[Groop]groo flash cartoon + Groo e-commerce?

[azamin]

> Then you either give them all away for free and ask for donations, or sell
> new ones, or you charge a really modest fee for access to the entire old
> collection, or maybe you charge per issue even, like a dime each. I don't
> know, I think it could work. To make successful websites people just have
> to get over the idea that it costs a lot to run them, and they should
> throw a lot of money at it. That's the whole _thing_ about the web, it
> DOESN'T cost much. One person running a site from a $20/month hosting
> account can compete with the 200-person companies burning through a
> million dollars a week (which is exactly why those big sites crumble).

I agree(tm, r of Gary) with you josh...  I even read an e-commerce site
operating from basement is rivalling with multi million dollar site and somebody
offered to buy her site for some million.....  You don't have to to make the
site  be big innitially as I think this is the main reason why many .com
companies suffered.  You can begin small but the most important is that your
site URL will spread among Groo/sergio fans around the world and it also close
the ties between the production crew and their fans - which create a loyal fans
such as us in this groop. (many small e-commerce is operating from basements and
making profits - btw, stephan King said that his on-line published The Plant is
making profit www.stephenking.com ) Then the fans will easily find their fav.
comics or products related to their fav. character and this is useful to those
fans from far away as me in Malaysia (luckly I had Gary and I still owe him in
Groo credit (kopins?) as the malaysian Groo reprints is discontinued).

The thing/cost you need to set-up the site is a web server, softwares (mostly
are free in the internet, don't go for the commercial one) a person who can
set-up the site and maintain it -and I think some groop members will lend their
experties such as technical advise to set it up  (btw, Mark, did you maintain
your site by yourself?) a connection to the internet and US$35 per year for
sergio.com or aragones.com domain name. or Mark, are you willing to help sergio
to host his section at your site?  he best example is www.manowar.com where a
metal band named Manowar  sells their mp3 songs on-line...

About the fear of people copying images, I think Sergio shouldn't put his ever
on the web, but just a few images to promote his comics/works which is in the
print media format.  The profits is gained from e-commerce - selling his hard
copy(groo comics - old and new and other works)/soft copy works (flash cartoon)
on-line  or  from advert (from the advert banners which don't consumes much
space - even he can do the art for the banner and make income from it) (I'm not
in the idea for membership fees).  This way also I think will rid the case of
someone selling unauthorized Sergio work as people will go to this site only to
find/buy Sergio's works.