{"id":153,"date":"2008-05-22T11:12:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T17:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2010-04-26T11:22:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T17:22:58","slug":"140-no-commitments-november-27-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/archives\/153","title":{"rendered":"140. NO COMMITMENTS, November 27, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/o:p>I literally have nothing to worry about at this point.\u00a0 <\/span>No projects committed to.\u00a0 <\/span>Nothing particularly to do, unless I feel like it.\u00a0 <\/span>I’m open to begin working on whatever I want to do.\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty freeing.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve wound up with a game plan, but I don\u2019t need to stick with it unless I feel like it.<\/p>\n

1. First priority.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to do another giant-sized Doris Danger book.\u00a0 <\/span>This is the obvious one, because it can collect the two 16-page Doris Danger books, and all I need to do is pound out maybe a dozen or twenty new pages, and that will be ready. It will be a big book with a big cover price, with a minimum of extra work to be done.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got a blurb from Stan Lee, and a cover by Shag.\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s going to be another nice package, that I can be as proud of as the first one.\u00a0 <\/span>And I\u2019m really proud with the Doris Danger work I\u2019ve been doing.\u00a0 <\/span>I flip through the pages, and find myself laughing out loud at all my jokes.\u00a0 <\/span>Isn\u2019t it nice knowing my books have at least one fan\u2026ME.\u00a0 <\/span>Of course I\u2019d like to have this published in time for San Diego this year.<\/p>\n

The sixteen pagers sold pathetically low numbers, and on top of that, because the cover prices were so low, it did that much worse.\u00a0 <\/span>On top of that, I woke up in a sweat one night and realized I can only break just even, if for some reason I manage to sell every issue I print.\u00a0 <\/span>Which is impossible, because I\u2019ll send a portion out to reviewers and editors.<\/p>\n

When I came up with the $2.50 cover price, I felt like a heel charging so high for a piddly 24-page book.\u00a0 <\/span>But the problem was, that means I only get one dollar a book from the distributor.\u00a0 <\/span>The problem with that is that the printer charges me, including shipping, $960 for a thousand issues.\u00a0 <\/span>For the less-math-inclined, that means it costs me ninety-six cents for each issue, and Diamond pays me a dollar.\u00a0 <\/span>So when I went to the printer with these books, I figured, well that\u2019s four cents I can theoretically make per book.\u00a0 <\/span>And never mind the books I give away for notice or reviews, which would automatically cut into that four-cent-per-book profit I was making.<\/p>\n

The reason I woke up in a sweat is, I realized I\u2019d forgotten that Diamond charges an extra two percent fee for shipping my books from the printer to them.\u00a0 <\/span>So just like that, my amazing profits are cut in half! \u00a0<\/span>I just NEVER FUCKING WIN AT THIS GODDAMN INDUSTRY!\u00a0 <\/span>OH, THE GODDAMN MISERY OF IT ALL, JUST TRYING TO GET MY BOOKS INTO THE HANDS OF POTENTIAL FANS!\u00a0 <\/span>THE GODDAMN MISERY!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve drawn four Doris Danger pages in the last three weeks.\u00a0 <\/span>I did two pages in two weeks on my own.\u00a0 <\/span>This week was Thanksgiving, so not only did I have less days of work, but also my parents were in town, and could hold my little screaming baby and keep him busy and smiling while I got some work done.\u00a0 <\/span>Realistically, I don\u2019t know the likelihood I\u2019ll be able to be this \u201cproductive,\u201d EVER AGAIN\u2026And I say \u201cproductive\u201d with quotes because I think it\u2019s PATHETIC to only get two pages done in a week, for Christ\u2019s sake\u2026but everyone said becoming a parent is a definite life change\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I literally have nothing to worry about at this point.\u00a0 No projects committed to.\u00a0 Nothing particularly to do, unless I feel like it.\u00a0 I’m open to begin working on whatever I want to do.\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty freeing.\u00a0 I\u2019ve wound up with a game plan, but I don\u2019t need to stick with it unless I feel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary-of-a-struggling-comics-artist"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t