Books by Peter Tarkulich
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The First Bardsworth Collection
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The Second Bardsworth Collection
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Wait, coffee? I thought they called it jitter juice?
You are absolutely correct, that was a slip-up on my part. Originally I had the script saying, “…had more money for Inspiration…”, but since you can’t see capital letters and since it’s been a long time since the name of the cafe was mentioned, I was afraid people would get confused. So then I thought about using “cafe”, but then I waffled on whether or not people in the Bardsworth universe used that word. So, last minute, I just typed coffee shop without thinking. I have now gone back to “cafe”. I figure Mike’s translation spell probably accounts for that sort of thing, right? 😉
Thanks for pointing that out!!
I want Mike’s fourth-panel line on a t-shirt. Can we have Mike’s fourth-panel line on a t-shirt, Pete? Can we? Please? Pretty please?
I would love nothing more than to produce that t-shirt, but t-shirts are something that always seem like a good idea, but come back to bite me in the butt. I STILL have t-shirts left over from the last couple of runs I did. I can’t get rid of them!
Admittedly I don’t know much about the production and sales angle, but from the user angle, a good t-shirt is tremendously fun. My “Everyone has their demons. Mine bakes me cookies” shirt draws compliments pretty much every time I wear it.
And you don’t have to stop with t-shirts. Mike’s line about “incidents” would be downright amazing on a onesie or child-sized shirt.
Which t-shirts do you have left over? Maybe if your site had a “Store” button…?
Sorry, that was supposed to be a reply to Pete’s reply to my comment about the t-shirts.
About the store button – I know, I know, I’ve been really bad about getting that up and running. I had a store button eons ago and barely ever sold anything, so my motivation for putting in the work to get a new on up and running has been minimal. It’s on my list of things to get done, for sure.
Heh. Yeah, I understand that. And it doesn’t help that only a certain percentage of a strip’s readers will actually spend money on merchandise to begin with, and they’re not all going to want the same item. So does it make more sense to offer a greater variety of products so more people will find something they want, or to offer a smaller variety of products so your design and production costs are lower? What products will sell the most units or bring in the most profit? And what’s your optimal products-to-readers ratio? I really have no idea. And it’s not as though you have loads of extra time and energy and money to go to cons, take out ads on other sites, and generally promote the strip and sell stuff, what with spending time with your family and working to support them and all.
(I’m really not saying any of this to discourage you. If anything, my point is that I totally understand why it doesn’t work for you to make like Santa Claus with the merch. I’m no marketing whiz, but if you want to e-mail me, I’d be happy to help talk through the problem a bit.)
you know if mike worked as a barista on earth over the summer he could make a fortune selling espresso and latte’s to the bards