A Torrent of 8th Anniversary News
By my calculations, DS is going to hit 2000 comics in a little under two months. April is Clango’s 8th birthday. I’d like to celebrate by releasing the entire webcomic archive for free in ten volumes. It worked for Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead- not bad company to try and keep!
These files will be in PDF form, available one per week for ten weeks. You can donate if so inclined, or take advantage of ten classic shirt designs @$10.99. At the end of ten weeks, I plan to release a special anniversary art book.
All eBooks will be released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial license. You’re free to reformat them into .CBR, Word docs, XML, whatever you like. You’re also free to archive and share them with others for free. They’re even small enough to email. Just don’t use them commercially.
Volunteer torrent seeders/posters should email me, so I can get you the files a day early and you can give me the location of your torrents.
I’m really excited to get Diesel Sweeties into the hands of new readers in a new way- and even more excited to make a sexy art book to take on tour this summer.
We begin the experiment this Wednesday, 3/12. Prepare your inter-tubes.
If your book store, record store, coffeeshop or organization would like to have me out for a signing this summer, please email!
March 10th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Well, you are a very cool person.
March 10th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Wow, 8th birthday? Congrats Rich.
That’s a great idea, very generous of you.
I raise a toast to you, Mr. Stevens.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:07 am
What a great thing! Thank you!
March 11th, 2008 at 1:54 am
What day would you be planning on getting the files to the seeders? I’ve got a tight schedule, but if I’m free on the select day so I can get them up, I’ll gladly host.
March 11th, 2008 at 11:00 am
This is totally hawesome. I keep meaning to catch up on the DS archives, but I always lose track of where I finished off. This way I can read the whole thing in one fell swoop!
March 11th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Just wanted to let you know we love Diesel Sweeties and this idea.
We have given you a shout out on Robot Living.
http://www.robotliving.com/2008/03/10/diesel-sweeties-catalog-released/
Cheers!
March 11th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Congrats, R! That’s exactly the sort of thing I love to stash and it may or may not end up in a strictly hypothetical collection of slightly-less-authorized comic archives!
How large of a file are we to expect?
Have you forewarned (or prepaid) your ISP, bought them candy and delicious Bawls?
Will you be releasing an official torrent seed or is that task purview of the savvy fan?
Conspiring minds want to know!
-X
March 11th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
DAN!
I was planning to put things up on Wednesday, but may drop it a day early (today) because of the strong response.
RYAN!
You just summed up the first reason I wanted to do this. Having a big archive is a boon and a burden at the same time.
TODD!
Thanko!
XUPA!
We’re looking at 8-12 meg per volume. Nothing too insane. I’m getting seeders in place now.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Get it here http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4074079/dieselsweeties_volume01_ webcomic_ebook.pdf
March 11th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Yargh – formatting ate it:
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4074079/dieselsweeties_volume01_webcomic_ebook.pdf
March 11th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Wow!
March 12th, 2008 at 10:11 am
The Diesel Sweeties PDF Collection
Weil’s ja auch bei Radiohead und Nine Inch Nails funktioniert hat, veröffentlicht rstevens zur Feier des 2000. Webcomics von Diesel Sweeties sämtliche Pixelstorys als PDFs! Es wird zehn “eBooks” mit je 200 Webcomics geben – alles f…
March 12th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
This a great move (even if I would have preferred .cbr or cbz., which I can read on my PSP). I’ve never read DS more than sporadically, like with any web comic, but this way you may actually hook me. O’ll probably plunk down for a t-shirt come payday just to say thanks.
March 12th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Cartoon: Diesel Sweeties archive now available for download
Popular cartoon web site “Diesel Sweeties” is celebrating its 8th anniversary and started to release its entire archive of almost 2,000 comics for free.
The archives are made available for download in 10 PDF files – one per week – starting…
March 14th, 2008 at 3:00 am
Comics-Sammlung gratis im Netz
Richard Stevens, der Schöpfer des Diesel Sweeties Comics, veröffentlicht die annähernd 2000 bisher erschienenen Comicstrips in 10 Teilen während der nächsten 10 Wochen. Die Comics stehen unter einer CC-Lizenz, die die nichtk…
March 20th, 2008 at 2:03 am
PDFs are available on my website:
http://murent.us/dieselsweeties/
March 20th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
This great! I’ve been meaning to catch up with the archives now it’s easy! Thank you! And I won’t kill your bandwidth costs for the month while doing it!
March 31st, 2008 at 12:55 am
[...] Yup, I’m giving out PDFs of the entire web archive under a CC license. There will be ten volumes, one per week till it’s done! You can read more about it in this blog post. [...]
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:49 pm
[...] Sorry we’re a little late this week! I’m giving out PDFs of the entire web archive under a CC license. There will be ten volumes, one per week till it’s done! You can read more about it in this blog post. [...]
April 11th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
[...] Sorry we’re a little late this week! I’m giving out PDFs of the entire web archive under a CC license. There will be ten volumes, one per week till it’s done! You can read more about it in this blog post. [...]
April 11th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
[...] Sorry we’re a little late this week! I’m giving out PDFs of the entire web archive under a CC license. There will be ten volumes, one per week till it’s done! You can read more about it in this blog post. [...]
April 13th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
What a wonderful thing to do! Categorized pages of the strips are really needed, and now a reader could create them for all of us. I always wanted to be able to find strips I can’t search easily for. We need a page of links to find things like: all the Red Robot murder sprees, or the first appearance of a specific character, or a timeline of the strip, or a specific type of strip, like “all strips referring to dinosaurs or the ghost of the gasoline in your car.”
April 27th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Dude…you’re cool !
way to go ! lead the way….
June 16th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
[...] 3 months ago we blogged about the great webcomic Diesel Sweeties and the decision of its creator, rstevens, to release a 10 volume set of DS archives under a CC BY-NC license. Over [...]
August 25th, 2008 at 12:24 am
[...] this month, Stevens made waves in the comics industry yet again with the announcement that, in celebration of the series’ upcoming 2000th strip, he would release the entirety of [...]
October 6th, 2008 at 9:08 am
[...] Autor der erfolgreichen Webcomic-Serie “Diesel Sweeties” hat angekündigt, das gesamte Archiv des Comics unter einer Creative Commons-Lizenz freitzugeben. Wir wünschen frohe Lektüre an dunklen [...]