[Groop]groo flash cartoon?

[Chad Riden]

> ME: "Cash in?"  You obviously haven't been looking at the financial
> figures for Internet sites, especially those featuring flash
> animation. 

No, I pay attention.. I work as a web designer / developer (previously in
broadcasting). 

> successful of them all.  It lost 40 million dollars and is now close

across the board, most overstaffed internet sites are downsizing and
losing money. i hear about so-and-so laying off hundreds of people... and
i wonder, "what were they all DOING??"

i don't mean some huge, bloated site with tons of employees.. i think
sergio should have something like you have. more of a showcase.. a
promotional thing for his own projects. I was thinking a short GROO
animation would be cool. In itself, it wouldn't make you money... but if
Groo fans heard that Sergio had a flash movie up, they'd go! And if he had
a promo for his latest book up on the front page, maybe he would raise
awareness of his work. Maybe the people who've stopped going to comic book
shops would see that and think, "wow! Sergio's still doing it! Boy do I
miss him. I'll go buy that." I dunno. It just seems to me that the comics
industry in general has been poorly promoted & if there's a time to try
something new - it's now.

> If there's money to be made doing animation for the web, no one's yet
> figured out how to do it.

actually, us programmers are doing pretty well for ourselves.

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