Friday, January 21st, 2005
It’s with some reluctance that I’ve decided to part ways with Logan DeAngelis and his two companies: PV Comics and comiXpress. I’ll no longer be maintaining either of those websites, or be involved in running the businesses. I put a lot of effort into both companies last year, and I think they’ve been reasonably successful. This year I’ve decided not to spend as much time on business strategy and management for other people’s companies, when I could be putting that effort into something of my own. While we had a few differences in opinion on how PV Comics and particularly comiXpress were being managed, Logan and I are still parting on good terms. He’s a great guy, and I wish him all the best.
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2005
The start of a new year is a popular time for “best of” lists. Here at DesignMeme.com we’ve decided to publish our own “best of” list of sorts.
PageRank is Google’s way of deciding a page’s importance. It’s the numeric value assigned to represent how important each page is on the web. When one page links to another, it is effectively casting a vote for that page. Links from pages with a higher PageRank are given more weight in calculating the overall PageRank.
This list doesn’t rank sites in terms of artwork, writing, humour, frequency of updates, quality of web design, or even number of hits. It’s just one way of looking at the relative success of the marketing efforts of these comic websites in relation to one another. What makes the list interesting (to me, anyway) is that it includes all types of comic websites: web, print, indie, publisher, news, discussion, blog.
PageRank is Google’s way of deciding a page’s importance. It’s the numeric value assigned to represent how important each page is on the web. When one page links to another, it is effectively casting a vote for that page. Links from pages with a higher PageRank are given more weight in calculating the overall PageRank.
How do the best know comic websites compare to each other? The following list provides some interesting results! I’ve included a few sites that aren’t strictly comic sites, but have a passing association, and should help to gauge the sites overall rankings on the web.
Legend
Publisher
Artist / Comic
Articles & Interviews
Blogs & Discussion
Directories & Groups
Resources
News & Events
Animation
The Rankings
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2005
I was recently interviewed by Ryan McLelland for his Comic Book Maker column at Newsarama. As someone who had never published a comic before, he wanted to know more about comiXpress, the print-on-demand comic publishing company I’m involved with. Since launching in June, comiXpress has been doing really well, and we now have 64 different titles in our catalog. Ryan plans to post more from our conversation later this week on his blog.
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