Self-Portrait of a Comics Self-Publisher
Kevin LaPorteMaking 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.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 157 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 9 days ago |
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Meet The Daring & The Depraved Before We Launch on Kickstarter Tuesday
Much has been made of the notion that all the superhero stories have been told. That capes are a retread genre with no hope of mining new and interesting ideas. That all indie and self-published superhero comics characters are little more t...
So We Homaged an All-Time Classic Cover - Wanna Make Something of It?
When I was thinking through the look and feel of the main cover for The Daring & The Depraved #1, one reference kept pulling me back: Kevin Maguire's iconic cover for Justice League #1, May 1987. That wasn't an accident. The cover does some...
The Absolute Death of Comic Shop Access for Self-Publishers
The Good (?) Ole Days - What Came Before
For decades prior to the Diamond Comic Distributors bankruptcy, their comics distribution monopoly was the vanguard for self-publishers’ and “indie” comics’ access to the comics direct market - in...
Yes, I'm Finally Launching a Superhero Comic
Nobody told me it would be easy. That’s the thing about self-publishing comics — the people who do it know exactly what they’re signing up for, and they do it anyway. The negotiations with printers. The back-and-forth with collaborators acr...
My New Comic is a Product of the Art of Finishing What You Start
The Beautiful Anguish of Never Quitting
I began creating comics in an organized and productive mode way back in 2010. and I were in the gestational phases of our masthead comic, Vicious Circus, and a friend of a Facebook friend, local...
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