Sugary Serials :: Comics for All Ages!

This post is going to assume you’ve checked out the about page, so I don’t have to explain what "all ages" means or anything like that. Here I’m going to explain how we plan to manage daily updates on the site.

- Every month, three creators or creative teams will be featured on the site with updating stories. The stories will update daily, a page at a time. A minimum of three stories, 8-pages each. That puts the monthly total to at least 24 pages.

- At the end of the month, that particular "issue" of the anthology will be collected in print and sold on the Indy Planet site.

- The next month, another 8 pages of each of the stories will be serialized online daily, then collected in print at the end of the month. When stories are completed, their "time slot" will be taken over by another story.

Let’s use an example to illustrate my point:

Here are some theoretical stories and artists involved–
Tuck n’ Roll, by Chip Greene (16 page story)
Laser Hat, by Janet Donaldson (24 page story)
Bingo the Dancing Cat, by Daryl Holt (40 page story)
Adventure Johnny, by Jacob Molholland (16 page story)

In month one, this would be the lineup–

Tuck n’ Roll (first 8 pages)
Laser Hat (first 8 pages)
Bingo the Dancing Cat (first 8 pages)

In month two, this would be the lineup–

Tuck n’ Roll (second 8 pages - wraps up story)
Laser Hat (second 8 pages)
Bingo the Dancing Cat (second 8 pages)

Now, since Tuck n’ Roll is completed, we’ll replace it with Adventure Johnny’s first 8 pages in the following month. Like this–

Adventure Johnny (first 8 pages)
Laser Hat (third 8 pages - wraps up story)
Bingo the Dancing Cat (third 8 pages)

And so on.

Also, as each individual story within the anthology is completed, it will be collected in its own volume. To use the above hypothetical example, once the first Tuck n’ Roll story is completed and serialized in Sugary Serials, it will be collected as Tuck n’ Roll #1, by Chip Greene.

The printing will be done in-house by 01 Comics‘ print-on-demand facility, Ka-Blam. If you’re wondering about the quality that Ka-Blam offers, you can get a print sample here.

That’s the model. One part comics anthology and one part Saturday morning animation block. I’ll get to what specifically inspired this model in later posts.

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