Artblog of William Gibbons. Mostly my art, sometimes I write music. There's a separate music blog now.

My e-mail is ashwara(at)10km(dot)org

I completed a webcomic called Para-Ten. and I have a second called Late Blooming

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3rd February 2012

Question with 5 notes

Anonymous asked: Will you be making Para-Ten into a book anytime?

I HOPE SO……… I have kind of a problem where if I spend the money to get the book printed, I wont have the money to go to any conventions, but if I don’t print it, I wont be able to sell it at conventions…

I’ve mentioned doing a kickstarter but I’ve been too lazy and stupid to make a video or incentives. I’d have to raise like $8000 to print 500 but most people say it’s a waste to print less than 1000 (which would cost about $9,000 or more I think).  And then if I did print on demand each book would cost $30 just to print, so I really couldn’t sell it for a profit at all but I might do it anyways just so people can have the book if they want it.

We’ll see, we’ll see.  I really doubt if I could raise $8,000 though but i’ll give it a shot

Printing a 300+ page full colour comic is so expensive gosh 

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  1. cottonbook said: Don’t underestimate your readership and followers! Go for it!
  2. life-take said: what about para-ten volume 2? is that still a possibility?
  3. punnies said: I would sooo buy it. :3
  4. solidbutts said: make it in volumes?
  5. blue-and-golden said: It’s worth trying because you never know what the response would be and it would be a good gage for interest if nothing else
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