HeyJaredSelf-Portrait of a Comics Self-Publisher
Making comics on your own ain't easy. Join me inside the world of comics self-publishing and share the joy of creation, the frustration of funding, and the occasional smell of success.
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Launching the Final Chapter of a 16-Year Comic Closes the Book on a Whole Lotta Life (opens the original)
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Sometimes, Making Comics Crosses the Streams with Real LifeSometime around 2010, a friend of a Facebook friend — a local actor and artist named Nathan Smith — reached out and offered to illustrate a promo piece for my then fledgling comic, Vicious Circus. That small, casual offer was the true launch point for a steampunk-soaked Weird Western about steampunk reinventions of the biblical Four Horsemen. It’s also the reason my new Kickstarter, launched just yest
The Unsustainable Burden of the Self-Published Comics Writer (opens the original)
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The Pyramid of Responsibility: Who Actually Funds a Self-Published Comic?0% is a statistic I think about more than I’d like to admit. That’s exactly how much of my own money I’ve kept over sixteen-plus years of self-publishing comics. Not lost — kept. I don’t say that looking for sympathy. I say it because I don’t think my experience is unusual, and that’s the actual problem.If you love truly independent comics — if you back Kickstarters, if you’ve got long boxes full of creator-owned work, if y
Making Comics One Bet at a Time - The Week in Solo Self-Publishing (opens the original)
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Self-Portrait of a Comic Self-Publisher: The Entrepreneur’s CutRunning your own comic publishing house is a strange kind of freedom. Nobody hands you a release calendar, a print run, or a distribution plan — you build all of it yourself, one decision - one delusion - at a time. That’s the part I love most. This week is a perfect snapshot of it: a fifteen-year saga finally crossing the finish line, a hardcover getting one more round of hands-on quality control before it ships, and a brand-new ong
The 12th Hour: A Report on My New Kickstarter Launch Halfway Through Day One (opens the original)
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Rebuilding the Comics LineA couple of years ago, I decided to rebuild my line of self-published comics from the ground up. I spent more than a decade working across the same handful of titles —projects I began with friends and local collaborators, some of which took far longer to complete than any independent comic should. By the time several of those books finally reached print, they reflected an earlier stage of my writing life rather than the stories I want to tell now.<a class="image-link im
The Comics Self-Publishing Relay Race - The Week in Solo Self-Publishing (opens the original)
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The Ledger Behind the Ink: A Flatline Production & Publishing UpdateThere’s a version of self-publishing that looks like magic from the outside — new books just appear, campaigns launch, packages ship — and then there’s the actual machine underneath it, humming along on the good faith of readers like you. This week I want to pull back the curtain on that machine, because right now every gear in it is turning at once. Nothing here funds a salary or a vacation; every dollar that comes in from one
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