{"id":2722,"date":"2004-08-03T18:52:49","date_gmt":"2004-08-04T08:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/04\/pvp-takes-on-the-comic-syndicates\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T07:43:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:43:12","slug":"pvp-takes-on-the-comic-syndicates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/03\/pvp-takes-on-the-comic-syndicates\/","title":{"rendered":"PvP takes on the comic syndicates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10447,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.pvponline.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pvponline.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10448,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.pvponline.com\\\/rants_panel.php3&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20071024021033\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.pvponline.com:80\\\/rants_panel.php3&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 05:01:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 05:01:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pvponline.com\/\" title=\"PvPonline\">PvP<\/a>, a webcomic that I really don&#8217;t read often enough (though that should change now that I discovered their <a href=\"feed:\/\/dwlt.net\/tapestry\/pvponline.rdf\" title=\"PvPonline RSS feed\">RSS feed<\/a>), has decided that the newspaper comic syndication racket isn&#8217;t for him. So, instead of giving up all the rights to his strip, he&#8217;s going to investigate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pvponline.com\/rants_panel.php3\" title=\"SDCC 2004 - Part Four\">syndicating it himself for free<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  This last year, I was contacted by Universal Press Syndicates about PvP. They know the strip and were very interested in syndicating it as a feature. I would love to see PvP in newspapers and we started talks. I let them know that there were six years of archives available and that I could edit the strips to conform to family paper editorial standards. The only thing I could not do was give up my ownership and rights to my creation.<\/p>\n<p>  Under no circumstances would I relinquish my copyright, book deals, merchandise deals, rights to market my strips, etc. If they wanted PvP, we would agree to a newspaper distribution deal and that was it. After six weeks the syndicates returned with their answer: They wanted PvP&#8230;all of it. If they could not have the rights to the feature, they weren&#8217;t interested. So we parted ways.<\/p>\n<p>  But I&#8217;ve already become attached to the idea of seeing PvP in the papers, and that&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve decided to start a new program. In the coming months, I&#8217;ll be putting into effect, a program in which papers can receive PVP for free. That&#8217;s right, free. They don&#8217;t have to pay me a cent for it. I will provide for the papers, a comic strip with a larger established audience then any new syndicated feature, a years worth of strips in advance, and I won&#8217;t charge them a cent for it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Best of luck on this project. From the sound of it, if this is a success, it could be the first step in rather radically changing the comic strip industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Love on Haight Street&#8221; by BT from the album <em>Movement in Still Life<\/em> (2000, 6:18).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of PvP, a webcomic that I really don&#8217;t read often enough, has decided that the newspaper comic syndication racket isn&#8217;t for him. So, instead of giving up all the rights to his strip, he&#8217;s going to investigate syndicating it himself for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-2722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}