Humble-Bundle

Long time readers of Comic POW! know that I am a fervent advocate of DRM-free comics (and this news story). If you’ve seen the site evolve you’ve also seen my tastes evolve. While Marvel and DC continue to tell great stories and explore new characters (like young Ms Marvel), I’ve grown to love indie comics a lot more. The main reasons are that anything can happen (including permanent death of the main characters) and usually the stories have an ending that the author is working towards. So I was very stoked to read today that Image Comics has put out a new Humble Bundle. I was even more excited when I read how Image organized the comics in the bundle: Image Comics is pleased to announce an all-new Humble Bundle digital sale— Humble Comics Bundle: Image Comics featuring Creators Own Worlds—set to bring awareness to equality and to support the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. This Humble Bundle highlights some of the series from Image Comics that are created by or significantly feature LGBT characters. With the Humble Comics Bundle: Image Comics featuring Creators Own Worlds digital sale, fans will experience $400-worth of some of Image Comics’ bestselling and award-winning series at pay-what-you want pricing.

I don’t normally just advertise sales on Comic POW!, but the Humble Image Comics Bundle combines a few things that are important to me. First of of all, the Humble Bundle’s pay what you want model mirrors the model I love so much with The Private Eye. Trust your fans and many of them will pay a fair price. Those who pay less will get exposed to you and you’ll make more money that if you hadn’t sold at a discount. Second, Humble sales (usually video games, but comics or books at times) allow the buyer to allocate the money between the authors, a charity, and the Humble Bundle people. It’s up to you how much of your money goes to each entity. And the charity this time is the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. So second part of this sale that is so important to me is getting money to the CBLD. They help out comic creators who are being censored or sued for their content. ...