Are you making an income from your comic right now?

[Chocolate]

Have you taken in any income yet? Or is it unfunded for now?

[BoomerZ]

Nope. From what I heard it pretty much impossible unless you are a featured artist being paid by them. Best thing I would say is get an audience and sell your own merch.

[joannekwan]

As far as passive income, I get a tiny bit of change every month.

If you can't get a contract (either with Tapas or other publishers), for money you can sink your teeth into, one really has to invest in creating a Patreon (or equivalent), merch, digital or physical copies of your work, and promoting them.

[IndigoShirtProd]

Am I supposed to be? Why was I the last one told?

[Chocolate]

Dang $1 for 24k views???? Have you tried posting on Webtoon as well? 🥲

[Chocolate]

Yeah if your comic is part of the creator program or are featured, you get paid for generating views.

[joannekwan]

Yes, but so far I've only had one comic meet to requirement to get ad revenue.
Plus you can't withdraw the funds until you've reached $100. At least on Tapas the minimum is only $25. And on Tapas that can be supplemented with reader donations via ink.

[Scarlet_Cryptid]

Hahaha, no. My coworkers ask me how much I make off of my comic, and I laugh at them.

No, I'm doing this with traditional media, so this comic is COSTING me money. I don't have anywhere near enough readers to generate ad revenue.

[allisoncandraw]

I make adsense on Tapas now, but that really isn't much. Still cool though.

I opened a Patreon recently too but I haven't had any Patrons yet. But it's still pretty new, and I still post on there in the meantime

[Caro]

Yes but mostly not through webcomics though sales of my books are helped by posting online but I built my following up outside of webcomic platforms mostly on tumblr (during the peak tumblr years), instagram, and twitter.

My first internet-based comics gig was for a known news site whose editor I reached out to and they liked me enough to give me a weekly spot on their comics section which didn’t make me much ($600 a month) but it was the most I had ever made with comics alone at that point so it was pretty rewarding and I was never asked to change or edit anything I sent in (for better or worse) so it was an extremely easy gig. Unfortunately they dissolved their comics section which breaks my heart because I would still be doing it to this day if I could.

After that my second job in comics was actually thru Webtoon and I reached out to an editor there at a time when I saw they were trying to diversify their line up so I reached out to an editor there and with my job with the news site and the numbers I was pulling on social media and industry mutuals made me look pretty credible to them so I gave them my pitch and they assigned me an editor and I worked for them for a while. I knew that this specific project was actually not going to be a good fit for their audience but the editor loved it. But it did not last long as I expected it wouldn’t and started talking to a publisher.

Now most of my income is from book advances and royalties and supplemented by Patreon. I have found that for me in my particular situation with my particular work, I make more money not really messing around as much in the webcomics sphere. That is not true for everyone but a lot of the people making bank do rely a lot on things like Patreon and I don’t think thats a bad thing but I always worry about the stability of anything online. My favorite comics gig in the world disappeared over night. Also RIP myspace.

[Chocolate]

I’m thinking about selling my books via Amazon KDP. Is it worth it in your opinion?

[cherrystark]

Comics have their own self-published platform for Amazon. But general KDP publishing works and you can make $$. There is just a cult of crazy people who create hard standards to maintain.

[river121693]

I make 3 dollars a month on patreon. Enough for my bi-yearly haircuts <_<

[BoomerZ]

I tried that. The problem is you are literally a needle in a haystack. So many people publish on there.

[thepenmonster]

Having a schedule keeps one sane.

[darthmongoose]

Yes, but it's not enough to pay my rent or anything. I work a couple of days a week in edutainment for that.

On Tapas, Errant makes me fifty cents most months, but sometimes I'll get donations or hit the targets for the Creator Bonus Program and get more... That said, anyone who thinks being on the CBP would immediately make their comic profitable, I'm sorry to bust your bubble, but there's a minimum number of views per month you need to hit to get any sort of payout, and it's a big number. There's a reason you can only apply for the program at 50,000 subs, and it's that it's extremely hard to hit the number (I can't tell you what the number is, or how much I get paid if I hit it for contractual reasons) with a comic that's under 5k or even 10k subs, even with good engagement.
But it's not all bad, because I tend to get donations, especially on Inksgiving, which is why on Tapas alone, Errant has made a lifetime income over $800.

Then on Patreon I make around $30 a month, which is a nice little bit of money on the side.

And then of course the Kickstarter raised £1,643, which is in the $2000 region. After printing, shipping and Kickstarter's cut, I made a few hundred to pocket off that.

And then I can sell remaining books too, which makes me some cash at events and from some local bookshops.

So I'd estimate Errant makes me maybe around 500 quid a year generally... at least at the moment.

[Lensing]

I only publish things that have a high chance to make income, everything else is practice / fun.
I have preorders for a book I´m working on and I only print as many as I need.
Then I take parts in comic contests and I get funded by the government.

I will publish something on tapas and other platforms but not with the intention to make
money or to pormote myself or anything. I don´t think that works or pays enough or
that I would have any chance to even make a small amount of money

[KSlinger]

I make bits and bobs, mostly in support from readers. But I've never drawn any from the site, it's just sat there.

[Shanny8]

I've made money from my comic, but I can't say "I'm making an income from my comic"; like some other creators, I've made money via ink but currently with my comic still in hiatus, I havent made coin in quite some time. I've given up trying to hit a certain mark because it seems like the bar keeps being raised/ the goalposts keep being moved- so I print my comic and sell it at events...some coin is made, but not a lot right now as it seems I still need to build my audience [more] and have been promoting my material on various social media platforms.

I have a Patreon, but once again, my imprint is minimal right now so it doesnt net much.

Not gonna lie...right now things feel a little bleak for me, but I also realized that I havent been giving it my all. Between the increase of duties at my RL job, hiatus from burnout & injuries, and the screaming need to get rest to recuperate(versus the screaming need to create) I've been kind of all over the place- I'm hoping to get things back on track(especially with my comic), but at my own pace; not trying to burnout or deal with injury plagued arms/shoulders/back again.

[Stargazer31]

Not a single penny. Not even from Redbubble!