Okay, here it is. The official cover of The Peck. Click on the image to get all the venous detail.I'll be selling this 24-page comic book at the Alternative Press Expo on Saturday, November 1st in San Francicso. You'll find me at booth 534A. And once the convention is over, I will be displaying all of chapter one online as a continuing webcomic with updates every week at http://www.themanwithoutneck.com. Every 20-30 pages I'll be compiling chapters for print. The anticipated graphic novel will be aproximately 140 pages, so I will be putting out roughly a 5 comic arc to finish the book.
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Woo hoo! Congratulations! Did you find a publisher, or did you do it yourself? :D
I am doing it the Field of Dreams way: "build it and they will come." So my plan is to make the rounds at the comic conventions this year (APE, Wondercon, SuperCon, all the Nor Cal sites) promoting the book and web site. Then I will essentially post 1-2 page per week until I finish the book. I will still be pitching it to the publishers, but my fall back plan is to do it as a web comic, packaging each new chapter (20-30 pages) as I go. I will sell them through Comixpress online. And we'll see how it goes. I also want to seel prints and other merchandise as well. Perhaps I should talk to you about that. i notice you've done it through deviant art?
I actually don't have a prints account on deviantart, so I haven't sold anything there. But I have used CafePress for a project before, and Zazzle looks good too, as far as merchandise (you could make "The Peck" Keds!). I don't know the base prices or artist returns for CafePress or Zazzle off-hand, but I find DeviantArt's prices to be pretty steep. If you're not looking to make any money from it, you can charge the base price, but you only get a some percentage of whatever you charge above that. But typically I try to keep my stuff really low when I sell at cons, because it means more in the hands of fans. And I know how much it costs to make a nice print at home (maybe 2 bucks max with super nice paper) so I get a little irritated making people pay $10 for a print. But then again, if I had more skill and spent 30hours on a piece maybe I'd feel like it'd be worth it.
I guess my best advice is to compare DA, CafePress and Zazzle's details. Everyone on DA has an account by default, but the one that's actualy worth it's salt does have a yearly fee, whereas CafePress and Zazzle do not.
Cool, Amanda, thanks for the tips. I've looked at CafePress as well. I def want to make it a quality product.
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