Any of you guys ever back a crowd funded comic and actually get a good comic out of it, or is it ALWAY a failed writer's vanity press? Talking any kind of crowdfunding, kickstarter, backerkit, indiegogo, whatever.
Just wondering if its something actually worth following. Currently bored of all the stuff American comics has coming out.
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I paid my sister with a hug to draw a 1 page comic and it was worth it.
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It’s something personal so I’d rather not do it.
I understand.
I'm an artist and still I fully believe the figure of an editor is key for a worthwhile product. It's a counterintuitive notion, but unconstrained creators with nobody but themselves to keep themselves in check tend to make for less interesting output. Specially if they're established creators leaning on an adoring audience.
To answer your question, I backed the first Earthworm Jim book and thoroughly regretted it.
I don't disagree, I guess I'm just bored of what's out there even from indie publishers like Image or Vault
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What was it about it that made you regret? Just curious, I never backed it myself.
>figure of an editor is key for a worthwhile product
I recently tried to read Jonathan Hickman's Substack comic 3W3M and... I wholeheartedly agree with you. It's so full of his quirks and eccentricities (symbols, unreadable charts etc.) that it feels more like reading statistical tables than a proper comics.
lol no OP Cinemaphile pirates all the comics they "read"
they don't even like paying for mainstream stuff, none of these deadbeats are going to help fund an expensive indie comic.
The one person itt that backed something? fricking Earthworm Jim. an IP that already had a cartoon and vidya.
unfortunately OP you'll have to be the one to take a risk and then storytiem/tell Cinemaphile how it is
Frick off, I'm only buying creator-owned comic. Warner and Disney doesn't deserve a cent.
> or is it ALWAY a failed writer's vanity press?
crowdfunding works but only if the writer is famous already
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I've read a few like Sullivan's Sluggers and The Squidder that were pretty good but usually crowdfunding to create a new comic sounds kind of stupid. It's more suited for getting beefy physical editions of established webcomics.
I've funded a bunch of comics and haven't had any issues. I knew the artist or publisher in all the cases though.
Ones I've backed:
>Vacuum Decay 6
>Book of Fuligin
>PLAZA
>A Frog in the Fall
>Dynamite Diva: One-Eyed Wild Ride
>CRY PUNCH COMICS
>Dagger Dagger
>all the Cerebus reprints
Strangers & F discord?
I don't know what that means.
>bored of all the stuff American comics has coming out.
When you say American, do you mean all of American comics, including all the small obscure publishers that don't follow mainstream trends, or just the Big Two.
You mean the Big Two, because only 1% of Cinemaphile actually reads anything other than the Marvel and DC.
I backed the Felix the cat comic.
It was worth it. Even storytimed it!
The only thing that annoyed me about that comic is they all got that tech AND they have guns, but everyone still swinging swords around. I don't care about the cool factor I think it'll be cooler if they were BLASTING each other.