Making Comics One Bet at a Time - The Week in Solo Self-Publishing
Fifteen years, four Horsemen, and one very deliberate week of shipping new work.
Self-Portrait of a Comics Self-Publisher
Making comics on your own ain't easy. Join me inside the world of comics self-publishing and share the joy of creation, the frustration of funding, and the occasional smell of success.
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The 12th Hour: A Report on My New Kickstarter Launch Halfway Through Day One
At 8:00 a.m. Central this morning, I launched the Kickstarter campaign for the collected edition of Deep Space Lovecraft, and it already tripled its initial funding goal.
The Comics Self-Publishing Relay Race - The Week in Solo Self-Publishing
How this week's shipping, signing, and launching all depend on each other
The How-To Guide for Comics Collected Editions (For Self-Publishers Who Are Sick of Their Own Back Issues)
How to turn a stack of single-issue files into a collected edition backers will pay a premium for — and what I learned doing exactly that for Deep Space Lovecraft, launching on Kickstarter August 4th.
What It Costs to Keep a 16-Year Story Alive - The Week in Solo Self-Publishing
The honest math, the missing artists, and the pages getting made anyway
The Comics Self-Publishing Perpetual Motion Machine is Officially On
One campaign closes tonight, another opens in August — plus a fulfillment update and a first look at issue #2's art.
New Cosmic Dread, '80s Saturday Morning Nostalgia, and Wrestling Legends on Clearance
This week's drop: Turbocharged Teenager #0, Deep Space Lovecraft #5, and a farewell sale on our Squared Circle wrestling biographies.
The Monsters We Can't Quit: Jack the Ripper, Mr. Hyde, and Our Centuries-Long Obsession with Beautiful Evil
A look at how two Victorian nightmares became permanent fixtures of the popular imagination — and what my self-published Kickstarter is doing differently with both.
Cosmic Horror, Ancient Gods, and an Absurd Amount of Lettering
Gothic horror launches, Lovecraftian horrors ship, and the Daring & Depraved keep drawing
5 New Terrors Just Landed at Flatline Comics
Five new nightmares just hit the shelf. Cosmic horror, superpowered war, steampunk apocalypse, and a cyberpunk fight for the soul — pick your poison, or grab them all before they grab you.