publishing your works in comic form

[ULTRAMAN]

hi everyone

this is my first post here and i'm starting with a question if you guys don't mind

if given the chance, how willing are you to allow your works to be adapted into comic/manga form and be distributed for free online?

if yes, what will be your concerns?


*i personally write superhero fan fiction so it suits the comic form very well... but i'm not sure how others think...

thanks and cheers

[mammamaia]

if given the chance, how willing are you to allow your works to be adapted into comic/manga form and be distributed for free online?

all of my work is already free to all who want it, either online from my website, or in book form , so the second part of your question is moot... as to the first, i doubt my writings would lend themselves to graphic adaptation...

as for those who write fiction, i can't see why they'd want to [I]give away work they most likely wrote to sell... i'll be interested in seeing if i'm wrong on that, when you get more replies to this...

[Kursal]

My personal feeling is, where is the income going? I work on the internet day in, day out. I know that you can monetize a website whilst still providing a free service to the sites patrons. If I were to put forward any work, it would be with the proviso that I get some share in any money made as a direct result of said work.

If I was writing fan-fic, that would be different but I'm not. I am also someone who likes to keep up the quality on work that I do. I would want to make sure I was happy with whoever was illustrating the work and the style they were using.

Finally, I suppose, there would be the subject of copyright. The website would, I assume, want some form of exclusivity contract, or worldwide distribution contract in place before displaying the work. Where would that leave me with what I can do with the work subsequently?

They're all questions that need answering before I could consider writing for a web-comic.