The Optimist

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page 11

Kristen Gudsnuk

on April 8, 2009

New page!! I looked at some book about self-publishing at the bookstore (read it there– that's wut i do) called "Indie Publishing", and it really inspired me. When I finish this, I'm gonna try to self-publish. AND I'll follow through this time!! not like .. with misfit assassins.
there are so many things, though, and I would definitely end up losing money, but it's all in the pursuit of fame, right? (well, fame & fortune, but I'll settle for one or the other.) I think maybe my goal should be to make enough money for a second run?
There's this website called comixpress, and it looks like the cheapest one out there.. one cool thing they do is offer a comixpress ad, and if you put it in, you can save about 50 cents per copy. For a 44 page full-color comic, it'd cost about… $4. So I was thinking $8 a comic, but someone told me do 10, because if I sell at a bookshop, they'll take some of the money… hummm… and there's shipping and stuff… gruh! Anyway, let's not get lost in pipe dreams.
I actually quite like this page… don't know why I went with an amateurish overhead shot, or that terrible one in the second row… meh. couldn't fix it.
and Jadwiga's a smoker… I figured, appropriate since she's a rebel AND it takes place in the late 80s, when everyone smoked (and it's in eastern europe, where purportedly everyone STILL smokes…)

Oh and I'm re-upoading the last page, with direly needed changes…
THANKS FOR THE COMMENTS!!
oh and question: do you think $8-$10 is an exorbitant price for an approximately 44 page, full-color indie-published work?