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Has anyone submitted a web comic to Comixology? if do, can you share your experience, successes, etc.?

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MohawkMan wrote:Has anyone submitted a web comic to Comixology? if do, can you share your experience, successes, etc.?

Yes! There are quite a few webcomics currently for sale on the Submit platform most notably Sorcery 101 from Kel McDonald. There are no upfront fees with Submit and no rights taken, the deal is a rev share which is 50/50 after channel costs. Channel costs used to include the 30% that went to Apple, Amazon and Google, but since Amazon acquired comiXology in early 2014 in-app purchases were removed along with the 30%. The channel costs are now just the fees involved with charging the user’s credit card, in most cases this amounts to a few cents which means more money going to the creators. So for every dollar sold you would be making approximately $.45.

Using Submit is also non-exclusive, this means you are able to upload your comic onto other platforms. This will give you a sense of which platform works best for you and judge where best to direct your efforts. Submit also includes the ability to allow consumers to download DRM free versions of their comics, this is an opt-in service, the decision to offer DRM free copies is solely up to your discretion.

While the review time of Submit has improved greatly, poor quality PDF files do slow down the process. The Submit process has improved to help provide better feedback to creators on how to improve the quality of their PDF files and here is a list of the most common issues with submissions.

Thanks guys....I guess what I was asking is what success have you had on selling your comics digitally. From this point of view...if I pay an artist $100 per page for a 24 page comic and I sll 5 copies digitally for $1 each....you get what I'm saying. Does Comixology do a good job advertising self published comics...or do they mostly have hulk/walking dead, etc. downloaded. How is the self published market?

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You might find this article by new World Comics interesting: http://newworldscomics.com/?p=627

The Original Business Plan

The original business plan was very simple. These were our assumptions:

We’d create top-quality comic books.
We would only be digital. Thus saving the massive cost of printing and distribution.
Comic book fans are thirsty for top-notch comic books. They’d be happy to find new ones. And once they do, they’ll spread it virally through the forums, the Twitters, and the Facebooks.
That was the idea. Since we were only paying the artists (I employed myself as a writer, at least at first, since I would work for free and I have 20 years’ experience writing science fiction), we didn’t really need a lot of sales to break even.

It looked like this business plan couldn’t fail.

Guess what happened?