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  • Comics Kingdom is replacing their comics with a paywall today

    From Lynn McGuire@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 19 17:26:52 2022
    Comics Kingdom is replacing their comics with a paywall today:
    https://comicskingdom.com/crankshaft
    https://comicskingdom.com/funky-winkerbean
    https://comicskingdom.com/hagar-the-horrible

    The first comic may be free.

    The annual cost is $20/year. I guess that covers all comics in their
    stable.

    Lynn

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  • From Mark Jackson@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Thu May 19 23:08:22 2022
    On 5/19/2022 6:26 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    The annual cost is $20/year.  I guess that covers all comics in their stable.

    Yes, and you can build a custom page with all your regular reads. Their website is clunky and suffers various failures much more often than,
    say, GoComics - but it's worth the money on balance. YMMV.

    --
    Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/
    COBOL could be here forever. Thus, Y2K+N problems are
    likely to recur for all nonnegative integer values of N.
    - Peter G. Neumann

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Fri May 20 16:51:57 2022
    On 2022-05-19 22:26:52 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:

    Comics Kingdom is replacing their comics with a paywall today:
    https://comicskingdom.com/crankshaft
    https://comicskingdom.com/funky-winkerbean
    https://comicskingdom.com/hagar-the-horrible

    The first comic may be free.

    The annual cost is $20/year. I guess that covers all comics in their stable.

    Lynn

    To access the current ones (the latest 10?), you can either:

    - use a Prive / Incognito window in your browser,
    or - keep deleting the cookie "comicskingdom.com".

    Either way, without the cookie, the website doesn't know you've visited before.

    You do have to pay to access old strips in the "archive" though.

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  • From Dave Van Domelen@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri May 20 18:24:52 2022
    In article <t676pd$llm$[email protected]>,
    Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2022-05-19 22:26:52 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:

    Comics Kingdom is replacing their comics with a paywall today:
    https://comicskingdom.com/crankshaft
    https://comicskingdom.com/funky-winkerbean
    https://comicskingdom.com/hagar-the-horrible

    The first comic may be free.

    The annual cost is $20/year. I guess that covers all comics in their stable.

    Lynn

    To access the current ones (the latest 10?), you can either:

    - use a Prive / Incognito window in your browser,
    or - keep deleting the cookie "comicskingdom.com".


    Another trick that still works is to right-click on the thumbnail for
    the Buy A Print ad and open in another tab...it's the full sized image just displayed tiny.

    Dave Van Domelen, figures a pinch and zoom on a mobile device would also work there....

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  • From Lynn McGuire@21:1/5 to Your Name on Fri May 20 14:44:29 2022
    On 5/19/2022 11:51 PM, Your Name wrote:
    On 2022-05-19 22:26:52 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:

    Comics Kingdom is replacing their comics with a paywall today:
        https://comicskingdom.com/crankshaft
        https://comicskingdom.com/funky-winkerbean
        https://comicskingdom.com/hagar-the-horrible

    The first comic may be free.

    The annual cost is $20/year.  I guess that covers all comics in their
    stable.

    Lynn

    To access the current ones (the latest 10?), you can either:

      - use a Prive / Incognito window in your browser,
    or - keep deleting the cookie "comicskingdom.com".

    Either way, without the cookie, the website doesn't know you've visited before.

    You do have to pay to access old strips in the "archive" though.

    I deleted the cookie for now. I should pay though since I read them
    every day.

    Lynn

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  • From Blinky the Wonder Wombat@21:1/5 to Mark Jackson on Fri May 20 13:15:00 2022
    On Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 11:08:27 PM UTC-4, Mark Jackson wrote:
    On 5/19/2022 6:26 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    The annual cost is $20/year. I guess that covers all comics in their stable.
    Yes, and you can build a custom page with all your regular reads. Their website is clunky and suffers various failures much more often than,
    say, GoComics - but it's worth the money on balance. YMMV.

    --
    Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/
    COBOL could be here forever. Thus, Y2K+N problems are
    likely to recur for all nonnegative integer values of N.
    - Peter G. Neumann

    I've subscribed to CK for years now- it seems right as I use their product and want to support tha artists. My complaint though is about the nigh near usless web interface. Although I've registered for daily delivery of my comics, I have gotten any
    emails in many years. My log in seems to dumped every so oftern and the site won't even let me log in on some devices. (The less said about the months-long failure to permit any log ins, the better.)

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Sat May 21 10:00:56 2022
    On 2022-05-20 19:44:29 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:
    On 5/19/2022 11:51 PM, Your Name wrote:
    On 2022-05-19 22:26:52 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:

    Comics Kingdom is replacing their comics with a paywall today:
    ��� https://comicskingdom.com/crankshaft
    ��� https://comicskingdom.com/funky-winkerbean
    ��� https://comicskingdom.com/hagar-the-horrible

    The first comic may be free.

    The annual cost is $20/year.� I guess that covers all comics in their stable.

    Lynn

    To access the current ones (the latest 10?), you can either:

    � - use a Prive / Incognito window in your browser,
    or - keep deleting the cookie "comicskingdom.com".

    Either way, without the cookie, the website doesn't know you've visited before.

    You do have to pay to access old strips in the "archive" though.

    I deleted the cookie for now. I should pay though since I read them every day.

    Lynn

    The cookie will come back every time you visit the website, so you'll
    have to keep deleting it or have a way to block it.

    As for paying for it, that's up to you and your own conscience. I've
    never used the website other than looking at the paywall complaints, so
    I don't know anything about it. They obviously do not own the comic
    strips, but I have no idea if they legitmately pay licence fees to host
    them or simply harvest/steal them from other websites.

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  • From Mark Jackson@21:1/5 to Your Name on Fri May 20 19:05:03 2022
    On 5/20/2022 6:00 PM, Your Name wrote:
    As for paying for it, that's up to you and your own conscience. I've
    never used the website other than looking at the paywall complaints, so
    I don't know anything about it. They obviously do not own the comic
    strips, but I have no idea if they legitmately pay licence fees to host
    them or simply harvest/steal them from other websites.

    It's the web outlet of King Features Syndicate, which owns the rights to publish all of the comics that appear there. (Newspapers that run these
    strips license the rights from KFS.)

    --
    Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/
    COBOL could be here forever. Thus, Y2K+N problems are
    likely to recur for all nonnegative integer values of N.
    - Peter G. Neumann

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