Jan 16
In this picture ICECUBES is definitely in good company! Although the comparison is clearly unfair… for them. 
I just thought it was interesting to see how the first ICECUBES book was published compared to their first books.
Lucky you, unlike those other hard to find books, ICECUBES the comic strip Vol. 1 is still available! So why don’t you get your very own copy of the first ICECUBES book? Available exclusively on the Amazon Kindle. Just go to Amazon.com and type ICECUBES, or simply click here. You can also download it to your iPhone and PC!
Great news, the second book ICECUBES the comic strip Vol. 2 is coming out soon!
Well, here we are at the dawn of a new decade and ‘ICECUBES the comic strip’ has been on the web for its first full year!
First and foremost, I wish to thank ALL our readers from around the world wide web and beyond who have spent some time sharing the adventures and musings of Peckinpaw, Freeze, Nooky and Eggman. These characters only come alive when you, the fans, read them. They fully depend on you for their very existence!
The ‘ICECUBES the comic strip’ website has had nearly 60,000 visits since it started, a record for any website I’ve been involved with! I look forward to many more visitors during 2010. To try and reach that goal I’ve made some major efforts to upgrade the site and make it more user friendly. The comic strips are much bigger on the page, the navigation is easier and the archives are more handy. Additionally, I have introduced color in some of the strips. You’ll be seeing more color in 2010.
I have to express much gratitude to Raphael Hofer at http://www.raphaelhofer.ch/ and (funny enough, no relation) Phil Hofer at http://comicpresspremium.com/ for their inestimable help in my coding forays. The site would not be the same without you guys. Thank you.
Additionally, we have the most free online subscribers we’ve ever had to ‘ICECUBES the comic strip.’ Of course I would love more! Subscribers get the comic as soon as it is published delivered directly to them thru email or in a reader. It’s a great way to never miss a strip, so subscribe it’s free.
In 2009, ‘ICECUBES the comic strip Vol. 1′ was published on the Kindle and iPhone and is available at Amazon.com. Just type ‘Icecubes’ at Amazon.com and you’ll be able to download 50 individual strips to your iPhone, Kindle or PC for just $2.99. This collection of the very first 50 strips is a great introduction to ‘ICECUBES’ and the only way for true fans to read the first strips as many of them will never be published again. The plan is for Vol. 2 to be released very soon, priced even more affordably.
Finally, throughout 2009, I’ve had the great pleasure to meet ‘ICECUBES’ fans in person at various Comicons. It’s a true pleasure to meet you and it is a lift to my spirits to hear that you like the comic strip. It’s for people like you that I do the strip. Thank you!
All said, there are some things that are less rosy. You should know that the demands of writing, drawing and publishing are very great, especially for an endeavor that gets very little material returns. In fact the costs of maintaining the site host, domain name, coding, the time spent creating, the money spent promoting ‘ICECUBES’ far exceed anything gained to date, apart from the pleasure of doing the strip itself of course.
It also seems that the new world of webcomics is sometimes more about the web than about the comics.
For me and for those who like ‘ICECUBES’, I am satisfied with a love for well drawn comics in the old school genre, with storytelling that aims to be more universal, less parochial. I use the web to reach my readers, not because I am a web-head or computer geek, but because it is the most readily available medium within the control of the independent cartoonist. My desire is to make a comic strip people can identify with and enjoy reading.
My hope for 2010 is that somewhere – offline or online – ‘ICECUBES’ can find a true life of its own and grow to be a meaningful glimmer in an otherwise fragmented media landscape.
Yours truly,
Leroy Brown
