Paper Demon Online Store (Coming Soon!)

That's right! Pretty soon you'll be able to buy official Paper Demon merchandise including mouse pads, t-shirts, and sketch-journals!

The store hasn't opened yet. I still need to prepare products for it. I want to have a big launch with everyone elses products in there too! So listen up for details on joining in on the PaperDemon Store extraviganza.

Wall Calendars
It's close to Christmas time and what gift could be better than a beautiful 2006 Wall Calendar with art by the members here at Paper Demon!
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If you wish to have your artwork on a wall calendar and made available through the Paper Demon Cafe Press store, contact me about it with the artwork you are considering using. All submissions subject to review. Original Art Only! No Fanarts! You'll need to have your artwork digitized to the size of 11 x 8.5 at 200 dpi for full bleed. That's 2200 pixels by 1700 pixels so get your artwork prepared.

Base price for wall calendars is $3.99. I suppose a good selling price for these calendars would be $6 (so that's about a $2 mark up). I'll leave the price markup decision to the artist.

Because Calendars lose their usefulness as the year goes on, this will be a limited run. Most calendars will probably be removed from the store by the end of February to make room for fresher products.

I am thinking of a launch date somewhere around mid November when people start to do their christmas shopping.

SketchJournals
I predict this item to be the hottest item we sell yearround because we can advertise the Journal as a SketchJournal. It's a Journal with artwork on the front cover. There are no lines in it making it great for doodling or sketching during class. I'll definately buying a few of these!
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Base price is $7.49. I'm guessing a good price to sell these at is $9 or $10.

If you wish to have your art on a Journal, you'll need to have it prepared at 8.5 by 5.5 at 200 dpi for full bleed. (1700 pixels by 1100 pixels) Contact me if you wish to have your art on a Journal.

Mousepads
Would you believe that I DO NOT have a mouse pad? I don't! So I'm going to need to buy one! I'm sure a lot of you out there have really nasty old dirty ones from 10 years ago that need replacing.

Other Merchandise
CafePress has plenty of different merchandise available. If you want to sell something other than a Journal, Wall Calendar, or Mouse Pad, feel free to let me know what you want to sell. At this time I haven't set a limit on the products each person can have. I think it will depend on the diversity of the artwork.

How much will you make?
My decision right now in profit spliting is 50% for the artist and 50% for PaperDemon.com fund. That means if we sell a wall calendar with your art on it for $7, you get $1.50 which is half of the $3 profit.

We'll  have to have some way of me getting your cut of the money to you. The easiest thing to do is a PayPal money transfer. So for now I'm going to say get a PayPal account if you don't already have one. I think PayPal charges money for transfers so I'm not going to make transfers often. Maybe once you've accrued $25 or $50 then I'd make you a payment.

Advertising
By the way, this merchandise WILL be advertised throughout PaperDemon.com and the Red Curtain and POSSIBLY on ZarbonOnline.com in the form of image banners. So the advantage to selling through Paper Demon is wider exposure. Of course, you are more than welcome to open up your own CafePress store and sell your artwork on your own as well.

Official Merchandise
There will of course be official Paper Demon and Red Curtain products available. I'll probably make a mouse pad and journal each for Red Curtain and Paper Demon. I don't have plans to make a calendar at this time. The artwork on these products will have NON-fanart versions of my Paper Demon art used in the site designs.

Your thoughts, comments, suggestions?

I like that idea. It's a good way to get funding for the site, too, without begging for money through paypal and the like. It strikes me as far more professional.

I want to get a mousepad, as soon as it comes out. The one I have is lame.

Sounds awesome!! I'll look through my art and think about it. ^_^

I don't use a mousepad!! lol! My mouse is one that doesn't move. There's a red ball on the side of it that I move and that controls my cursor.

Yeah I'm pretty excited guys. This is going to be wicked! Do any of you happen to live in California Bay Area? The ZMT crew and I are planning on attending and setting up a booth to sell ZMT merchandise. Perhaps I'll bring along some of the Paper Demon stuff too.

Sounds coolies ^^ How about teeshirts too? Like mostly baby tees since we're mostly girls around here I believe, but that and button badges ^^ That would be cool

this is a really kick butt idea Susie! . Advertising Ppaerdemon's shtuff with merchandise..getting a bit of glory for the artists with their art featured on paperdemon products, ooo, sounds N-E-A-T-O! I'd buy a mouse-pad lol, mine is el-sucko and ripped at that! XD lol.

Wish I lived weee out there in Cali land, would be neat ta see yall set-up with Zarbon and paper demon stuff ^^ PLus the artists could actually meat!! lol...I'm too shy for stuff like that...LMAO...but yeah..I'm way out Louisianna land..so no way for me to get there lol, oh wellz lol.

Hmmm, original artwork only? Hm hm hmm, that include original ANIME artwork characters as well? I need to do more original stuff XD lol, I've done too many fan-works..maybe I should get into fantasy...I LOVE fantasy

Hehe, oh and Arkillian, I think yousa right about it being mostly girls on here O_x I'm a guy...but I mostly see females on here, why's that? O_x Meh, oh well, just who traffics in here I spose, nothin' wrong with female artists anyways WERE ALL EQUAL ARTISTS!!! , just odd it's mostly female I see lol.

Good luck to you artists who gonna be puttin your art up for Susie..I may do it..I dunno..but I could think of a few artists on here who SHOULD put their work on paper merchandise, would be a big help to Susie, plus ya might get more fans ....uhhhh.worshipers too! LOL

I live in New Jersey. lol I know there's no way I could come. But, I think D lives in CA. Not sure, though.

Yay! Paper Demon stuff! Goodie goodie. I absolutely love the mousepad idea, as mine's about 90 years old and ready to see the bottom of a trash can.

I'd also like to see some tee-shirts (I'm not a baby tee person myself, but hey ), have you planned on doing shirts in the future?

Awesome Susie, I can't wait to see all the good stuff! *clenches checkbook tightly in hands*

This is SUCH a nice idea!! I'd love to draw something for the journal!! xD Haha, This is really awesome!! Keep up the great idea BogusRed!! xD Hehe!

I love your ideas... xD 

On Oct 4, 2005 3:37 am, BamboozledByAnime said:


You are completely welcome to do your own Anime stuff. You just can't use characters or images that you don't hold the copyright to.

About the T-shirts, there are a couple that I'm looking at. One is a girly T-shirt that I think I will put my art on (but probably wont be official Paper Demon stuff, just BogusRed stuff). There is also a natural colored T-shirt that I think would be perfect for a Paper Demon logo of sorts. I just need to make a design.

Yay! It's a great idea Susie! I can imagine my stuff on a sketchbook or something, and everyone else's from PaperDemon! It will be really awesome.  Oo I wish I didn't have to live in this damn rathole.  

 

Wow, This'll be soooOOOooo fun! I love making up my own characters!! xD Hehe, So excited! I'mma love this! ^___^ Yep, lovin it! Whew... Do we have a logo?! O____o Just wondering.. ^__^

Hey that sounds cool! I'm pretty sure everyone could use a new mousepad. I know i do lol.

so sue, some of us (me! ^_^) don't know about cafepress.  do you just pick what you want, send em' a picture and then they put it on the item??  please enlighten me.  btw awesome idea.  i think splitting the profit would be a good idea!

Yeah basically you upload your picture (after doing some image preparation) and choose what product you want it on. But since you'll be puting your images in the PaperDemon store, you'll have to send your images to me and I upload them. It's actually kind of cool for doing gifts for people. You can go right on the site and make your own gifts for friends with your artwork on it or even a photo.