King Features suspends ads on Comic Kingdom

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1. Mike Cope

   You can’t catch a computer virus from newsprint.

2. JD Larson

   But you can get a nasty papercut! And inky fingers.

   It only takes a few bad people to destroy the work of a lot of good people, unfortunately. Hackers and thieves have transformed the internet from a utopia of ideas and information into a dangerous place.

3. Rich Diesslin

   You have to work at it to get a paper cut from a newspaper … but yeah, inky is true. I gotta say I’ve never heard of comic kingdom until now, but I haven’t been looking. 😉

4. Mike Peterson

   At my last paper, I brought up Comic Kingdom and a freebie offered by Creators, but since nobody on the management team had seen these things being used at other papers, nobody wanted to really look into it.

   God, I miss those management team meetings.

5. Anne Hambrock

   @Rich,

   I have a pretty comprehensive list of current comics kingdom papers listed on my site. It’s at the bottom of the post.

   http://edison-lee-blog.blogspot.com/search/label/Comics%20Kingdom

6. Jason Smith

   Can someone explain to me what the differences are between “DailyInk” and “Comics Kingdom”?

   I’m a paying subscriber to the King’s Features DailyInk service. I think it’s worth the amount I spend (about $15/year). I’ve never heard of Comics Kingdom before and it appears to have all the same King Features strips.

   Thanks,
   Jason

7. Alan Gardner  (admin)

   @Jason – DailyInk is the subscription service for individuals to get comics emailed to them. Comics Kingdom is a product sold to online newspapers that displays comics and is ad supported.

8. Anne Hambrock

   @Jason,

   Alan summed it up pretty well, but here are some other differences:

   Dailyink comes with no ads, lists several strips on the same page, is delivered to the subscriber, and has a one year archive.

   Comics Kingdom has sidebar ads, displays only one strip at a time (you have to go through the index to find other strips you may wish to view), can be bookmarked but is not delivered, and has a 30 day archive. The one strip at a time feature means that you have to wait about 10-30 seconds – depending on your connection – each time you wish to view a new strip. This is one of the reasons I prefer Dailyink, as I can read all the comics on my page pretty quickly.