#comic publishing

[colleendoran]

My Substack, now running a FREE series chronicling publishing misadventures, with advice for now because nothing has changed at all.

#comics #comic publishing #publishing

[ebookporn]

A survivor's guide to being a working comic book creator

Living and dying in four-color time: the ballad of the working comic creator

 by Joseph Illidge, comics writer, comics editor, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund board member, and owner of a movie production company.

The issues of being a creator of comic book issues

Honestly, though… do projects from top 10 publishers provide the income needed for a comfortable life? How many comic book pages do YOU need to produce to make enough money to cover the dollar amount of your monthly expenses?

Whatever the number is also has to take into account the deductions for your annual taxes.

Do you live in the East, West, or middle of The United States?

Do you live somewhere in the world where the U.S. dollar is stronger than your national dollar? If so, any given publisher knows they can pay you less than they would for an American counterpart… unless you have a really good agent. If you’re a U.S. creator, publishers can use the pay structures for non-U.S. creators against you when it comes to negotiating rates.

Do you have dependents? Are you saving up for your child’s college education? Do you own a house, which is your own personal money pit?

Are you saving money on a regular basis? Maybe…but how many hours a day do you have to work for it? The average is 10 hours a day, but is that really enough…or do you have to push it to 15 hours a day?

Is that a five-day work week? Unlikely. So six days a week. Maybe seven.

That’s anywhere from 60 hours to 105 hours per week. Which means you’re going from working 50% more hours than the average 9-to-5’er to approaching burnout levels. But burnout is inconvenient. You don’t have the time to get sick and take a few days off to recover.

Do you have health insurance? Good health insurance? Or is it an expense you can’t take on, hoping against hope you never get into an accident or have a need for regular medication?

READ MORE

This is an excellent article, first in a series from Joe Illidge, covering models of working in comic books, issues of being a creatore, and a breakdown of pager rates. Informative and well worth the read if you are at all thinking of a career in comics. ~eP

#comic creator #comic books #comic publishing #creator economy

[zieeeej]

I got the chance to publish a comic from JulyDotComic in the student paper Veto. It’s interesting to see my comic on newspaper-paper. Wouldn’t mind publishing more in newspapers, hihi! Thanks for publishing me.

#newspaper #studentpaper #student comic #comic #comics are cool #strip #stripboek #strips zijn cool #strips #publishing #comic publishing #newspaper paper #julydotcomic #woohoo

[nfcomics]

This will be gold for those interested in writing in or outside the comic book industry. Shelly Bond has written the first ever handbook.

Shelly Bond, Editor-at-Large @sxbond  posted this on Twitter • Pre-Orders are critical for any book, to ensure we don’t destroy too many in our quest to make comics!  I’m talking at you about “The Comic Book Editor’s (Secret) Handbook” of course. If you want a copy, pls tell your retailer to order by 9/4 and keep reading to find out what @definitelyvita has to say about it…

“FILTH & GRAMMAR is my new favorite book on the craft of making comics! Shelly has written the perfect mix of concrete 'this is how the sausage is made' style guide and 'you won't believe what happened to me on the way to my career,' storytelling, and I couldn't put it down.”

“I anticipate re-reading this until the pages fall out!" —Vita Ayala (New Mutants, Submerged)

FYI—Shelly Bond • Bossy Editor of Eisner Award-winners Bitter Root, Fables, Sandman Overture, iZombie. Creator of Black Crown & Minx. Worked at original Vertigo for 2+ decades.

#Sandman editor #Shelly Bond #Filth & Grammar: The Comic Book Editor's (Secret) Handbook #Filth & Grammar #Writers #Editors #Comic publishing

[acivildawn]

About A Civil Dawn

A Civil Dawn is a nonprofit publishing company focused on ensuring the creation of media which is educational and positive representation for LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent people. We aim to do this by enabling and amplifying creators whose work aligns with our mission and goals. Our current focus is on web comic creators but we are excited for future projects like publishing zines and graphic novels, children's books, and other media from creators who match with our mission and values.

This blog will be used for announcements about the company, reblogs of content from our creators and other posts which align with our goals, and original posts and links to content created within ACD. Please feel free to send asks and DMs but please direct any business inquiries or non-Tumblr related discourse to us at [email protected].

This post will be updated as we add to the below list of creators who we work with: @brooke2valley @alienbycomics @kaylasartwork @deadeyedfae @welldrawnfish

Manifesto

To be a person is to overcome Ick - trauma, fear, pain, and shame. By shining a light and promising hope we will reduce and heal the collective Ick to make the world brighter for everyone.

Because everyone deserves hope.

Mission

Reaching out to hearts and minds to wipe away Ick and empowering great people to reach even farther.

Values

Broadcast Hope

Partner for Good

Foster Understanding

Represent Everyone

#A Civil Dawn #Ick #lgbtqia+ #neurodivergent #publishing #web comic #nonprofit

[bahoreal]

#felt the need to add the only fanfic option cos i know that so many people would put that as fiction #but for this i am mostly interested in purchasing or finding actual published books. #for the purpsoes of this poll comics/graphic novels count in the 'i dont read fiction or nonfiction books' as id classify them as a type

[fantastic-nonsense]

comic sales are down because the industry is inaccessible and expensive, not because piracy exists

Higher piracy rates are what happens when you make buying comics expensive, difficult, platform-dependent, and inherently exclusionary while pretending trades and digital don't count as sales.

if any single comic book company decided to be a competent publishing company for even a year comic piracy rates would plummet

#comics #comic industry #dc comics #marvel comics #indie comics #there's a reason scholastic absolutely dominates the western comic industry and it's not because they're selling inherently better products #it's just that they're actually moderately competent at marketing and selling the stories they publish

[mysterycitrus]

the endemic interpretation of tim drake being a coffee addicted, sleep deprived, isolated guy who’s trapped in a perpetual victim complex but is also the smartest person ever when for thirty years he was a narcoleptic skater with a mile long linkedin page is fascinating. reread batman prodigal and like…. o yeah this is a fun little dude with a terminal foot in mouth disease. the most little brother ever. i miss him.

#am i entering my tim drake redemption era? no. but he is more interesting if u ignore everything published after 2008 #tim drake #robin #dc comics #spokes #he was more bisexual when he wasn’t bisexual. if that makes sense #call that the chuckie d impact (derogatory)

[leenfiend]

<- Chapter One

#YAYYYY CHAPTER TWO COVER FINALLY #now I can link this from the full comic and we can all be at peace knowing u can read the full comic easier again #what’s ur type #wut #Klance #vld #my art #THIS WILL BE UPDATED AS I PUBLISH MORE PAGES

[woosh-floosh]

(read left to right) I had to make a comic version of this moment form the fanbook because it's such a funny image

Fantranslation is by @wireddd1 on twitter!

#ritsu plays ness because he's a special psychic boy #mob plays donkey kong because he is the buffest character in melee by virtue of being a gorilla and also mob likes monkeys #<- I know gorillas are not monkeys #okay I am looking at the character renders again and captain falcon is pretty buff too but a gorilla would still rip him apart #I am looking up gorilla strength and it says a fully grown silverback is stronger than 20 human adults combined #art #fanart #comics #mob psycho 100 #mp100 #I think if they played ultimate mob would still play donkey kong but ritsu would switch to lucas because he is tortured #I heemed and hawed over whether I should draw a fake game or melee [adjusting for when mob psycho would be published] but I went with melee #because I love smash bros and it's important to draw what you think is important to you #also I could use donkey kong hitboxes as refrence instead of making up my own moveset for 9 panels

[hellmandraws]

I recently watched Gargoyles for the first time, and I immediately knew I had to draw them because every single gargoyle design on this show kicks ass.

#gargoyles #disney gargoyles #disney's gargoyles #gargoyles disney #(I don't know which tag to use!) #fanart #*cracks knuckles* OK let's tag everyone #goliath #demona #angela #lexington #brooklyn #broadway #hudson #bronx #Though I'm a 90s kid I never saw it back then because it didn't air here in Sweden #I can only assume it was deemed unmarketable for kids lmao #I had such a fun time with this show so now I'm super sad that it's over #However... now seems to be the perfect time to be getting into Gargoyles #as they're currently publishing a canonical continuation in the form of comics 👀 #I for one can't wait to get into the extended universe of a 30 year old cartoon

[colleendoran]

VERY BAD PUBLISHERS Part III, now FREE TO READ on my Substack.

#comics #creator rights #comic publishing #publishing #legal #contracts

[ebookporn]

On th evolution of color in comics from dots to digital. If you are in San Diego this is a neat exhibit but if your not this is still an informative little video. Worth a watch.

#digital comics #comic books #colorist #comic creators #comic con museum #cmyk #comic publishing

[zieeeej]

Yes, some original comic work of mine got published! Yay. It might only be four pages in this large comic anthology 9e Kunst set up but I love it. I decided to make something completely new for this and wanted to experiment with some materials to make it exciting. I am very thankful for this opportunity and when I saw a couple of these in a comic book store me and my inner child where screaming! This fuelled my drive for getting published even more. I recommend everyone to buy this beauty. It’s quality work from new artists that you get the chance to find. You can buy it in comic shops or from me! (I get a profit, yay!) Just send me a message if you’re interested.

#comic #publishing #comic publishing #anthology #comic anthology #comics #strips zijn cool #comic shop #getting published #comic book #new artist #strip #stripboek #stripwinkel

[jesncin]

Work's piling up again but I've doodled some (Don't Call Me) Superboy Conner/Paul on the side. He improvises a bunch of looks as he travels from town to town as Paul.

#superboy #conner kent #kon el #dc comics #my art #fanart #jl remix #my head's in the game (actual publishing work) but my heart's in the song (developing my superboy au)

[betterthanbatman1]

What if I’m crying in the club what then?

#I don’t know if the illustrators did this deliberately #or if they just thought oooh colourful ice cream for his milkshake #But I took one look at his milkshake and immediately imagined the panel where Bruce talks to Cass #where he tells her about Jason and the things Jason loved #No because the first panel was published 2 decades ago #And the whole scene is from when Jason was a child #when he was MURDERED as a CHILD #when Bruce grieved for the young boy he had #the boy who loved Neapolitan ice cream #He was too young #Also idk why I laughed ‘’hE lOveD gIrLsS’’ #But also canon Jason loved cars #Love that for him #Also also imagine if he just went yep I’m Green Hood #batfam #dc comics #dc #red hood #jason todd #batfamily #Red rambles #red needs to stop rambling and go to sleep how about that #Detective Comics 790 #and #Detective Comics 1042