JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Many comic fans who are willing to spend to rent or to buy comics from the rental of the bookstores. But in Komikoo.com, read comics do not have to pay or free, even the opportunity to money.
Sites that provide comic made by local comic artists is indeed implementing a unique membership system. Each member (member) will get a reward in the form of points called Komipoint if to comment or rating to the comics that are displayed. Currently, anyone who collects the highest Komipoint eligible for the prize amount of money each month.
Komikoo.com is a comic site with the content of self-help (user generated content). This site was born from the observation that many Indonesian people who have talent drawing / illustrating comics and many Indonesian people who like reading comics.
The ability to create illustrations and read the comics craze is unfortunately not yet been accompanied by the enthusiasm of the publishers to publish local comics. Komikoo.com present to give an outlet to the comic artists to display their works in the form they want, which is comic.
"The ideals komikoo.com is to provide a means for comic artists to show their work easily, and become a place where comic artists can gather and discuss," writes Iqbal Aribaskara, founder Komikoo.com in the press release. Therefore komikoo.com has features that support communication among comic artists, namely: feature real-time chat, shoutbox feature, feature forums.
First in Indonesia
Komikoo.com claimed as a pioneer of online comics site with content from its member organizations. Iqbal said the idea occurred to establish Komikoo began in 2007. Only in the second quarter of 2008, Komikoo.com first version was developed. The first version was launched in August 2009 and then updated with the second version is online now since November 2009.
A comic komikoo.com have elements Title, Synopsis, cover, and the page is arranged in a sequence / sequential, as a comic should be. Komikoo.com is the first site that packaged comic data like this.
To promote the comics that come in, every comic is automatically uploaded to Komikoo.com will be broadcast via Twitter account and Komikoo fanpage on Facebook so it can spread more widely. Now there are 700 fans on Facebook and more than 100 followers on Twitter. So far, Komikoo does not offer direct benefits to the comic artists who join, but being prepared in the future.
"All services in Komikoo.com currently free, and currently Komikoo.com is in talks with several parties for cooperation, mutually beneficial cooperation for both Komikoo.com, as well as the comic who is on komikoo.com," continued Iqbal.
Last November, was elected as one of Komikoo.com SparxUp Awards winner in the category of Best User Generated Content. SparxUp buata Award is a competition of the digital start-up was initiated by Fire Ants, Kaskus, Kompas.com, and Daily Social.
Komikoo.com can be accessed through desktop and mobile version http://komikoo.com address in http://m.komikoo.com. Also follow the twitter account @ komikoo komikoo.com (http://twitter.com/komikoo), and facebook fanpage komikoo in http://facebook.com/komikoo
Friday, December 31, 2010 | 15:56 pm
Editor : Tri Wahono
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