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Bro, thank you so much! Really helped me. 😭

He full of shit. Don't published comic book lost everything because guy like hime saying anyone can published a comic book this is not true.

great video!

Hi Matt, I'm pretty new to your channel but wanted to say that your videos are great! So to comment on this video, I'm an artist and a couple years ago I collaborated with a writer who had never done comics before (they had worked on tv/film scripts) and in their script they would describe multiple things happening at once all the time. I ended drawing many more panels than they expected - they would always tell me "wow you really slowed it down" and they didn't mean it as a bad thing but more that they were just surprised at how when I drew what they described in a short blurb in the script, it wouldn't be one panel but it would end up being a page of panels - they didn't understand at all that each action needed it's own panel. Their script wasn't broken down panel by panel but was written more like a film with a paragraph describing what the character does and then had dialog following like "Character A enters his apartment shutting the door behind him and sets down his keys and picks up his mail and begins tearing it all open" which obviously would have to be drawn in multiple panels. One thing I learned from that experience is that I would definitely prefer a writer/collaborator in the future who actually reads comics because I had to educate this person all the time on how comics work. It was a little frustrating at times. Luckily they were flexible in let me do what needed to be done to get it to work.

Artist here. I appreciate you being blunt about artists needing to be paid. Learning the business of making comics is a difficult process. In my first comic attempts I did the art on a couple sample stories/pitches for writer friends on the verbal agreement of doing something great together running on "pure love" for the medium. Stupid I know. After slaving away for weeks while also working a full time job, in both cases once I was finished the writers abandoned the projects for "life reasons" - not overnight but just being lazy and not pushing the project out and standing behind it. Their drive just fizzled out for various reasons So that left me with pages that I can never really do anything with since the stories are incomplete etc. The amount of frustration I felt was immeasurable. So I learned the hard way not to lift a finger unless I get paid upfront or sign a contract guaranteeing me 1/2 ownership. For most people comics is a low paying endeavor and for an artist it takes years of training to know how to draw well, design characters, know your anatomy, compose a page, know how to use software, etc, etc. I could go on and on. Many writers I've talked with seem clueless about this and look at artists like hiring a plumber- just a means to an end when in reality in comics the artwork and story is intertwined. If a writer comes to me and has an idea for a character and I design it for them going through multiple iterations, I feel I deserve 50% ownership of that character for bringing it to life with my unique sensibilities. To any writer out there wanting to make a comic try to remember that blood sweat and tears goes into making a great book as far as the art goes and respect that as an essential part of the process and pay your artists fairly. I feel that if you dont want to do this its better for you to just write a novel where art is not required.

Skip the business cards: Print out and put on your table a QR code that links to a website to SELL. YOUR. MERCH.

If I’m going as a regular guest and I want to get rid of a few slabs can I sell my CGC slabs to the owners of the booths?

Good explanation

This is very similar to the way some writes work in Scrivener using the Save the cat method. Very cool and informative thanks

I have an inquiry please am trying to reprint comic book out of stock via printing company and the problem they do require to set margins and bleeding points before uploading files and honestly I have searched all over the internet to find away to determine the right margins and bleeding points for my comic book the size is 8.5x11 inch and I couldn’t come up with an answer I would appreciate any tips thank you

thanks

Love David Aja's Hawkeye, it really stands out from other comic style. Glad you mentioned.

Great videos matt, think I'll start my 4 page comic then

I’m glad I’m going the self publishing route because 50% for just getting my books into stores is just insane lol makes no sense. I enjoy personally communicating directly with comic stores who are excited to sell my books. Including MidTown Comics in NYC. So I’m good with all of that 😂 the gatekeeping days are over

Take a look at Fade-in pro screenwriting software. It’s not expensive

I’ve written a few screenplays and there are several formatting tools for that. Are there any formatting tools for comics?

Thanks a lot! I’m interested in making my own comics after rediscovering my childhood dream and passion for comics. I’ve missed so much over the years and there’s a whole world for me to discover 😃🥳 Content like yours is invaluable and I feel like it’s not impossible to learn even though I’m a bit late in the start 😅🎨

Hi, where do I go to find a comic artist in person? I am not good with tech, email and most websites. So where do I go to find one in person?

What about "I'm" , does that have a crossbar or no crossbar?

When I'm at a convention and I see an artist at a table and chat and when I see other customers coming, I offer for them to look through the artist folder when there are multiple folders so that could help the artist with potential sales too.

Definitely very helpful information, thank you! ^u^ /gen

Is it worthwhile to make a comic book nowadays?

Hi Matt, Thanks a lot for your videos. You got me hooked after watching your video on how to create a video for a kickstarter project. I'm an indie comic book creator based in the UK [Walsall to be precise]. I would like to contact you beyond this platform and seek your assistance on how to launch a successful kickstarter and also sell my comic books. Kind regards buddy.

Comics of today are resumed to bad art tons of cgi stuff and woke propaganda That’s why manga eat their lunch

Why not a movies

Really good content mate - love it and thank you ;-)

Kill your darlings is an art form in itself. xP Nice videos. :D

I have a idea for a hero, would like an opinion about it(if i don't ask gor much); Hero Name: Rainbow Man Real Name:Daniel "Dan" Bates Power:He can create Rainbows,which he can control into barriers and color bullets that when they hit something and change the color of the object or creature. Weaknesses: Besides a peanut allergy,he has the average human Weaknesses. What do you guys think?

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I've been scouring the internet for how to properly format my comics. I had gotten frustrated as I didn't think I was going to be able to print my comics, but this has helped tremendously. Thanks!

I’m currently working on 3 comics and this was Great to hear. I feel like these are fair prices hopefully I’ll be releasing at least one by the middle of 2025

I was so against the first part of this video then you flipped a switch.

Great insight, my heart goes also to those artist who undervalues themselves on extreme rates back in the 2000s up to 2015s. As much how people will find desperate ways to find their clients (on which most of them are not corpos.) by devaluing themselves it's best that we should all treat this as a proper art business unless you're from somewhere else outside U.S. and the tax system differs but I'd also figure it out why some companies outsource clients to save money on which why the pay rate themselves are on that level. P.S. also you said around at 8:40 - 9:01 mark I can see some folks are guilty of telling other artist what their charge rate should be during the days on deviantart (and I see some guys telling that on Quora as well) only to lowball the price based on their skill level as such and it can be discouraging as well once reality catches up.

Looks like my 12 pages slapstick comedy will not really fit to that layout 😅

I got a ton of business cards a couple years ago. I might as well use them for my upcoming first con

Congratulations, Matt! Looking forward to this monster.

U are the best ❤

But u already have the whole story written by now or this is just the main ideas of each page?

My son sent me this thanks for sharing!! 🎉🎉

I printed with Mixam too! (Canada) They did awesome! I've done satin, glossy, all of it... awesome quality, and we saw here! And, also, as you can see, the colours are great (full for all of mone). Also, great art!

Awesome!!

Watching these as i'm getting ready to pitch to image dark horse and the likes, great advice from your couple of videos but i still have a hard time reaching out, even online im not being avle to reach a lot of people, so got any advice on using twitter for egs on promoting art? Thanks anyway for the video mate!