How Penny Arcade Wants to Reinvent Patronage With Kickstarter
“All this stuff — completely alternative funding channels for content sites, fan-directed commissioned work, crowdsourced creative VC funds! — is way more radical and frankly more interesting than the standard Kickstarter model of ‘help me finish my movie’ or ‘help me print my book.’“Maybe none of it quite works yet,” adds Robin, “but maybe we might be just at the cusp.”