The Hard Reality of Comics: May 2024

The Hard Reality of Comics

We finished the first Indiegogo Campaign!

this puts some credibility to my project

• commissioning covers

• Meeting cover artists

• Cover mentality

Publishing Scams:

ISBN Scams - Non-transferable (can ONLY buy from Bauker)

Vanity Presses

Library of Congress Registration Number - no pay

Barcodes - No pay

fake US Library of Congress Websites

LLC Scams

"Saw your book online" Scam

Prices for Printing (without ISBN)

So here are the standards that I'm printing. I tried to make every service have the same settings, or as close to the same settings as I could get. For the sake of this example I actually had to lower the quality of the interior print in order to make all of these is even as possible.

• 28 pages 

• 25 copies 

• Standard comic book size 

• Number 60 text on coded black and white interior 

• Yes to bleed if optional 

• Number 80 gloss cover, color outside covers, blank interior cover, yes to bleed if optional 

• Saddle stitch binding 

• Lowest available shipping option 

• Allow the printer to place an advertisement for logo on the inside back cover

So here are the services from most expensive to least expensive 

• Book baby, $260.00

• Docu Copies, $207.74

• Best printing usa, $199.10

• Lulu, $164.44

• Greko Printing, $152.50

• Printing center USA, $135.64

• Maxim, $119.50

• Morris publishing, $49.83

• Kablam comics, $45.75

What I got for Free comic Book Day!

Shout out to Tim from Silent Squirrel Comics - https://www.facebook.com/SilentSquirrelComics

and

Travis Starling (Comic Cover Artist) - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100036847849875