World Daily Strip no longer to be posted by the Crawlspace

[Will Nolte]

Wasn't sure if this should go into the comics section or here. My apologies if it is against the rules to post stuff about the Crawlspace site, but I figured this was important.

BD posted this on the Crawlspace forums:

So I just got a call from King's Features and they are wanting $120 a month to run the Spider-Man daily strip on the front page. That will be $1440 a year which is a ton of money. Do you think folks would be willing to pay for it? There's no way I can afford that on my own.

Someone did the math:

I agree. If it were $120 a year, sure! No problem!

...but $120 a month? That's robbery, plain and simple.

BD:

That equals to about $3 a strip. I thought about putting a poll on the front page but it sounds like you all dont' want to pay for it.

BD also had this to say:

I guess I could post a link to the newspaper website each day with each days new strip. I just can't show the image.
They also want me to take down my archives because they only want a 30 day archive online. That will be a major pain.

The archive goes back YEARS, to about the time that Stan started the strip's version of BND (which was later rescinded, and MJ & Pete are married again), the furthest I've seen online for the strip. He has taken the strips down all the way back to October so far. The last strip post was the one he put up for the anniversary for the first week of Spidey strips in 1977 (which was cool to see the Romita Sr art on).

For those that don't know, the writing is still handled by Stan himself and his brother Larry does the weekly art with Alex Saviuk (yes that same Alex Saviuk of 90's Web of Spidey fame) doing doing art for the Sunday strip.

I can seek King Features wanting their syndication money...but that much?

 

[Will Nolte]

Oh and here is the alternate site I go to so I can read the strip if Crawlspace is slow on the upload:


http://www.azcentral.com/ent/comics/king-comics.html?feature_id=Spiderman

 

[Donald Thomas]

Aloha,
Much thanks Crawlspace for all of the time that you shared the great adventures for free with all of the fans.Spidey is big money in every format you can imagine so I'm not surprised that King Features wants that much.The comic strip would cost as much as a comic book
Spidey rules

 

[Will Nolte]

More than the comic book...you spend 8 bucks for normally 2 issues a month, maybe 16 if they get greedy and decide to put out 4. KF wants 120 bucks a month for a lot less story, cause lets face it, most of the strips are just filler and it takes months to advance a story in the strip that could be done in one issue of ASM. KF is being too greedy and it's gonna bite em in the ass. Crawlspace is one of the biggest websites in the non Marvel Spidey world.

 

[Will Nolte]

One thing I missed about Crawlspace posting the strip daily was the discussion people had each day about it. I'm wondering if I should post that link in a thread in the Spidey comics section so we can have our own daily discussion there...you think it would work?

 

[MrSpyder]

Thanks for heads up