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            A million dollars! And all he draws are stick figures!

> After years and years of giving his work away for free, Rich Burlew just
> raked in more than a million.
>

Via Hacker News [1], “The Crowd- Funding Phenomenon Continues – Comic Raises
$1.2M on Kickstarter (+Q&A with Creator Rich Burlew)! | Singularity Hub [2]”

Wow. Rich Burlew just raised over a million dollars from his fans. For
drawing a comic based on stick figures.

Granted, it took him nine years to to get the fan base for this, but still,
that's quite a payout. And the best bit is that he did it on his own terms
without reliquishing his intellectual property [3] (link via my very first
post [4]).

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3701721
[2] http://singularityhub.com/2012/03/06/the-crowd-funding
[3] http://www.celshader.com/tips/dave_sim/procon.html
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:1999/12/04.1

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