If you have merchandise to ship that might be somebody’s gift, be aware that holiday shipping deadlines are looming.
Here’s what you need to know…
Cartoonists Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar are talking shop! Brad flew out to Los Angeles to attend PatreCon with his podcastin’ pal Dave. Today, they talk about what they thought of the conference in general, what they learned, and most importantly how their approach to Patreon is going to change in the immediate future. BUT FIRST… Brad took delivery of the print run of his new book, and everything went wrong.
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Cartoonists Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar are joined by the wonderful Alex Heberling to talk shop! They talk about handling discouragement and burn-out, staying motivated, and taking time for self-care. Then Alex shares the harrowing story of the trepidatious phone call Brad made when he approached her to work on Evil Inc After Dark. BUT FIRST… Brad questions his own judgement when get gets into a Twitter fight over typography.
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Cartoonists Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar are talking shop! When a Patreon backer asks for tips on hustling and networking, Brad gets uncomfortable. Then, the guys struggle to make sense of demographic data. And finally, they help a fellow cartoonist navigate book distribution.
BUT FIRST, Dave asks… if you could see one statistic floating over people’s heads, what would it be?
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The Creators For Creators Grant is once again offering $30,000 to a deserving cartoonist (or duo). From the website:
We plan to give $30,000 to a single cartoonist or writer/artist duo in order to support the creation of a new and original work of a length between sixty-four and one hundred pages over the course of a single year. The recipient will be selected by committee according to rigorous criteria.
Creators for Creators is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization intended to encourage, support, and promote original works through grants and education. The grant is a work in progress that will evolve to fit the needs of the recipient and the industry at large. The grant’s founders are, largely, Image Comics creators: Charlie Adlard, Jordie Bellaire, David Brothers, Cliff Chiang, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Nick Dragotta, Leila del Duca, Matt Fraction, Kieron Gillen, Brandon Graham, Jonathan Hickman, Cameron Holland, Joe Keatinge, Robert Kirkman, Katie Lane, Jamie McKelvie, Rick Remender, Emma Rios, Declan Shalvey, Scott Snyder, Fiona Staples, Eric Stephenson, C. Spike Trotman, and Brian K. Vaughan
Applicants for the grant must be eighteen years of age. They must have never had solo work published by a third-party publisher. Self-published work is acceptable, as is participation in anthologies, but any non-anthology industry publication is unacceptable. Eligible stories for proposal must be between 64-100 pages upon completion. Works may be intended for print or digital distribution of any type, but must be wholly new works—no reprints.
The deadline for submissions is March 18, 2019. The eventual recipient of the grant will be chosen by an anonymous selection committee.
Submission guidelines and applications are available on the Submissions page.
It happens every month. You get to the end of the month and breathe a sigh of relief. You’ve made it through another month, and you’ve earned a certain amount of money on Patreon. And then, on the first few days of the following month, a significant number of patrons cancel their pledges! Is it the beginning of a long, steady decline?
Probably not. More likely, it’s part of a very normal pattern of patron behavior. So let’s take a closer look at what’s happening…
The content you are trying to access is only available to members.
Patreon has launched a new functionality called the Special Offer. According to Patreon’s internal data, Special Offers boost fan engagement, help creators hit higher goals, and increase their earnings. Here’s a walkthrough…
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From time to time, you may want to reach out to websites and other organizations that focus on news and events in the comics industry. You may be trying to promote an upcoming book — or merely trying to get the word out about your work.
Here’s a spreadsheet containing contact information for many of the most popular comics-media sites.
The content you are trying to access is only available to members.
Google’s Chrome browser has been cracking down on sites that don’t employ SSL certification. That’s why you may have noticed a red “Site Not Secure” notification next to your site’s URL in Chrome recently. Here’s why they’re doing that — and, more importantly, how to address the situation easily.
The content you are trying to access is only available to members.
Here’s a handy pro tip for people running Patreon campaigns. If you’re like many of us, you love Patreon, but many aspects of navigating the Creator Feed are… lacking. And you want better for your backers. So — once their payments have processed — you send out a link to a Dropbox folder so your backers can access the exclusive content outside of Patreon’s clunky interface.
Of course, once that link is out there, anyone could use it to access that content. And that’s a little troubling.
This pro tip is for you…
You can set your Dropbox link to expire on a pre-set date. In your Dropbox dashboard, hover the cursor over the folder or file you would like to share. Click the blue Share button that appears, and select Send link.
At the end of the line that starts “Anyone with the link…” click on add expiration.
Now you can set your expiration date.
I set mine to expire at the end of the month. Then, when the new payment cycle has finished, I create a new link and send it to all of the current members. Anyone who has dropped out, of course, will not receive the new link.
If I find that a user has abused the link (by sharing it, for example), I can always manually deactivate the link. Go to the Dropbox dashboard and click Links on the left-hand column. You will see a list of all of your active links.
Simply go to the link you’d like to kill, and click on the grey X at the far right side of the row.
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