It takes a lot of time to publish anything, a lot of back and forth, checks and last minute changes, plus a lot of institutional knowledge, with printers, distribution etc. Big publishers have dedicated people to do those jobs (editors) and can arrange for them with efficiency. A rando going into publishing their comic will have to re-invent the wheel every time. This also includes 30 year veteran artists who never had to bother with the logistics of printing and shipping a book.
This is why you see "autists" like JDA or Nasser and lately YBZ getting their books out in time: they went in, published a lot of books and gotten the hang of it.
But when you are Ethan or Cecil and you spend half your day on drunken drama streams you have no time (or bandwidth) to take care of the publishing business so every step runs a bit late.
Right, JDA, or Nasser, or Simple Zack... or Hotwife Mandy.
The only fulfillment issue Mandy has ever had was with her latest comic
Gemshock, and that's only because she's been waiting for several months on Dale Keowne to draw four (4) pages of interior artwork. Pathetic, really.
What is more embarrassing here? That a woman who decided to
monetize cuckolding her husband online took CG for ~$312,000, or that said online cuckoldress, with zero experience in anything, made all these "unjustly phased out pros" with decades of experience and "critics" who could fix everything in comics if only people would listen to their cutting insights on what "the industry" needs to do and need your money to prove them right look like utter clowns when it comes to running a comic publishing business?
I believe @Mister Dongs has posted some info like that in the past if you feel like searching thru old posts.
Even an "on time" comic book like Art Thibert's
Black and White 2 or Jon Malin's
Godlike has an expected wait time of ~500 days between a first-day customer backing it and finally receiving it. And a lot of Comicsgate creators, having already received the money, don't really feel the pressure to be on time at all.
Rekt Planet, Cash Grab, Snowman, Jawbreakers: Grand Bizarre, Black Flag, etc have all gone on to have 1000+ day wait periods (that's multiple hand-copied Bibles). They don't carry themselves, their business or their profession as seriously as a woman who stumbled into the scene as a form of cuckold sex play with her husband does, and as long as their customer base remains by and large a group of parasocially fixated simps unconcerned with comics themselves I don't see that changing. Not only do the most enthusiastic and hooked in fans end up waiting the longest, but the addition of 'second chance' campaigns loaded with new incentives actually means latecomers are often rewarded over the original backers. The appeal of the crowdfund business model to comic "creators" is obvious; the appeal to customers outside a histrionic victim narrative remains a mystery.
If anyone is actually interested in receiving a CG comic in less time than it takes it to conceive, gestate and birth a human being and then teach it to walk around and hold conversations, I'd recommend browsing through Michael Bancroft's link aggregation website
CGNow.net. It's a collection of links to the online stores of already completed work.
