- Joined
- May 28, 2019
A lot of these indie creators who are writers come to crowdfunding with grandiose ideas of the product they're going to produce.
B Clay Moore, famously, raised $20K for a hardcover collection of stories that he would write and pay other people to draw. I mean, $20K wouldn't even pay the printing and fulfillment bill, let alone art and production costs. It was doomed. He should have canceled and refunded immediately.
Cridious was similar...it's one thing if you're the writer AND artist and are willing to work for free to product 150 pages of story and art. But when you're only the writer and you're promising to be able to pay an artist to do a years worth of work for a fraction of the $36,000 you raised, you're already doomed. He could have whittled it down to 48 pages and then spent another 6 months fundraising, but he just disappeared without a word.
He's saying he'll refund people and still do the project, but he doesn't have much of the money left, and he's working regular jobs to survive. Nobody is getting refunded. The book isn't ever going to happen. It's just talk.
Crowdfunding comics isn't that hard, you just need to keep your expectations in line with what you're raising. Nasser, god bless him, raised about $20K each time, and managed to produce, print and fulfill the comic he promised. He did it on a budget, on time, and he was able to pocket some of the left over cash.
And he's a 22 year old. It can be done.
B Clay Moore, famously, raised $20K for a hardcover collection of stories that he would write and pay other people to draw. I mean, $20K wouldn't even pay the printing and fulfillment bill, let alone art and production costs. It was doomed. He should have canceled and refunded immediately.
Cridious was similar...it's one thing if you're the writer AND artist and are willing to work for free to product 150 pages of story and art. But when you're only the writer and you're promising to be able to pay an artist to do a years worth of work for a fraction of the $36,000 you raised, you're already doomed. He could have whittled it down to 48 pages and then spent another 6 months fundraising, but he just disappeared without a word.
He's saying he'll refund people and still do the project, but he doesn't have much of the money left, and he's working regular jobs to survive. Nobody is getting refunded. The book isn't ever going to happen. It's just talk.
Crowdfunding comics isn't that hard, you just need to keep your expectations in line with what you're raising. Nasser, god bless him, raised about $20K each time, and managed to produce, print and fulfill the comic he promised. He did it on a budget, on time, and he was able to pocket some of the left over cash.
And he's a 22 year old. It can be done.
