#833

Amelius on Dec. 16, 2009

Hello all! Yeah, it's a little late into Thursday with this update, but it couldn't be helped. Made a mistake and had a bit of a breakdown, but Nick took me out to cheer me up a bit. I lost the high res of this comic and I'm not too happy about it >_< I hate photoshop sometimes…
Before I go, vote incentive is a better look at the first panel from the last update. I added a little more to it on the actual page, but I also cropped a lot off the sides.

Anyway, Nick's going to take over the rest of these notes.

Hey all EEN here. Thanks to the generous donations of the CTV community we are just $80 away from our goal and it looks like we'll be able to get through the holidays. After the holidays though we are going to be exploring a few options to try and get CTV to make some money without having to always be in donation mode. We'll probably continue the donation at least for a bit but we'll be able to lower the goal considerably until we are making enough money to do without donations.

First and most importantly we are looking at moving to either Evil Empire or Charby the Vampirate dot com. Why would we do so? Well, it turns out that most higher-end ad companies require you to have your own site so if we want to start making some serious ad money and getting into higher paying ad brackets we really don't have much choice. However Amy is very DD loyal and reluctant to “leave” so we would like to know the fans will support us if we go this road. We'll keep updating DD as a mirror but we'll gradually try and divert traffic over to our new site. If we do move Amy will be redoing some of the earlier pages to try and get CTV ready to eventually be printed and with luck published, so expect to see CTV revamped with new art.

Second we are working on a new comic which will be available in PDF format for 1-2 dollars depending on the page count. The comic is CTV Tales. The first issue which is about 1/3rd done explores the origins of Tony and future issues will cover other characters back story as well as side stories and shorts. It will, at least at first, in black and white and probably come out once every three months. Printed versions will follow if the demand is there for them.

Third and finally we are looking into CTV merchandise. Right now we don't actually make any money off of cafe press. What little mark up we have just goes to keeping the store open and those items are pretty much there just for hard core fans. We are looking to change that. We've been looking at both professional productions such as plushies as well stuff we can do in house. Right now we only have a button maker but we hope in the future to be able to provide CTV stuff for much cheaper than the Cafe Press store is right now and actually turn a profit by making things ourselves.

While we may also do some non-CTV stuff to try and make money but those are our plans for CTV 2010. Your feedback and suggestions would be much appreciated.