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#416 - Past, Present and Future?, Part One (11/19/09)
#415 - The Men Who Stare at Goatse (11/16/09)
#414 - A Long Time Coming, Part Three (11/13/09)
#413 - A Long Time Coming, Part Two (11/11/09)
#412 - A Long Time Coming, Part One (11/9/09)
#411 - If It’s Halloween, It Must Be Saw (11/6/09)
#410 - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (11/2/09)
#409 - Queen Bitch (10/29/09)
#408 - She’s Angry (10/26/09)
#407 - Lord of Delusions (10/22/09)
#406 - Mistaken Identity (10/19/09)
#405 - The Sound of Silence (10/16/09)
#404 - Too Much Information (10/14/09)
#403 - The Delusionist (10/12/09)
#402 - Diarrhea of the Dead, Part Three (10/9/09)
#401 - Diarrhea of the Dead, Part Two (10/7/09)
#400 - Diarrhea of the Dead, Part One (10/5/09)
#399 - Letter of the Law (10/1/09)
#398 - Fight Ire with Ire (9/28/09)
#397 - Art to Heart (9/24/09)
#396 - Strong (Pass)words (9/21/09)
#395 - Women Standing Together (9/18/09)
#394 - Stuck Up (9/14/09)
#393 - I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me (9/11/09)
#392 - Thanks for All Your Hard Work (9/7/09)
#391 - Brain Wrapped (9/3/09)
#390 - Daydream Believer (8/31/09)
#389 - Aw Hell No (8/27/09)
#388 - Paradigm Shift (8/24/09)
#387 - Wake-Up Call (8/21/09)
#386 - Good Night (8/19/09)
#385 - Swearing Is Caring (8/17/09)
#384 - Jargon Hunting (8/13/09)
#383 - A Shoulder to Cry On (8/10/09)
#382 - A Good Thrashing (8/6/09)
#381 - Flash Forward (8/3/09)
#380 - One-Track Mind (7/30/09)
#379 - While You Were Gone II: The Wrath of Keith (7/27/09)
#378 - While You Were Gone, Part One (7/23/09)
#377 - History Lesson (7/20/09)
#376 - Hiding in Plain Sight (7/16/09)
#375 - It’s Like I Don’t Know You Anymore (7/13/09)
#374 - If You Didn’t Laugh, You’d Cry (7/9/09)
#373 - Projection 101 (7/6/09)
#372 - Public Enemy Number One (7/4/09)
#371 - Color Grading (7/2/09)
#370 - Exactly Like That (6/29/09)
#369 - Michael Bay’s Inferno (6/25/09)
#368 - Common Ground (6/22/09)
#367 - I Am a Snob, Not Only in Fact, But on Principle (6/19/09)
#366 - Blue Light Special (6/17/09)
#365 - You Call That Weird? (6/15/09)
#364 - Suck It Up, Suck It Down (6/11/09)
#363 - Call to Action (6/8/09)
#362 - Stop Calling Me Grandpa (6/4/09)
#361 - Excuse Me? (6/1/09)
#360 - The Decision-Maker (5/28/09)
#359 - True Romance (5/25/09)
#358 - He’s So Intense! (5/21/09)
#357 - Eye of the Beholder (5/17/09)
#356 - A Green Morning (5/14/09)
#355 - The Man Trap (5/11/09)
#354 - You Look Like You’ve Just Seen a Ghost (5/9/09)
#353 - Right Hand Man (5/7/09)
#352 - A Multiplex Carol (5/4/09)
#351 - Don’t Be Crazy (4/30/09)
#350 - Knocking Some Nonsense Into Him (4/29/09)
#349 - Same Difference (4/24/09)
#348 - Who Peed on Her Popcorn? (4/16/09)
#347 - …But Apparently You Would Steal a Movie (4/13/09)
#346 - You Wouldn’t Steal a Purse… (4/9/09)
#345 - You Wouldn’t Steal a Car… (4/6/09)
#344 - For Pity’s Sake (4/2/09)
#343 - The Thin Red Line (3/30/09)
#342 - Ulterior Motives (3/26/09)
#341 - The Rules of the Game (3/23/09)
#340 - But It’s Mine (3/19/09)
#339 - Must Have the Precious (3/16/09)
#338 - Who Watches the Watchmen (Movie)? (3/12/09)
#337 - Blue Man Grope (3/9/09)
#336 - Intervention (3/4/09)
#335 - Neil Explains It All, Part Two (3/2/09)
#334 - Neil Explains It All, Part One (2/26/09)
#333 - Staff Meeting (2/23/09)
#332 - Ding Dong, the Witch Is Dead (2/19/09)
#331 - Speak of the Devil (2/16/09)
#330 - Deal with the Devil (2/13/09)
#329 - Liar’s Remorse (2/11/09)
#328 - (Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (2/9/09)
#327 - The Truth Will Out (2/6/09)
#326 - What’s the Difference? (2/4/09)
#325 - Mission Accomplished (2/2/09)
#324 - Spilling the Beans, Part Three (1/30/09)
#323 - Spilling the Beans, Part Two (1/28/09)
#322 - Spilling the Beans, Part One (1/26/09)
#321 - It’s How We Always Do It (1/22/09)
#320 - Bad Week for Geeks (1/19/09)
#319 - Who Let the Drama Out? (1/15/09)
#318 - Unbelievably Enough (1/12/09)
#317 - Geese and Ganders (1/8/09)
#316 - Silence Is Golden (1/5/09)
#315 - The Season of Giving (1/2/09)
#314 - When Drama Trumps Reason (12/31/08)
#313 - Too Much to Ask? (12/29/08)
#312 - The Reader (12/24/08)
#311 - Exactly Like the Holidays (12/22/08)
#310 - The Blogger Is Coming to Town (12/18/08)
#309 - Tough (Brotherly) Love (12/15/08)
#308 - Twilight of the Nerds (12/13/08)
#307 - Revisionist History (or, Why Neil Is a Genius) (12/11/08)
#306 - Life and Debt (12/8/08)
#305 - We Are Multiplex (12/4/08)
#304 - All the Right Moves (12/1/08)
#303 - The Game Plan (11/24/08)
#302 - Necessary Roughness (11/20/08)
#301 - Franklin Onassis, All American (11/17/08)
#300 - Something Is Rotten in the State of Denmark (11/14/08)
#299 - Power Struggles (11/12/08)
#298 - Adding Injury to Insult (11/10/08)
#297 - Devil in a Red Vest (11/6/08)
#296 - Axis of Evil (11/3/08)
#295 - Common Courtesy (10/30/08)
#294 - Identity Crisis (10/27/08)
#293 - Brand New Day (10/24/08)
#292 - Crisis on Infinite Franklins (10/20/08)
#291 - Bad Night to Be You (10/16/08)
#290 - The Good Book (10/13/08)
#289 - Personal Religulosity, Part Three (10/10/08)
#288 - Personal Religulosity, Part Two (10/8/08)
#287 - Personal Religulosity, Part One (10/6/08)
#286 - Secret Weapon (10/2/08)
#285 - I Can Only Suspend My Disbelief So Far (9/29/08)
#284 - The Notorious W.I.T. (9/25/08)
#283 - The World May Never Know (9/22/08)
#282 - I Got You, Babe (9/19/08)
#281 - If I Don’t Like It, No One Can (9/15/08)
#280 - Are You Ready for Some Football? (9/11/08)
#279 - Death Race, Part Five (9/8/08)
#278 - Death Race, Part Four (9/5/08)
#277 - Death Race, Part Three (9/3/08)
#276 - Death Race, Part Two (9/1/08)
#275 - Death Race, Part One (8/29/08)
#274 - EstroFest 2008 (8/27/08)
#273 - Fred Durst, Renaissance Man (8/25/08)
#272 - Seems Like Old Times, Part Three (8/22/08)
#271 - Seems Like Old Times, Part Two (8/20/08)
#270 - Seems Like Old Times, Part One (8/18/08)
#269 - Old School, Part Two (8/15/08)
#268 - Old School, Part One (8/13/08)
#267 - Secret Heart (8/11/08)
#266 - Who’s Kidding Whom? (8/10/08)
#265 - A Poster Is a Poster Is a Poster (8/7/08)
#264 - Whatever It Takes (8/4/08)
#263 - Quick Thinking (8/1/08)
#262 - Real Genius (7/30/08)
#261 - Smooth Criminal (7/28/08)
#260 - Dancing Queen (7/26/08)
#259 - Here He Goes Again (7/24/08)
#258 - Parental Discretion Is the Better Part of Valor (7/21/08)
#257 - Who Watches the Watchmen (Teaser)? (7/17/08)
#256 - Where to Begin... (7/16/08)
#255 - Two for Hellboy at 4:20 (7/14/08)
#254 - Two-Faced (7/10/08)
#253 - Never Underestimate the Power of The Dark Knight (7/7/08)
#252 - Tonight, He Comes (7/3/08)
#251 - It’s Not Even Worth It (6/30/08)
#250 - All-American Girls (6/26/08)
#249 - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (6/23/08)
#248 - Training Day (6/21/08)
#247 - What Have I Done? (6/18/08)
#246 - You Don’t Mess with a Winning Formula (6/16/08)
#245 - Strangers in the Night, Part Two (6/12/08)
#244 - Strangers in the Night, Part One (6/9/08)
#243 - Hypothetically, Of Course (6/6/08)
#242 - Good Things Come in Threes (6/5/08)
#241 - Nevermind (6/4/08)
#240 - Cougars Gone Wild (6/3/08)
#239 - Chase Gets Carried Away (6/2/08)
#238 - Daddy Issues All Over Again (5/29/08)
#237 - Multiplex 10 Raped My Childhood (5/26/08)
#236 - You Took the Word Out of My Mouth (5/22/08)
#235 - The Angry Test, Part Two (5/19/08)
#234 - The Angry Test, Part One (5/14/08)
#233 - He Catches On Quick (5/12/08)
#232 - Blind Faith (5/8/08)
#231 - The Man in the Iron Mask (5/5/08)
#230 - Life, the Universe, and Everything (5/2/08)
#229 - Flies, Vinegar and Honey (4/30/08)
#228 - Agree to Disagree?, Part Three (4/29/08)
#227 - Agree to Disagree?, Part Two (4/28/08)
#226 - Agree to Disagree?, Part One (4/24/08)
#225 - Mythic Pizza, Part Two (4/21/08)
#224 - Mythic Pizza, Part One (4/17/08)
#223 - Gaybait and Switch (4/14/08)
#222 - Don’t Make Me Take Out the Trash (4/10/08)
#221 - Movin’ On Up (4/7/08)
#220 - Did I Say That? (4/3/08)
#219 - Communication Breakdown (3/31/08)
#218 - Live and Learn, Part Two (3/27/08)
#217 - Live and Learn, Part One (3/24/08)
#216 - Back Where You Belong (3/20/08)
#215 - Welcome Back Welcome Back Welcome Baaack (3/17/08)
#214 - Best Birthday Ever (3/13/08)
#213 - Taking Flight (3/10/08)
#212 - Famous Last Words (3/6/08)
#211 - Forgive and Forget (3/3/08)
#210 - Second Verse, Same As the First (2/29/08)
#209 - Oscar Watch 2008, Part Two (2/27/08)
#208 - Oscar Watch 2008, Part One (2/25/08)
#207 - Multiplex 10 Is About to Explode! (2/21/08)
#206 - Ripping a New One (2/18/08)
#205 - He’s Just Chicken (2/14/08)
#204 - Brave New World (2/11/08)
#203 - Ledgerdemain, Part Five (2/7/08)
#202 - Ledgerdemain, Part Four (2/4/08)
#201 - Ledgerdemain, Part Three (1/31/08)
#200 - Ledgerdemain, Part Two (1/28/08)
#199 - Ledgerdemain, Part One (1/24/08)
#198 - For the Good of Humanity (1/17/08)
#197 - All Look Same (1/10/08)
#196 - Dun dun dun... (1/7/08)
#195 - Oh My God (1/3/08)
#194 - The Death of Franklin, Part Two (12/31/07)
#193 - The Death of Franklin, Part One (12/26/07)
#192 - Jason and the Poster for the New Indiana Jones Movie (12/24/07)
#191 - OMG WTF Hobbit!!! (12/19/07)
#190 - Afraid to Dye (12/17/07)
#189 - This Perfect Christmas Holiday (12/13/07)
#188 - Race Cards and Poker Faces (12/9/07)
#187 - Straight to Breakfast (12/8/07)
#186 - No Ending for Young Men (12/6/07)
#185 - Considering the Source (12/3/07)
#184 - A Match Made in Heaven, Part Five (11/29/07)
#183 - A Match Made in Heaven, Part Four (11/26/07)
#182 - A Match Made in Heaven, Part Three (11/23/07)
#181 - A Match Made in Heaven, Part Two (11/21/07)
#180 - A Match Made in Heaven, Part One (11/19/07)
#179 - Ahem... (11/14/07)
#178 - Called Off (11/12/07)
#177 - Open Mouth, Insert Foot (11/7/07)
#176 - Oh No He Didn’t (11/5/07)
#175 - I Got Priorities (11/1/07)
#174 - That Certain Female (10/29/07)
#173 - Wish You Were Here (10/26/07)
#172 - Don’t Be Stupider (10/25/07)
#171 - Don’t Be Stupid
(10/22/07)
#170 - Satisfaction Guaranteed (10/18/07)
#169 - Out of Sight, Out of Mind (10/15/07)
#168 - Straight from the Source (10/8/07)
#167 - Seek, and Ye Shall Find (10/1/07)
#166 - Hiding in Plain Sight (9/24/07)
#165 - It’s Just Not the Same... (9/14/07)
#164 - Filling the Void (9/10/07)
#163 - Tell It Like It Is, Epilogue (9/7/07)
#162 - Tell It Like It Is, Part Six (9/6/07)
#161 - Tell It Like It Is, Part Five (9/5/07)
#160 - Tell It Like It Is, Part Four (9/4/07)
#159 - Tell It Like It Is, Part Three (9/3/07)
#158 - Tell It Like It Is, Part Two (8/30/07)
#157 - Tell It Like It Is, Part One (8/27/07)
#156 - Privacy Please (8/23/07)
#155 - Every Little Bit Counts (8/13/07)
#154 - Okay, Okay... (8/7/07)
#153 - I Know, Dude (7/30/07)
#152 - Not That There's Anything Wrong with That (7/23/07)
#151 - Spoiler Warning? (7/16/07)
#150 - Baby Come Back (7/12/07)
#149 - Be Kind, Rewind (7/9/07)
#148 - Summer Sequel (7/4/07)
#147 - You Dirty Rat... (7/2/07)
#146 - Goodbye-Goodbye (6/29/07)
#145 - The Last Kiss (6/25/07)
#144 - Dr. Doom and Gloom (6/20/07)
#143 - Phoning It In (6/11/07)
#142 - You Got Some 'Splainin' To Do (6/4/07)
#141 - The Last Time I Got Eaten by a Kraken... (5/28/07)
#140 - The One About Shrek the Third (5/21/07)
#139 - Rage! Redux! (5/17/07)
#138 - Tell Us How You Really Feel (5/11/07)
#137 - Spidey's Got Bright Eyes (5/9/07)
#136 - Here Comes the Sun Again (5/7/07)
#135 - Spring Fever, Summer Blockbuster (5/4/07)
#134 - That's Never Worked Before (4/30/07)
#133 - The "Oh Really?" Factor (4/23/07)
#132 - That's News to Me (4/18/07)
#131 - Take a Guess (4/16/07)
#130 - False Alarm (4/12/07)
#129 - Dude: It’s What’s for Dinner (4/9/07)
#128 - A Helping Hand (4/2/07)
#127 - Brothers in Arms (3/26/07)
#126 - Because Crying Equals Drama (3/22/07)
#125 - Alright, Already (3/12/07)
#124 - Pot Kettle Black (3/5/07)
#123 - Oscar Watch 2007 (2/26/07)
#122 - Have Plenty of Fear... (2/19/07)
#121 - Happy Valentine's Day (2/12/07)
#120 - Brrr (2/5/07)
#119 - Predictability Gets a Bad Rap (2/2/07)
#118 - True to Form (1/29/07)
#117 - Glutton for Punishment (1/22/07)
#116 - Not Her Type (1/18/07)
#115 - Did Timmy Fall Down the Well? (1/15/07)
#114 - Two of a Kind (1/8/07)
#113 - Happy New Year? (1/6/07)
#112 - Opposites Attract (1/1/07)
#111 - Spitting Image (1/1/07)
#110 - The Great Unifier (1/1/07)
#109 - Dare to Dream (12/31/06)
#108 - Red Hot Christmas (12/25/06)
#107 - I Told You So (12/18/06)
#106 - Scented Santa (12/11/06)
#105 - Hentai for the Holidays (12/4/06)
#104 - All I Want for Christmas (12/4/06)
#103 - Deck the Halls with Déjà Vu (11/27/06)
#102 - Cool Runnings (11/20/06)
#101 - Oh, the Irony (11/13/06)
#100 - Another Fine Mess… (10/30/06)
#99 - A Prestigious Departure (10/23/06)
#98 - There’s a First Time for Everything (10/16/06)
#97 - Effin’ A (Rated R version) (10/9/06)
#96 - Marching Orders (10/2/06)
#95 - An Inconvenient Truth (9/25/06)
#94 - Cut to the Chase (9/21/06)
#93 - You Had Me and You Lost Me (9/18/06)
#92 - Chase Sequence, Part Two (9/11/06)
#91 - Chase Sequence, Part One (9/8/06)
#90 - Idio(cra)cy (9/3/06)
#89 - More Than You Think (8/28/06)
#88 - Back to Business (8/25/06)
#87 - Turn That Frown Upside-Down (8/24/06)
#86 - In Cold Blood (8/23/06)
#85 - The Long Goodbye (8/22/06)
#84 - Leaving on a Jet Plane (8/21/06)
#83 - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go (8/18/06)
#82 - Synecdoche Synecdoche Synecdoche (8/14/06)
#81 - Some Things Are Sacred (8/11/06)
#80 - Fixer Upper (8/10/06)
#79 - She Was My Soulmate (8/7/06)
#78 - Night at the Multiplex (7/31/06)
#77 - The Multiplex Examiner (7/24/06)
#76 - To Make a Short Story Long (7/17/06)
#75 - Pirates of the Pirates of the Caribbean (7/10/06)
#74 - Swords and Suckery (7/7/06)
#73 - Look, Up in the Sky (7/4/06)
#72 - It’s the Principle of It (spoiler-free version) (7/3/06)
#71 - Get Your Money’s Worth (6/26/06)
#70 - Speaking of Which… (6/19/06)
#69 - The Department of Homeland Cinema (6/19/06)
#68 - Secrets and Lies (6/15/06)
#67 - Caution Period (6/12/06)
#66 - An Unholy Union, Epilogue (6/12/06)
#65 - An Unholy Union, Part Two (6/8/06)
#64 - An Unholy Union, Part One (6/5/06)
#63 - Take a Stand (5/29/06)
#62 - See No See No Evil (5/29/06)
#61 - What Would Jesus Watch? (5/22/06)
#60 - Making Water (5/22/06)
#59 - He Was Directing in His Mind (5/22/06)
#58 - Familiarity Breeds Contentment (5/22/06)
#57 - Why M:i:III Only Got $48 Million (5/15/06)
#56 - Blast from the Past (5/1/06)
#55 - That Would Be Illogical (4/24/06)
#54 - The Second Coming (4/15/06)
#53 - On the Money (4/10/06)
#52 - Young Love (4/3/06)
#51 - Well, Obviously… (4/3/06)
#50 - Git-R-Done! (3/27/06)
#49 - The Lesser of Two Evils (3/20/06)
#48 - Happy Birthday, Becky (3/13/06)
#47 - Oscar Watch 2006 (3/6/06)
#46 - The Blogger Strikes Back (2/27/06)
#45 - Off with Her Head? (2/20/06)
#44 - The New New Guy, Continued (2/16/06)
#43 - The New New Guy (2/13/06)
#42 - A Meeting of Minds (2/6/06)
#41 - Parental Advisory (1/30/06)
#40 - Be Nice (1/23/06)
#39 - Arrr (1/20/06)
#38 - Weighing Things Out (1/20/06)
#37 - Earning Your Paycheck (1/20/06)
#36 - I Have a Bad Feeling About This (1/18/06)
#35 - Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (1/16/06)
#34 - Jason’s Shining Moment (1/9/06)
#33 - Saw That Coming (1/9/06)
#32 - It’s So Big! (1/9/06)
#31 - I Love You, Meiling Melançon (1/2/06)
#30 - For Your Consideration (1/2/06)
#29 - And the Winner Is… (1/2/06)
#28 - To the Extreme (12/26/05)
#27 - Merry Christmas from Multiplex (12/19/05)
#26 - Ride ’Im, Cowboy (12/12/05)
#25 - What’s It All About? (12/5/05)
#24 - Head to Head (11/28/05)
#23 - The Dementor’s Kiss (11/20/05)
#22 - Pinoy Power (11/13/05)
#21 - Just Say “Nah” (11/7/05)
#20 - They Came, They Saw (10/31/05)
#19 - He’s Just Persistent (10/24/05)
#18 - Gimme an E! (10/16/05)
#17 - The Gay Blade (10/9/05)
#16 - That’s Really Interesting (10/2/05)
#15 - The Blogger Returns (9/28/05)
#14 - M’m M’m Good (9/25/05)
#13 - The Best Spot, Part Three (9/18/05)
#12 - The Best Spot, Part Two (9/11/05)
#11 - The Best Spot, Part One (9/7/05)
#10 - Rage! Rage! (8/30/05)
#9 - Story of His Life (8/21/05)
#8 - The Blogger (8/14/05)
#7 - True Love (8/9/05)
#6 - What’s That, Sonny? (8/1/05)
#5 - Girls, Girls, Girls (7/28/05)
#4 - Show Me the Monkey (7/17/05)
#3 - Girl Power (7/14/05)
#2 - Seriously (7/10/05)
#1 - I’m Sorry (7/10/05)
NOTES FROM THE MANAGER
Related Strips :
#379: While You Were Gone II: The Wrath of Keith;
#390: Daydream Believer;
#393: I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me
I just want to repeat a couple bits of news since Friday morning:
1) Winners of the second batch of five Multiplex: Chapter 1 print comics have been notified via the Kickstarter Project 's Message Center.
Time for pledge incentive number THREE!
For every $500 we get added to the total between now and October 19th, one lucky backer will get their pretty face drawn Multiplex -style for their Twitter / Facebook / whatever avatar. You'll get AI files and JPGs, so you can do whatever you need with them.
I'm starting the count from $4500, meaning if we get to $5000 before I post the strip for Monday, October 19th, there will be one winner. If we get to $5500 by then, there will be TWO; $6000 gets three winners; and so on.
(While it's not part of the prize, once I've drawn you, there's a pretty good bet you will appear in the print comic at some point as an extra, too.)
2) I've added a new Kickstarter Backers-only strip — from the upcoming second Chapter eBook (and of course the print collection, as well). It's the first of a three-part story called "Hostile Makeover," set after #42 in the archives, and explaining — at long last — Becky's new haircut and glasses.
The previous backers-only strip — a "guest strip" by Kurt — is temporarily up as the TopWebComics vote incentive (until I post a new incentive), to give those of you who have not yet pledged a taste of what you're missing out on. I will not be posting all of the backers-only strips as vote incentives, so if you want to read more Multiplex , pledge today — even just one little dollar will let you read the backers-only posts. But, of course, the $5 level will give you the Chapter eBooks. ;) And then, why not just reserve your copy of the print book now by pledging at the $30 level, since you know you're going to want it, anyway?
Oh, and a couple of new ones:
3) I made a guest appearance in Friday's Theater Hopper , kicking off a new storyline that is ripped straight outta real life. I'm always thrilled to see myself pop up online. I mean, shit, I'm not even in my own comic, unlike Tom's or Joe's .
I was not actually that angry. Mildly disappointed that I'd made it almost a week without knowing ____ __ _ ______ _____. (Don't actually try to decipher what those underlines mean, because they don't.)
4) Because my tongue is stitchless and deemed 100% healthy, there will be a Triple Feature tonight! We will be talking about Zombieland! And maybe some other shit!
5) PLEASE take this ONE-QUESTION SURVEY about the Multiplex: Book 1 print collection. I need help gauging the level of interest in the print book in order to help decide the size of the print run.
UPDATE (10/13): I've noticed in responses to the survey that a VERY small number of people have misgivings about the planned $25 cover price, and I feel compelled to respond.
I'm not DC Comics. I'm not printing up 10,000 copies here. Oversized , 188-page, full-color squarebound books are not cheap, and the fewer books you get, the more they cost per book.
These are the hard numbers: I need to sell the book at 60–70% OFF to distributors. With a $20 cover price, 60% off is $8. With a $25 cover price, that's $10.
With a 750 copy print run, I can't get them printed anywhere for less than $9 — to say nothing of shipping, store costs, PayPal Merchant accounts, SSL certificates, paying my assistant to ship everything, and so on.
For 1000 copies, they'll run me about $8 each just to print them. Selling them to a distributor for $8 is still not viable at this point.
For 1500 copies, I can probably get them for about $6–7, in which case selling to distributors for $8 becomes viable.
If I get 1000 YES responses, shit yeah, the print run will be 1500 and the book can cost $20. But I'm trying to be realistic here. Is Multiplex: Book 1 going to sell 1500 copies in the first year — or two years, even? I doubt it. I only get like 7500 readers per day, guys. Comics with three times my readership don't sell through 1000 books in a year.
I know, you guys aren't retailers or comic book distributors. But I have to set a cover price keeping those sales in mind. Yes, it also means I'll make a healthy profit off each Multiplex Store sale in a 1000 copy run, even after all my other Multiplex-related expenses. But… um… I'm not making these to break even, you know? I'd really like to be able to do comics full-time. Maybe do Multiplex 3 or 5 times a week? Maybe get the second collection out before another four years goes by? This one book won't let me do all of that, no matter how quickly it sells through, but it should get me closer, not farther away from that goal.
So, they're $25. I can and undoubtedly will offer them for less than cover price (at least sometimes), but it's simply not good business to offer a book for sale to retailers and then undercut them at my own store by a significant margin. Retailers need a reason to order the books themselves, and with 1000 copies or more, I can't rely on just Multiplex Store sales alone to push those out the door.
Lest anybody think I'm going to make a profit off of the Kickstarter project directly, the $7500 goal from Kickstarter would get me about $5400 (after Amazon payments' fees and income taxes — because yes, I gotta pay taxes on it). Minus costs to print and ship all of the non-book pledge rewards and minus my living expenses (because helping me finish the book is part of the project) — I'm very likely still going to be paying for half of the print run out of pocket.
Every penny of the Kickstarter funds will be accounted for in future Kickstarter updates.