is your answer. Now you can either read what I am about to write, or do yourself a favor and go right to their web site which describes, in corporate lingo, the same thing.This is an avenue to
very-very affordably print our own cartoons and self-publish, while simultaneously selling your comics online. Imagine your creation in 32 full color inside pages, ( More or less pages as you wish) full color
front and back covers on #50 paper ( B/W inside covers), staple bound standard size comic books.
One proof copy (With the above spedifications) will cost $23 plus postage. Yeah, I know... that's really affordable for
anyone! Additional copies cost $3 each. These prices go up or down depending on the number of pages specified... and dramatically down if inside pages require only B/W. For instance, if you want to make an anthology of
comic strips which were never colored, using the same color front and back cover specifications, but with ,instead of full color inside pages, 32 B/W inside pages would make the proof copy drop to $21.40
plus postage,and each copy drops to $1.69 each. Not too shabby, huh?
Since it's print-on-demand, the cost per comic unfortunately does NOT go down with quantity...order one or a thousand. BUT...if you are that
successful, look into actual off set printing and cut your per-comic-costs.
BUT, Mr. Smarty Pants JOE, HOW DO I MAKE MONEY WITH SUCH HIGH PER-COMIC CHARGES LIKE THAT?
Whoa! Hold on, Cavalleros, Mujeres, Y Senorita
Neophytes-in-the-Comic-Book-Industry!!! Tenga un momento para una Margarita! Por favor! Tranquila!
This is only a means to test the waters, not to make your big splash. This will only tell you if you have something
marketable, or not! HOWEVER, read the web site and see how you POSSIBLY can make some money and start to build a fan-base by selling your comics right on the ComiX Press web site. They charge the initial $3 or $1.69
print cost per comic to the person who buys your comic from them, and then gives YOU the mark-up you choose to ad to that charge.
For instance, if you charge a $4 cover price for your 32 page full color comic, you get
$1 for each one sold, because it was marked up from $3. Get it? In today's world, comic fans will pay that, ( Yes, ten cent comics disappeared in the 1950's) especially for a comic which collectors believe has the
potential to become a valuable collector's edition when you make it big with one of the name-comic-book companies.
Besides, think about it a momentito! What did you do to get that $1? Absolutely nothing! No marketing,
no sales trips, no billing, no anything once your comic is ready for sale... or you could do all of those and increase your sales.
Buy some copies, if you believe in yourself ( Well, you'd better, if you want others
to!) and distribute them to a local comic store or two. Don't B.S. them! They'll see through you like make-believe glass in a Windex commericial. Let them know that you're begging them ( Here is when you get on your
knees and grovel.) to give you a chance to see what happens... they likely will like trying something new and hope to be THE comix shop that helped a new comics-giant break into comics. Cut a deal where you get half on
the cover price and will pick up the ones that don't sell. They have no down side to that deal! You then only eat a percentage of your actual costs... BUT YOU DO GAIN REAL INSIGHT ON HOW YOUR COMIC IS ACCEPTED...which
is valuable when you then approach one of the big comic companies... and THEN SELL YOUR SOUL and possibly copyrights FOR FAME.
Have fun, amigos! Joe Schmidt... *sigh* I wish I could speak German!
