TJIC [Member Since: October 17 '07]

I’m one of the founders of HeavyInk.com.

I live in a house with two dogs, a pile of books and comic books, and five lathes (three metal lathes and two wood lathes).

The dogs are a 12 year old male Australian Cattle Dog named Strider, and a 2 year old Corgi / Australian Cattle Dog mix named Ocho.

I was interviewed about HeavyInk over at ComicsReporter.

HeavyInk was profiled in MassHighTech here.

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vimian says:

yeah exactly…its called a duck-walk…brutal on the whole body…and I must agree, my arms do look damn sexy in that pic. cheers dude!

TJIC said:

Dude – you’re buff!

What’sthat thing that you’re man-handling? Some sort of T-bar with plates at the end?

Dana says:

I have tried my best to get my friends into comic books. In fact, I even started a group in my city for the book “Drawing Words and Writing Pictures” (if you haven’t already, you should check it out)so a bunch of people can come together and learn how to create comics. However, I’ve come to find that most of my friends are more into drawing comics than reading them. All I can say is that they’re missing out.

daynah says:

Marketing books always strike me as a whole buck or facts about psychology with no data or sources. The Marketers who write the books are so gosh darn good at their jobs that the students believe it unquestioningly and soak it up like a sponge. If you want a real good basis you marketing, get some kind of major/miner combo in Psychology and Business. Or heck, skip the business altogether, since both marketing and psychology is the study of searning about and controling other people’s minds. I wanted so desperately to be a biopsych major… basically controlling minds with drugs..

Alex Sheikman says:

The bowl from your May 27th post is awesome! What is the wood and what sort of finish did you put on it?

Thank you for supporting Robotika!

Dana says:

You have created a great thing. Also, I want a corgi, they are big dogs in small packages.

pat514 says:

Hey, are you guys planning on setting something up for comic-con (the one in San Diego) this year? This is going to be my first one and I’d be psyched to see something from Heavyink at the con!

Comics Monkey says:

Yeps – I’ve been LARPing since before I worked for TVR. I also do things for a LARP con in Boston. Since I’m just THAT much of a geek. _

TJIC said:

You LARP?

nzc says:

You know, I just realized that it would make an awesome forehead tattoo. I’ve got to get drunk, pronto!!!

TJIC said:

Just noticed the new avatar. Ha!

MotherFirefly says:

Thanks! I wish I was cool enough to wear combat boots and a skirt.

TJIC said:

Most excellent avatar! (I love Daria!)

nzc says:

HAW! HAW! HAW! —j. chick, noted theologian

TJIC said:

Just noticed the new avatar. Ha!

daynah says:

He has been rightly chastised.

TJIC said:

Daynah, we are definately going to create T-shirts (including limited edition ones), and because you’ve been such a great customer (blogging, forums, all that good stuff) you were already on the short list to get a freebie in the mail.

Someone (cough) has been a bit tardy in delivering the T-shirt design, so it’s not going to be done in time for your con…but keep checking the <s>skies</s> mailbox!

daynah says:

I will be working at a convention on Memorial Day weekend… and I haven’t decided what to wear yet! The only rule for staff is that we wear… “clothes.” If there were a magical heavyink shirt that existed, I would be very happy to wear it for some of the con (not every day, ew).

Scott Wegener says:

Great interview with The Comics Reporter!

http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/cr_newsmaker_interview_travis_ji_corcoran_of_heavyinkcom/

(Sorry I don’t know how to link properly to that.)

You guys were our Knight in Shining Armor with that whole Atomic Robo/Diamond fuck up.

Thanks again for getting the book out to people!!

daynah says:

I hope you deal with your loss with grace

FrogMan says:

hey there, Gravel has me intrigued but I see it linked to Strange Kiss (and the sequel) on some reviews on the web. I saw you really didn’t like the Kiss books but yet are pulling Gravel. What’s your take on it? Good, not good, interesting? Many thanks in advance.

MattC says:

hey – go check out http://dreamcafe.com/firefly.html, where awesome scifi author Stephen Brust posted, for free, his own novel set in the ‘Verse (set between the end of Firefly and the events of the movie)

Duggan says:

Hello – Thanks for ordering, taking the time to read, and then your very thoughtful review of my new comic – THE INFINITE HORIZON. It makes all the difference when a shop owner or in your case – a site operator gets behind an indie book like ours. Thanks for that. I noticed that you’re sold out – I’m sure that’s do to your kind words. I hope you like the rest of the series – issue 2 and the reprint are out in January. Thanks again, and Happy New Year – congrats on this cool site too – Best, Gerry Duggan

MD says: xkcd is comprised entirely of win. I don't remember how I discovered it ages ago (I mean, the comic was still in the 20s) but I have since performed exacting and rigorous scientific tests on it. We have confirmed a concentration no lower than 94.27% win with a .03% margin of error.
Todd Michael R. says: Thanks!
Todd Michael R. says: Good job on the cover thing..was that you? I justs pent way to much time clicking it...good job.
Todd Michael R. says: Hey, do you have a personal e-mail I can write to?
Todd Michael R. says: When I figure out how and where I'm going to publish it. I'm actually quite proud of the title, I can't wait to get the book done and out there... I'll probably let you guys see it before it's done, because you're all so cool and what not p.s. why are there so many freaking private profiles on here?
Chet says: This. Is. Cool. I suspect I'm about to spend money on comix again.
Todd Michael R. says: Thanks man! wait until you see my NEXT post...
Todd Michael R. says: TJIC, is there a way to search though users?
Dan says: Wow - 544 users! Sweet.
Todd Michael R. says: Gentleman, good job. I'm VERY interested to see how this'll turn out. -mE!
Wes says: You guys and this site has gotten me back into comics and for that I am very grateful. Thank You!
Matt says: Congrats Travis...nice writeup!
Drew says: Congrats on the new venture, and hello from the less-antagonized Horn.
jclemons says: Are you guys going to be offering toys and such, the same that we would find @ a comic shop?
Matt says: That service vs. price comparison is gonna be a key differentiator when it comes to marketing this bad boy. Also, the usability of this website far surpasses anything else I've seen in terms of strict comics retail online--that alone is worth paying for.
Matt says: I would take a rock-like state over a regular fleshy human one, any day.
TJIC says: When I'm very very mellow, I transform into a regular fleshy human, but the rest of the time I hang out in my rock-like state...
Matt says: Do you transform into that rock creature when you're angry, or just whenever?
TJIC says: Ngrvd wrote "I thought you were going to go with a cartoon icon?" Ha ha. :-/ Grrr....
erica says: Just placed my first order! w00t, etc.
nzc says: I thought you were going to go with a cartoon icon?
Comics Monkey says: Wonderful! Love the design. Mazel tov on the birth of a beautiful website! May it have a long and healthy live. L'chiam! ^_^
nzc says: There's still a sloppy joe and some oven fried chips waiting for you here.
Matt says: It looks amazing! Congrats!
TJIC says: Thanks!
nzc says: Nice job, guys.

If you do a google search for, say, “Ex Machina #31”, you’ll see that the top links on the page (or, maybe at the bottom of the page, under the search results, if google is doing A/B testing), includes three companies selling the issue:

  • us
  • two others.

I note that one worthy competitor of ours advertises the issue at $2.24, but then when you click through, the actual price is $2.69.

I tried this again with Ex Machina #29. Again, our competitor advertises it at a cut-rate $1.79, but then actually charges $2.69.

Not too cool!

Comments

by Robert at 06:25 PM March 20, 2008

That’s pretty lame that they have incorrect prices. Hopefully customers will get annoyed at that they are lying about prices and come over here.

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