Early 2006<\/p>\n
Here is what’s been going through my head with doing the comics self-publishing for the last month or so. <\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n After WonderCon and enjoying a book with more pages and a higher cover price, I’ve been reluctantly thinking I may just have to stop doing single comics issues, and occasionally disappear from the comics scene every now and then for a year or so until I pump out bigger projects. <\/font>But then have these nice, bigger, expensive books that will sell fewer copies but make better money with the higher cover prices. <\/font>I’m resistant to this, because I love comics, and I don’t really enjoy trade paperbacks. <\/font>I don’t like feeling like I’m cracking their spine whenever I read them. <\/font>I don’t like the heavier feel that you can’t just roll up in your pocket, and then throw out when you’ve had your way with them. <\/font>They feel more precious, and less like a flimsy piece of meaningless junk. <\/font>It’s just not a medium I appreciate and love like comics.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n However. <\/font>Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.<\/p>\n So I’ve been trying to get myself resolved to the concept of putting out graphic novels. <\/font>And that means, instead of three 48 page issues of “Limbo Cafe,” or seven 24-pagers, it will be another 200 or so pages all at once, and most likely a year or so before it sees print if I’m realistic. <\/font>That means disappearing from the industry until I can get all that work completed. <\/p>\n Coming home from Orlando’s MegaCon, I had so much damn fun showing professionals my monster book, and so many other self-publishers seemed to really enjoy and appreciate it, I began feeling like, maybe I should screw this Limbo Cafe project \u2013 for now \u2013 and just put out another monster book. <\/font>You figure, I could do a forty-eight pager this time (as opposed to the 56 pages of the previous one), and get a dozen pin-ups, which I think I’ve already got, and which subtracts from the amount of pages I have to draw myself. <\/font>Then I’m putting out an expensive book with less work needed to get it out. <\/font>I’m staying on the market with more frequency, since there’s less work for me to actually do. <\/font>And everyone seems to enjoy the monster book anyways, and most likely they won’t be particularly into Limbo Cafe, since it’s a “serious” comic, with no pin-ups of giant monsters in it at all.<\/p>\n So then I started thinking, well maybe I should go back to my original monster book plan. <\/font>I’ll release three 24-page issues, then collect them into the second volume giant-sized monster book. <\/font>Or maybe I could even make them cheap 16-page issues.<\/p>\n But I know I’m dreaming. <\/font>First of all, no one would want to pay more than $2 for a sixteen page comic, and they’d probably cost me over a dollar to print. <\/font>That means if I distribute them to shops, I can only lose money, every issue I sell. <\/font><\/p>\n Second, sixteen pages only leaves enough room for two and half Doris stories (since I make the stories five pages each), if I’m going to include pin-ups and a letters page, etc etc. <\/font>And let’s face it. <\/font>Doris Danger stories aren’t really that good. <\/font>Who the hell would want just two of them in a book? <\/font>Somehow, they read funny if you only get one, or if you see three of them in a row. <\/font>But two stories, that have nothing to do with each other? <\/font>People would just think it’s weird.<\/p>\n Sigh…So I guess it’s a second volume, giant-sized, 48-page Doris Danger. <\/font>I can still use my original titles: Doris Danger in Outer Space! <\/font>Doris Danger’s Greatest Army Battles! <\/font>Doris Danger’s Secret Origins (if I wind up doing a fourth volume)! <\/font>Doris Danger in Exotic Locations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Early 2006 Here is what’s been going through my head with doing the comics self-publishing for the last month or so. 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