Cons and Questions

I will be at PopCon this weekend in Evansville, IN, promoting books and doing my thing.  I've got a very, very light Convention Schedule this year.  In fact, so far, I've only got this show, SPACE, and a show in... Cinncinnati?  I think.  SPACE is next weekend, and is my favorite show of the year.  So after these two shows I'm virtually done for the year already.  After the rough year I had on the Convention Circuit last year, I'm actually pretty happy to have a relaxed and light schedule this year.

I've had a couple of ideas lately.  If you're a TORC Press fan, and you have any opinions or responses at all to the following ideas, please contact me either in the Comments section of this Blog, or through Facebook/Twitter, or just e-mail me with your thoughts at:  cactusfnjoe@hotmail.com.  Anyway, here we go:

1.  Subscriptions:  Lately I've noticed that a lot of Small Press Companies are offering Subscriptions to their comics.  I've been toying with the idea myself for quite awhile, but I don't know if anyone would be interested enough to make it worthwhile.  Also, the erratic nature of being a self-publisher made it kind of... risky.  But here lately I've really got my rhythm down, and I think I could possibly offer Subscriptions.  I couldn't offer any significant discounts on the books, but I would probably throw in cool freebies.  A Subscription from a Reader's perspective would ensure you got the latest issue of HFSAC hot off the press, no fuss, no muss, along with probably some free art or whatever. 
Anyway, if anyone out there is interested in a Subscription Service, let me know.

2.  Trade Paperbacks:  I, personally, don't really like Trade Paperbacks as much as I like Traditional Comics.  BUT, I know that nowadays people LOVE their Trades, so maybe I should occasionally collect my comics in TPB form.  I tried it with the first 6 issues of HFSAC, but sales were so flat that I abandoned the idea.  If there are folks out there that would prefer to read TORC Press comics in Trade form, let me know, and I'll see what I can do about it.

So, there you go.  If anyone out there has anything they wanna see from TORC Press, whether it's different comic formats or new merchandise or whatever, drop me a line at: cactusfnjoe@hotmail.com.