Fans, friends & followers

This book addresses the issues of cultivating an online audience and gaining financial support from this audience, enabling you to do the work you do and make a living at it. Provides strategies, examples, explanations, and success stories, including an overview of the tools, sites, and services that artists are using to create relationships with their audience. Includes interviews with visual artists, comedians, animators, documentary filmmakers, musicians, writers, and others who have found new ways to build a creative career.

Understanding the new rules -- Film & video -- Michael Buckley : creator of "What the buck" -- Mike Chapman : animator and writer, "Homestar runner" -- Ze Frank : multimedia artist and creator of "theshow" -- Curt Ellis : documentary producer and writer -- Michael "Burnie" Burns : creator of "Red vs. blue" -- Sandi DuBowski : documentary filmmaker -- Gregg and Evan Spiridellis : co-founders, JibJab Media -- Timo Vuorensola : science fiction director -- Steve Garfield : videoblogger -- M dot Strange : animator -- Music -- Jonathan Coulton : singer-songwriter -- Damian Kulash : singer and guitarist, Ok Go -- DJ Spooky : composer, writer and multimedia artist -- Jill sobule : singer-songwriter -- Richard Cheese : singer -- Chance : singer-songwriter -- Brian Ibbott : host of the podcast "Coverville" -- Visual arts -- Natash Wescoat : painter, designer and illustrator -- Tracy White : comics artist -- Matt W. Moore : artist and graphic designer -- Dave Kellett : comics artist -- Dylan Meconis : graphic novelist -- Writing -- Sarah Mlynowski : novelist -- Brunonia Barry : novelist -- Lisa Genova : novelist -- Kris Holloway : non-fiction author -- Comedy and magic -- Eugene Mirman : com…