Posted by: Selfish Jerk # 5
 

A REAL artist would starve, go to jail, and not make money off his work! Dude. You should totally take out a loan, go into debt printing the books, and get arrested for it, because that's what a not-sellout would do. DUH.

Brian... do you keep higher resolution versions of the 8-bit strips?

Just talking... I was thinking about make my own volumes of 8-bit theatre (not for sale, just for me). 100 pages every book... not sure how many could cost todo 1 book every time in a proffesional printing, or if i could do it with special paper in my printer :/

Binding is cheap...

Well, there will be problems:
- Printing Price
- Resolution
- Strip?s Format: I?m not sure if they are "A4"... and there are lots of strips that are larger (or short).

Need to search some info...

Everyone suggests that. The short version of my answer is that I'm more likely to discover unicorns cause hurricanes.

Well, if you did it in black and white on stock paper with low res ink on softcover and print 2 strips a page front and back you could get away with $50-$60. Of course that would be only just legible and would be larger and heavier than grey's anatomy. This is all assuming Brian would do all this nonprofit and get commercial bulk sale price, and I see no reason for him to do that.

The $120 option would be about 5lbs in semi-gloss mag print hardcover.

You never know. They might be.

Maybe, but Square Enix still wouldn't go through with it, likely.

The fact is, at least from my experience in the FFXI community, they are more or less impossible to work with, and if you do, very little will actually get done.

Even if they did try and work with Brian, they'd first force him to translate the whole thing into Japanese, sell the books to Japan first for a few years, then release a shitty version elsewhere for $500 a book.

It'd be a fucking nightmare and they probably would look confused(Or laugh and/or smack him) if Brian was expecting to get paid for it.

SE can make some good stuff, but only if they both own it entirely, without question, and actually feel like it.

Square-Enix are filthy whores. Their lawyers drink in the blood of anyone who infringe on their copyright. Even perfectly innocent romhacks (Crimson Echoes) are shut down 1-2 weeks before their release after a several year development.

The fact that they haven't attacked 8-Bit Theater in all the years it's ran despite using FF1 graphics is a testament to the fact that someone in SE loves the comic, I guess.

Brian "works" for Marvel. Kinda. Marvel is owned by Disney. Disney and Square-Enix publish Kingdom Hearts, or something like that. ∴ Square-Enix...works for Brian.

I don't know.

Well we already found out boobies cause earthquakes.

Anyways yes, an 8BT book is dumb. It would cost less total money if everyone who would ACTUALLY purchase such a book took a usb drive with all the comics to staples and had them printed out, then taken to a book-binder and had them leatherbound.

Which would be pretty rad, especially if the cover said "the illustrated guide to scatological tricks."