of the drawing style of... damn. I can't remember, but it was something I saw that really disturbed me in the 1980's.

There was a move to stop using CafePress. I stopped using them myself around then.

::edit::
Oh yeah! The art reminds me of this friend of mine who got stoned regularly and drew like that. When you took an LSD tab, the head started to move back and forth and back and forth. Freaked the shit out of me.

Bright spark · Post by **Bright spark** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 6:55 am

Yay!!, I can draw art for acid junkies!!!!

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:15 am

rkolter wrote:Oh yeah! The art reminds me of this friend of mine who got stoned regularly and drew like that. When you took an LSD tab, the head started to move back and forth and back and forth. Freaked the shit out of me.

We have GOT to party sometime!

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 8:05 am

Warren wrote:
rkolter wrote:Oh yeah! The art reminds me of this friend of mine who got stoned regularly and drew like that. When you took an LSD tab, the head started to move back and forth and back and forth. Freaked the shit out of me.
We have GOT to party sometime!

Would that be the "If you're not old enough to remember commercials selling LPs on TV you can't come" General Discussion Forum party?

It'd be a small party... you, me, Sortelli, uhm... who else?

Thatxotherxguy · Post by **Thatxotherxguy** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 8:25 am

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Faceless · Post by **Faceless** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 8:48 am

If I ever want to sell T-shirts for my comic, (if I ever get it up), I'd probably make the shirts down in wolvo' as they have got one of those, "bring your own picture and we'll put in on a shirt for ya" things. Which is pretty good. But there is a downside, people wouldn't buy my stuff because I'd need they're address to send the shirt to them. And some people -if not most- will think I will stork them. (I hope "stork" is not the word for the bird).

Okie · Post by **Okie** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 11:39 am

STORK is the official pregnancy bird.

DEVO-Bot · Post by **DEVO-Bot** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 11:40 am

It's a girl!

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 11:53 am

Bombs away!

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 12:40 pm

Warren wrote:Bombs away!

Warren wrote:Fun Tip: You can kill a baby by feeding it honey!

AAAAHHHH!!! BABY! *protects small child from evil warren, glares*
side note, yes storks are the official bird symbol for babies, didn't you watch dumbo?

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 1:08 pm

DEVO-Bot wrote:It's a girl!

Or is it a boy and the stork is rebelling against societal gender labels? Bwahahahahaaw!

Ahem. Anyway, I don't blame them for starting up a protest against Cafepress. They're pretty horrible. Hey Ghastly, where do you even get stuff to bind books yourself?

Brockway · Post by **Brockway** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 1:57 pm

MixedMyth wrote:
DEVO-Bot wrote:It's a girl!
Or is it a boy and the stork is rebelling against societal gender labels? Bwahahahahaaw!

Ahem. Anyway, I don't blame them for starting up a protest against Cafepress. They're pretty horrible. Hey Ghastly, where do you even get stuff to bind books yourself?

I guess officemax or some other office supply place. The way it sounds, I think, is he uses a big stapler thingy. So it would be sort of like those Archie's Digest comic books, I think. Do you just sell them on your site Ghastly?

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 2:30 pm

rkolter wrote:
Warren wrote:
rkolter wrote:Oh yeah! The art reminds me of this friend of mine who got stoned regularly and drew like that. When you took an LSD tab, the head started to move back and forth and back and forth. Freaked the shit out of me.
We have GOT to party sometime!
Would that be the "If you're not old enough to remember commercials selling LPs on TV you can't come" General Discussion Forum party?

It'd be a small party... you, me, Sortelli, uhm... who else?

Hey, I'm not that much younger! I was a music bying maniac long before CDs were in.

Lots of people here publish comics by photocoping and binding them manualy. I intended to a few times but it's really a bother.
Plus, most of things I drew are A4 format and it makes in slightly impossible.

Christwriter · Post by **Christwriter** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 2:50 pm

rkolter wrote:
Warren wrote:
rkolter wrote:Oh yeah! The art reminds me of this friend of mine who got stoned regularly and drew like that. When you took an LSD tab, the head started to move back and forth and back and forth. Freaked the shit out of me.
We have GOT to party sometime!
Would that be the "If you're not old enough to remember commercials selling LPs on TV you can't come" General Discussion Forum party?

It'd be a small party... you, me, Sortelli, uhm... who else?

*gets really big, blurry eyes*

*whines*

What's an LP?

Aren't they those weird black frisbees? With all the funny grooves?

What?

THose aren't frisbees?

CW

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 2:51 pm

bright spark wrote:Yay!!, I can draw art for acid junkies!!!!

I think it's the fact that girl from ava is looking at me with these weird eyes, as if she's preparing to kill me, eat my flesh and use my skin for book cover.