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Single books
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issue 1 digital comic book pdf
3
digital one file
6 extra pages
issue 1 physical comic book shelf cover
5
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issue 1 physical online-only variant cover (1/50)
7
+ Sticker
#1 & 2 combine Spot Foil Ashcan, zine, sketchbook, minicomic, funnies (1/25
14
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#2 Ashcan, zine, sketchbook, minicomic, funnies
pack only
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Book combos
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1 book
15
- issue 1 digital
- wallpaper
- meme
- Physical +
- Print +
- Holosticker
- 6 extra pages
2 books
25
- issue 1 digital + Physical
- Holosticker
- issue 2 digital + Physicd
3 books ashcan, zines and book mark commission
35
shirt
Comic Shop Orders
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10 books + POS posters + bags
$22 (50% off)
- issue 1 digital
- wallpaper
- meme
- Physical +
- Print +
- Holosticker
- 6 extra pages
15 books + sketch cover drawn + blank
$44 (60% off)
- issue 1 digital + Physical
- Holosticker
- issue 2 digital + Physicd
24 Specialty Custom Shop Cover + Sketch cover
$88 (40% off)
- shirt
- $2.52 to print so cover price is $5.88, 40% off is $3.528 make just enough to keep going
Commissions
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inked sketch
$20
- issue 1 digital
- wallpaper
- meme
- Physical +
- Print +
- Holosticker
- 6 extra pages
No Background
50
- issue 1 digital
- wallpaper
- meme
- Physical +
- Print +
- Holosticker
- 6 extra pages
Background
100
- issue 1 digital + Physical
- Holosticker
- issue 2 digital + Physicd
24 Specialty Custom Shop Cover + Sketch cover
$88 (40% off)
- shirt
- $2.52 to print so cover price is $5.88, 40% off is $3.528 make just enough to keep going
Comic book publishing or collaboration
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script development
$330 or $25/mo
- issue 1 digital
- wallpaper
- meme
- Physical +
- Print +
- Holosticker
- 6 extra pages
storyboarding
$50/pg
- issue 1 digital
- wallpaper
- meme
- Physical +
- Print +
- Holosticker
- 6 extra pages
production
$2250 or $70/mo
- issue 1 digital + Physical
- Holosticker
- issue 2 digital + Physicd
publishing
$150
- editing
- pre-press production
- printing
- marketing/advertising
- business set up
- tax information
- distribution
- how to sell
ghost publishing
contact
- Everything above
- but no one knows you had any help
UNDERSTANDING COMIC BOOK EXPENSES
WHY ARE COMICS SO EXPENSIVE?
idea development(everybody has ideas, those are not worth anything until ne
0
- brainstorming
- sketches
- half written concepts
- tightening to characters
- findng the story
- sorting out themes
script development (each draft takes about 3 hours a page, it takes 3 draft
$2970
- draft
- draft
- draft
- rearrange
- draft
storyboarding
$990
- space = time= space
- words
- angles
- shapes
- sizes
- mood
- pace
production phase 1: pencils
$1980
- issue 1 digital + Physical
- Holosticker
- issue 2 digital + Physicd
production phase 2: bubbles/lettering 4 hrs pg()
$1320
- issue 1 digital + Physical
- Holosticker
- issue 2 digital + Physicd
production phase 3: inking
$1980
- finding the lines
- controlling the contrast/guiding the eye with line weight
production phase 4: coloring interior (6 hrs per page)
$1980
- flatting
- detail color
- rendering
- final renders
production phase 5: The cover (16 hours)
$240
- flatting
- detail color
- rendering
- final renders
production phase 5: editing/sfx (22hrs)
$330
- spelling
- clarity
- grammar
- ink check
- color check
- format check
AT THIS POINT WE CAN MAKE A DRAFT PDF!
TOTAL $9,810
publishing (40 hrs) + printing costs
$600 + $1500
- editing
- pre-press production (formatting throughout all processes)
- printing
- marketing/advertising
- business set up
- tax information
- distribution
- how to sell
AT THIS POINT WE HAVE A PRINTED BOOK!
TOTAL $11,910
Preparing to go to market (100 hours)
$700
- audience?
- brand strategy
- timing?
- environment
- creating promo materials
- creating promo content
- creating 3 month promo calendar
- having 1 yer con presence planned
marketing
$1000-$3000
- buying ads
- testing ads
- press release
- contacting blogs
- new ads
- collecting data
- know your local shop owners
- securing podcasts (months ahead)
- appearances
- social media with relevant information
- reintroduction of your quarterly book content (3 months later)
- consistent presence in scene
- cons
- collaborations
HOPEFULLY THERE WILL BE A PROFIT!
TOTAL $15,610
I now realize at this cost of 2.60 a book and only making 575 books I
would need to sell the books for $27.15 each just to break even for printing, not even thinking about the costs of production.
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