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If you are a Japanese Cartoon fan, you must have seen characters laughing and enjoying reading comic books. Comic books are stories described as pictures. Those pictures are not static. Although they don’t move obviously, they are like continuous screenshots captured from a cartoon film. Comic books have different genres, just like any other literary medium. Comic books were famous in those days when the internet wasn’t there. It was another medium, along with video games and TV for kids to enjoy. However, their parents had complaints about their kids who own comic books, that they spend less time in their academic studies and more time reading comic books. In short, you need to make your comic book seem to the audience that they are watching a movie in the form of text and images. This blog post will discuss writing a comic book and publishing it to make money.
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Do People Still Read Comic Books?
There are plenty of sources of entertainment for kids in today’s world, like video games, OTT platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime where they can watch their favorite movies and shows. However, some people would still want to read comic books. People born in the era when comic books were in hype are some people who might want to read comic books. So, if they get the content as good as they had back in those days, they would love to read comic books.
Are Comic Books Profitable Now?
How does it sound if we tell that you can be a millionaire by writing a comic book in 2023? People want good things to read and watch. If you’re going to become successful financially, you can give something entertaining to people, and it can bring you riches. You’d be glad to know that the estimated revenue of the comic book industry was $865 million in 2018.
It’s hard to jump into a saturated world and succeed, but if what you offer is worth it, you’d become successful. The profitability of a thing depends on the need for it in public and its usage. As discussed above, some people might read comic books if they get good ones, and that’s why writing comic books is profitable. The Dragon Ball Z comic book hardcover version is worth over a thousand dollars on Amazon, and it is not even a complete comic book. It is just volume one of early Dragon Ball. Imagine if a person wants to read all the Dragon ball series comic books and how much it would benefit the company selling them. And there is not only one person who takes an interest in it. There are so many people.
Can you Make Money with Comic Books?
If you successfully produce an excellent comic book and get its marketing done right, you can make good money out of your comic book.
10 Steps to Publish a Comic Book
Below we’ll discuss ten easy steps to write a comic book in 2023.
1. Creating a Comic Book
A comic book is usually 30 to 50 pages long. On these pages, you need to put text and images. Bubble speeches show the dialogues and conversations between characters. If you need to describe the plot, scenario, behaviors, history, point of view, or anything related to any comic book character, it is done by writing the text on the page where it is easy to read. However, you will also find comic book-making tools online, paid and free. You can use them. For example, KDP offers a tool that you can download to develop graphic novels for free.
2. A New Idea
You don’t want to bring up the same old types of comic book stories people have already read to make something hit. You need to bring something new to the market. Your idea must stand you out from the crowd. Have a picture in your mind about the theme of what you will write about. However, don’t worry if you don’t have an idea. Just sit down and brainstorm to get ideas. Remember, only a good story can make an excellent comic book. Think like a director who has the responsibility of building a blockbuster film. Every element in your comic book needs to be worth it. Only then you can only think of becoming successful in the comic book world, and then people will read your comic book.
3. Target Audience
When you have completed your comic book, you need to market it to the right consumers. Firstly, you need to know the people willing to read comic books in 2023. Solely, writing and publishing a comic book isn’t always fruitful. Secondly, you need to do the proper marketing for it.
4. Write the Story
Blurb recommends that you write a story first that makes you clear about what is the theme of your comic book story. After you write a story, you can put it into comic book form. If possible, write the story in the novel style. Comic books are pictured stories, so you not only have to create a story, but you need to think about characters’ appearances, places, and dialogues between characters. If you can’t do it yourself, you can contact and hire a comic book expert and ask him to turn your story into comic book dialogues.
5. Drawing
You can hire an expert who can draw good images to use in your comic book. If you think you can draw everything and your drawing is good, you can draw all the cartoon characters or pictures from your comic book. You can hire a comic book cartoonist and ask him to refine your drawings if it requires some editing. Nowadays, drawing with a pencil is not necessary as you have computer graphic-making tools to draw characters. However, comic books’ crisp old-style drawing is not replaceable. People love to see handmade drawings in comic books, and not everyone likes computer-made drawings.
However, not everyone can perfectly design the characters, especially when demonstrating an action, because they don’t know how to get the same characters perfectly drawn in different variations. That’s why we recommend you hire a cartoonist. You need to make certain facial expressions of the same character, and an expert would do it better.
Tools You Can Use
Comic Creator Studio is the easiest tool to create comic books. They have everything that a comic book has, and you need to drag-and-drop images, speech bubbles and assemble them correctly to form a comic book. The Comic Creator Studio is also affordable, as you get the software for just $39.
6. Beginning of the comic book
Describing an overview of the plot and characters of your comic book is a good idea, but you don’t need to always start like this. There is no such boundary and no such rules in creativity. You can begin by direct action or dialogue. But whatever you do, the story’s opening must be worthy enough and capable of holding the reader’s attention. Moreover, it should also make sense. The reader is not reading a scientific work that they would read three or four times to understand. If your structuring isn’t making sense to a reader, they’d not like it.
7. Don’t Get Tired to Create Drawings and Images
When creating a comic book, don’t skip the effort and hassle of making many images to describe a scene. In comics, you need to show the scenes perfectly and clearly, explaining and showing every location in pictures. That’s why we said in the beginning that comic books are like continuous screenshots captured from a film. However, do it moderately and don’t go overboard with it.
8.Colour of your Comic Book
If you want to print a black and white comic book like the classic style, it’s good, but if you’re going to make it colourful, it’s still good. Figure it out and decide what to do. The content in it must be good enough. However, printing black and white comic books are affordable compared to a colourful comic book.
9. Publish your Comic Book
Now it’s time to know how to publish a comic book. After you write a comic book and get it done by editors, it’s time to publish it to earn income from it. You can publish your comic book in two ways—the same as you do with other books. You can either publish it traditionally with big publishers. Or you can easily self-publish your comic book on Amazon Kindle.
10. Selling your Comic Book
You can sell your comic book on the following websites.
- Amazon Kindle Publishing
The easiest way to publish your comic book is to self-publish it on Kindle. They also provide you with good promotion services for your comic book.
- Webtoon
This website is mainly used to publish manga. The black and white comic books are called mangas. However, you can publish your coloured comic book on it too. They also organise several contests in which you can participate and, upon winning, earn cash prizes. Moreover, you can publish your comic book for free on Webtoon, but you need to buy their premium subscription if you want to monetise it to make money.
- Tapa
This website is used to publish webcomics. Webcomics are the digital version of comics that are only available online. If you don’t want to print your comic book and want it on the internet only, you can use their publishing service. People can read your comic on their tablets, mobiles, and computers.
Don’t compare yourself with Big Companies
You don’t need to compare your comic book with the already established franchises selling comic books for over 50 years. No one could have thought before these big companies started releasing comic books that they would make their company earn millions of dollars through comic books. Write comic books only if you are passionate about them or think you can do it perfectly. Also, don’t compare their earnings with you. Don’t make it a bitter competition, or you will get frustrated thinking, why didn’t your comic book bring you results like those companies. Just start writing your comic book and publish it. You will earn less money, but there would be a time when you could also make millions of dollars from your comic books. Maybe you get it at the start of your comic book career. We never know!
We don’t mean that you should take yourself as a mediocre comic book writer by telling you not to compete. Know your worth. You should know how much worth your comic book has. But it doesn’t always guarantee that it will bring you a fruitful financial outcome. However, you can get famous and then eventually make good money from it.
Final Word
In this blog post, you have learned what a comic book is and how you can create it in 2023. Creating a comic book is not the end story; however, it is the main thing. If you want to make the most out of your comic book, you’d need good marketing of it. We have also learned how to self-publish a comic book on Amazon Kindle. If you have created a comic book and want to publish it, you can use our Mczell Book publishing service. We will take care of all the processes involved in book publishing at very affordable rates. Moreover, we have a team of expert writers and editors who will,
a) Edit your comic book.
b) Market your comic book, where we would use the best methods to promote your books on several channels online to get the maximum exposure for your book to have its maximum sales and earn money by it.
